1/. “I’m not really bumbling. I’m as hard as nails”

In this interview, #BorisJohnson shows that the “bumbling Boris” character is just that: a character

“My approach to politics & human nature is that you can make a good case for anything” #BorisResigns
2/. “#BorisJohnson put on a buffoon mask to become a celebrity, & now he can’t take it off.”
(J Lanchester)

“He seems to know that if we’re chuckling at him, we’re not likely to be thinking hard about his agenda, or doing anything to counter it.”
(J Coe)
3/. In 2020, I dug up #BorisJohnso’s #TakeItOnTheChin

I also found the smoking gun of the #HerdImmunityScandal - the #GreenwichSpeech

“There’s a risk new diseases such as #coronavirus could trigger a panic that goes beyond what is medically rational”
4/. In 2020, I also broke the #CareHomeScandal

The reason so many ppl had died in care homes was b/c the govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have COVID” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

The guidance was issued on 2 April 2020 #BorisJohnson
5/. #BorisJohnson did NOT get the big calls right on #COVID19

At the crucial times he ignored the science or concocted pseudo-scientific justifications for their actions/inaction

The question is WHY?

Was there another more sinister strategy at play?

Carl Sagan puts it best👇
6/. “The NHS is the most trusted brand in the UK. Cambridge Analytica is the least trusted. Yet it is the same people who will have access to population-wide UK/US genomic data”

Some suggest that the Trump election & Brexit were “hacked” for these reasons
7/. Farage in Downing St

He claims #BorisJohnson “was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal”!

In 2020, Jonathan Powell (who knows all about political skulduggery) wrote; “This looks like the beginning of a rolling coup”

A “far-right coup”?
8/. The idea that #BorisJohnson “governed as a liberal” is absurd

Johnson presided over the most right wing govt that modern Britain has seen

The #PolicingBill, #BordersBill, #PalantirPlan & the #RwandaDeportations etc. are just the thin edge of a disturbing authoritarian wedge
9/. I’m reminded of that passage in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises where a character is asked how he went bankrupt

“Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly”

The same is happening with with the stripping of our rights
#BorisJohnson #NigelFarage @SachaBaronCohen #Farage
10/. “Get ready for a Tory leadership contest in which the candidates compete to show their zealous belief in Brexit self-destruction, asylum-bashing & small state vulture capitalism”@WritesBright

“...& Genomics” (for details see #Palantir & #PeterThiel) bylinetimes.com/2022/07/07/con…
11/. The top posts in the new cabinet will probably be filled by the authors of the book, #BritanniaUnchained

Liz Truss
Dominic Raab
Priti Patel
Kwasi Kwarteng
Chris Skidmore

The rest will be unsuccessful leadership candidates incldg
Suella Braverman
Jacob Rees Mogg
Steve Baker
12/. The fact that Farage was inside No.10 even before Murdoch is a chilling sign

Let’s not forget that Farage was one of Trump’s first guests in 2016

It’s been easy to laugh off Farage in the past but I fear the joke may be on us

& it isn’t a funny one

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Jul 3
My tribute to psychotherapist, Judith Elkan, whose legacy - her work for peace in the Middle East - lives on

She set up the UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum @FBFF_UK to support Israeli & Palestinian families working together for reconciliation.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Years ago Judith led her son up close to a painting

Inches away, he could see it was made up of thousands of individual strokes

Her ability to recognise & to show others that every masterpiece – indeed everything we behold – is created stroke by stroke, dab by dab, was her gift
“You are not obliged to complete the job, but neither are you free to do nothing” (Rabbi Tarfon)

Judith’s therapeutic work & her activism were indivisible

Both were about helping people to build bridges across the fractures that exist within ourselves & the world around us
Read 4 tweets
Jun 30
1/. Tmw is the 1st anniversary of #Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention on violence against women

The message it sent out - that men who violently abuse women can carry on with impunity - is dangerous

So what has happened over the last year?
2/. A year after #Turkey withdrew from the #İstanbulConvention, research by @hrw has revealed how women facing domestic violence are being failed

Restraining orders aren’t enforced

Women are face recurring violence & even murder whilst ‘under protection’
3/. “Every day we wake up to news of another woman killed by a lover, an ex, a husband or stranger”

At least 342 women were killed in #Turkey in 2021

In the face of escalating numbers of femicides the govt should have implemented the #IstanbulConvention!
rudaw.net/english/middle…
Read 4 tweets
Jun 24
#BREAKING: Decision on #RoeVWade could be made today

“If Roe v Wade is overturned, know this: We will not give up. We will not stop fighting. We will march to the ballot box in November & we’ll make sure we elect a Congress that enshrines Roe into law”

US Senator @amyklobuchar Image
The US Supreme Court #SCOTUS has overturned #RoeVsWade

Access to #abortion will now be eliminated in more than 20 States, in some cases even if the unwanted pregnancy is the result of rape, incest or brutality.
#BREAKING #abortionrights #BreakingNews theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
"For those around the world watching this moment with the same sense of horror & pain that we feel we say: whatever you’re feeling you’re not alone. This is where our power & our hope springs from: We are the majority." @amnestyusa
#RoeVsWade #abortion
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Jun 24
Tomorrow, the #SaturdayMothers who have been holding weekly vigils for the disappeared in #Turkey for decades, will hold their 900th vigil

At their 700th vigil - the police moved in using teargas & detaining 46 and banning future vigils

@amnesty observers will be at the vigil ImageImageImageImage
As the Saturday Mother’s prepare to gather in Istanbul, @OBS_defenders & @fidh_en urge Turkish authorities to lift the ban & authorise @saturdaymothers vigils at the Galatasaray Sq today for the 900th week of these symbolic demonstrations fidh.org/en/region/euro…
#BREAKING: Reports that 15 people have been detained, after riot police prevented #SaturdayMothers/ @CmrtesiAnneleri peaceful 900th weekly vigil in Istanbul for family members disappeared almost 3 decades ago

All those detained must be released.
#CumartesiAnneleri900Hafta ImageImageImageImage
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Jun 19
1/. #DidITellYouAboutTheTime I was in #Glastonbury trying to interview a mono-syllabic @billybragg

Frustrated, I tried a new tack

“You know Billy, my friend’s sister almost didn’t make it this year ‘cos she’s saving to get my buccal pads removed”

“Buccal pads? What are they?”
2/. “That’s what I said, Billy. Buccal pads? What are they”

“They’re are the bits of fat on top of your cheeks,” she explained

“But those ARE your cheeks!”

Billy liked the story

We started chatting about how #Glastonbury has changed but has also remained a deeply political.
3/. Glastonbury - like festivals throughout the ages - is about the gathering of the tribes

People from across the nation come together & create a pop-up society where they live & dance side-by-side

Building a Utopia is a political & politicising thing
huffpost.com/entry/glastonb…
Read 4 tweets
Jun 16
1/. Two months after the prominent human rights defender Osman Kavala began a life sentence on trumped up charges alongside 6 others jailed for 18 years each for ‘assisting’ him, a high level @amnesty delegation will visit all 7

We’ll hold a press conference tmw 1pm #Turkey time ImageImageImageImage
2/. “What’s happening is entirely contrary to human rights”

In 2014, @amnesty interviewed architect @MucellaYapici while she was facing her first prosecution for the 2013 #GeziPark protests in Turkey

Today, her words are even more poignant
#FreeTheGezi7
4/. In 4 hours @aforgut’s press conference will start in Istanbul

There will be an important announcement

Ystdy, messages of solidarity from @amnesty’s Secretary General @AgnesCallamard’s were delivered to the #Gezi7 in prison

More detail to come
#FreeTheGezi7 #GeziİçinAdalet Image
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