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posh socialist. dyslexic journalist. Abu Léa, Abu Saoirse. ‘Abolish Westminster!’ with @faberbooks coming. Rep: @portyliterary. He/Him.
May 23 7 tweets 2 min read
- @WingsScotland has written about me, making a few allegations. The first is that I am a bit posh. This is true. The second is that, when I reported on screeds of abuse received by the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, I didn’t publish the file of abuse [1/6] opendemocracy.net/en/5050/trans-… This is also true. It should be obvious why I wouldn’t put lots of vile, violent and defamatory material about a rape counsellor onto the internet. It is perhaps also obvious why I won’t be sharing it with someone liable to do so. [2/6]
Dec 13, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
To understand today’s ruling from Scotland’s highest civil court that trans women [with a GRC] are women, we have to wind back a little bit, to when the @Women5050 campaign launched, aiming to ensure that half of the people who represent us are women… They did a lot of great work, including putting pressure on every party at Holyrood to ensure it did a better job of getting women elected. Partly because of their work, 2021 saw a record number of women elected to the Scottish parliament: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
Dec 26, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
Desmond Tutu was perhaps the great moral leader of his era. He refused to share a stage with Blair, calling him a war criminal. He called Israeli apartheid what it is. He said he’d rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. Global celebrity never bent his morality. I was lucky enough to meet him once, and ask him if the honourary degree he was getting from @EdinUniMedia was a ‘Desmond’. He had the good grace to laugh like the joke was hilarious.
Dec 22, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
Much of the debate on the left has been about how Labour lost. But it’s just as important to understand how Johnson won. This is how: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra… Thank you for all the nice feedback about this piece. It’s my last piece of work this year, and it’s a summary of much of what I’ve been working on this year. But, if you’ll indulge me for a moment, as it’s Christmas, I’d like to say something else about it all...
Dec 12, 2019 51 tweets 24 min read
This has been a pretty amazing election for @openDemocracy, and I’ve been really proud of all my colleagues & our contributors. Here’s a quick thread of some of the highlights. Enjoy! We (@PeterKGeoghegan & @SAThevoz) revealed how disaster capitalist Russian oligarchs have stepped up their funding of the Tories: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Nov 1, 2019 22 tweets 16 min read
EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police have passed a file of criminal evidence against @BorisJohnson and Dominic Cummings' Vote Leave campaign to the Crown Prosecution Service: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-… @BorisJohnson For us, this story began more than two years ago, when we got a tranche of Electoral Commission internal emails which revealed they had thought the Vote Leave/Darren Grimes relationship probably broke the rules. But they'd decided not to investigate: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Oct 21, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
“Humans” are to blame for environmental collapse says the most travelled human being ever. Not “capitalism”, or “the super-rich”. “humans”. Attenborough is allowed to be heard because he never challenges the people & systems which cause the crisis: metro.co.uk/2019/10/19/dav… Ok, we’re talking about Attenborough. In 2013, he argued that Ethiopians should be allowed to starve to death because there are, apparently, too many of them. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.inde…
Aug 22, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: @openDemocracy has been leaked documents from the Bolsonaro regime showing their strategy to destroy the Amazon Rainforest: opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaa… The slides, uncovered by our Latin American section @demoAbierta, show that Bolsonaro’s hate speech against indigenous Amazonian is a key part of their strategy to burn down the Amazon. #FightForTheAmazon
Jul 24, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Priti Patel - a former lobbyists for British Tobacco and the murderous government of Bahrain - was forced to resign in 2017 because she’d effectively continued to act as a lobbyists while in office. If she becomes Home Secretary, expect more of the same: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-… Boris Johnson’s campaign was run by a corporate lobbying firm which, until recently, was running a secretive global effort on behalf of Glencore to undermine environmental campaigners and renewable energy, & which brags about its ability to shape Brexit: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…