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Hugging refugees since 2004 | Children’s Policy Officer @scotrefcouncil | formerly Rape Crisis|sociology grad | Orco's mum🐾 **All tweets are personal** she/her
Jan 9, 2022 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
I’ve found the coverage of the inquest into Alexander Tekle’s suicide too painful to comment on.

Until now.

(This will be a LONG one.)

🧵1/? This is in part due to some high-quality, humanising coverage from journalists such as @maybulman and @ameliagentleman - an antidote to the dehumanising weaponisation of the issue by Patel et al and their disingenuous deployment of stats.

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