George Llewelyn
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British writer & filmmaker working in Ukraine.
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On the heartbreaking scenes as Pokrovsk evacuates in the face of the Russian advance.
Me for
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As former leave voters in industry become rejoin’s most ardent advocates, we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift where a formal campaign to rejoin the EU may finally find its feet.
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She might have broken the rules but what kind of rule allows the Prime Minister to lie and lie and lie in the House while simultaneously preventing others from calling it out?
Proud that
@DawnButlerBrent
came to us to to make this statement today.
Here it is, everyone.
@DawnButlerBrent
’s exclusive statement for Byline TV on today’s events in Parliament.
She called Boris Johnson a liar and was thrown out for it - but decided it had to be done to highlight the erosion of our democracy.
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@ShaneM_Anderson
@JusticeVanCho
Also in the footage the scene is referencing she is literally addressing a camera where she will have been professionally lit. It’s like the one time when “realism” means more light!
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So proud of this mini video essay I made with
@Hardeep_Matharu
on why we need to think more deeply about our perception of people from ethnic minorities, their histories and their own sense of personal agency.
Why does Priti Patel, the daughter of immigrants, have the hardline views towards immigration that she does?
My
@BylineTV
deep dive exploring the nuance and complexity often missed 🔽
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@carbdiem
It’s funny because takes like his show that for many people “social justice” politics is about performance. They’d rather lazily force an American template onto British society than make the effort to meaningfully engage with the forces that impact and shape lives here.
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This afternoon I interviewed
@ShkulaZadran
after she fled her home in Kabul. Her situation is terrifying but she and many Afghan women like her are remaining strong in the face of a bleak future.
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Proud to have been a part of telling this story with
@OzKaterji
about some incredible people, defending a city and a country in against incredible odds.
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Now we’re out of lockdown the more reasonable side of the anti-lockdown movement have given up protesting. What we’re seeing again now is the most radical conspiracy theorist heart of the movement.
We spoke with Kate Shemirani, the face of the Covid-denial movement and it was a LOT. Full video
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@hansmollman
Barbour about to go through the exact same thing Burberry did in the early 2000s
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@michaelpforan
Getting a deep sense that people running these committees have been watching the adversarial Senate hearings in the US which are full of this slap down the witness stuff and decided “yep that’s cool we should do that”
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@MrHarryCole
Yes the public has a right to know, but this isn’t truly informing the reader and its framing doesn’t really aid genuine understanding.
I get that newspapers will back parties and candidates and that’s just the way the system works, but this definitely crosses the threshold
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@gabalexa
Oh my god there’s such a huge difference between offensive jokes and actual violence
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@lukerobertblack
It’s an utterly bizarre piece. About 600 words as “a defence” of her tenure that reads more like a 16 year old’s first CV and every bit as vague.
What was she thinking?
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@kirstyles
@hotdiggettydog
@JasonHazeley
Those glass boxes have aged so badly they already look old and run down before the development has even been completed. Utterly depressing.
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@sohoshrock
@CityWestminster
Night hours are 11pm to 7am. Noise at 7:30am is perfectly acceptable, particularly in a large city!
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@ProperFood_ie
Honestly bags of frozen peas, mixed vegetable etc etc.
Super cheap and super easy to just add a healthy portion of veg to any meal or a really easy quick snack.
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“The death knell has sounded for the Tories, it sounded a long time ago & so many times since that the remix is going viral on TikTok. The best thing for them now would be a long stretch in opposition – about 12 years should do it.”
Me for
@BylineTimes
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As we’re doing discourse over far right and Islamist extremism…
Of all the interviews I’ve done over the years, this moment from
@MaryamNamazie
is the one that struck me the most.
If decent people don’t engage seriously with islamism, the void it creates invites the far right
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@JakeWSimons
It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad. These constant credibility crises come from the BBC’s confidence crisis.
I interned there for a few months at university and it was just so obviously wracked by anxiety at every level over getting it right and the implications of
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@createstreets
This feels like a great example of what’s wrong with development these days.
The design on the left looks beautiful and serene in the rendering but in real life would probably just end up being ugly.
The design on the right doesn’t lend itself to the style of the rendering
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@lukerobertblack
@BorisJohnson
FWIW I live in Kyiv where marshal law and curfew mean you have to be home by 12am.
It is generally easier to get a drink late here than it is in London
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@jasebyjason
@SheyiMartins1
@wesstreeting
Come on. Read the tweet, look at the image. He’s not just “talking frankly” he’s literally supporting weaponising homophobia against an MP.
It should be treated the same as the far right weaponising Islamophobia or antisemitism against MPs they disagree with politically.
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@benleo444
Particularly loved the adrenaline fuelled panicky filling of a cup of water. That really showed them!
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The Tate Modern literally has works by Picasso, Dali and John Martin. But sure, it’s all just modern garbage… 🙄
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@jasebyjason
@SheyiMartins1
@wesstreeting
It honestly doesn’t matter. The original tweet and the responses are underneath it. Streeting’s response is pretty tame if not generous considering whipping up homophobia for political points is a pretty extreme position.
Not to mention the bigotry of low expectation OP is
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@AvaSantina
As a student I moved into a studio where the shower curtain was folded up on a shelf in the wardrobe. Moving out I put everything back exactly as I found it.
They tried to charge me £200 “to take the shower curtain out of the wardrobe”
Damned if you do damned if you don’t.
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tl;dr The fact we’re all talking about Boris this weekend is proof the Tories are toast
Me in
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🔴 'The "Second Coming" of Boris Johnson Shows Conservatives are a Party Woefully Out of Ideas'
That the scandal-prone former PM is even being discussed as a replacement proves how out-of-touch with reality the governing party is, writes
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@bindelj
They’re anti LGBT in general, that’s why they call it grooming. They want to purposely conflate gay and lesbian people in general with paedophilia and they use drag queens as a way in to do it.
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@mikecosgrove
@GregStinson_
@thetimes
@C4Dispatches
@RosamundUrwin
@char_wace
@pmorganbentley
Statistically this is very very untrue
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@LailaAlarian
@_ZachFoster
@nytimes
SEO way less important than inspiring clicks through social media headlines for articles like this.
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Soho has been a vibrant district full of life and noise for generations. Certainly longer than any of its current residents have lived there.
Strong ‘move next door to a pub then immediately complain about the noise’ vibes
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@Philosophi_Cat
Also find the women tend to be more or less exactly what they profess to be, the young Catholic men however tend to embody almost the exact opposite
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Proud to have produced & edited this important war crimes investigation from Ukraine’s front line with the inimitable
@johnsweeneyroar
. Available on Apple TV & Amazon.
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@GabrielVanca
The next stage of (intellectually) growing up is realising that just because you disagree with someone fundamentally doesn’t mean they’re not smart.
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Today we are seeing images of desperate evacuees chasing planes down the runway in Kabul. Outspoken advocates of human rights are fleeing to safe houses in fear of the Taliban. The people of Afghanistan have been abandoned.
My interview with
@ShkulaZadran
for
@BylineTimes
🔴 'This Was Their Responsibility Towards Us – Shame On Them'
@georgellewelyn
speaks to
@ShkulaZadran
, currently in a safe house in Kabal, about the devastation unleashed on
#Afghanistan
by the withdrawal of troops by the US and its allies 🔽
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@teaforpterosaur
They do always seem so focussed on the women in their metropolitan apartments with an only fans account - while they ignore the huge number of trafficked people, or others in dire circumstances. It’s just neater to couch it in those terms I guess
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@residentadviser
I think it’s a fascinating case study in how someone susceptible to radicalisation doesn’t necessarily stop becoming susceptible once they move on from one form of extremism.
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And yes, as someone who loves and respects the traditions and niceties of the House, I think it’s cool to break a rule in order to defend it!
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@christiancalgie
Why can’t a developer just propose something that isn’t god awful that people can get behind?
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@Puff_Iya
The show really fizzled out years ago, to remain viable and stave off cancellation it has to go down this super corporate route where everything’s accessible and inoffensive with as wide an audience appeal as possible - but what you get is bland corporate mush.
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@93vintagejones
I mean in the American context in which he exists it still kind of is. More so now than a decade ago.
Look at the conservative Christian backlash to his dancing with the devil in videos a couple of years ago. Even if it’s pretty derivative it’s clearly still fertile ground for
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@johnsweeneyroar
@TuckerCarlson
It’s boring! Nothing of genuine interest to anyone.
But for Tucker it’s not about the contents of the interview half as much as being seen to be doing it.
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@PapistJP
But this is literally nothing to do with feminism though? If anything it’s about corporate feudalism and decades of increasing inflation without a real terms increase in income - making raising a family on a single income a practical impossibility in most Western countries.
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@lukerobertblack
Also just straight up vibes based lies like “London is the best 24 hour city in the world”
It’s not and it’s getting worse, yet her justification seems to be that hospitals, cleaners and delivery drivers continue working at night.
It’s sort of intentionally missing the
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@PopCulture2000s
This just seems so disingenuous the way they cut JK Rowling out and disavowed her online.
Surely the one who brought them all together would be family? And you can disagree with family without cutting them out. All very sad.
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@AvaSantina
I’m pretty sure I remember my sister being sent home from school for a week because someone there has been diagnosed with TB
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Yesterday a cyberattack caused chaos for the largest mobile network operator in Ukraine, a Kyiv university and one of the largest banks in the country.
Last night ten ballistic missiles were downed over Kyiv, causing dozens of injuries in residential areas. The attack came
At 3am tonight I woke up because of explosions outside my window. There were many and loud. The siren went off after the explosions and seemed unusually long. That scared me.
My wife got up and looked at the window. I was afraid for her. It was too late to go to shelter 1/
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@Otto_English
@danwootton
It’s a take so utterly ridiculous it can only be designed to get under people’s skin. It’s textbook twitter politics for the right.
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@benjaminbutter
@RealDeniseWelch
One of the saddest things to come out of this pandemic is learning how unpleasant and snotty some beloved household names really are
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@HugoGye
The power of Twitter in real-time.
It’s user base is statistically irrelevant (tiny compared to other platforms) but it’s the lens through which journos & politicians view the world - which filters to public via media & policy.
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@salbre81
@Gaylussite
But even then it would just be a normal fairly small house that twenty years ago would belong to a lower middle class family at the most.
It is just unfathomable that someone could have a totally elite income and be living in that. Also just totally depressing implications for
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@simonjamesgreen
@theAliceRoberts
Oh my god how can you be an actual chaplain at a religious school and not know that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality?
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@LucasAlmond2
@OwenJones84
@przemekg18
@wesstreeting
There’s no point arguing. OP’s actions serve Owen’s political beliefs so he will defend it to the hilt. It’s classic “if I agree with them it’s good, if I disagree it’s bad.”
Factionalism will always take precedence.
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@JACKGUYANDERTON
Tackling the Russia/China/Iran axis is about the global pecking order and this kind of isolationist view is short sighted.
Whether we’re doing it well or not aside, Western hegemony is good for Britain.
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Beginning to reflect on my time in Ukraine as I prepare to return home for Christmas.
Read my first (introductory) post on Substack - more anecdotes and rumination to come.
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@si_rubinstein
Reminds me of studying German at A Level. We were advised not to take it unless you got an A. Some students were allowed onto the course with Bs and Cs. As advised, they struggled to keep up and just ended up taking all of the tutors’ time and attention. Ultimately the whole
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Honestly seeing anything Laurence Fox just makes me sad at this point. A clearly unwell and utterly broken man.
My friend brought me some child mutilation bunting.
It got the treatment it deserved.
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@ZachElsbury
@LukeDyks
I just can’t comprehend this inability our culture has to not see everything as black and white.
Saying that Gaza is a terrible place to be LGBT isn’t an assertion that everywhere else is absolutely fine. Moscow probably near equally terrible but for different reasons. Are we
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@bencsmoke
@graceblakeley
He refused to outright condemn October 7th and instead All Lives Mattered it before Israel had even retaliated.
Also a long history of referring to Hamas as friends, pledging to invite Hamas linked organisations to Downing St if elected etc.
The idea he’s a card carrying
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@gabrielmilland
I love how this map makes it look as though NATO has invaded and colonised half of Europe
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@s8mb
I can understand the merit of pricing like that and treating things like hold luggage - but most of it is just price gouging.
I once got a Ryanair flight and when it came time to board they asked everyone who had paid for priority to board. Literally everyone except one family
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Stories like this are an important but often overlooked aspect to social media silos.
Roberts tried to set alight two police vans with people inside them, he said he wanted them to “go bang” and yet leftist twitter is full of “solidarity” today.
The silo problem is universal.
Awful news - and more will come under Priti Patel’s authoritarian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
Solidarity with
#RyanRoberts
and all facing criminalisation for protesting injustice. ✊
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@christiancalgie
Never ceases to amaze me that he has the power to unilaterally make this decision
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@benjaminbutter
@eFloristflowers
Cannot overstate how galling it is the number of businesses that have simply decided to continue to use covid as an excuse to just not bother anymore
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@ChrisStoneTV
@yoast
@WordPress
I was wondering when someone might find a decent solution for this ungodly Twitter update.
Very neat solution
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@WhingerSpice
@LailaAlarian
@_ZachFoster
@nytimes
I agree. I understand what they’re trying to do with the second one, they just haven’t done it particularly well…
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@gilestelscanvas
As an actor what she managed to do with the plot and script she was given was fantastic
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@tldrjack
I tend to think if you’re referring to him using the word or an expression and highlighting that as part of the content people should be able to hear what you’re talking about. Slap a content warning on it and let people choose if they want to hear it
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@jasebyjason
Both are equally homophobic.
The difference is one is affectionate in tone and well meaning despite being insulting, while the other is a threat to weaponise religious homophobia against a sitting MP.
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The sad thing about this is that it just feeds into the same narrative that makes people like Andrew Tate popular.
Rather than countering that narrative this, I suspect selectively edited video, just confirms it.
And all for clicks.
Straight white men have value. This shouldn't be a controversial statement.
Is it any surprise that institutions like the RAF are discriminating against them when people are so happy to express hatred towards them in modern Britain?
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Does this not just say it all?
The Taliban destroys the historical "Gate of Civilization and Culture" at the entrance to Ghazni city.
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Will never not be in awe of the RNLI
At this time of year, weather conditions can be at their worst. Even in the roughest seas and highest winds, our volunteer lifeboat crews are on hand and ready to save every one. We take a look at a few of these shouts in this thread 🧵 (📷Steve Duncombe)
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@thatfoxxybloke
@AlStewartOBE
@timmyvoe
I’m not sure this really makes the point you think it’s making
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@BenABrittain
What a brilliant thread full of insight and good advice. Consider my cap doffed 👏🏻
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@mikecosgrove
Seriously what is it with all these young people trying so hard to pass themselves off as posh?
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@l_attfield
His insistence on repeating “Corbyn supporting jews” is like insisting I’m not racist because I have black friends
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@FranatAFI
@JakeWSimons
Honestly hard to say but I got the sense that pervasive anxiety was deep rooted and had existed for a long time.
It was almost ten years ago that I was there and I think it’s clearly gotten worse since with social media exacerbating the problems that come with 24 hour news,
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@mikecosgrove
@TiceRichard
In fairness, the fact that all of the above are able say/tweet the things they do while working for the BBC is a big part of why both sides think the BBC is biased against them.
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@DanielTSaySay
@v_j_freeman
Of course the IDF are using it for their own purposes but that doesn’t mean it’s not true or terrible.
There’s a reason Ukraine is facilitating journalists here - they want people to know what Russia’s forces are doing.
His acting like it’s a conspiracy is either dumb or
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