@adhoc
Inhabitant of deepest Transylvania (honest); academic management "expert" (of sorts); anti-apartheid activist; lapsed football fan; interested in Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Palestine, and beyond. He/him. Oh, and Sheffield Wednesday
"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"
"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
A savage, magnificent, virtuosic and unlikely to be surpassed evisceration of "Mummy's Favourite".
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
At least now we know the exchange rate for a few weeks of making people forget about the president’s sex crimes is 167 dead children.
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”
These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
A drawing of an old Congressman in a wheelchair with oxygen Holden Bloodfeast (R) Iowa -118 years old -Please god just let us nuke Iran, nothing else matters. I'll do anything please I just want to see burning flesh one last time before I die -Respectable bipartisan
A tired-looking, warmongering Lindsay Graham really channeling Holden Bloodfeast these days
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.
A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...
#JustProtectingWomen
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach
Well worth a read . Clive Lewis on the collapse of Politics itself: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The headline makes it sound like Iran is the one doing all the attacking, when clearly this wear was started by and is being prolonged by the US and Israel
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
"Human Rights Watch says Israel is using white phosphorus in Lebanon"
I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
Only TWO UK news platforms reported on this happening yesterday - and neither of them made clear it was ANTI-TRANS ACTIVIST MEN who did this!!! 😣
The transphobic UK media are INTENTIONALLY SILENT as it doesn’t support their narrative trying to promote trans-allies as the aggressors!
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
BREAKING: Women in Tehran are excitedly tearing off the hijab as their streets catch fire, oil rains from the sky, and their lungs burn with every breath. At last we've been liberated, they cry.
This International Women's Day, cohorts of hundreds of bots/trolls originating most likely from an influence campaign with the epicentre in Hungary, most likely under GRU advice & supervision, are attacking every single official post about this day and women's rights from EU media and institutions.
I think we can say with absolute certainty that any opinion on the Middle East put forward by Tony Blair is diametrically opposite to the right thing to do
“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump
Reminder that even the Nazis rescued drowning sailors.
Trita Parsi on American Prestige here, and yes: clearly, various Israel hawks slithered up to Trump, telling him - You only need to demonstrate your power Sire, then the enemy shall cringe in terror before your magnificence! You shall be the mightiest conqueror, everyone is saying it, more and more
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
There will be Starmer supporters screaming "but Rwanda policy"* until the heat death of universe as they attempt to defend/deflect how on every practical measure Labour has just announced anti-asylum policies which go further than the previous government.
*Not to diminish cruelty of that policy
"The humanitarian organisation The Iranian Red Crescent reports that over 1,000 civilians have been killed in the US & Israeli strikes. The death toll continues to rise"
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
