Ex-Reuters, ex-spy, 40 countries, 12 wars. 10 novels. First draft of new political thriller completed...to agent or not to agent?
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined October 2014
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'This is an informed thriller, authentic and vividly written, set in a now almost forgotten conflict that helped to shape our modern world.'
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🙌The garish development on one of Scotland's last remaining species-rich dune habitats has been called in for review by @ScotGov.
🎉This is a crucial decision for wildlife and a big step towards protecting our iconic landscapes and nature.
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ALT Coul Links development called in.
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🚨Today, Palestine activists occupied the British Museum over its new partnership with BP.
BP is set to profit from contracts with Israel as it kills tens of thousands of Palestinians.
👉Flagship British firms set to profit amid Israel's war on Gaza
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The Brexit bill: £100bn hit to UK exports as toy and jewellery sales slump independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Who is asking this crass question apart from Laura Kuenssberg & hard right climate change deniers? #BBCLauraK
It’s as if Keir Starmer is seeking out all the positive reasons to vote Labour – and deleting them | George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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"Israel appears to be in breach of the orders issued...by the International Court of Justice requiring it to take immediate steps to protect Palestinians’ rights and cease all activities that could constitute genocide," says a U.N. rapporteur. trib.al/vs13i5j
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane Robinson; A Dirty, Filthy Book by Michael Meyer – review theguardian.com/books/2024/f…
‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Now for the real reason why Israel wants to dismantle UNRWA:
“Israeli politicians have wanted to destroy UNRWA for years.
Because UNRWA formalises the idea that there are Palestinian refugees and that they have a right to return, to go back to the homes they were driven out of”
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🚨New online event - The Power of Boycott: Organising for Palestine in Wales
Join this webinar to find out more about how you can get involved in campaigning for Palestinian freedom in Wales and support the the Palestinian-led BDS movement
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Israeli Maariv reports that Israel's military looted NIS 200 million (nearly $55 million) from a bank in Al Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza.
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Labour ditching its £28bn green investment has hurt it badly. It used to pose "a mild form of green Keynesianism" as the alternative to Tory stagnation. Now it only offers continuity Conservatism & the promise to be more competent. Via Larry Elliott.
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Israeli sniper shoots a mother and her child in Nasser Hospital’s yard in Gaza leaving the child critically wounded: the mother has not survived
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I wonder what Sir @Keir_Starmer makes of Israelis looting in #Gaza? When he was DPP, he oversaw fast-track prosecutions after the London riots when people were jailed for stealing bottled water. A 17-year-old girl was given an 8 months sentence for taking a bottle of Lucozade.
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A Gaza-based journalist reports that amid the famine in northern Gaza, residents have resorted to fishing in the sea to ease their hunger. However, Israeli naval forces fired at them, killing six Palestinians.
@AnasAlSharif0
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India sells Elbit's Hermes 900 drones (produced by Adani) to Israel while perpetrating its #GazaGenocide against 2.3M Palestinians.
Defying ICJ finding of "plausible" genocide, India is now even more complicit in Israel's crimes. #MilitaryEmbargo
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“The fact that one group of people can be singled out as an agent of the country's demise - and for that to be deemed acceptable by a public regulator - shows that Islamophobia is significant in the Fox-ification of British TV”
✍️ Opinion by Faisal Hanif
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Sebastian Barry: ‘When you get past 60, you do feel a licence to write fearlessly’ theguardian.com/books/2024/f…
