@peterverney.bsky.social
Sudan specialist; general dabbler. Sometime aid worker, baobab planter, biologist, bum-wiper, English teacher, field music recorder*, Smartie-maker, staff writer, Zar inductee. *Sonic scrapbook at https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/afriscape
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.
"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."
Essential read.
We need reminding of how the current crisis in #Sudan grew out of the backlash to the civilian uprising.
Stoked by the fears of its neighbours that the ordinary people's desire for peaceful, uncorrupted civil rule might catch on and spread.
abuhureirah.substack.com/p/sudan-at-t...
Shurooq Abualnas' song of support for the Sudanese people. www.instagram.com/p/DQWBQEsjUk... - please like and share if you can.
Delighted to announce Shurooq's first re-release under new management - Red Amber.
One of Sudan's most beautiful voices.
More on the way.
hyperfollow.com/ShurooqAbual...
Gonna be quality, this,like everything Robin does. One of The Good Guys.
DOGE is now dismantling the Department of Education - check out my article if you haven't already on the wider agenda here 👇
Could it happen here? Could a Trump tribute act smash codes, conventions and laws in the UK? All too easily, I suspect. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
This is the most important story in the United States right now.
www.wired.com/story/treasu...
The legacy of a little boy from Darfur...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Law to make social landlords fix mould in force from October
As Dizraeli & the Small Gods said...
All that matters is you dance
'cause it's a very very short life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycu4...
Another book blurb, this time from the brilliant @graceblakeley.bsky.social.
Pre-orders are essential for authors so if you think it might be of interest, here are the links:
Bookshop.org: tinyurl.com/hprhh7xu
Waterstones: tinyurl.com/8fucp49x
Amazon: tinyurl.com/3pu8hjfk
President Trump said the US will measure success in part by "the wars we never get into," but he promptly lifted a pause on 2,000-pound bomb shipments to the Israeli government.
The US will be complicit in the Israeli government’s abuses in Gaza so long as it provides arms and other military aid.
Musk ally tells employee who warned of 'illegal task' to 'push forward' in leaked audio: A Tesla engineer and ally of Elon Musk appeared undeterred by laws that could stop their work at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an entity Congress hasn't funded that was created by Donald…
Labour will never out-Farage Farage.
Across Europe, centrist parties have adopted right-wing narratives and policies. This has only strengthened the far-right. They set the agenda. They win the ideological battle. In the end, voters prefer the original not the copy.
By some fluke I was sent to teach at Salamabi Girls' in Gedaref in 1977, an oddity for a white male. It turned me into a local celebrity on a par with Robert Redford.
I owe a lot to those girls for the insights they gave me into women's lives in Sudan. And I'm sure they had fun at my expense, too.
I'm seeing non-Sudanese on here say they don't know where to get daily news reports on Sudan - Sudanese outlets that also report in English include: Radio Dabanga, Ayin Network, and Sudan Tribune (links: www.dabangasudan.org/en, 3ayin.com/en/, sudantribune.com). 1/
I do love a good Venn diagram. And a concept neatly identified in another language.
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
On the 1st anniversary of Israel’s murder of little Hind Rajab, Zeteo’s @premthakker.bsky.social has this documentary-style deep dive into her killing, the cover-up, & his questioning of the State Department over the past year.
Please do watch/share/subscribe:
Funny really - there's a lot of overlap between the right-wing hangers and floggers, so I'm not sure what the argument is.
Labour paid £80k to have the Tory blue removed from the Downing Street briefing room which he used today. I know it wasn't to remove the Tory branding though, it was coz every time a PM briefed from there people like me added flaming wasteland backdrops....
Authorities in South Sudan have ordered internet service providers to block access to to all social media sites effective today- for a minimum of 30 days.
Cite “recent upheaval in Sudan” which has exposed the South Sudanese population to violence “through social media posts”.
Yes. T's Self-immolation was on the cards there, too. Would have made good ratings.