I will not be taking dissenting opinions.
06.03.2026 13:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@sianushka.bsky.social
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I will not be taking dissenting opinions.
06.03.2026 13:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But the greatest break up album of all time remains Pale Green Ghosts by John Grant, every one else is playing for seconds.
06.03.2026 13:06 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0I respect your opinion but I love it!!! And Iβm definitely not a girly π
06.03.2026 13:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
On the job, reporting at an IDP transit centre in Donbas region. The worst suffering Iβve ever witnessed, I wrote in my notebook: βI saw the womanβs face for maybe 10 seconds, Iβll remember her for the rest of my life.β
Article coming soon, not clear where yet.
Obvs this is a fake quote but one thing I thought about at the far right conference in Brussels - where an Orwell drinking game would have made me pissed after the first panel - is HOMAGE TO CATALONIA, ANYONE?
06.03.2026 07:54 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How it started / how it's going
05.03.2026 19:42 β π 1281 π 245 π¬ 53 π 50Congrats Matthew!
06.03.2026 07:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0V good read π
06.03.2026 07:49 β π 24 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Canβt wait to read this - and what a cover!!!
06.03.2026 07:48 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Reds: A Global History of Communism - out in August 2026 geni.us/Redscovrev
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The horror of this attack is unbearable. They are killing children as they learn and imagine their futures. Those futures wiped out in an act of despicable violence.
05.03.2026 07:31 β π 72 π 29 π¬ 0 π 0The girlsβ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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Quite a lot as only got back to UK at about 2pm.
04.03.2026 20:41 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In Parliament to briefly share my experiences of the most recent trip to Ukraine. Thank you John McDonnell for hosting this event.
04.03.2026 18:39 β π 29 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, a city russia could not forgive for breaking free from its occupation, so they consequently razed it to ruins and dust.
04.03.2026 17:39 β π 200 π 66 π¬ 5 π 2Same
04.03.2026 17:10 β π 26 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Three people were killed and 16 injured in a russian airstrike on a residential building in Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, on 2 March.
The last victim was recovered from the rubble on the third day of search efforts.
Thirteen more residential buildings were damaged.
While the world is worried about Dubai attacked by Iran drones - Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was bombed again by Russian drone today with 2 kids wounded, 10 and 12 years oldοΏΌ
03.03.2026 00:23 β π 327 π 137 π¬ 6 π 8
β‘οΈ Russia continues to escalate drone attacks on passenger trains, railway infrastructure.
Russian drone hit two passenger trains in just one day.
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
03.03.2026 19:20 β π 1433 π 509 π¬ 20 π 15Agreed π
04.03.2026 11:27 β π 32 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Same, I got added to the pension scheme after giving a talk for an Β£80 fee. When I asked to be removed from payroll and pension scheme they rudely told it wasnβt their fault!
04.03.2026 11:11 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine will not abandon Donbas or the 200,000 Ukrainians living there, warning that any withdrawal would open the way for Russia to advance deeper into the country and encourage further Kremlin demands
04.03.2026 07:25 β π 35 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2Performative cruelty from a government that should know better and was voted in to do better
04.03.2026 07:53 β π 62 π 20 π¬ 0 π 0BREAKING NEWS in the world of Sticky Toffee Puddings
04.03.2026 00:11 β π 347 π 94 π¬ 11 π 18There are so many things about leaving Kyiv that are weird but one of them is being in a city where the lights are on. Itβs so hard to explain how it is to go from blackout to lights.
03.03.2026 20:22 β π 39 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm looking to place my reporting from the Donbas - if you are an editor looking for a reported feature on the IDP crisis in Eastern Ukraine then HMU.
Also available for podcasts and such.