David Storey
@DavidStorey60
Human geographer (retired, sort of) interested in geopolitics, territory, national identity, rural social change, heritage - and football
Enabler feigning concern over what she has enabled
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
Lammy expounding the mushroom principle of democracy - feed people s**t and keep them in the dark
David Lammy says it would be wholly inappropriate for the British public to know if US nuclear weapons are now stationed on UK soil.
Keir Starmer has described the situation in Gaza as "intolerable on many levels", just not the one where Britain stops arming Israel
It's a strange and troubling world where a Tory MP is spot on in his remarks to an utterly disgraceful @UKLabour foreign secretary
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Apparently, drawing attention to obvious complicity in war crimes is 'demeaning' and 'unbecoming' 😤
Lammy responds by dismissing the question as “unbecoming”, because parliamentary etiquette still matters to a man who is arming a genocide
"We are expected to be moral without being political, inclusive yet not ideological. We should teach critical thinking, but not too much in case we fall into wokery. The classroom is in danger of becoming a minefield" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports" @maynard_nick @MedicalAidPal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
Performing and (re)producing the contested state: George Sebastian Fartan & @BourisDimitris on the case of Transnistria @intl_spectator tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
In the week that Lammy approved this statement, the RAF welcomed the head of the Israeli air force, primarily responsible for the genocide, to an air tattoo in England. The message that is clear is hypocrisy.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Genocide in Gaza: @martinshawx on literal, interpretive, and implicatory denial @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…
Sending weapons, but shaking my head whilst I do it so everyone knows I disapprove.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Stop selling arms to Israel then.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Saw Doctors and Normal People: @thekickart on the embedding of Gaelic games in popular culture rte.ie/brainstorm/202…
Insane how desensitised we’re becoming to these daily headlines and how it’s just accepted now. Horrendous.
BREAKING: More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials news.sky.com/story/gaza-mor…
Nice to see that quaint and charming belief in 'trickle down' economics surviving despite all the available empirical evidence 🤔 share.google/QEdbqj3LMXjDQ6…
"Our public discussions on race are utterly impoverished, and this is largely because our haughty institutions have developed a preference to either run scared or dismiss real discourse rather than challenge, engage and understand" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Racism is not a single experience or a uniform category. It is historically contingent, culturally shaped and unevenly distributed. We might properly use the plural racisms" @elliscashmore on @UKLabour and their distrust of nuance share.google/hCrAIxQMR1EhWJ…