William McCready
@WSMcCready
Over the last 5 years, Myanmar has become a dumping ground for the rich world’s trash. Despite intl & domestic laws banning waste exports, companies continue to quietly evade regulations & exploit loopholes. @Frontier spent 6 months investigating this–here is what we found 🧵
Our APAC team has been decimated amid widespread layoffs today at VICE World News. A sad day for us all, but that means some of these fantastic reporters & editors in Hong Kong, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia & Japan are available. Hire them!
The spark for the protest by Manchester United fans at Old Trafford might have been the deeply unpopular Super League, but it also highlighted an underlying unhappiness with the club’s owners, so I thought it might be interesting to look at the finances under the Glazers #MUFC
I've got a new essay on the phenomenon of "wokeness" in this month's @TheAtlantic. It has been revelatory for me to see the ways U.S. culture and institutions changed after the summer of 2020, and how that transformation has reverberated internationally. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Last Sept, a student-run WeChat channel shared holiday messages from Chinese railway workers around the world. In the thread was a forgettable photo of a meeting in #Myanmar posted by one official. But the attached message revealed something interesting. 🧵1/11
"[T]here is a universal principle that all should recognise – and that is accountability." Accountability to what? The Church of England? The monarchy? The Tory Party? The Labour party? Socialism? Traditional gender roles? Critical Social Justice? 1/2
Some thoughts from me on what JK Rowling and John Cleese get wrong about cancel culture: a belief in accountability does not involve condoning threats or violence – and freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequence. newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022…
Don't say he didn't warn you. @jordanbpeterson in conversation with @joerogan. I regret ever going along with and supporting lockdowns and other restrictions. It seemed necessary at the time but the price we're going to pay for it was NOT worth it.
You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant. The “let me help you” megathread: Imagine you’re a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media.
Ed Woodward has resigned #MUFC @TheAthleticUK theathletic.com/news/ed-woodwa…
Ed Woodward to resign as @ManUtd exec vice-chairman
Maybe more will appreciate now why there were #mufc fans who campaigned so vocally against the Glazers’ takeover in 2005. And those now in a flap who allowed it to happen - well, you reap what you sow. Greed, exploitation & the death of ambition, that’s the Glazers’ legacy at OT
Kids grow up dreaming to win the World Cup and the Champions League - not any Super League. The enjoyment of big games is that they only happen once or twice a year, not every week. Really hard to understand for all football fans out there...⚽💔
The Globe went to #Myanmar with broadcaster #CNN to witness a military press push intended to rehabilitate the brutal image of the new junta. From the hushed capital of Naypyidaw, here's what @amendelson_ saw #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar southeastasiaglobe.com/myanmar-milita…