Ramzy Alwakeel

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this is doubly cool because the AI summaries are also often unusable and misleading

This is excellent questioning from Shehab.

If you set a movie theater on fire and lock all the exits, that does not highlight the danger of going to the movies.

There's a disturbing trend right now of pretending that some disabilities don't exist; that people with mental health struggles are lazy, making it up, or exaggerating It's bad enough for important people to think that, it's worse when prejudice is embedded in whole institutions

Anyway, if anyone wants to give a job to the ex-head of publicity for Repeater books, Micky is incredible, pretty much turned the publicity for repeater around in less than a year.

🧵Little story- one of those which, if I hadn't seen it myself, but you told me about it, I wouldn't have believed you. In my local shop & one of the street's loud young characters comes in - proper Bemmie, always seems to have a can & be up to something. You can imagine...

Normalise referring to temperatures over 25C as bad weather

MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…" In fact, the OBR had said the opposite! 1/6

Post Office scandal-hit Fujitsu vies for lucrative Brexit border contract Scoop from me and @g_lanktree politico.eu/article/post-o…

Really powerful piece from our Europe editor @pagreenwood on her first novel, Vulture – about a young war correspondent in Gaza – and the shortcomings of news reporting 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/08/pal…

An estimated half of British Muslims who once backed Labour chose other parties — or stayed at home — in 2024. One year on, many are still unconvinced. @sajeraj explores whether Keir Starmer’s party can win back its lost Muslim voters. hyphenonline.com/2025/07/04/lab…

Whilst ICJP and @LabourMuslims were hosting doctors in parliament sharing their testimonies of volunteering in Gaza, MPs were voting to proscribe @Pal_action only corridors away. You can read a full write up of our parliamentary event below ⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/07/03/pal…

A disgusting irony here. MPs were debating the proscription of Palestine Action while, just a few corridors away, medics who had travelled to Gaza briefed their colleagues on the horrors that PA have been trying to slow hyphenonline.com/2025/07/03/pal…

MPs really nailed it by banning the group that has done the most in the UK to challenge and obstruct this unending horror. Please, tell me again how our democracy is the envy of the world. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Mad idea but ... politicians should explain WHY they cannot answer certain questions rather than avoiding them then pivoting to talking points, which is the most maddening approach.

This is a bizarre piece of journalism - Headline suggests the cost is to the taxpayer, but article clarifies this is an estimated cost *to the defence industry* - No source for the figures beyond "according to evidence submitted by the government by several firms that have…