Berihan Abbas Donald

Solicitor. Netballer. Muslim. Sports fan. Feminist. Egyptian. Hong Konger. Part-time runner. Green Party member 💚🌏. Views expressed here are my own

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

So proud of our beautiful little girl Laila who on the day of her birth donated her #cordblood at @SMH_GynMatNicu St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester @AnthonyNolan #savealife https://t.co/VhysUZrY1h

[Steph McGovern @StephLunch]

Filming a piece about #cordblood donation at the maternity award at St Mary’s hospital in Manc - with the wonderful staff and my mate @KelShirl who is campaigning about this for @AnthonyNolan charity.

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

@lewis_goodall I never thought he wasn’t going to do it. He was up against a woman of colour. Maybe I’m just cynical but the racism and misogyny that is inherent in that society was never going allow her to win.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Ridiculous questions today for @FranceskAlbs from @BryanPassifiume

Bryan was sent a couple months ago on an all expenses paid trip to Israel by the former ambassador of Canada to Israel @VivianBercovici for an outfit called Exigent Foundations.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

This is what Western governments know is happening every single day.

[The World at One @BBCWorldatOne]

"There’s an incredibly important conversation that needs to be had. But it's not about boats... and it certainly isn't about people attacking shops and looting Greggs."

Historian David Olusoga talks to @JonnyDymond about the need for a conversation about immigration.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Free legal advice:

You don’t have to attend a riot to be prosecuted for conspiracy to riot. You don’t have to be present at a terrorist incident to be guilty of encouraging it.

A lot of Twitter warriors will be getting some unpleasant knocks on the door over the coming weeks.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Andrew Pierce, "We had this allegation from that MP yesterday that my newspaper has been part of this and she had absolutely no evidence to sustain that"

Right: A collage of Daily Mail front pages posted by 'that MP' @zarahsultana after the interview on GMB

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

Further proof that Ed Balls is no better than Piers Morgan. After headlines and fame.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is unacceptable & deeply uncomfortable viewing. An entire white panel questioning a brown woman like a suspect. Ed Balls and Kate have left their homes this morning with no fear. Zarah and every other brown/black person left knowing they are a target

[Dr. Farbod MBBCh FRCEM @EmergencyBod]

There's never a bad time to share a video of that time Akala humiliated Yaxley-Lennon on TV, but now seems as good a time as any.

[Nihal Arthanayake @TherealNihal]

Dear white people. Respectfully, please have a word with those other white people who are beginning to make me feel unwanted in the country of my birth. Don't be silent.

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

1001 singles matches
739 victories
105 top 10 wins
46 ATP titles
41 weeks as World No. 1
29 wins over the Big 3
14 Masters 1000 titles
11 Grand Slam finals
3 Grand Slam titles
2 Olympic Gold medals
1 @andy_murray

Thank you, Sir Andy 💙💙💙

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

Andy Murray: Legend on the court, legend on the mic 🎾 🎤 😂

[Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics]

The Greens have won 4 seats.

Reform have also won 4 seats.

Yet one party has had 90% more mainstream media coverage than the other.

Ask yourself why.

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

When you come up with the perfect response ...

[Carl Anka @Ankaman616]

Football ain't even real you know.

There's no need to be heated. I am actually alive in a warm house right now. Alhamdulilah. I can go eat food with my family or speak to my old friends if I want.

Imagine if a fella called Foden being offside is going to ruin my day.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

People from my school went to Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Imperial.

The guy who earns the best money today (and works on very socially useful projects) studied chartered surveying at Nottingham Trent. I think he needed a C & a D.

A lesson there perhaps!

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

Racism in all its forms, particularly everyday minute racial microaggressions, have huge emotional, mental and physical health impacts incl insomnia and hypertension. This is the emotional labour so many of us have to do everyday, to counter these racist encounters, to believe we can fit in, to work 10, 20 times harder to prove ourselves. It is a lot.

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

James MacAvoy nailing it

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

What did James Macavoy literally say about the difference between state and private schools and the failure of government when it comes to exposing children to the arts in order to keep children on the assembly line

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

This is so powerful…

And all before our eyes.

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

This is the best thread!

[Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea]

London no-go zones: a definitive guide

Finchley. You've seen it there on the map, just north of Hampstead. But have you ever been there? Do you know anyone who lives there? No you do not.

[Berihan Abbas Donald @BerihanAbbas]

I don’t know how I exist within a global community that is allowing this to happen