Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon

FHEA, thinks about critical thinking & inclusive learning. Irish in Wales 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tom’s husband. Monty Dog’s dad - he/him

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

Delighted to contribute with Dr Sarah Crews to this special issue ‘Against the Canon’ of the TDPT journal - some excellent looking work here - really happy that our manifesto sits among it ⁦@TDPTblog⁩ ⁦⁦@saltheart⁩ https://t.co/A9Dr2HgAOo

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Hatred is at the foundation of most far-right rhetoric in Ireland, as elsewhere.

Disinformation underpins much of that hatred and that's one area that anyone can contribute facts to counteract lies.

I'll go through a few of their most popular lies and what the facts are. /1

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

Dreamt last night that I disappointed @Dawn_French - devastating!

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@JohnnyMercerUK You are a disgrace

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@danwootton Sharia acts as a code for living that all Muslims should adhere to, including prayers, fasting and donations to the poor! Stop pretending it is something it’s not and spreading lies and scared people might believe

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Man with curls, "We look at taxation negatively. If you increase tax you go, this must be bad" #BBCQT

"But surely the question should be the use of our taxes. So if I had to pay £20 more tax but my energy bills or my transportation bills were reduced, surely that's what we should be looking at?"

"Rather than saying we need to keep cutting taxes, I'm fine paying more, if I got more from it"

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@ww_clinic_ Thank you - this has worked

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@ww_clinic_ your website makes it impossible to cancel online (despite having a link saying if you want to cancel, click here) and I cannot get through to your helpdesk. I am nothing using your service, and I want to cancel Now!

[Hefin Robinson @HefinRobinson]

Can’t wait to bring this horror thriller to the Cardiff stage…

#PONTYPOOL

[Paines Plough @painesplough]

Evergreen message to writers to take us into a new year, from Simon Stephens.

Write the play you wish somebody else had written.
Read, watch, steal, write.
And don't give up.

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@AlisonHammond was born to host bake off! Utter joy!

[Peter Walker @peterwalker99]

🧵 Nigel Farage makes his I'm A Celebrity debut tonight, where he will be presented as a purveyor of robust but mainstream rightwing views. A pre-show reminder that he's not: he has regularly aired conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism & far right beliefs. Here's a sample 1/

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Let me offer a basic philosophical comment on what is happening in Israel and Gaza.

If you have to know the heritage or ethnicity of a civilian being killed as a consequence of war before you can decide on your response to their death, then you need to ask if you are being ethical.

The same is true if you have to know the heritage or ethnicity of the person who has killed them.

In my opinion, we should think that the death of a civilian killed during war is wrong, whoever they might be and whoever killed them.

John Rawls’ described this as acting from behind a veil of ignorance. His philosophy suggests that we can only know what is truly ethical if we observe an action (including our own) in that way. In other words, the ethical action is only such if it is independent of the observer and the person being observed.

We are only ethical in that case if we condemn the deaths of civilians in war, whoever they are.

That is what I am doing in this conflict.

And that is why I think a ceasefire – necessarily being a demand on both sides in the conflict, and not one or the other – is what is necessary now.

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@ncpparking you have sent me a “second” letter telling me of a parking violation, saying it is too late to contest without sending me the first letter - do people have no option to appeal?

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

We can agree that the killing, kidnapping, abuse and torture of innocent civilians, is abhorrent, immoral and illegal. Regardless of what side of a border they reside on. If we cannot agree on that fundamental framework of war, and indeed, of life, what on earth do we stand for.

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@grantshapps @Keir_Starmer This is straight out of the Trumpian playbook! And @grantshapps knows it is bullshit too; he is just as transparent as the rest of his nasty party

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@OwenJones84 Good metaphor!

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

@Magician147 I don’t know - I like it as a feature of the game. I wonder if it could be limited to like if you need 3 or more then it’s over - could be a happy compromise but I’m not a player so may be logistics that I am not thinking of

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

Monty loves French and Saunders ⁦@Dawn_French⁩ ⁦@ferrifrump⁩

[Dr Denis Cryer-Lennon @DenisDLennon]

Really ⁦@BBCNews⁩? Is this where we are at?