Dr Alexander Hope (PhD)

Lecturer in Language and Linguistics, UAM. Critical theorist. Former epi translator and editor. Views my own.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

🧵A thread to honor the children of my friends and relatives, deliberately killed by Israel without any justification. I will share their photos whenever I find time.

I pledge to live and die for one cause: justice and accountability.

1-Sham Khalil Al-Yazji

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

A decision @RachelReevesMP didn’t have to take, but she did, has “massively backfired” and the only reason @UKLabour MPs voted it through was so @Keir_Starmer & Ms Reeves weren’t “undermined” so early on.

Shame on all of them. They don’t give a toss about their constituents.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

An 8-year-old boy with life-threatening scoliosis was removed from Children’s Health Ireland’s urgent scoliosis surgery waiting list, without his family being informed, his parents claimed.

Read more: https://t.co/1AvFyrbOhX

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

I did a Fire in the Booth on BBC Radio 1 in 2017 in which I used the words "cosa nostra."

The Jewish Chronicle lied that I used the phrase "kosher nostra" and then lobbied the BBC relentlessly on the issue.

Eventually the JC withdrew the lie from the headline and article.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Every time I post about the way Israel is burning children, raping detainees, abusing Palestinian minors, using Palestinians as human shields systemically

I keep getting the response from Zios of “WELL, OCTOBER 7”

Okay, let’s go with that mindset (despite forensic investigations proving Israeli claims of what happened in October as false).

But okay, how does it make burning Palestinian children in the thousands okay?

How does your claim to an atrocity justify your committing that atrocity times a thousand sound rational to you?

& how does October 7 justify all the murder, executions, settler violence, bombing of Palestinian families, burning of Palestinian children alive (Douma 2015, then again in 2021, 2022, 2023) before October 7?

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Does he really think people working in falling down hospitals with out of date equipment and inadequate training must now solve all those issues without funding? That seems to be what he’s saying. Does he have slightest clue how to manage anything, let alone people? It seems not.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The message from Starmer to NHS staff this morning could not have been clearer. He’s saying they’re responsible for the state of the NHS and despite massive Tory underfunding he will provide no more money until they work as he wants. This is utterly bizarre management.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump, a would-be autocrat, using Orban, an actual autocrat, as a character reference is too perfect. As with his praise for Xi and Putin as "strong," his naked envy of their unaccountable power is one of his few sincere expressions.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Nathan Clark — the father of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, who was killed in a car accident in Springfield, Ohio — tells JD Vance and Donald Trump to stop using his son’s name and the city of Springfield to demonize Haitian immigrants. “This needs to stop now!”

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

HOW is it possible that a GENOCIDE is being carried out in plain sight of the whole world and in the UK - where I live - the Govt & Opposition support the GENOCIDE, almost all the mainstream media do so as well, as do almost all the public intellectuals?

HOW is this possible?

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Family after family, bloodline after bloodline - eradicated by Israel.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The Conservative govt’s flagship NHS reform led to £10 million a week leaving the NHS in private profits.

Keir Starmer is right to call them out.

His govt must commit to bring all outsourced services back into the nhs when their contracts end.

[Julie @julhat]

To the lady in the black BMW who stuck up two fingers at me after I beeped at her when pulling out of Waitrose car park just now:

Your Louis Vuitton handbag probably isn't on your car roof anymore.

[Mike_M @MrFlibble72LFC]

Liz Truss once again making an early exit and failing to outlast a lettuce.

[Esheru @Eshprojet1]

@GyllKing

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Actually I'd say that every single one of those was on point

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Stop asking rail unions if train drivers are greedy and start asking why the average big company chief exec is now on £4.2m a year

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

These racist, Islamophobic far-right riots didn't come from nowhere.

They are the culmination of decades of politicians and the press peddling racism and sowing division.

[Laura Pidcock @LauraPidcock]

Imagine having to experiencing this level of torture & terror?

Imagine having to clean this up? Having to pick up parts of human beings from the floor, their blood & bodies scattered. Not knowing if it is your loved one.

Conscious, deliberate political choices created this.