GudrunGaudi

marine ecologist working with fisheries to fish sustainably, and good with trees

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth | @hausfath @PFriedling

Read here: https://t.co/tPUD9HBetU

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

After Russia invaded Ukraine, it was swiftly banned from all UEFA & FIFA tournaments.

Yet, after 13 months of genocide that has claimed 118,000+ Palestinian lives, Israel faces no such sanctions — highlighting the racist double standards entrenched in global politics & sports.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Russian state television, the debate is whether Tulsi Gabbard should be referred to as "our agent" or as "girlfriend."

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Your money up in smoke…

Billions of it

Through sheer greed and incompetence

But tell me again how angry you are at migrants…

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Hospital league tables are nasty, simplistic, retrograde & counterproductive. They will demoralise staff, generate cultures of fear & fail to value all that is unquantifiable in healthcare - kindness, compassion, humanity, discretionary effort. My piece:

https://t.co/MMWsx1eIoq

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Last night I represented the River Roding at Redbridge scrutiny committee, during questioning of Environment Agency & Thames Water about Water pollution & flooding.

I brought water from the river itself into the chamber, as discussing nature without its voice or presence is a cause of many of the river’s problems.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Boris Johnson enthusiastically supported @DominicRaab when he shut down the entire criminal justice system out of petty vindictiveness, causing misery to countless victims of crime and countless people accused of crimes.

This is a topic he really needs to sit out.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

What is appalling is a politician who enthusiastically defunded the criminal justice system - deliberately increasing record court backlogs and causing delays in rape trials of 5 years - thinking he has anything of value to contribute.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

If it can be proved that
it's not genocide
that would be a huge relief.
It would mean that it's only
a huge massacre,
mass killing
and widespread slaughter
In which case
it would be OK.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

We met floor-crossing Tory then Labour MP @RosieisaHolt

And she’s still defending Brexit…

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

WOW, extraordinary scenes. If the British government tried to avoid direct confrontation with @elonmusk after his controversial tweets on the UK riots this summer, Italy president Mattarella, 83, pulls no punches against the American businessman, after he attacked Italian justice for blocking the transfer of illegal migrants to Albania:

“Italy is a great democratic country, and I must reiterate […] that it ‘knows how to take care of itself in accordance with its Constitution.’ Anyone, particularly if, as announced, they are about to take on an important government role in a friendly and allied country, must respect its sovereignty and cannot assume the right to issue instructions to it.”

Resounding silence from PM Giorgia Meloni so far. 🇮🇹🇺🇸

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Your occasional reminder that the 26 CofE Bishops in the House of Lords make the UK one of just two countries in the world, where unelected clerics automatically sit in the legislature.

The other is Iran.

[Amanda Sillars 🇦🇺 @amandasillars]

Just because someone speaks with vivid detail, confidence, and emotion doesn’t make it true—intensity isn’t integrity, and conviction isn’t proof.

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

A comprehensive and fair (albeit damning) assessment. 👇

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Last year, 1436 criminal court hearings were delayed because there was no barrister to represent one side or the other.

Back in 2019, that number was just 71.

For @CounselMagazine I ask:

Where have all the criminal barristers gone?

[Legitimate Targets @LegitTargets]

🚨🇮🇪🇮🇱 BREAKING: IRELAND has passed a motion declaring that ISRAEL is COMMITTING A GENOCIDE in GAZA.

[Nicolai von Ondarza @NvOndarza]

Important to move on this fast.

But as stupid as it is for France and Germany to often not include Poland, as shortsighted would it be to organise this alliance without Berlin and Paris.

[Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦 @bctallis]

I don’t see this as payback. Tusk et al are decent, serious strategic players
- Germany is sidelined not for petty reasons but because it has singularly failed to get its strategic act together under Scholz. It has become an unconstructive blocker in EU & NATO.
This must change.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

“In one measure, closer arrangements with Europe are just common sense, they are a nearby trading partner” said David Davis.

He’s not quick, but he’s getting there. https://t.co/baV9LYlewr