Ian Sinclair

Author of 'The March That Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003' (Peace News Press, 2013) and co-author of 'A Timeline of the Plague Year' (2021).

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

In 2024 Wes Streeting said that South Africa's ICJ case was a "distraction."

[Ian Sinclair @IanJSinclair]

Difficult to confirm, of course, but I suspect the anti-war movement is the larger context for the splits in the cabinet over Gaza mentioned here https://t.co/RrI6NaRKOo @LindseyAGerman

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Great listen on Miles Davis in BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week series https://t.co/2mJeGPfxYM

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An interesting novel from 1961 for those interested in The Diggers, radical movements and the English Civil War period @levellers1649 @world_turned @stillawake

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Good Morning Star editorial on how the threat to undersea cables is being hyped up https://t.co/LJtq67YdHI

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.@ProfBillMcGuire imagines what the UK will be like in 2052 re: the climate crisis https://t.co/1Zfaiwn1d0

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"This government has received serious scientific, intelligence and policy advice that it should take significant action on food security, but it keeps signalling all is OK. It’s not" - Prof. Tim Lang https://t.co/IKsR0ornsf @GreenRupertRead

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In his National Emergency Briefing presentation last year, @KevinClimate noted the UK's real emissions cuts since 1990 were around 20%, when you include emissions from aviation, shipping and imports-exports https://t.co/nkxfgI7Gsd @GreenRupertRead

[Kane Emerson @KaneEmerson]

The UK has successfully de-coupled carbon emissions and GDP.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Torsten Bell is doing the media round for the govt this morning.

Here's a tweet from the archives that highlights just how (un)principled Bell is.
https://t.co/uPWimi4Oix

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'Individual war crimes are not the core problem with either war: they were themselves criminal' - good point from @M_Star_Online about the alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan https://t.co/7YbLTAgdC6

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'Andy Burnham has rolled back from his previous calls for ministers to scrap a restriction on immigrants claiming benefits as the Makerfield byelection places greater scrutiny on his policy positions.' https://t.co/tMaczLBCqI

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.@SolHughesWriter is always worth reading - his latest on whether Andy Burnham will bend to or resist Reform https://t.co/L3SBsxSYpr

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So let me get this straight. Philippe Sands, who argues the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a "crime of aggression", is working with Gordon Brown, who was UK Chancellor in 2003, to bring Putin to justice for the "crime of aggression" of invading Ukraine? https://t.co/Ev05m3wYjB @medialens

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Is the Climate Change Committee really independent, as the BBC claims? https://t.co/UAheaztxFB

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'Is the Climate Change Committee still fit for purpose?' - my new article arguing it is likely "a conservative drag on the national climate conversation", ft. quotes from @KevinClimate, @rahmstorf, @GreenRupertRead, @EdwinThomasJ and @kalahar1 https://t.co/UAheaztxFB

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"We have... a massive and incredibly dangerous problem on our hands: the body that is legally mandated to hold the UK government to account on its climate policies is failing in its mission, and is likely acting as a conservative drag on the national climate conversation" https://t.co/ExUvijWBh3

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Would recommend Dirty Business, the three-part docu-drama about our shit-filled rivers https://t.co/C6FDSZU8ez @stillawake

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Interesting short article from @rstait but misses the key bit of information - the US anti-war movement at the time neutered Nixon's nuclear threats - see the 2023 documentary The Movement and the "Madman" https://t.co/zU5ikMQA3j @medialens @FromSteveHowell @LindseyAGerman

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'Britain’s vital supply chains are unprepared for the prospect of a major shock such as war with Russia, and bold steps are needed to catch up with “worst-case scenario” planning by European states, ministers have been warned.' https://t.co/9vdeUjz8AR

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"The British army redeployed to Helmand in 2006... they often ended up fuelling the violent conflict they were ostensibly there to prevent." Key point from @TomFStevenson, willfully ignored by most of the media for most of the war https://t.co/3fw4ppJxgu @medialens @stillawake