Paul Dodwell

[lurette la reine des palettes @PlumeLQC]

Avoir des parents médecin : j’ai la grippe donc mon père me dit « je vais t’envoyer l’arbre décisionnel de diagnostic » je vous le partage aussi du coup puisqu’on est en pleine épidémie

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@TomJoudrey So does that make you one of its enemies??

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The skill of ballet dancer Oleg Chernasov, giving the illusion of being two people

( Igor Moiseyev Ballet)

[MoneyRadar @MoneyRadar_FR]

Les Chinois 🇨🇳 bradent leurs châteaux bordelais !

C'est la fin du rêve français ! Sur 250 domaines détenus par des Chinois, 50 sont à vendre, certains à prix cassés.

Un château prestigieux (Latour Laguens) proposé à 150 000€ seulement !

Les raisons de cette déroute sont simples :

👉 Le bordeaux ne fait plus rêver (-25% de conso en 2023)
👉 Les investisseurs ont misé sur le bas de gamme
👉 Les capitaux sont bloqués en Chine

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@cornwallchar He has a secret agent

[SatournePasRond? 🪐 @SatournePasRond]

"Allez Donald ouvre, on va fêter ça !"

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Unclear What The Fuck Poet On About https://t.co/9Tuahs7SBg

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@FionaDiomond Yes

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@cornwallchar one for your grammar campaign ;)

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Horse wearing reconstructed 2500-year-old Scythian horse armor unearthed in the Altai Mountains in Siberia. Photo via Ostrov Krym - Scientific - Restoration Laboratory.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff.

A 🧵

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Never forget David Bowie’s biggest regret in life.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'

Or storytelling + data visualization + data visualization about storytelling = mind blown.

[François Momboisse @fmomboisse]

Il y a 15 jours j’avais proposé une épreuve du certif’ de 1923. Pour le dernier jour des vacances des Parisiens, j’en propose une autre, avec une dictée, une épreuve de vocabulaire et 3 exercices d’arithmétique. Résultats demain matin.
(1/7)
Prêts?.:)

[John Perks @JohnP_QB]

@GigiMiranda49 @Jenny_1884 If that is your only income and have zero or little savings, you should claim pension credit.

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

I can’t stop thinking about this…

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@Beathhigh Goodness & Evil
Battered & Fried
Finished & Done

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Without original films, investigations and its own correspondents, hard to see how it's Newsnight. So proud to have worked on this show, with one of the very best teams in news, anywhere. We need more of what Newsnight has always been about, not less. https://t.co/sTAN6hDtPs

[Paul Dodwell @PaulDodwell]

@cornwallchar @JonnElledge She probably minded the gap

[Mark Kieran - Democracy Activist @MarkKieranUK]

WARNING: THREAD CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

🧵 What a morally vacuous, embarrassingly incompetent monster Suella Braverman is.

Having worked at the Home Office deciding asylum applications, I know the 1951 Refugee Convention's terms are far clearer than her pernicious propaganda would suggest.

She says many asylum seekers base their claims on “feeling” discriminated against in their home countries. But the scope of the Convention is limited to people who believe they have a “well-founded fear of persecution” for some specific reasons. Those reasons are race, nationality, religion, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. Mere feelings of discrimination would not meet that rigorous test, and any application made on those grounds would (rightly) be fast-tracked for refusal.

She suggests that persecution, by definition, must involve a threat to life. Not true. Persecution often DOES involve a threat to life, but other things can qualify as persecution (arbitrary detention, unjustified confiscation of assets, withdrawal of state protection from crime). Braverman knows this, but the boneheads whose votes she is soliciting do not, so hey, why not spin the line?

In my time at the Home Office, I refused many asylum applications which, on the evidence presented, clearly did not meet the test of a well-founded fear of persecution on Convention grounds. The majority of those applications were made by people (mostly young men) who appeared to be seeking better economic futures for themselves and their families. That's completely understandable, and I never blamed them for trying, but it's not grounds for asylum, so neither did I feel any guilt in refusing them…that's not the purpose of the asylum system.

But I did grant asylum to a number of people who had clearly faced unimaginable horror in their own countries before escaping to the UK, where they felt safe and where they believed they would be able to live the rest of their lives in peace.

There was the Sikh activist who had a kettle of boiling water poured over him during a police interrogation. There was the woman from a minority Muslim sect who, when her husband died, and her neighbours started throwing stones through her windows at night, sought the protection of the local police only to be publicly ridiculed and then gang-raped by six officers in front of her three young children. There were the young Tamil men forced to inhale the fumes of burnt chilli powder by Sri Lankan police. Others hung upside-down and beaten for days until they confessed to crimes they played no part in. And many, many more with genuine, provable experiences just as gruesome.

Nearly thirty years on, I can still recall the faces of those people as they recounted their experiences to me during interviews and the tears in the eyes of the interpreters as they translated words no one should ever have to hear.

Since my days in the Home Office, I can’t recall a single Home Secretary who hasn’t had to wrestle one way or another with the asylum system. But neither can I recall one who has approached the task with as little humanity in their heart as Braverman. Truly, she is in a league of her own.

I simply don’t believe the majority of people in this country support the cruel policies that Braverman embraces so enthusiastically. As I listen to her today, my sincerest hope is that when Open Britain and our partners finally deliver a functional democracy in this country, monsters like her will never again be able to game their way into high office and abuse the power they find there.

This is our fight.

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