Peter Verney

Sudan specialist. Also biologist, Baobab planter, field music recorder, English teacher, aid worker, staff writer, bum-wiper, Smartie-maker, Zar inductee.

[Peter Verney @PeterVerney1]

My video of Shurooq AbuelNas at The Water Rats, Grays Inn Rd, last Tuesday. Two hits from Lebanese and Iraqi stars, delivered in fabulous style to a delighted audience. Still buzzing from the response & participation.
Full band and song credits to follow. https://t.co/eEeoiETlLY

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

I'm my third and final post in tribute to the great Stanley Unwin, I give you what is basically magic mushrooms for the ears! 

Professor Unwin meets the voice of Bill and Ben, Peter Hawkins, in a feature for the TV show, Points of View.

Greetings and welcode. Deep joy.

[S A M A H𓃰❁ @SimsimAlbadri]

If you can, please repost this and help it reach beyond our usual circles...
https://t.co/iK4LkwB9jf

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"They're like: this is inevitable. There's nothing you can do about it. And so all that's left for us to do is to make sure that we are part of the winners, not the losers."

@AaronBastani in conversation with AI journalist @_KarenHao about what she's hearing from the "upper echelons of Silicon Valley", and their disregard for the apocalyptic impact AI might have on humanity.

Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

[ODAY || 🇵🇸 @oday_jabour]

12 AM.
No desk. No quiet room.
Just a tent, a laptop, and a dream I refuse to lose.

I need £200 for basic study tools. 🤍

https://t.co/Ov9UiD3bFC

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

Meet the woman who escaped Sudan's war to rebuild a women-led menstrual health factory in Egypt https://t.co/JXS30s2uXH

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Around the country, a huge tree planting programme of our most important native tree is underway. But no bureaucrat decreed it in a policy paper, & it relies on no government funding. This mass planting is being carried out by nature herself.

2025 was a ‘mast year’ for acorns. In order to have the best chance of reproducing, some trees like oaks all produce a huge amount of acorns in the same year. This sheer abundance overwhelms creatures like squirrels that snack on the nuts, as they simply can’t eat them all.

Now, in woodlands & fields across the country, we see the results of this self-directed tree planting. Huge carpets of baby oaks that in some places are so thick they look like a grassy green lawn. I’ve honestly never seen so many oak saplings in my lifetime & this scene is all the more incredible given the oaks somehow knew to coordinate their reproduction like this.

[Peter Verney @PeterVerney1]

@61harpy @ghayo0da Arabic is the lingua franca in Sudan, used by non-Arab tribes as much as by those who see themselves as Arab.
In fact there's a recurrent problem in Home Office asylum interviews with Arab interpreters assuming that Sudanese Arabic language speakers are Arabs when they're not.

[Ameen Aljbour @AljbourAmin]

Only two days left until my first midterm exam…

And so far, I've only managed to raise $25 of the $560 I need to pay my college fees. 💔
I'm genuinely scared that all these years of hard work will end up costing me my exams because I can't afford the fees.

I'm not asking for anything extra…
I'm just trying to avoid losing my education and my future amidst everything we're going through.

If you can help, even with a small amount or by sharing this post, it might help me take my exam on Tuesday. 🤍
https://t.co/V4kAEEKqYO

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

So sick of incidents like this happening over and over again

https://t.co/jEbXrlOhpl

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

بينما كان يسعى لرزقه في بحر غزة لأجل اطعام عائلته،

قام جندي اسرائيلي بقنصه في رأسه بشكل مباشر لمجرد التسلية

جريمة مَرت دون أن يعلم بها أحد.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[ODAY || 🇵🇸 @oday_jabour]

I may be behind others my age.

But I survived a war, helped bring hospitals back to life, and never stopped trying.

Now I am fighting for my education and my future.

The truth is simple:

I need help to keep going. 🤍

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

"There is not a single proper toilet across the vast tent cities housing most of Gaza’s 1.7 million Palestinians left homeless by the war. Displaced families have largely been left on their own to dig their own latrines, some shared by extended families."
https://t.co/VgWL904lwK

[ThomaSerena @ThomaSerenaBH]

No water and no electricity
Ppl had to go to different areas just to charge their phones and have a drink of water.
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

[S A M A H𓃰❁ @SimsimAlbadri]

All I want is for this grandma to receive the care she desperately needs..

She has already endured surgery, a stroke, and days in intensive care. We are so close to covering the cost of her medications and ICU stay.
Please help us get her across the finish line❤️
https://t.co/QnxJuWFpcO…

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Starmer’s plan to fund a defence boost by cutting £6bn from net zero, transport, the NHS and schools, is akin to burning your clothes to stay warm.

Hybrid warfare isn’t just about missiles and drones. Its frontline is also public services, energy, infrastructure, and the social cohesion a productive state strengthens.

Cutting net zero undermines our ability to bring down bills and achieve energy dependence.

Transport is military mobility. A health service one dire winter from collapse is a hybrid warfare vulnerability.

These aren’t what you sacrifice for security. They’re what security is made of.

The story this approach tells all of us is that our bus routes, hospital care and energy bills - are the price of the nation’s safety.

That’s not just a shit political message it’s the kind of framing that enhances the goals of hostile states.

Desperate stuff. We can do better.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Up to 22 Swift nests were destroyed during demolition works carried out by Northeast Demolition UK on behalf of Hill Group and Clarion Housing. Conservationists have described this as a significant wildlife crime. Surrey Police had been warned that Swifts were actively nesting.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Friends and followers in London: all are welcome to this tonight in the Vision Hall, within Campden Town Hall, opposite the British Library near King's Cross

[Peter Verney @PeterVerney1]

@InspM0r0s3 @GBNews23653867 @JuliaHB1 I'm more bothered that HB is deliberately chosen for her role because of her warped ignorance by some real creeps with a shitty agenda.
FWIW My best-ever coach trip was spent listening to a woman who'd worked at Bletchley Park. Decades on, she still had a sparkling intelligence.

[Sue💙🔶 ❤️Conquers All @suehard]

@GBNews23653867 @JuliaHB1 Journalist 😂🙄