Will Knocker

Forester naturalist, guiding in Nairobi National Park & the wilder bits of Kenya

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Best Getaway in #Nairobi
Looking over #NairobiNationalPark
Wildlife Refuge
#Pumzika
https://t.co/A61DexNsIC

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Recent Kenya weather update:

Many areas, especially eastern Kenya, the ASALs (arid and semi-arid lands), and parts of the central and coastal regions, have received near- to below-average rainfall so far.
December is forecast to be near-average to below-average over much of the country, with poor spatial distribution.
NDMA has flagged worsening drought conditions: several ASAL counties have moved into Alert or Alarm drought phases, with rising food-insecurity numbers and stress on pasture and water.
Farmers and communities are being advised to conserve moisture and prepare for a drier spell...."

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Early NATO estimates suggest that Russia had 50,000 killed or seriously wounded in October. Almost as many in one mont as the US lost in Vietnam - says Mark Rutte @FutureAtlantic

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Poor Old #UN

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

China just told Canada’s prime minister what he’s allowed to say to Xi.

The Chinese Embassy in Canada warned Ottawa not to raise “so-called ‘human rights issues’” or Asia-Pacific security differences ahead of the APEC meeting, calling it a “strategic miscalculation” that could damage the relationship.

Beijing also denied any foreign interference in Canada, even though a Canadian public inquiry found China was the most active perpetrator targeting Canadian elections.

Democratic leaders don’t need a foreign embassy’s permission to talk about human rights or their own sovereignty.

What should Canada’s bottom line be?

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

How ?????

[Ombiros🇰🇪 @MatayaKelvin]

Likoni Ferry tragedy again🤔

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ADuWHWom7N

Original artwork from https://t.co/Wcrx6Vu6YW

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Wspólna. Wolna. Biało-czerwona.
Niech się święci Niepodległa! 🇵🇱

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Athelstan on the fourth plinth - let's make it happen!

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Another big clue that he was a complete wrong’un.

[Lou Macari @LouMacari10]

What a fantastic day at Windsor Castle to receive my MBE from Prince William. I was dead nervous beforehand, but was then ok chatting with him about football and our work with the homeless over the last 10 years at the Macari Centre.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Jewish Population by Country (1900-2026) ✡️

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

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[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:

“What is happening now is a simulation of a peace process.

Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.

Witkoff called putin a humanist.

I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were tortured, raped, mutilated and subjected to electric shocks. One woman told me her eye had been gouged out with a spoon.

In Kyiv, I met a five-year-old girl whose mother had been abducted, tortured and repeatedly raped by russians. The girl hugged me, cried and begged: ‘Please, bring my mother back.’

My friend and colleague, journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, was abducted, tortured and died in russian captivity. Her body was returned with several organs missing. We still do not know how she died.

My friend and mentor, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in captivity. He was tortured so brutally that he had to learn to walk again after his release. In his isolation cell, he gave philosophy lectures to rats just to hear a human voice.

He told me: ‘The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.’

𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡!

We have acted throughout these so-called ‘24 hours’. We acted before them, and we will keep acting for as long as it takes to bring peace.

Thank you to everyone who continues to stand with us.”

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

REMARKABLE! ⛪ York’s glaziers restored the 95-panel St William Window at York Minster.

Walk along the North Quire Aisle and you can see those panels together, high above the floor.

A window that fills your view from the aisle becomes close work at the bench, where the glaziers can lean right over the coloured glass.

The team at the York Glaziers Trust also took on the St Cuthbert Window, as part of its work caring for the Minster’s 128 stained-glass windows.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Better late than never!'

Reform UK MP Suella Braverman reacts to David Cameron saying that the UK shouldn't rejoin the EU.

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[Saeed Ibrahim - סעיד אברהים @Saeed_beeldeeq]

I dont know much but @nimcaanyo2 should not let the boys run around with red head wear or anything colorful. Defeats the purpose of camo.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy.
We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners.
And I think we can make that work”

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***

David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU

The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”

Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU

As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit

“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says

The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations

“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says

“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”

“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”

Story by @ChaplainChloe: https://t.co/gKPvWA9LAu

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Free Read !
"The cult of celebrity is one of the most corrosive pathologies of modernity, of the era of mass communications.
It symbolises all that is wrong with our post-rational, ignorant, rudderless, atomised, post-theistic world, desperately in search of meaning, endlessly falling foul of false prophets..."
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[Aly-Khan Satchu @alykhansatchu]

“Our economic problems are: we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit.” @David_Cameron https://t.co/fqQcuxtFJN

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

بازدید از آشوویتز و بیرکناو تجربه‌ای هولناک و تکان‌دهنده بود.

من و همسرم یاسمین، وسایل به‌جامانده از قربانیان را دیدیم و از سوله‌ها، اتاق‌های گاز و کوره‌های آدم‌سوزی بازدید کردیم. هر کفش و چمدان، یادآور انسانی بود که نام، خانواده و زندگی داشت.

جنایت هولوکاست علیه ملت یهود در تاریخ بی‌مانند است، کشتاری در ابعادی صنعتی که با دقت و کارآمدی یک دستگاه دیوان‌سالار طراحی و سازمان‌دهی شد. آشوویتز و بیرکناو این واقعیت را آشکارا پیش چشم ما قرار می‌دهند.

در آنجا به مردم ایران اندیشیدم، و به رژیمی که هولوکاست را انکار می‌کند و هم‌زمان می‌کوشد با قطع اینترنت، سانسور و اعدام‌های پنهانی، کشتار هم‌میهنان ما را از حافظه جهان پاک کند.

اما جمهوری اسلامی نماینده ایران نیست. وارثان کوروش در کنار ملت یهود ایستاده‌اند و در حالی که رژیم در پی مرگ و ویرانی است، ملت ایران برای زندگی و آزادی مبارزه می‌کند.

در محل یادبود قربانیان، تاج‌گلی با نشان شیر و خورشید را به نمایندگی از ملت ایران قرار دادیم. ما هرگز فراموش نخواهیم کرد و اجازه نخواهیم داد رژیمی که ایران را اشغال کرده است، نام و تاریخ ملت ما را به ابزار نفرت تبدیل کند.

ایران آزاد بار دیگر نماد صلح، زندگی و کرامت انسانی خواهد بود.

نور بر تاریکی پیروز خواهد شد.