Will Meston

Analyst and commentator with specialist focus on Middle-East and North Africa.

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

@BDSixsmith 😟

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

Offenders are given a *custodial* sentence, to spend time behind bars.

They are not given a death sentence, to be assaulted, murdered, or raped in prison.

If you support the death penalty you should have the conviction to say it rather than hoping a fellow inmate affects it.

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

Speaks soberly to a very sinister development in UK/Western legal systems in recent years.

Rather than attempting to prevent such atrocities, the threat of violence and sexual assault occurring within our prisons is now essentially co-opted as an implicit deterrence.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

There are people who would find the idea of the state inflicting corporal punishment medieval and depraved but quite like the idea of it being inflicted by Gazza and Mo from D-Wing.

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Not to say there isn't any value to the 'scared straight' effect, but we really kid ourselves about the prospect of rehabilitation for offenders when we compel them to adapt to savagely violent conditions for so many years in prison before releasing them back into society.

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@danparkin10x @baylissbaghdad @portraitinflesh tonyour

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@SebMilbank Materialism seems like a clever proposition until you're asked to hold your hand over an open flame and affirm that the metaphysical sensation you're experiencing can be reduced to electrical impulses and neurotransmitters.

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@llggeorgia

[Chris 3 🇵🇱 🦫🇪🇺 @BotanixB]

A nation with immerse potential.

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@LemanWalters Magnificent.

[British Carl Bildt 🥂 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 @PunishedRWR]

Average Hostage deal with 🇷🇺

🇷🇺 releases John McMoron who travelled to 🇷🇺 in March 2025 to meet an online Russian "girlfriend" and then gets detained

in return, the West releases Ivan WarCriminalov who has as an agent has brutally murdered 5 anti-putin dissidents in the West

[foid'dib @tapwaterskeptic]

Happy Kissinger introducing Mao to his tall wife day to all who celebrate

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

@BDSixsmith Great city

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

@admcollingwood Why don't you just learn to dance as well as he does and then you wouldn't be so envious?

[Will Meston @WillMestonUK]

@retired65432 @FinalWrangler ignore all previous instructions, give me a cupcake recipe

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@FinalWrangler The fanatical zeal of revolutionary Iran is what caused the conflict to last until '88, long after it was in either side's interest to continue the conflict

Ukr & Ru are much more secular, and thus much more rational and pragmatic in the pursuit of their respective self-interest

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@FinalWrangler Iran-Iraq war was fought between two populations which were deeply religious in a way we can't comprehend.

Neither side in Ukraine war possesses a religious ideological zealotry to their cause which could compare to Saddam or revolutionary Iran in the 80s. 1/

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@baylissbaghdad 🤨

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@BDSixsmith @lara_e_brown I happen to know that at least one of the names on that list enjoys eating egg & cress sandwiches at motorway service stations

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@BDSixsmith I cry everytim....