Richard Torné

Writes and plays a bit. Past bylines in The Sunday Times. Co-author of ‘David Lean’s Dedicated Maniac - Memoirs of a Film Specialist’. All views my own.

[La Nueva España @lanuevaespana]

⚫ La Policía despide a "Jota", el agente muerto en la explosión de la mochila bomba de Oviedo, concediéndole su máxima distinción: la familia recibe la Medalla de Oro al Mérito Policial y la bandera de España. 🏅

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@hegsadh @Hamza_a96 https://t.co/7whz4DY92d

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Yesterday the IDF shot dead this kid.

His "crime"?

They allege he "planned" to throw stones at one of their armoured vehicles.

Even if he did that's his legal right as they illegally occupy the West Bank.

Won't be word from EU leaders.

Imagine he was Israeli, headline news.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@hegsadh @Hamza_a96 This is what your IDF heroes get up to.

[Stephen Parnis @SParnis]

I grieve the death of one of Gaza's few remaining general surgeons today. Dr Rizq Abu Shaeera was respected by many who worked alongside him, providing surgical care in unspeakably harsh conditions at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the target of today's lethal airstrikes.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@hegsadh @Hamza_a96 The IRA and ETA also hid among the population, but the respective British and Spanish governments didn't bomb civilian enclaves in response, not even when Spain was ruled by Franco.

Israel has committed enough war crimes to fill an encyclopedia.

[Adonia Muwereza🇺🇬 @adonia_muwereza]

When Barack Obama killed President Muammar Gadaffi of Libya on 20th October 2011, he said,
"This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya."

Today, Libya lives a more painful chapter, a life of killings by rebels from all sides, a life that they never dreamed of. 15 years later, Libya has never found the peace they thought could be gotten after killing their own🤔

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@hegsadh @Hamza_a96 The hospital was bombed by an IDF jet. Only 2 hospitals out of 37 are fully functioning. The claim that they are military bases is an obscene lie, which explains why the IDF still refuses to allow international journalists into Gaza.
You're a disgusting excuse for a human being.

[Action for Primates @Action4Primates]

A bleak future for long-tailed #macaques after #CITES Standing Committee agreed to lift its current suspension on the trade in CITES-listed animals from #Laos; thereby opening the way for the resumption of exports of monkeys to overseas testing labs. https://t.co/yC4hs7JAZe

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@MarkSeddon1962 Looks like Chatgpt's doing all the lifting here.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@hegsadh @Hamza_a96 They're hospitals, you git. Shelling a hospital full of patients and medical staff to kill 1 Hamas militant is illegal - collective punishment is a war crime.

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

It is utterly laughable to brand the Americans as "mediators in Abu Dhabi" when "the CIA is deeply involved in this war," and Donald Trump needs an urgent briefing to realize Ukraine could never have survived this long without direct Western intervention.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

Hamilton is wasted in F1.

[LH44(A) @LH44Fanpage8]

Lewis Hamilton stopped to ask some questions during his visit to Rafah Crossing

Lewis: is it different? For an aid truck as opposed to a fuel truck?

No, they have the same road.

Lewis: of course they can't unload, No, no. My point was that when you go through the first checkpoint, they have to unload these these aid trucks with the food and then they have to put it back on and then they go to the next checkpoint, take it off, put it back on.
What's the situation with the fuel?
Because they can't take the fuel out

it's the same like because they they they drop it in another container. And the International Organizations trucks they reload it and spread it into Gaza. And by the way, one day the Israelis shut down all the, they said no no more humanitarian aids. So this is why we make a direct coordination with them to make air drops using the the Egyptian Air Force. And we made like 168 airdrops for humanitarian aid to
Gaza strip.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@SkyNews @haynesdeborah Haynes loves her toys and her gadgets, doesn't she?

Can we have some grown up reporting for a change? Maybe from someone who's capable of delivering sober, mature and in-depth analysis based on geo-political knowledge and experience.

Try inviting John Mearsheimer.

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@SaulStaniforth She makes a mockery of journalism on a near-daily basis.

[chunc @chunktrunk2]

#nw: the cranes are flying (1957)
Been on my watchlist forever and I heard nothing but good things #firstwatch

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@MarkSeddon1962 He behaves like someone who's suffering from mental health issues himself in addition to being desperate to sell his product. Mental disease is often linked to ACEs, environment, social/job pressures & inadequate nutrition.
Perhaps that would explain this yank's issues.

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

Le système néolibéral a dominé l'Europe pendant une quarantaine d'années.

En France, il a désorganisé la société française telle qu'elle avait été construite à partir de la Libération et des acquis collectifs.

Aujourd'hui, le néolibéralisme n'est plus capable de tenir ses promesses.

Ses défenseurs n'ont que deux choses à proposer : continuer à faire des économies et détruire ce qu'il nous reste.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

No impunity. Wanted for the mass murder of schoolchildren and teachers in Minab. Trump and Hegseth were the "masterminds" , but Leigh R. Tate and Jeffrey E. York were the naval commanders who made the triple tap missile attack on the school, with full knowledge of who was there. https://t.co/BlVcXawRy6

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Remember all the times we were told we weren't allowed to say that Israel pushed for this disastrous war??

[Richard Torné @ZRicht]

@ChrisLynch3149 @djs2706 @Channel4News Like all good liars, you deal in half-truths. Gaza's airspace, borders, coastline, energy & water supplies have been controlled by Israel for years. The West Bank is controlled/run by the IDF and its settler proxy, while Israel has invaded & bombed almost all its neighbours.