Bonnie Evans-Hills

priest, peace & interfaith activist, feminist, former weaver - doesn't agree w every retweet; author

[Bonnie Evans-Hills @EvansHills]

people of faith & conviction from across the globe contributed to @UN #PlanOfAction 4 ending incitement to violence, next steps about to be taken @WCC_IA @ACOffice @muslimhandsuk @HMD_UK @c_of_e @bppwhalon @Bishop_Europe https://t.co/WeSTyfB8wO

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🆘 WATCH how German media see Brexit Britain.

They don’t see Brexit as a settled success or failure. They see a country rediscovering a simple reality:

Geography matters.
Security matters.
Trade matters.

Food, energy, defence and supply chains are all connected.

Brexit has proved Remainers worst fears were well founded. Now it’s about how Britain prospers and stays secure in an increasingly unstable world.

That’s why I’ve argued for years that food security is national security. Britain is in Europe and can’t relocate!

[The National @ScotNational]

A Glasgow man has broken cover after a video of him being attacked with a traffic cone at a far-right protest went viral 📽️

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

After Trump's masked deportation agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart. Now he and his family are seeking justice. https://t.co/enQkE2nV3R

[The National @ScotNational]

By far the best way to improve energy security is to reduce reliance on imported energy by building up the supply of homegrown renewables, of which, luckily, we have a lot, writes Tommy Sheppard ✍️

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Time and time again, whether it’s Arron Banks, undeclared US dark money, Cambridge Analytica, or Ashcroft lobbyist Oakeshott, the BBC invites them on to calumniate journalists like @carolecadwalla - with no declaration of interest or right of reply. What is WRONG with you guys?

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Farming and nature restoration need to go hand in hand - and they can with a bit of help from government

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Settlers and the IDF attacked a Palestinian village and killed multiple Palestinians. One Palestinian dared to try and defend himself and they are blockading other unrelated towns and putting their people at risk by paralyzing their health systems. It just keeps getting worse.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The disciplines being defunded are precisely the ones that produce the critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and analytical capacity to identify and resist the zone methodology.
Literature. History. Philosophy. Sociology. The arts.
The pipeline being built from one end is the pipeline being emptied from the other.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The creative industries outperform the zone economy on every metric that matters.
They are fed by exactly the humanities and arts disciplines being defunded in the communities zone architecture claims to be regenerating.
That is not a coincidence. It is a policy choice.
Britain's soft power, its global cultural influence, its ability to project values, attract talent, and shape international perception, flows from those same disciplines.
The BBC. The British Council. British literature, music, film, art.
No freeport has ever produced that. No Investment Zone can replicate it.

[Bonnie Evans-Hills @EvansHills]

This whole thread… killing off education!

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The FT reports Burnham will cut the welfare bill by tailoring school curricula to local employer needs.
Most people read that as an education story.
But, this is undeniably a free zone story.
My Substack article goes much deeper than the FT piece. Please read, share, and subscribe.
https://t.co/7LSTirFhx1
A thread. 🧵

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Now look at what is being dismantled at the same time.
Nearly 4,000 academic posts in humanities, arts, and social sciences axed in one year. Leicester closed Film Studies and Modern Languages entirely. Queen Mary axed 295 arts modules. Nottingham suspended 40+ courses. Modern languages enrolment has halved since 2011.
Almost all losses fell outside the Russell Group. In the communities zone architecture is claiming to regenerate.

[Bonnie Evans-Hills @EvansHills]

@EuropeanPowell Disastrous for education!

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The FT reports Burnham will cut the welfare bill by tailoring school curricula to local employer needs.
Most people read that as an education story.
But, this is undeniably a free zone story.
My Substack article goes much deeper than the FT piece. Please read, share, and subscribe.
https://t.co/7LSTirFhx1
A thread. 🧵

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Alastair Campbell, "Nigel Farage is a consequential figure in British politics, I doubt Brexit would have happened without him"

"History will say the three key drivers of Brexit: David Cameron who called the referendum, Boris Johnson who led one of the campaigns and Nigel Farage who laid the ground for it"

"Camerons gone, Johnsons gone, and the fact that some people are talking about Nigel Farage becoming the next prime minister, what does that say about our politics?"

"The guy who has helped to inflict the very thing, Brexit, that has weakened our economy, weakened our standing in the world, that we think he should be prime minister?

"It's a form of madness"

"The populism and lies of the Brexit campaigners"

"Brexit was all about taking back control. Partly because we lost our membership of the European Union and so the Dublin Convention, we've lost control"

"Partly because so many Europeans left Britain, went back, doctors, nurses, and carers, we then had the Boris wave of immigration, people from other countries, particularly India, Bangladesh"

"We also have people from Ukraine and Hong Kong which I think the public are more willing to accept"

"The truth is, we have to get the balance right between an aging population, where we're going to need immigrants to do the jobs that British people don't want to do, and we need high skill immigrants"

"Charlatans like Farage are always going to make immigration the issue because they haven't got much else to say about anything else"

"Andy Burnham is very pro European, in his heart he knows Brexit is a disaster, knows that we have to somehow fix it"

"I think it will be a much closer relationship with the European Union"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's a lot of people who seem to be really stupid

So let me make it clear

There is loads and loads of money. We can have pensions and benefits and healthcare and housing and everything everyone needs

But the billionaires and their puppets want to steal every single penny

[United Nations @UN]

Extreme weather is devastating communities & taking lives.

Unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires & storms — all intensified by the climate crisis — are affecting people around the world.

We urgently need more ambitious #ClimateAction.

https://t.co/OL6G9vQDV6

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

War crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to US

An arrest warrant for him was issued by ICC in November 2024 for a litany of horrific crimes

Today, three ICC member countries—Greece, Italy and France—have permitted him to use their airspace

Rogue, lawless nations

[Laura Webster @LauraEWebsterr]

NEW: The man who had a cone thrown at him during far-right disorder in Glasgow this weekend has spoken to The National about his experience.

Muhammad Jawad, 31, was working his delivery job when he was racially abused in the Tradeston area.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

So remember the settler who was killed in the attack on a Palestinian village on Friday? The one they said was killed by a Palestinian? The IDF now admits he was killed by friendly fire. Israel kills everyone including their own.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman… and Tom Homan is telling everyone that they just have to comply with this.

A woman was driving on Highway 211, in Oregon, when a vehicle with flashing red and blue lights pulled behind her.

Believing she was being stopped by law enforcement, she pulled over.

Two men approached her vehicle, one was carrying a rifle, and they claimed to be ICE agents and told her she was being detained.

They pulled her out of her car, searched her, and put her in the back of their vehicle.

Then, a third man… who remained inside the vehicle… assaulted her.

He told her he was the “guard.”

The men were wearing tactical vests labeled “POLICE,” carrying fake badges, and wore face coverings.

They held her for nearly 20 minutes before telling her she was free to go… and then she drove herself to the hospital.

And while she was there, she reported that she started receiving text messages from someone claiming to be a law firm offering legal representation for her detention.

Federal authorities later confirmed this was NOT an official ICE operation… These were people pretending to be federal agents.

And this is exactly why Tom Homan telling people to “comply” with anyone claiming to be ICE is so incredibly dangerous.

Because what is a person supposed to do when someone in a tactical vest, carrying a gun, pulls them over with flashing lights and says they are federal agents?

Just trust them?

This is not about telling people to resist legitimate law enforcement.

This is about the government normalizing a system where anyone can look like an armed federal agent, claim to have authority over you, and expect you to obey without being able to verify who they are.

That doesn’t make people safer.

It makes everyone more vulnerable to being kidnapped, assaulted, or killed by criminals who know they can pretend to be ICE.