Ian Sullivan

PHD in climate change and community responses. Climate and Education lead, Fab Inc. Looking at developing climate smart education systems. Views are mine mostly

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@DavidTaylor85 I wouldn't read The Sun though if I cared about justice for victims

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@TakshaySheth @APTalksCricket You seem to want to cry in victory! England played well to get close to that score but lost to a formidable team playing at home in a semi final. No shame in that. Well done India. Come on the Kiwis

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@KrazyCynic1125 @APTalksCricket As a regular on the Western Terrace I can promise you that people do not throw beer or anything else at opposition supporters. They do give stick to the players but it's all pretty well humoured and the plyers never seem to mind.

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@SaintsForecast Around this time we shifted from hating the team for being rubbish to getting 100% behind them to get us out of it. The players also shifted to relegation fight mode. Neither of those were evident in Spurs last night.

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@JKSteinberger Did you not get the memo - we're currently at the jingoisitc "what could possibly go wrong and anyone who thinks it might not all be plain sailing loves the Ayatollah and doesn't want Iranians to be free" stage of military intervention.

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@soniasodha It was a pretty big failure - but I agree, there's lots of other failures when intervening that we could also look to before deciding to bomb places

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@DavidTaylor85 @ZackPolanski If brave Iranians protest the regime again (as Trump urges) exactly how will we stop them from being massacred in the streets again?

Our intervention in the ME is not one of unadulterated success for the people we want to see liberated.

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@bobbi_efc__ @RCGT4_ It's so ridiculous. I'm in the East Stand. The scousers there aren't making any noise, they leave early, eat chicken. My son (an out of towner) is always trying to sing and make noise but the damn scousers are ruining it for him

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@eajacobs1989 @Bgal1486 @66PerfumeFanUK @AdamSants_ I've always found the Broad thing weird. A country that basically prides itself on not walking going crazy over opposition not walking

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

Amazing to have been part of @runforall and support the brilliant @CandlelightersT - such a brilliant day running around the hills of Leeds with all the good Yorkshire folk cheering us on. You can still support, thanks to everyone that has donated

https://t.co/shLpQTSgAB

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@IvoGraham Amazing! Such a special event to be part of. How did you find the hills in the end?

[Max Rushden 💛🖤 @maxrushden]

My bit on Everton, Tarkowski, Corner Flag Guy and how one moment can make the years of nothingness completely worth it.

x https://t.co/0CmgE0JQsA

[Conrad Sackey @ConradOSackey]

https://t.co/jJAIOLvz8T

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

I am running the Leeds marathon and fundraising for the amazing Candlelighters. They support children (and their families) who have cancer. They do such fantastic work, please donate if you can. Thank you! @CandlelightersT
https://t.co/nNMWV9QpCz

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

New @Fab_Inc_dev blog n @GPforEducation looking at the implications of the climate crisis on Tanzanian schools. Investments are urgently needed to build climate-smart education systems or the recent gains will be lost https://t.co/flyKQNxX2r

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@WolvesChants24 I was impressed! Kept singing, stayed until the end.

We would have walked out ages before full time

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@barneyronay The Coote truthers are convinced it's the tip of the deep state iceberg - the files will prove everything. RELEASE THEM

[Ian Sullivan @iansully]

@TheBarmyArmy Thorpe

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

I'm very impressed that the Conservatives have managed to lose an election which only had Conservatives running in it.