JohnGlyndwr Williams

South African by choice, White by accident. Privilege acknowledged. Social democrat. Evidence based. Engineer & computer scientist

[JohnGlyndwr Williams @JohnEnnui]

@xolanimvulana Deng Xiaoping called, said "if you must carry stuff: call Hugo, Fidel or Kim." #MarketLifted600mOutOfPoverty @debbieflorence

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

On #HolocaustMemorialDay I always remember Istvan Reiner, and I post this photo and say his name as I look into those wide eyes of innocence and that face of beaming joy. He had no idea of the hell that awaited, and was murdered just days later in #Auschwitz at the age of four.🕯️

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The arc:

1. “It wasn’t a Nazi salute.”

2. “Maybe it was a Nazi salute but it was a joke.”

3. “It wasn’t a joke but it was owning the libs.”

4. “It wasn’t owning the libs but so what?”

5. “Actually, Hitler had some good ideas….”

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?

BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence any document containing that advice exists

1/2

[JohnGlyndwr Williams @JohnEnnui]

@QcWynter This is the memo. Nazir Afzal misquoted it. Section 22, considerations to “establish significant harm”: “It is important always to take account of the child's reactions, and his or her perceptions, according to the child's age and understanding”

https://t.co/vlsBtuumil

[Stephen Gibbs @STHGibbs]

The Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel directing the South African soprano Pretty Yende and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, in this pitch-perfect rendition of Amazing Grace at Notre Dame today.

[Danielle Belardo, MD @DBelardoMD]

Heartbroken after seeing a young patient with no medical history, end up with a BIFFL GRADE II dissection of the vertebral artery and subsequent acute PICA infarct immediately after a neck adjustment from the chiropractor. This has to stop.

Chiropractors - you HAVE to stop.

[JohnGlyndwr Williams @JohnEnnui]

Not sure that this means anything but the claim that Israel is mentioned on the back cover is false. According to Google Translate only Palestine is mentioned (in Arabic and Hebrew)

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

People love to show Palestinian passports as evidence of a Palestinian state before the establishment of Israel. They never show the full cover, however. Perhaps because it says "British Passport" on the front and "Land of Israel" (א"י) in Hebrew on the back.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

"Ozempic only works while you're on it! Once you go off you'll be fat again!" As opposed to diet and exercise, which you only have to do once.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

People often ask sarcastically 'What do IT Project Managers actually do?' Having worked with coders I can tell you that they do a lot. Left to their own devices those geek fuckers will spend months changing the scope, gold-plating their code, refusing to talk to the client etc.

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

- @HislopMD

[farhad manjoo (former bluecheck) @fmanjoo]

nice speech but she avoided all the tough issues

1) electric boats vs sharks
2) low-flow toilets not flushing it all down
3) steam vs electric carrier catapults
4) with wind power can’t watch TV when the wind isn’t blowing
5) no position on Hannibal Lecter

[Nyama Soft 🖤 @__cadbury]

Exactly 2 years ago, I relocated to London from Nairobi.
Here's what I have achieved or learnt in the past 2 years. A thread

1. I’ve learnt how to say INNIT with a London accent.

[Anne ..BAIRNS NOT BOMBS @AWeeWumman]

Thread
The Rochdale grooming gang, Jimmy Saville, Operation Yewtree, the White grooming gang, EDL paedophiles, all have 2 things in common. 1/

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Winston Churchill was a real son of a b*tch.

His philosophies may offend but will definitely give you chills.

12 lessons from the UK's most controversial & badass politician:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Me: "How many [Uighurs] are in detention?"

Victor Gao: "Let me be philosophical..."

Me: No, don't be philosophical. Be numerical. How many people are in detention?"

Watch a clip from my latest @AJHeadtoHead, with Chinese government defender Victor Gao:

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Superlative.

[Amro Ali @_amroali]

I have some devastating news for you about Michael Jordan

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Tonight, the Far Right will attempt to intimidate and goad communities into violence - especially people of colour.

Their aim: to feed their hateful narratives and present themselves as victims.

Please don’t let them win the propaganda war.

#RiotsNotProtests #UKRiots

[Luqman @luqmann_97]

Muslim targets Church! ⛪️

Message to @TRobinsonNewEra , the British people and the Muslim community! 🗣️

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is pretty good 😂