Lawrence Fitzgerald

woke, bleeding heart, snowflake, do-gooder, gay, old git. Liverpudlian happily living in Glasgow since 1993. Life-long democratic socialist .

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Israeli settlers besieging Palestinian families in West Bank village. The stated aim of the settlers is to empty the area of its Palestinian residents...settlers have forced Palestinians out of their homes and seized their properties. '
https://t.co/XQulzmWVum

[Keith @lordsidcup]

@ScotNational @JamesEFoster James O'Brien claimed it was just because of her listening figures which were at the time up and some of the best on the station that's when I stopped listening to LBC

[Rob McDowall AMRSPH FRSA @robmcd85]

Confirms what we've said for years, Joanna Cherry is a disgraceful embittered single-issue obsessive who is obsessed with the former First Minister. What a sad decline into obscurity.

Anyone who uses gossip and abusive utterings about another person’s perceived sexual orientation is the lowest of the low.

The fact @heraldscotland has covered this is mind-boggling. Anyone can now use rumour and conjecture about someone’s sexuality and its fine to print?

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

Vile

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

@JohnCleese Hi John: I appreciate you’ve gone completely mental, but we’re talking about British Muslims here.

As per my clip, there’s no Sharia law in Britain.

And the only people who threw gay people off roofs were ISIS, who the vast majority of Muslims abhor.

Really glad to help!

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

“I wasn’t going to say anything but…”

I can’t bear it. Nicola is flirting, taunting, teasing, toying, provoking…

I can’t stop thinking about her during these long, hot Edinburgh nights. It’s unbearable.

‘Nicola and me: Obsession’ now available in some bookshops.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

What's this? It's live BBC coverage of the European Athletics Championship from Birmingham. Yes, the same BBC that couldn't afford live coverage of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Let that sink in.

[Danny Hajjar داني حجار @DanielGHajjar]

I’m a freelance journalist writing about Arab artists and Arabic music. I’ve written for a few publications like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NYT, NPR, Spin, The Guardian, and others.

I am imploring editors not to sleep on music from the Middle East and North Africa. Its influence is vast and its artists are massively popular.

Be ahead of the curve and let me write for you about all of the fascinating things happening in this space.

[Devutopia @D_Raval]

Ten trade unions, including the UK’s largest union, call on Burnham to end permission for US air strikes on Iran from RAF bases. Sounds a big story, right?
I wonder why the BBC, Sky and LBC won't mention it?
#BrokenMedia

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I guess the heart of the Land of Israel is not in Israel…

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules.

Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment

Climbdown whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.
https://t.co/KfBvJJpYSE

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

On the day when the UK adopted Trans Apartheid, I didn’t see or hear any trans people (honourable mention to @Channel4News ) in the media.

Lack of representation is so normalised now. Compare and contrast with what the exact same size 260,000 Jewish population have.

Banning us from mainstream media has been key in our demonisation.

[Luís Figo @LuisFigo]

Today I join others from across our game and call for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA President.

Infantino has debased the office that he promised to elevate. He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest at the expense of the game he is supposed to serve. 

He has lost the support of his senior staff, his closest advisers, the vast majority of people who devote their lives to this sport and even, it would seem, the FIFA Peace Prize winner. 

It is too late to save his dignity but it is not too late to save football. He should go. Now.

#Infantinout

https://t.co/j93k5MnlK2

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I genuinely DO NOT get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money. What are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? Like what is the actual point? 😭

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism" Fine piece by Peter Beinart
https://t.co/z7kPYntLc9

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today marks 3 years since Imran Khan was unjustly incarcerated.

He is still being denied basic human rights and remains in solitary confinement.

His abominable treatment is an affront to democracy. I will continue to demand the release of all political prisoners, everywhere.

[Indy Cyclist @Indycyclist]

My son graduated from university this summer.

He is a Scottish graduate who went to a Scottish university.

As such he didn't pay any tuition fees. As he commuted from home, he has no debt from living in Edinburgh.

A graduate with no debt. Just like his dad and mum were.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

The National Galleries have one of the world’s greatest and most eclectic collections of art. Thrilled to be a trustee. Here’s just a wee selection of the treasures we hold in trust for the nation. #art #scotland @NatGalleriesSco

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax, shift profits to low/no tax places.

Need simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper.

UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr.

Must end corporate abuses
https://t.co/RZcV7LpS47

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

FFS we cannot keep doing this…

A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable

At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!