And that's our full #AsianPirateMusical cast!
We'll be performing 21-22nd November @ThePleasance in London for just two shows, so make sure you grab your tickets today to avoid disappointment!
https://t.co/wC6wYlk3gO
Big thanks to @aylwardam for inviting me to give the keynote talk at this vital workshop about the history of eugenics this Friday (still time to book to attend online!)
https://t.co/IWSY7zN9EJ
After a handful of people got up and walked out of a talk I was giving last weekend, I wanted to share this from @bookworkers4pal here for the avoidance of any doubt. #CeasefireNOW
Incoming career highlight as I’ll be in conversation with Genevieve Lively and Ben Platt-Mills on June 9 for my first time at #cheltscifest!
Subject is ‘Is Humanity In Danger?’ We’ll be thinking about if/how our science can save us from ourselves.
Tix go on sale April 24 📆
My book 'Uncivilised: 10 Lies That Made The West' comes out in 10 days, and because I can't wait to share it with you, this marks the start of a countdown of sneak peeks, highlights and stories, chapter by chapter, lie by lie, as you'll find them in the book.
@sglaisteryoung I'm clearly good at finding piles of twigs left by witches...or is it me making them? 🤔👹 Also, totally stealing your photos for painting references 😜
I remember having to explain that not only are brown ppl capable of racism, but colonialism gave many a deep self loathing, which was then weaponised against other brown ppl
To @SuellaBraverman
For educating an entire nation on what this looks like
thank you for your service
Alright, since you decided to ask me, I'll tell you why the same guy you praise for "wonderful analysis" also concludes, based on the facts & evidence, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:
Left: Conservative Party Home Secretary Suella Braverman, "These are hate marches"
Right: Former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi, "Israel is not Netanyahu, the Palestinian people are not Hamas, and the protestors on the streets of London are neither protesting for Hamas, nor are they hate marches"
"Protests planned for weeks. They were in discussions with the Met police for weeks. The route was well away from the Cenotaph for weeks. And yet last week the Home Secteray decided to embolden and make this a political issue knowing full well what the route of the march was going to be"
"That's the way she operates, she fights culture wars. She doesn't fix things, she breaks things"
"I think Suella Braverman is dangerous and divisive. If you look at her rhetoric, it's always about pitching A against B"
"Some of my Conservative colleagues in government project as patriots but they are indeed arsonists. They’ve set this country alight. They pit community against community. They create these fires. That is not the job of a government. The job of a government is to keep us all safe. You do that by creating a sense of ease, not by fighting culture wars"
After 24 days of IDF’s onslaught on #Gaza we can draw some disturbing comparisons to the invasion of #Iraq in 2003. Iraq (pop. 27m) had no airforce but remained a militarised country; nonetheless their forces were vanquished in 21 days. The accompanying civilian carnage caused by the US/UK then tailed off until the attacks on Falluja in 2004.
In #Gaza (pop. 2.3m), Hamas—a vastly smaller force—is unvanquished after 24 days. The IDF’s civilian death toll is even higher than US/UK’s over the same time period, and shows no signs of tailing off. And when expressed as a proportion of the population, this is more than 10x higher than for Iraq over the same number of days.
(We consider #Gaza’s killed to be overwhelmingly civilians—see https://t.co/Baxn1Fsti8)
When you've got western mass media pundits deciding this shit is too evil to stake their reputations on, you're losing. Wolf fucking Blitzer was pushing back against an IDF official about this a few hours ago. This is happening very differently from most US-backed atrocities.