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Dr Peter Doran is lecturer in law. His book on the attention economy: All tweets are published in a personal capacity:

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Yemen has announced they are shutting down Israel's access to the Red Sea

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

@Glenn_Diesen The ruins of a bankrupt liberal order

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The 4 most unpopular state leaders in Europe meet in an effort to seem relevant.

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

EXCLUSIVE: More than half of former Labour voters who intent to back a centre or leftwing party in the next general election have cited the government's record on Gaza as a reason for abandoning Labour, new polling shows.

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

@chrisadonnelly The @duponline and significant parts of its constituency deploy the community relations narrative as stealthily as Netanyahu deploys the anti-semitism trope.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The @thejournal_ie with a poll today of over 8.000 people.

74% say Ireland should NOT play Israel.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The wonderful Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen and Alexei Sayle sat down with @DoubleDownNews to talk about what being Jewish means to them.

Enjoy - and plse share.
https://t.co/JZtBwG757c

[Daniel Schwartz @danschwartz88]

Evil rarely announces itself.

Hannah Arendt didn’t warn us that the greatest danger would come from monsters.

She warned us it would come from ordinary people who stop asking questions. People who trade conscience for slogans, curiosity for certainty, and morality for obedience.

The lesson of the Holocaust was never just about one man. It was about what happens when a society decides that thinking is optional.

Every generation believes it would have stood against evil.

History keeps asking the same question:

Would you have?

Or would you have simply gone along because everyone else did?

That’s why Arendt still matters. And that’s why this conversation matters. Because the opposite of evil isn’t outrage.

It’s the courage to think for yourself.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ivanka Trump, on her and Jared Kushner's dream of developing an uninhabited Albanian Island for the ultra rich. 😂🤣👇

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

Meet Jarred Kushner

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

Let no one feign surprise at an image that merely reflects in an instant what we know to be an abiding truth about the @duponline

[Chris Hazzard MP @ChrisHazzardSF]

South Down is a welcoming place defined by beautiful forests, mountains, and beaches - not masked intimidation

Next time you visit @carlalockhart you should look into what our constituency actually has to offer, rather than standing with masked men intimidating women & children

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

@qubschooloflaw looking forward to this

[Irish Association @IrishAssoc]

One week to go and looking forward to welcoming @KOSullivanIT @IanMarshall_ @pfdoran plus reps from @LoveLoughNeagh @MellonMigration @LoughCarraLife

To get your chance to attend.

Registration:
https://t.co/0c0d59U1my

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

Historian Ilan Pappé presented the opening lecture of the British International Studies Association conference in Brighton on Tuesday, attended by hundreds of academics.

Pappé presented his talk titled "Gaza as an Epicentre: the Breakdown of the International Order," addressing how dark this moment is for humanity, while arguing from a historian's perspective that it will trigger a change in how people across the world perceive themselves and their surroundings.

By @RabeeaEid

[CODEPINK @codepink]

BREAKING: The House just passed a resolution to end the war on Iran by a vote of 215-208.

Just 3 months into the war, this is the earliest that a chamber of Congress has ever voted to reject an active conflict in U.S. history.

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

Another fascinating admission of just how indebted BBC correspondents are to the country’s intelligence community for their editorial framing.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

In these globally turbulent times one man has regularly acted as a wise, thoughtful and witty guide for listeners of @BBCr4today. The former Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger has analysed, explained and contextualised the actions of Trump, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollahs. After he first appeared in the programme I was lucky enough to get to know Alex and call him my friend. I’m desperately sad to hear the news I’ve long feared was coming. Alex has died after months trying to cheat the
prognosis he was given whe. They discovered the tumour he nicknamed “Putin”.
We’re always told not to speak of a fight with cancer because it risks implying that only those strong enough survive. I understand that. I really do but sod it. Alex fought so hard to find a treatment to give him a little longer to be with Sarah and their lovely children. And he used every last minute of the short time he did have to be with family and friends and to do what he spent a lifetime in the shadows doing - using his intelligence to understand the world, to explain it but, above all, to keep us all safe.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

☕️🥐

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

Indeed.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇷🇺🇬🇧 At SPIEF, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova publicly called out BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg, asking why he shows up to SPIEF events and exhibitions, but could not make it to Starobelsk to cover Kiev's terrorist attacks.

Rosenberg subsequently promised to cover the attack in Yenakiyevo, where today a Ukrainian drone struck a civilian bus on the Moscow-Simferopol route, killing 7 people.

The BBC does not use the word "terrorist attack," claimed Rosenberg. Anywhere in the world. A 3 second search through the BBC's own website says otherwise.