Richard Drew

Husband, Dad, Humanist and all round good guy......😁

[Richard Drew @richie_drew]

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[Casual Geopolitics @Adamemedia]

Do you agree?

[Morag Mitchell @MoragMitchell3]

I just read this on Facebook:

Someone asked "Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

The world’s richest man @elonmusk is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a @Tesla.
Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin.
(In collaboration with @politicalbeauty)

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

RT if you would scrap VAR immediately♻️

Let's get the momentum back in this campaign. Football for the fans.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Thousands attended the Palestine protest .

Retweet if you stand with Palestine

[Richard Drew @richie_drew]

@prodnose @MillwallFC If only it were that simple. 🤔

[Casual Geopolitics @Adamemedia]

This guy just evicerated James Woods

[Barry Halverson @barry_halverson]

Kemi Badenoch has been an MP for 8 years, she has been children’s minister & women’s equality minister, not once did she call for a national enquiry, in fact she never even mentioned it in parliament. Her miraculous Damascene conversion happened immediately after Musks tweet.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

In this clip, the frankly remarkable @jessphillips outlines how under the Conservatives, the Home Office tried to deport a woman who had twice been trafficked to the UK and been repeatedly raped.

That, and the current incarnation of the Conservative Party, dwells in the gutter.

[#NotMyKing @NoKingCharlie]

If only we had a pampered prince with 2million a month of free money and a passion to end homelessness

#William4Homes

#WorkShyWilly #BillyIdle #PrinceWilliam #RoyalFamily #RoyalCharity #WillyWashing

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

How many years now and VAR still not working

Time to drop the bullshit. The sport was better without it. Get it gone

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What they expect you to believe.

[Casual Geopolitics @Adamemedia]

Can someone explain to me how dropping 500 tone b0mbs on refugee camps is reported as “targeted strikes”?

Unless civilians are the real target…

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

In Abu Dhabi (where the owners are from), being openly gay is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Spare us your bullshit.

[dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod]

If you support the #FarmersProtest and don’t realise that any problems farmers have are caused by

- rich investors like Jeremy Clarkson buying up farmland to dodge tax

- politicians like Nigel Farage pushing for a hard Brexit

… then you are sadly very, very stupid

🚜

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

And well..here we have it.
Tax dodgers leader.
#FarmersProtest2024