Sonya Thomas

Freelance writer and journalist.
Ex-women's rugby - Saracens/England Red Rose 🌹#63

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

Do you remember Osama?

Sweet and gentle Osama is dead! His birds are dead! His mother is dead!
Murdered by the Israeli killing machine.

[Alan Shearer @alanshearer]

My Hero. My manager. My friend. Sleep easy Boss 🥲

[Jacqui Oatley @JacquiOatley]

Flying home overnight to my legendary husband and kids after six weeks away 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦

When I speak to students about getting into sports broadcasting, I share with them the reality of the industry as well as the evident positives.

If your partner is not on board with the hours, overnight shifts, weekends, potential weeks away, it’s highly stressful on your relationship you have a choice to make. If they back you and support you, you feel like the luckiest person on the planet.

That’s how I feel. So crazily fortunate and appreciative of their understanding and support.

Those cuddles are going to be immense. I’ve been dreaming of them for weeks ❤️

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

Canada is on fire.
Europe is on fire.
The Amazon is on fire.
Cities are breaking heat records.
Rivers are drying up.
Other countries are drowning in floods.
Storms are getting stronger.
Seasons don’t feel like seasons anymore.

And somehow…
climate change is still a debate.

[han @rmafcs]

the difference is killing me

[UpdateCultura @updatecultura]

Yamal sobre lidar com pressão:

“Minha mãe me teve com 16 anos, isso sim é pressão de verdade. Meu pai teve que correr atrás da vida, recolher coisas na rua para poder trazer comida para casa. Isso sim é pressão. Tudo o que tenho que fazer é jogar e fazer os espanhóis felizes.”

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

Nico Williams es campeón del mundo. Y tras la premiación, va directo a la tribuna a entregarle la medalla a su madre. Ella, que en 1994 salió de Ghana y cruzó parte del Sahara para poder llegar a España en busca de nuevas oportunidades.

Una campeona más.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

⚽️As the world gears up for the football world cup final, Israel has just killed another Palestinian footballer: 17 year old Fadi al-Naasan was shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in the West Bank. Israel spares no one in its genocidal war on Palestinians.

[Sonya Thomas @writehandmedia]

@footballontnt Trying to think where I’ve seen this post before.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israel bombed a funeral yesterday in Gaza. At least 8 dead and 20 injured.
A funeral.
Still silent?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw the body of a little girl, her skin grayed and covered in ash, being wrapped in a sheet. Her torn leg was laid next to her.

The decline in reporting isn’t because the daily horrors in Gaza are over, Israel is killing Palestinians every day.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

When the perpetrator is a white Christian man and the victim is a brown Sikh woman, funny how all of those details are left out of western media headlines.

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

The World’s End in Finsbury Park… very good!

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark have warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories and called for an end to what they called Israeli "impunity"
https://t.co/2qannl1Ygh

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Reminder: Gaza is still being bombed, daily.

[Sonya Thomas @writehandmedia]

@RyanSaunderson7 🤣

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

SENTENCED July 2026: Kimberley Thompson, 43, was found dead at a home in Northampton, Northamptonshire, in August 2025. Her estranged husband, Michael Thompson, 55, was found guilty of her rape and murder and sentenced to a minimum term of 33 years' imprisonment.

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

12 July 2026: Sarah-Louise Pennington, 24, was found dead at a property in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Kyle Pala, 30, has been charged with her murder.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

So Starmer puts 25 more people into our legislature, with rights to speak & vote on new
laws. Unlike MPs they're
there for life. No advance public scrutiny. No chance for folk to say this woman's a crook or this man lied on his CV. The system stinks:
https://t.co/62JNfRyDj1

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian homes and farmland in the village of Susya, occupied West Bank — in the middle of the night.

Families are watching their homes burn.

This is organized terror. Pure and simple.