Daniel Lak

Writer, grandfather, canoeist, trekker, intrepid foodie and, sometimes, freelance reporter for @AJEnglish or highest bidder. Often aloft or off base.

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Hey @TSN_Sports can your commentators talk about Colombia? We agree that Messi is important but hey, kill time better.

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Ah @nickclegg that'll be the guy who one couldn't keep off the air till he joined #Cameron's wretched coalition, enabled #Brexit, and fled to #Facebook, now Meta. Nick is still there, coining it and refusing interviews in an emergency where lives are at stake.

[Ollie Williams @OllieW]

I'd also welcome a call from Canada's heritage minister or from the management of any large news organization or news association, all of whom have entirely failed to ask us or our audience what we think or want.

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Hey @CP24 that's enough fascist, right?

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Finally the incompetent courier company employed by @WestJet delivered my lost luggage. 30 hours late. I had to go out i. the street and argue with the driver. Never had bad customer service like this.

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Wow. Flying @WestJet has been truly awful for us. Lost refunds, lost baggage, late flights. Ridiculous. Never again.

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

It’s time to ask: what would a Ukraine-Russia peace deal look like? https://t.co/c6ZCrCmmDd

[fleetstreetfox @fleetstreetfox]

Drinks giant @CocaCola says it’ll keep trading with Russia. Fine. I won’t keep trading with it.

Goodbye @CostaCoffee and @SchweppesGB tonic water.

https://t.co/TWYrMwY55e

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

Please read this. And weep.

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"It’s 2022 now. It’s time to stop living in fear and return to normal. It’s time we end all this unnecessary hygiene theater and go back to taking a shit and not washing our hands."
https://t.co/jKKbMSXMTj

[Alexander Lanoszka @ALanoszka]

Wow.

Russia will be suspended indefinitely from international football. It won't be playing under ANY name.
https://t.co/6xYhgsHRu5

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

@CliveMyrieBBC @mattfrei Be safe my friend, you and all around you.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Ok. Deep breath.

I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in.

The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine is the latest front. And the idea it doesn't already involve us is fiction, a lie.
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[peter f✡︎x @thatpeterfox]

In 1941 over 33,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered in a 2 day span in the Babi Yar ravine marking one of the deadliest massacrers of the Holocaust. For 🇺🇦 to have a Jewish President descended from a Holocaust survivor standing up to a dictator is really empowering.

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

A dedicated Twitter handle has been set up to assist in the evacuation of Indians from Ukraine ➡️ OpGanga Helpline.

Please direct all related queries to @opganga.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Please don't think that just because the world is focused on the bastard leading Russia I've forgotten all the bastards leading other countries.

[DEECHI @DamilareArah]

#AfricansinUkraine the community of Africans in Ukraine stranded at a boarder much of them women and children. — This is happening now

The lady in the video is holding a 2 month old and it’s 3°c outside

we are in search of aid and hostels

[Stephanie Hegarty BBC News @stephhegarty]

A Nigerian medical student at Poland/Ukraine border (Medyka-Shehyni) told me she has been waiting 7hrs to cross, she says border guards are stopping black people and sending them to the back of the queue, saying they have to let 'Ukrainians' through first.

[Frank Gardner @FrankRGardner]

My analysis on Russia’s announcement that it’s nuclear deterrent has been placed on ‘Special Alert’. On the BBC online front page https://t.co/pthwYeViO2

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

Sad to hear a few left wingers say invasion is justified because Ukraine is run by ‘fascists’, echoing Putin’s claim that he wants to ‘de-nazify’ Ukraine. His use of ‘genocide’ as an excuse is as dodgy as the 45 minutes claim Blair cooked up to justify invading Iraq

[Daniel Lak @yeti2yeti]

@CanadaSoccerEN Anyone else itching for better commentators?