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Duncan Lees

@DuncMLees

Asst Prof @WarwickAppLing Shakespeare + drama, intercultural comm / language education, China #EMCA #tarantulas Neurodivergent @[email protected]

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Duncan Lees
Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
Almost six years after I started it, and a little over a year after I finished it, yesterday I finally got to have my PhD graduation. A brilliant day with some unexpected familiar faces, and definitely worth waiting for! @WarwickAppLing @Warwick_Edu
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Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️
Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️@DrMBotha·
Am I surprised to see a UK journalist using autistic as an insult to denote lack of empathy or care? No. But am I surprised that it's for the telegraph? Also no. This is what I mean by how inaccurate stereotypes created in research disperse into media.
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson

Lockdown was the brainchild of a bunch of men on the spectrum. They lacked the emotional intelligence to feel or anticipate the appalling consequences of criminalising human contact. They still have the gall to claim it was the right plan. My column: The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – ? telegraph.co.uk/columnists/202…

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Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis@DrBCCurtis·
'Dulce Et Decorum Est', by Wilfred Owen. Unflinchingly horrifying; viscerally excoriating; heartbreakingly poignant. Still the best and most powerful poem I've ever read.
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Duncan Lees
Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
Fearful about what might happen in London today. Bigotry and violence will not honour the fallen, nor help the people who were murdered or kidnapped on Oct 7 and the people slaughtered and starved in Gaza since. The only people violence today will help are fascists and terrorists
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Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
The cynicism - and utter narcissism - of the Home Secretary weaponising the memory of the fallen for her own political game-playing is bad enough, but the desperation of her and others to turn a manufactured culture war into actual hatred and violence is truly dangerous
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Dr Khawla Badwan
Dr Khawla Badwan@KhawlaBadwan·
‘ Let me be clear - the world cannot afford double standards. We must instead insist upon the universal standards against which we must assess this situation - international human rights laws and international humanitarian laws’
Dr Zahira Jaser زاهرة جاسر@ZahiraJaser

UN Commissioner for Human Rights @volker_turk just back from the Rafa crossing: “The collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to a war crime, as does the unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians. shar.es/ag37Wj

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Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
When it is obvious that thousands will not be able to "temporarily relocate" south, this is not an urgent plea - it's an attempt to pre-emptively excuse killing yet more Palestinian civilians
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Humza Yousaf
Humza Yousaf@HumzaYousaf·
Thank you for your good wishes, I'm afraid we have not heard from my in-laws. My concern is for all the innocent people suffering for a crime they did not commit. If you did not vote for peace, while children are dying, then I do not know how you sleep at night. #CeasefireNow
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Khadija
Khadija@khadljasays·
How many more accounts will never post again after this? How many more??? This website has become a gravesite of Palestinians who used their final words begging for the world to care.
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Hanna Alshaikh - هناء الشيخ
Hanna Alshaikh - هناء الشيخ@hanna_alshaikh·
Not a single phone in Gaza can be reached right now. Israel completely cut off all communications to Gaza. No internet, no landlines. This is a total blackout. Every person you know from Gaza has completely lost contact with their loved ones. We know what comes next.
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Dr Khawla Badwan
Dr Khawla Badwan@KhawlaBadwan·
‘The generations to come will know that we watched this human tragedy unfold over social media and news channels. We will not be able to say we did not know. History will ask why the world did not have the courage to act decisively and stop this hell on Earth’
UNRWA@UNRWA

"I run the @UN agency for #PalestineRefugees. History will judge us all if there is no ceasefire in📍#Gaza" @UNLazzarini in @guardian: History will ask why the world did not have the courage to act decisively and stop this hell on Earth. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Duncan Lees
Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
@mncantarutti 🎉🎉🎉 Well done to you, and to your colleagues for supporting you! 🎉🎉🎉 (and something less complimentary to those responsible for the system that makes all of this even more stressful)
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Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
The idea that it's easy to make statements about violence when you're sat safely thousands of miles away is in many ways right. It is - or at least it should be - easy to say "that was wrong, and this is also wrong". And this collective punishment of Gaza is most definitely wrong
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Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬
Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬@DrDadabhoy·
In the wake of 20+ years of the War on Terror Muslim scholars have developed a rigorous framework to define and expose anti-Muslim racism. Please use this language over Islamophobia because it is more than personal animus. It is systemic, institutional, and legalized racism.
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Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani@ArunKundnani·
Racism is not about causing hurt feelings to a group of people because you said something that upset them. It is a power relationship organized through the state. The denial of the most basic humanity to Palestinians is a correlate of Western imperialism.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth

This is @GhassanAbuSitt1, a surgeon who is currently saving the lives of Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza. He's just reported that counter terrorism police have showed up at his house in the UK and harrased his family.

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The Hands Up Project
The Hands Up Project@HandsUpProject·
The messages we’re receiving from English teachers in Gaza daily are asking us to do one thing - tell the world their stories before it’s too late. Listen to them on our podcast: Hands up from Gaza. youtu.be/GudiL_VAi0A
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Duncan Lees@DuncMLees·
@KhawlaBadwan Any words I could choose feel horribly insufficient, but my thoughts are with you
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Dr Khawla Badwan
Dr Khawla Badwan@KhawlaBadwan·
I lost contact with my family in Gaza. I don’t know where they are. Every time I drink water I weep. While we enjoy the privilege of having access to drinking water, Palestinians in Gaza with nearly one million children are thirsty and dying. Imagine this #GazaGenocide
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