Matt Thomas

1991: Let us privatise water, it'll cost every household in the country about £2000 more over 30 years, but we'll take that money and use it to upgrade infrastructure 2021: yeah, we didn't do that. We took the £60billion total and deposited it in our Cayman Islands bank accounts

@MrPitbull07 @Juliadoe51 Where did the 13m kgs of waste go?

For decades, Versova Beach in Mumbai, India, was not a beach in any traditional sense. It was a dumping ground. Piled shin-high in millions of kilograms of plastic waste, glass, and sewage, the coastline was legally considered a landfill. But in October 2015, one man, a young lawyer named Afroz Shah, decided he could no longer stand to see his childhood beach buried under garbage. What began as a simple, solitary act of picking up trash eventually sparked the world’s largest beach cleanup initiative. Week after week, for over 126 weeks, Afroz Shah was joined by an ever-growing army of volunteers. From local fisherfolk and Bollywood celebrities to school children and senior citizens, the community reclaimed their coast. They removed over 13 million kilograms of waste from the shoreline. In 2018, the ultimate payoff arrived. For the first time in over twenty years, the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles returned to Versova Beach to nest. It was a historic moment, confirming that their eco-system had successfully regenerated. Today, Afroz Shah is a recipient of the United Nations' highest environmental accolade, the "Champion of the Earth." The Versova Beach project continues to inspire similar cleanup movements globally, proving that through consistent, passionate action, we can "refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle"—and most importantly, restore our planet.

Just so i understand this, blocking the strait of Hormuz is unfair, but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country, is fair, did I get that right🤔

This is just one trick media use to manufacture consent for war.

Wait, you don't want the world to end in a nuclear holocaust? What are you? Some kind of antisemite?

@IanDoyleSport Is this code for "Liverpool have approached Alonso"?

Discovery by Daft Punk remains a great album. More contemporary music references when I get them

There is a bitter irony in Western media invoking "Gaza-scale destruction" when for two years it denied that Gaza was being deliberately destroyed.

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

Insane framing. He was anally gang-raped. He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used. There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it. Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera). He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well. After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera. These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists. They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested. And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial. This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process. The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”. And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it. This is just what their society does. They torture Palestinians.

Tweet of the year?

@SangitaMyska @DrOsitaMba @OzKaterji Oz is a hilariously tiny person, with the hang-ups that brings, treat him with the contempt he deserves.

@DrOsitaMba @OzKaterji I’ve realised he and his pals are best ignored.

So, ⁦@OzKaterji⁩ has spent the last hour mischaracterising my tweets and falsely accusing me of spreading misinformation - despite evidence to the contrary. He’s now relying on ex-Israel spox @ElonLevy for back-up. Because, you know, Levy is the gold standard for accuracy

Lebanese die, Israelis are killed

BREAKING: Women in Tehran are excitedly tearing off the hijab as their streets catch fire, oil rains from the sky, and their lungs burn with every breath. At last we've been liberated, they cry.

The hardest part of a quick 2 week ground operation is the first 20 years

@sportingintel @ptgorst Surprised you didn't mention his sleezy 'promotion' of Mason Greenwood. Romano is the extreme tip of transfer gossip 'journalism', however a great many establishment hacks are as underhanded in their own way, he just seems slightly more inventive and ruthless in his methods.

"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/here-we-go-t…

Education. That’s the Portuguese flag sir.

@MrMatthewTodd As PM, Starmer could literally implement Leveson II, introduce legislation on the outcomes to remove such vested interests from the media, but he chooses not to because he's part of same establishment.

I’m not a fan of Starmer, but whatever he does – literally whatever he does - he is ripped apart, ripped to shreds, by the telegraph, Mail, express, Sun, spectator, the very same people who installed Boris Johnson and the appalling Liz Truss. The same people who installed the governments that caused Brexit and the financial chaos that has ensued, the same people who have driven this country into the ground. I’m sick to death of them. They are the biggest threat to this country and all of us across the board, no matter what our politics are. We need to get billionaires out of the Media

Keir Starmer told Labour voters they could abandon the party if they didn't like his (genocide, paedophilia, corruption, incompetence) leadership direction....so they did.

I'm seeing lots of people calling for Keir Starmer to resign after the disastrous result in the Gorton and Denton by-election, but this is no time for kneejerk reactions. We must give him as long as he needs to complete the destruction of the Labour Party.

What a week!