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@UNHumanRights @volker_turk That's great and I fully support it. But let's face it, the UN (along with the EU) won't, and cannot, actually do anything. China is more powerful and influential than both in Cambodia and hand-wringing about rights abuses there is pointless.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @volker_turk urges #Cambodia to unconditionally release former opposition leader Kem Sokha and all other opposition activists, human rights defenders & social media users arbitrarily detained for exercising their rights. ohchr.org/en/press-brief…

In light of the High Court ruling about the Sussex University fine, I went down memory lane for @unherd unherd.com/2026/05/the-re…

@UNHumanRights @Reaproy @volker_turk I'm sure the Hun family is trembling at the UN expressing its "deep concern".

#Cambodia: @volker_turk deeply concerned by the upholding of the conviction of Kem Sokha & convictions of 33 other opposition activists, human rights defenders & social media users for exercising their right to freedom of expression. Cambodia should protect, not criminalise, legitimate criticism & expression. We call for their unconditional release. ohchr.org/en/press-brief…

It turns out that if you import millions of people who are taught to hate Jews their entire lives your country becomes less safe for Jews. Who could have predicted this?

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS We likely don't disagree as much as you think. However, as soon as enough cyclists are permitted to break the law it has a chain reaction and enforcement becomes subjective and nigh on impossible. Hence the current free-for-all and increasing pedestrian deaths.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS Laws aren't enforced because there is very little point in doing so. Cycling is incredibly safe, running red lights is often reasonable and you are genuinely a mug for stopping. You are endangering yourself and causing congestion by abiding by rules that weren't designed for you

Cyclists who kill pedestrians will finally be jailed for life under new laws gbnews.com/news/cyclists-…

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS I'm not opposed to the Idaho stop and I see the use in clearing cyclists early. But that's not the law. Nor is it the law that cyclists can speed through red lights and crossings, inches from pedestrians, not giving a fvck about the impact, with no repercussions.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS It's not "self" justification, it is A justification. Look up the Idaho stop. It's safer and eases congestion, the two purposes of traffic control. What would you call someone that stubbornly sticks to a rule so much as it erodes the original purpose?

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS Never said that at all. What I did say is that cyclists do it also and, in my view, far more often and brazenly...because laws are not enforced for cyclists, it is inevitable. You are left feeling like a mug for stopping at lights or crossings as everyone else speeds by.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS Are you telling me drivers don't use their phones, park poorly or fail to look? You're saying cameras catch them every time? Are you being serious?

@ZackPolanski I know where you are coming from Zack. I used to make the same sort of platitudes when it came to attacks on Jews/Israelis. Always with the big, unspoken, caveat that they had it coming because of...Palestinians. Then I realised I was actually a racist antisemite.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS What, and you don't see cyclists using their phones, parking Lime bikes everywhere, not bothering to look? It's cyclists I see doing it most of all, because they know there will be no consequences. A driver caught on camera will be fined.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS Nonsense, curb parking, speeding, cheeky manoeuvres, overtaking in the wrong place, not checking blind spots properly, texting at a traffic stop - drivers do these things multiple times a day to potentially lethal consequences

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS Of course they wouldn't. That's how the law works. It is coercive, everyone abides by it, and as a result you have a working society. 5 mins on the roads shows me most cyclists don't give a fvck about anyone around them but themselves.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS Without a legal obligations drivers would rarely offer the courtesy. I have no idea where you get the impression of the innate virtue of UK drivers. 5 mins on the roads show you at least half shouldn't have a licence and you know it

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS That's just a self justification for breaking the road code. There's no reason for motorcycles or cars to halt either most of the time. They do so because its the law, and because if you allow some people to do so, soon everyone does. Cyclists have decided they are above the law.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS If your point is that cyclists ignore red lights you are correct. I cycle through London every day and I ignore them too. Treating them like stop signs is safer for the rider and eases congestion. Unless the crossing is active or leads to a junction there is no reason to halt.

🚨 NEW: Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting antisemitic comments online One of them posted a placard that read "ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge"

@NoContextBrits And the whites?

@craigiskowitz @jk_rowling @zarahsultana Indeed, and the swastika is just an ancient Buddhist/Hindu peace symbol.

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS I get that its trendy to point fingers at motorists, and cyclists think they are virtuous and green. But frankly, its the high-minded cyclists who behave like utter a$$holes on the road and it is the drivers who stop and let pedestrians pass.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS No one behaves more aggressively towards drivers than other drivers. Where is this motorist nirvana you talk of? This dream world where everyone abides by the rules and never loses their temper? Because it certainly isn't on the M25!

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS I cycle daily across London. I also drive, know the road rules, and know what it looks like to respect them. If I stop on my bike at a traffic light or crossing, I can guarantee the MAJORITY of cyclists behind me will simply overtake and go through it. Never cars though.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS You've driven in London and believe drivers are respectful? On London roads all you see are dodgy manoeuvres, road rage, lapses of concentration. Not to mention a car once deliberately drove into me on my bike for having steadied myself on his wing mirror. Loose cannons!

@mattsw_g @GBNEWS I hear that a lot. At least in London, it is the opposite. Car drivers are infinitely more respectful here. It's cyclists that show no respect whatsoever - to drivers, to pedestrians, and to other cyclists. No queing, not abiding by any road rules, and being abusive.

@lebenderanderen @GBNEWS Do they indeed? Motorcyclists maybe but car drivers are the most outrageous, disrespectful, angry belittling and dangerous people on the road as can be attested by anyone that's ever driven or been in a car. Don't make me laugh.

@Alonso_GD Can you accept that the onus should be on certain elements of society (eg. the recently arrived, those who don't believe in democracy, support shar'ia, or with deeply regressive rather than liberal views) to make the largest concession required to "come together"?

The UK is facing a hate crisis. Mosques are attacked and set on fire. Race riots march the streets beating people up. Sikh women are raped bc “they look Muslim”. Migrant hotels are burned. Hatzola ambulances are burned. Jews are stabbed. We need to come together and change this