sight impaired curator, writes, still reading & looking while I can
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
7 Aug 2025
The Economist offers an example of what I warned would happen on 24th October 2023:
"As the calamity of Israel’s onslaught against Gaza becomes apparent, those who cheered it on will panic about reputational damage and plead their earlier ignorance."
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
30 May 2025
Not one UK newspaper has reported a single word about this
Do you get it yet?
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
26 May 2025
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
24 May 2025
I know but isn't this still brilliant news!
Leonard and Hungry Paul to be adapted for TV.
Sometimes you just find a book that resonates with all manner of folk around the world.
Thank you Rónán.
@BBC
@rte
deadline.com/2025/05/leonard…...
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
22 May 2025
RIP Alisdsair MacIntyre: “His original critique of liberal modernity has won followers on the Left and the Right. His account of how capitalism has undermined the conditions of human flourishing deserves the serious attention of socialists.” jacobin.com/2024/09/alasdair…
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
22 May 2025
RIP Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
21 May 2025
As an environmentalist/Nature lover, there's lots of destructive things humans do to our precious ecosphere that I loathe.
Possibly the absolute worst is #BottomTrawling in 'Protected' places. The next worst is doing it anywhere. We know so little of our #Ocean and yet destroy it
21 May 2025
It’s completely incomprehensible that one of the most destructive ways of fishing is permitted in Marine Protected Areas. What exactly are these areas protected from? Please contact @SteveReedMP to urge action on this crucial issue to protect & restore our seas. @OceanaUK
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
29 Apr 2025
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year.
A huge thank you to the team at Sceptre for helping me bring it to life.
Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
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18 May 2025
When voting works!
17 May 2025
BREAKING: The Co-op AGM has just voted for a motion to “cease all trading with Israel”
This is a big victory for our movement. We must maintain the pressure to ensure the policy is enforced. (1/6)
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“From North to South, children are being killed and maimed in hospitals, in schools-turned-shelters, in makeshift tents, or in their parents’ arms.”
Full statement by @UNICEFmena’s @E_Beigbeder on the killing of at least 45 children in the Gaza Strip ⬇️
unicef.org/press-releases/st…
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
15 May 2025
Israel didn’t even wait for the cameras to turn off or the applause for Edan Alexander’s release to fade before admitting that three Palestinian hostages from Gaza had been tortured to death in its prisons. Not during combat, not in airstrikes; but in cages, stripped of rights and humanity. Their names weren’t announced with sirens or headlines. No helicopters hovered. No world leaders offered thoughts and prayers. Just a quiet confession that, behind the scenes, torture is policy. In Israel’s calculus, one Israeli life merits global grief; three Palestinian corpses are just a footnote.
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
15 May 2025
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22 Apr 2025
RT @DisRightsUK: DR UK's Co-Production Group... what is it?
Our co-production lead Liddie went on @RNIBRadio to discuss how we are embeddi…
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
16 Apr 2025
What do Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?
There are emerging alliances and transformative shifts in green supply chains as countries act strategically.
Fact-rich piece by @mrajshekhar. Agree its Short-term bad, long-term good @KateAronoff carboncopy.info/how-trumps-t…
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Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendal, the right wing papers, and Yer Da' on X dot com the everything app: benefits are too easy to get
Reality: man with acute kidney failure who needs machines to live denied PIP, assessor didn't know what dialysis was
inews.co.uk/news/pip-claim-r…
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
16 Apr 2023
The Six Swans, 1981, illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales by Keighley-born Pauline Ellison (b.1946), who studied at Bradford School of Art.
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
14 Apr 2025
Local commentary from back in the day about the 'regeneration' of The Aylesbury Estate:
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
10 Apr 2025
Greater Manchester Police officers say 75% of call-outs are domestic abuse
itv.com/news/granada/2025-04…
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Kelly Starling ♿️🕳 retweeted
10 Apr 2025
"The government has tried to take the sting out of the political and public outcry. Its immediate legislation took aim at dividends and bonuses and director liability. It was a bit of performance politics (a bit like forcing out the Chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority): lots of noise and speeches, but nothing fundamentally changed."
The ever wonderful @Dieter_Helm on searingly insightful form, today's long read and well worth every minute of it.
9 Apr 2025
The water system in England and Wales is unsustainable - a catchment regulatory model would provide sustainable water and sewerage services for generations to come.
Read my latest paper here:
bit.ly/44gphO6
#sustainableeconomy #water
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