Dr Iain Overton
@iainoverton
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⚔ Investigating war @aoav 📗 The Price of Paradise (suicide bombers) 📘 Gun Baby Gun (guns) ☞ PhD war-reporting ☞ @TheLancet ☞ @bylinetimes ☞ @soas @BirkbeckUoL
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Joined June 2009
Britain’s slow debridement of our right to protest against conflict and atrocity. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood plans new police powers to curb “repeat” protests — letting officers move, shorten, or scale them down. 🔗
aoav.org.uk
Britain’s new powers to restrict “repeat” protests mark the latest step in a quiet, decades-long erosion of the right to dissent against war and atrocity—an incremental bureaucratic tightening that,...
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The young. No social mobility. Now no transport mobility. What an inheritance we’ve given them. Debt and not much optimism.
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I used to love using em dashes in my writing - I felt they were better than commas - but their overuse of AI has meant I now don't use them as much, not least because I don't want people to think I am using AI to write my copy.
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There are roughly 5,883 rapes a month on average in England and Wales and 11,500 sexual offences per month. According to that image, migrants and foreign nationals would then be responsible for 0.39% of rapes and 0.27% of sexual assaults.
If this is true the government need to answer some serious questions or risk having their door knocked down! #knockknock
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It's good to see British MPs across parties demand UAE arms embargo over Sudan... but I am sure that the government wouldn't countenance a UK arms embargo to the UAE for starters... https://t.co/AH4O7n0g7x
middleeasteye.net
MPs tell MEE urgent action needed after Emirati-backed RSF fighters rampage through el-Fasher, massacring hundreds
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After Horrific Massacres in Sudan, Lawmakers Call for US to Stop Funding ‘Arms Dealers’ in UAE https://t.co/bHQ1LybCmz
commondreams.org
"We must do everything in our power to stop this genocide, including cutting off all weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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Silicon valley’s new front line: are US defence-tech firms exploiting Britain’s culture wars? https://t.co/FAh85vAMtP
aoav.org.uk
As far-right nationalism resurges in Britain, American defence-tech firms like Anduril and Palantir are exploiting patriotic imagery and political discontent to expand their influence, embedding...
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This is interesting. Stephen Semler has analysed how America’s largest arms manufacturers spend the cash they receive from government contracts. Drawing on financial filings from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman between 2017 and 2024, he reports
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Updated 10 minutes ago Mum says soldier was 'betrayed' before taking own life as ex-sergeant major to be sentenced
bbc.co.uk
Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, who was 19, was found dead in her barracks at Larkhill in Wiltshire in December 2021.
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Be afraid. Be very afraid. When there’s no more room in hell the dumb will walk the earth. Stay off the moors, avoid boogeymen & whatever you do, don’t fall asleep. From myself & @jim_nauseum2 A Very Happy & Super Spooky All Hallows' Eve 🎃🎃🎃👍🤘👌 #NauseumPop #Halloween
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👉NEW -- UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war by @iainoverton Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”. https://t.co/0BjM4ZlWBe
declassifieduk.org
Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”.
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I am a big fan of @TheEconomist but I feel this image and headline is a step too far. I get the sentiment, but war isn't 'opportunity'. Never.
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My first deep understanding of the pogroms suffered by Jews in Medieval Europe came to me reading about the misogynistic, murderous framing of women in the same period as witches. Seems Danon would decry the former, but not contemplate the latter. Both were terrible.
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The philosophy of violence: John Paul II and the theodicy of suffering https://t.co/1KYz7CRkuC
aoav.org.uk
John Paul II’s reflections on suffering confront the moral paradox of evil as both a wound and a summons to love, revealing how faith can turn the machinery of violence into a call for human respon...
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Peace support or power projection? Britain’s military role in Africa examined https://t.co/1uPmuIiZY2
aoav.org.uk
Britain’s military training missions in Africa aim to promote stability and rights, but in practice they often entangle the UK with fragile regimes, limited oversight and contested outcomes.
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1/ UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during the Gaza war AOAV’s new analysis reveals Britain’s most senior military personnel repeatedly visited Israel while its forces bombarded Gaza. This as international calls for an arms embargo grew. https://t.co/tpeYOs6H6E
aoav.org.uk
Britain’s most senior military leaders made twelve official visits to Israel during the Gaza war, maintaining close contact with the Israeli armed forces even as civilian deaths mounted, according to...
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6/ “In our report, the Committee said that the Government’s actions in relation to Israel and Palestine have too often been too little, too late. Now is the time to take the initiative" she said.
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5/ Thornberry expressed disappointment that the Government did not commit to a formal evidence-gathering mechanism to support a legal reckoning over Gaza, nor to a timeline for appointing a special envoy for arbitrary detention.
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4/ The Committee urges the Government to use its convening power to turn a ceasefire into a secure peace and to build on the step of recognising a Palestinian state so that it can prosper alongside a secure Israel.
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