
thediyora.bluesky.social
@thediyora
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journalist, writer, progressive comms, hothouse bookclub co-organiser, email: [email protected]
london
Joined January 2012
For the @guardian's 'This Summer I' series, I wrote a column about how getting an allotment has radically altered my relationship with food and my local environment! https://t.co/cmGPWGUpsa
theguardian.com
I’ve relearned the meaning of seasonality – and how fragile the natural systems that sustain us really are
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WHY ARE WE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT TOILETS FUCK MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEE THERE ARE VIOLENT RACISTS ROAMING THE STREETS, THERES A GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE, NO ONE HAS ANY CUNTING MONEY, WHYYYYYY IS IT ALWAYS TOILETS
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Grim spectacle. Many of the family reunion applications will involve women and children living in precarious environments - camps, war zones, places where their health and liberty is at risk, etc.
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
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From the bustling markets of central Asia to gripping tales from the streets of Karachi, @thediyora rounds up the best books to read if you’re looking for escapism and adventure ⬇️ https://t.co/YLgCQ2Yn2v
hyphenonline.com
Writing that reminds us just how beautiful and vast our world really is and here's a selection of nonfiction titles to whet the appetite
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I’m planting something new, and I’d love for you to grow it with me. Introducing *Lessons From My Garden* - a new newsletter about the unexpected lessons nature is teaching me about the environment and myself too. https://t.co/QCb9PpqWNr
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Stuck for summer reads? Here are five books, from moving coming-of-age stories to political fiction, to accompany you on your holidays. Check out the recommendations by @thediyora👇🏽 https://t.co/b4w5oWS6R8
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Five titles, from moving coming-of-age stories to political fiction and social commentary, to enjoy on your holidays
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With the unseasonably hot weather we’ve been experiencing (every year), it feels timely to kick my @onlinehyphen books column off with five compelling reads on the climate crisis:
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Hyphen's books columnist reflects on the theme of environment and picks nonfiction titles to help engage with the issue
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A plea to the media: please platform disabled people's organisations like @DisRightsUK. The most important story is not the drama in Westminster but about disabled people's futures. Disabled people's representatives must be heard - they're saying the concessions aren't enough.
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“These revised proposals are nowhere near good enough and frankly are just not well thought through." Labour MP for Nottingham East Nadia Whittome tells #R4Today she still does not support the government's amended welfare reforms.
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Burning down the houses of random Filipino families is not 'venting your feelings' It's racism. Astonishing headline from Sky News.
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The really appalling and dangerous thing about this piece (and I think it represents the views of senior Labour people) is less the stuff about Corbyn, more the strongly implied argument, "the Jewish community" made Labour support a genocide. https://t.co/3rB9gnmG0c
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I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?
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A note to book PRs: I'm now writing a books column for @onlinehyphen, so please email me about anything you're really excited about — especially if it's by Muslim authors. My email is in my bio. #journorequest #journorequests
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Liberal Democrats call for fines of up to £1,000 for "headphone dodgers" who play loud music and videos on public transport https://t.co/w2HHPy9vN5
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Five years after the pandemic, Muslim key workers say they feel abandoned. Despite keeping the country running while risking their own health in Covid lockdowns, in the years since many have struggled during the cost of living crisis. ✍🏽@thediyora
https://t.co/3LdLlk1TXo
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Five years after the UK’s first lockdown was imposed, those who kept Britain running face a different challenge
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Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of household income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. Council tax based on out of date valuations So many regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice. https://t.co/Wzlw8MNP8X
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Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’
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for a piece, I'm looking to speak to Muslim Covid-19 frontline workers (who are still doing a similar job now) -- taxi or delivery drivers, transport, healthcare, teachers, supermarkets. Especially keen to speak to people outside of London. DM me if this is you! #journorequest
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Note Bibi doesn't weigh in on whether or not this was a Nazi salute. Why? Because to Netanyahu, who spent years legitimising the far right in Europe and beyond, that's simply the wrong question. "Nazi shmazi, who cares? He's a friend of Israel!"
.@elonmusk is being falsely smeared. Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s
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can’t believe they’re swearing him in with the Man United chant
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