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Journalist, wheelchair user, reservist @BritishArmy , proud of all above. Founder of @PS21_Central , global defence commentator @Reuters , member @VauxhallLabour

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Peter Apps

5 months

Ahead of its July launch in the US – and the upcoming announcement of my second full-length book on its way in 2026 – here's some of the best reviews for "DETERRING ARMAGEDDON: A Biography of NATO"

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Great launch, reviews for “DETERRING ARMAGEDDON: A Biography of NATO”

“DETERRING ARMAGEDDON: A Biography of NATO” by Peter Apps was published in the UK by Wildfire Publishing on February 2, 2024, coming out in the US at the end of June. It tells the story of the worl…

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3 years

Ethiopia's deadly multi-player drone war – my latest for Reuters…

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@jonsnowC4 @clacksee That they could either have bought a single house in Chelsea or iinstalled sprinklers in a very large number of tower blocks. What a waste

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@ellle_em The world is waiting for the Muppet Hamlet, and neither our universe nor theirs will ever be the same again…

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6 years

So much to unpick here, but my personal favorite detail is the talismanic power Geller sees in Winston Churchill's spoon, which he owns and gets potential prime ministers to touch

Uri Geller promises to stop Brexit using telepathy

Illusionist has told Theresa May he will ‘not allow’ her to lead Britain out of the EU

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3 years

My piece this week for @Reuters – from Kazakhstan to Ethiopia, the growing Internet shutdown trend

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From Kazakhstan to Ethiopia, the growing internet shutdown

As unrest and violence spread across Kazakhstan https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/president-kazakhstan-says-he-has-weathered-attempted-coup-detat-2022-01-10 last week, authorities blocked...

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6 years

Definitely a worthwhile purchase. Or, now a non-purchase. But unquestionably recommend…

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As a small tribute to the incomparable Harry Leslie Smith, we're making the ebook editions of his two Icon books - Harry's Last Stand and Love Among the Ruins - free with all ebook retailers over this weekend. Read and be inspired, as Harry always intended. #harrylesliesmith

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This is unquestionably true, but it's also a hugely empowering story for anybody, and their ability to make a difference at whatever stage. Speaking personally, find it really inspiring example on how to use one's own story to leave a legacy and point to larger truths

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For me what #HarryLeslieSmith , my dad, did in the last years of his life is pure heroism. Here's a man in his 90s with no public speaking training, no money save his pension but a strong belief in civic action who sets out to make a Last Stand for the vulnerable of the world.

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@GaryLineker For the avoidance of doubt, I've actually become something of a Corbyn fan. But it's a time for good people, and if job is worth doing etc.

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5 years

Given that austerity was only ever supposed to be a phase, clearly hasn't worked and decimated Liberal Democrat support in 2015, making this a defining feature of its policy framework is… well, very 2019.

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Wonderful, Lib Dems promising permanent austerity, hopping further to the right than the Tories

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"The lack of reaction from Jeremy Corbyn after being likened to Josef Stalin has forced me to go to truly heroic lengths to finish this sentence in a way that conforms to my argument."

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That time I ignored the stranger haranguing me on the bus? Yup.

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@GaryLineker For what it's worth, I think there's a lot in the current Labour Party. Including very cheap membership…

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Call me cautious, but not sure wise to drill into ancient Egyptian vault deliberately sealed 4000 years ago

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'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza

Scanning technology suggests there is a large, previously unknown cavity in the ancient monument.

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@Archimbaldo @goodclimate If you are using French words like "café", you are part of the problem…

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@GaryLineker Or you could join either party and single-handedly drag/nudge it back to the center. Not many people could, but you genuinely might

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@mrwtch @paulmasonnews Hard agree. The solution to anti-Semitism isn't replacing it with some kind of 16th-century anti-papism. It is being civil to each other and not making assumptions based on origins/faith etc.

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A must watch from @novaramedia reflecting on the special horror of attacks on places of worship. Just over a decade ago I covered an assassination in a Sri Lankan church, and it produced a very similar feeling…

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A week after the #Christchurch mosque shooting, there are some things I can’t get out of my head...

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@piersmorgan But what do their voicemails say?

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@KillerMartinis @JonnElledge Worth reading the full transcript with an open mind

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@EmmanuelMacron When you decided age 14 to seduce your teacher and become president, and are now wondering what next

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There's more to me than my disability, and I am standing as a potential parliamentary candidate for @VauxhallLabour because I want to show that someone like me can represent their entire community.

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@bilalfarooqui This is what happens when your security robot becomes self-aware and begins reading 2017 Twitter…

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This is, in many respects, the biggest story happening in the world at the moment and it's largely being ignored. It may set the tone for the future, and that doesn't make me feel comfortable

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7 years

Judging by events today, the Kelly appointment feels like a huge development for the Trump presidency. Wonder if he'll be there next week

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CNN Politics

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John Kelly called James Comey after he was fired and said he was considering resigning in solidarity, sources say

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@FraserNelson Or failing that, they just wanted to win the hell out of the photo op by making the UK look woefully unprepared…

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@JuliaHB1 What made you think ISIS was the primary target audience of this concert?

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4 years

A real privilege to talk on innovation at the UK @field_army conference, just coming to the end of 13 months unexpected full-time service. Went in for three days at the start of the pandemic, haven't stopped working since…

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7 years

Couldn't you have gone with "Britain's second Elizabeth opens third Forth bridge"? Sad…

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Reuters World

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth opens Scotland's third Forth bridge

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Actually, that's a grotesque and insulting summary. I didn't try and get anyone to kill me until the rest of my crew was safely at a field hospital, then briefly tried to persuade nearby personnel to do so,

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@twcuddleston @caitlinmoran "I've been sent back in time to eat a sandwich normally in order to avert Brexit."

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5 years

Looking forward to @VauxhallLabour selection meeting tomorrow. It's no secret I'd have liked to have beeen on the slate myself, but I'll be glad to vote for @FloEshalomi as my first choice, for her lived experience, commitment and what it would mean for Lambeth.

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Florence Eshalomi MP

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Growing up on an estate, I know the importance of social housing 🏘 Local people can’t afford decent rented homes 🏠 🔴Councils should be allowed to borrow & build 🔴Private landlords must be licensed 🔴Rent controls needed in London Housing will be my top priority for #Vauxhall

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@Harryslaststand Read "Love among the ruins" this week. Really powerful writing that really captures time, place and emotions. You must be very proud…

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My second ever attempt at a selfie, taken earlier today at home in Vauxhall using voice recognition software and my laptop webcam…

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@montie The disabled, the homeless, those dependent on food banks…

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@AndyNetherwood I did hear one senior army officer make the concise argument that: "the army is important because the sea is too wet to live in, and nobody lives in the sky yet, so everything else takes place on land"

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6 years

A late 21st century historian adds: "So it should perhaps not be surprising that over the next 20 years, Love Island also produced more British Prime Ministers that both universities combined."

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Tina Daheley

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A reminder that more people applied for Love Island this year than Oxford/Cambridge University.

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@DrJonHastie @Tanni_GT It's the modern equivalent of an unmarried independent woman. It implies a dangerous lack of respect for the rules, threatening the very fabric of an ordered society. Level boarding could release a plague of such unbooked and unaccompanied chairs.

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@EliotHiggins @OwenJones84 This implies a degree of organization I simply do not find credible at the current juncture…

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Great @tomricks1 line from "The Generals". Amateurs talk tactics, professionals logistics "but real insiders talk personnel policy"

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5 years

A quick note to say put my papers in this evening to stand as a potential Labour Party candidate in a number of constituencies. I feel it's important that there are candidates as disabled as me contesting seats, making the case for a truly radically inclusive society.

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@AlexKokcharov @EliotHiggins @bellingcat @the_ins_ru Agreed. In many respects, the best piece of work yet, certainly the most sophisticated/challenging!

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@thehistoryguy In contrast to the centuries of liberalism, tolerance and respect for human rights that were the Middle Ages…

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Editing video with voice recognition software is hard, but really proud of this video with supporters from @DisabilityLab and @VauxhallLabour . Check out www. for more on why I'm running for the Labour Party National Executive Committee. Please retweet :-)

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@lottelydia "I will take everything and give you a receipt." Probably sums up the British Empire better than any other sentence I've seen – ruthlessly exploitative, but with that civilized veneer/rule of law…

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@Harryslaststand I'm sure they did. I went to war – albeit as a neutral Reuters journalist – in Sri Lanka at about the same age he was then. Those memories – love affairs, scenes, everything – sear into you like nothing else. Although he clearly managed his personal choices notably better!

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1/ Earlier this evening, posted in the @VauxhallLabour facebook group expressing my intent to put my name forward as a candidate to replace Kate Hoey now she is standing down as our local MP

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7 years

How Theresa May persuaded me that's Jeremy Corbyn was the safest choice for Britain

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After May’s misteps, Jeremy Corbyn now feels Britain’s safest bet

This picture shows what Brexit shouldn’t look like [Wikipedia Commons]

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@faisalislam Ironically, had this often been made iimmediately after Brexit referendum last year iit would have created a lot of goodwill

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8 years

Sweden to reintroduce conscription over Russia worries. For some European states, existential fears are back

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Sweden brings back conscription as unease over Russia grows

At least 4,000 men and women will be called up for military service in 2018 and 2019

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6 years

In September 2006, I woke up in the wreckage of my vehicle with a broken neck, paralyzed from the shoulders down. Here's what happened next.

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Commentary: Covering the world, paralyzed from the shoulders down

Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a matter of seconds to...

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Why I'm going to write more about my experiences with disability #Spinalcordinjury #disabledblogger #empowerment

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@Harryslaststand So many flashes of fascinating stories here. One of the parts of "love amongst the ruins" that really stood out for me was when Friede told Harry she would never have married him if he had been aircrew after her experience in the bombing, and his thoughts on that…

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7 years

@LindseyGrahamSC Any Tweet in particular?

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@hthjones I don't know, actually… This doesn't feel the same as defacement. See where you're coming from, but a frankly well arranged display of peaceful democratic protest 75 years after the Nazi defeat is not the most inappropriate thing I could imagine…

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6 months

It may not grab the headlines of other Ukraine war -related developments, but the German decision to deploy an entire brigade to Lithuania is actually one of the seismic moments in European recent defence history.

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Lithuanian MOD 🇱🇹

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🇱🇹🇩🇪 The deployment of a German brigade assigned to Lithuania will take place in stages. This year we are receiving the first troops, and the main transfer of units will occur between 2025-2026. By 2027, the German brigade with 5000 troops will reach full operational capability.

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@jeancampbell11 @jonsnowC4 @clacksee Or a relatively small chunk of an F 35 joint strike fighter?

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@DPJHodges By which you mean a defining moment in which some of the UK's most powerful institutions realize the need to reflect and adapt?

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Delighted to see the cover of my first book: "DETERRING ARMAGEDDON: A Biography of NATO", to be published by @headlinepg in February. The perfect Valentine's present for the person in your life who loves history/international relations/atomic war .

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Headline Store closure: Everything You Need To Know The Headline Store will be closing on 17 April 2024. Since opening, we’ve enjoyed some real successes selling our books directly to reader…

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@ThatTimWalker @RosamundUrwin If this is true, it's right up there with Bill Clinton encouraging Trump to run for presidency story…

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EU source says Turkey coup bid looks substantial, 'not just a few colonels'. Great diplomatic reporting/color

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@GaryLineker Having said that, emergence of @GaryLineker twitter timeline as must-read forum for UK political conversation unexpected bonus of events

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@marinamaral2 @Scientits Ironically, reports of its survival appear to have been greatly exaggerated…

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10 years

Search for MH370 reveals a military vulnerability for China #lackofglobalnavalbases http://t.co/ENB8k7hZoB via @reuters

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@faisalislam @cliodiaspora It is a sign of strength and stability. Surely this is obvious

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6 years

London air isn't great now, but in 1937 smog was so bad a Charlton goalkeeper got left on the pitch at Chelsea for 15 minutes after the game was canceled due to it, because neither he nor they could see what was happening…

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@katemond What, all of them? As in, nothing before 1300 really happened? Also, is that a timestamp or a year?

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4 years

Beautiful late summer evening… you can feel summer departing, but it's still a pleasure to be alive…

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@gabrielmilland Really? I don't see any evidence of that whatsoever… I mean, by and large the British political establishment is ignoring it completely, which is a rather different problem…

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@Reytomas1228 @SChristiansen87 @SW_Help @Tanni_GT @AlansTweets Been thinking about this a lot. It's really important to be honest about just what this marginalization feels like, I think – and I know I really am. Because anyone can be in our shoes/wheels tomorrow, and it is in everyone's interests for things to work better…

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We have shifted more than 50 tickets for next week's @VauxhallLabour November 19 fundraiser with @Keir_Starmer and @FloEshalomi . Don't miss out and get a place while they are still available -

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7 years

@katemond That is a fascinating belief. Was there some kind of conspiracy in 1300 where they decided to fake everything previously?

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6 years

I've now spent almost a third of my life paralyzed from the shoulders down after breaking my neck as a war reporter. Here's what I've learned so far…

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Commentary: Covering the world, paralyzed from the shoulders down

Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a matter of seconds to...

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Huge thanks to a couple of my former soldiers for this, explaining why I'm running for Parliament for @VauxhallLabour and anywhere else I'm useful. Retweets, appreciated, facebook page attached #letpeterun

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@DawnHFoster This is now how we are seen internationally. A country best blackmailed by refusing to allow us to take processed meat overseas. I'm not saying they are wrong, mind you…

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Felt cute, might delete later…

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@petridishes Real privilege is when HR installs the shark tank for you as a precondition for your contract… Apparently

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Second dose from astrazeneca, courtesy of the RAF and a military team vaccinating in Lambeth…

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@MrBaileyM @kiramadeira I'd go full Viking and rename parliament The Thing, or perhaps the Upper Thing and Lower Thing. I feel this would manage expectations much better…

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@DanielJHannan Thank God none of this is your fault. People might be really angry…

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My decade: Started pretty well. Despite having been paralyzed four years, had pulled myself together and got good job as Reuters political risk correspondent age 29 Some good travel, including US and Gulf Wound up with pressure sore 2013, heavily on bed rest for a couple of years

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A reminder of why dealing with Ireland, borders and backstops is never a game. Michael Gove and others on the right argued against the Good Friday Agreement, now they seem to regard it as acceptable collateral damage for their own fight/aims…

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BBC News (UK)

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Bomb in Londonderry was attempt by New IRA to murder police officers, police in Northern Ireland say

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Hugely honoured to have been nominated by Vauxhall CLP this evening for @UKLabour National Executive Committee, having also been nominated by Aldershot on Tuesday. I will need three more CLPs to make the national ballot…

@VauxhallLabour

Vauxhall and Camberwell Green Labour

@VauxhallLabour

5 years

So for the FULL RESULTS this evening we nominated: @lisanandy for Leader. Final Round: LN - 77 KS - 76 @DrRosena for Deputy Leader. Final round: RAK - 87 DB - 77 For NEC we nominated: @gsjosan - @pete_apps , and @JermainJackman for the BAME vacancy. #CLPNominations 🌹🌹

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7 years

God. Theresa May was right. Weak government incapable of negotiating Brexit with some really alarming ties to Northern Ireland

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4 years

Very grateful to help from @BTPLondon , @Ldn_Ambulance and @uclh last night after a taxi bounced off my wheelchair outside King's Cross station. Relieved to be unharmed, but hugely appreciative of the excellent care and support of all…

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@sophgaston For the UK: @Abigail_Watson7 and Emily Knowles at the Remote Warfare Project, @elisabethbraw , @KoriSchake , @Allegra_Bx , @JessicaToale @ClaireYorke , @fiona_almond , @georginafstubbs , @EvansAlisonS , @TinaFordham1 Heather Williams at KCL, just for starters

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Why yes, it is good to be on leave…

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In Brighton for the Labour Party conference…

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3 years

Really happy to have done this piece for the @wavellroom , a great outfit that has revolutionised how UK defence talks to itself…

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Wavell Room

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‼️NEW‼️ What does Russia want and what does that mean for Britain? “Russia is the most aggressive it has been in 3 decades… How could and should the West respond?”

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@RussianEmbassy Obviously getting old. Only understand fragments of this. It's a nice afternoon – just shut down twitter and head to the pub. I am…

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@ms_peaceweaver @mssarahpine @jk_rowling Not the European Union?

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@AbiWilks The most important detail, imho, may be that this angry young generation is decreasingly young. Had the dispiriting thought driving across South London that no one under 45 could afford any of the houses…Makes change inevitable

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From September 2018. It's now 14 years since I broke my neck covering the Sri Lankan civil war. Here's what I've been up to since #Pete4NEC

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Today is the twelfth anniversary of the war zone car crash that broke my neck in Sri Lanka. My thoughts on this anniversary should be out on @Reutersopinion later today…

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@gabrielmilland Frankly, life is too short for me to make my thoughts on Hong Kong about Jeremy Corbyn. Although you are welcome to your own priorities…

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@StephenKing He'll be back…

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It's now 13 summers since I woke up paralyzed in the wreckage of my vehicle. Here, from last year, is a summary of what I've been up to since. More, I hope, to follow…

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Commentary: Covering the world, paralyzed from the shoulders down

Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a matter of seconds to...

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I'm not saying British politics is badly run, but if there were an election tomorrow, the Brexit party likely splits the Tory vote, potentially kicking Boris out and canceling Brexit. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats and Change UK offer best chance of keeping Boris and no deal.

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Peter Apps

5 years

Just managed what I think is my first ever #selfie taken on my own with voice recognition software, from my laptop on the patio of the house I grew up in. Nieces inside singing along to "sound of music" as they avoid the heat… #SouthEssex

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Peter Apps

7 years

@jlsinc @rhodri If time travel is ever invented, definitely worth sending this picture back to the trenches to give everyone a much-deserved laugh…

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Peter Apps

5 years

Raising a second underrated point, which is the politics is one of the few things one can go into in one's thirties while being described as "youngish".

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Marie Le Conte

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5 years

an underrated joy of elections is youngish activists standing in absolute no-hope seats so they can eventually get something winnable in a few years, just endless pictures of thirtysomethings in random high streets talking about how happy they are to be here

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Peter Apps

7 years

@lottelydia There is no sentence that is not made better by this addition, as I recently and rather vehemently mansplained to no one in particular.

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