I'm in a v difficult, challenging situation in Nairobi, and was just told I need to move out by the end of Aug (with a very active cat, my only real family, who needs outdoor space) if you know of anywhere suitable and we know each other please DM me 🙏🏾 (I already have agents)

This piece is one of the best I have read on the full-on dead-eyed embrace of genocide in Israel. It's by a scholar of military indoctrination in Nazi Germany and former IDF soldier. It's essential reading. This is what our governments are supporting. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Our children will ask how we allowed such a massacre to happen in plain sight. How will we answer them? What crime did these four-day-old twins commit? Were they Hamas too? Where are the sanctions against Israel? Such inhumanity, and yet some people still choose silence.

🚨This will be the last post we share here. We believe there is no point in telling our human stories anymore; everyone has grown accustomed to seeing us killed. It's no longer worth the risk to send our voice out to a world that is content with mere solidarity. Even many of our

On Dhaka's streets and inside the interim government they ushered in after unseating Sheikh Hasina, students are scripting new beginnings for Bangladesh and trying to shed the horror and pain of a crackdown against them that killed hundreds. apnews.com/article/bangla…

"One day, I was woken up by police shouting at us. They told us to leave and threw our things in the rubbish. I stayed there, I couldn't move... They sprayed me with tear gas." Read about the dreadful human cost of outsourcing #Europe's borders ⤵️ msf.org.uk/article/long-r…

I have been targeted repeatedly by Kenyan police while covering protests yet I was not invited to this. Nobody in CNN’s Nairobi bureau was invited. More foreign journalists are based in Nairobi than any other African city but none are represented here

Kenya has the highest number of people skipping meals or surviving without essential diets in East Africa, and is second only to South Sudan in the number of people classified as food insufficient. businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/ken…

"Glen Feshie is now home to steadily recovering populations of golden eagles, ospreys, pine martens, red squirrels and many more." My piece today for Country diary Cairngorms Connect Cairngorms National Park @EndangeredLands #regeneration #rewilding #trees theguardian.com/environment/ar…

so aside from all the racism, sexbots, crypto scammers and blue tick abuse feeding frenzies, the most basic advertising tools on Xcrement are completely broken a US company paid to show this US healthcare screening advert to me — in Nairobi but Musk is a genius blah blah blah…

thinking about Edward Said's phrase 'Permission to Narrate' and how Kenyans have realised they shall, indeed they must, narrate their own stories electronicintifada.net/content/permis…

Lily-White Movement adding this to the long list of important historical echoes I did not know about en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-whit…

I'm not going to use this platform much any more You can find me here instead: calmerfuture.substack.com

important in the context of today's Kenya as well Maandamano was about wanting value for taxes, cutting corruption, around collective things individuals can't do themselves but there are some Kenyans (usually young men) attracted to fringe ideas about minimal government too…

new buses for tired old bones sad to be missing #TetZooCon the Mystery Machine episode

#BBCAfricaEye investigates the shootings of three demonstrators during the #Kenya Finance Bill 2024 protest in Nairobi. Using open-source intelligence (OSINT) and forensic techniques, #BBCAfricaEye can expose the men who spilled blood on the grounds of Kenya’s parliament.

This explains my ideas for a calmer future, and analysis of how we can get there. I've been working on it for most of my life. It came after working in different sectors, on different continents – and seeing how the obvious solutions are not working. calmerfuture.org