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@JohnSimpsonNews This is what a patriot looks like. https://t.co/qas1WFvsby

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@JohnSimpsonNews People really need to read more books and less GB and Fox News. 3.4K views · 209 likes · 9 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at Britain’s leading blindness charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping small boat migrants. They mixed it up with the RNLI. Reminiscent of the time in 2000 when a mob daubed ‘paedo’ on the office of a paediatrician in Wales. 161.6K views · 5.6K likes · 1.4K reposts · 357 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews I have found that any one of Anthony Trollope's books is amazingly engrossing. You wouldn't think the problems of bishops and dukes in 1860 would be so interesting, but the characters act like people, not caricatures. We are the same people now, just with differ 382 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews My husband reads every day and always has. He has recently been diagnosed with a rare dementia -behavioural variant FrontoTemporal Dementia. There is nothing he could have done to prevent it. Please don't spread nonsense about how and why dementia affects certa 1K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews Of course closing public libraries is no help at all. I relied on borrowing books as a child as we didn't have any in our home. 216 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

From today’s Times: ‘Researchers at the University of Cambridge said that regardless of “what or how we read”, sitting down with a book is linked to improved health and problem solving. Benefits include lowering stress and reducing the risk of dementia, and span all types of 73.2K views · 2.4K likes · 637 reposts · 58 replies Open on X →

Oh dear. I would so like to think that Jared Kushner was a wise, balanced, well-informed intermediary who could be relied on to deal evenhandedly with Israel and Hamas, and with Russia and Ukraine. I’m afraid his response here doesn’t give me much hope about US approaches to 151.8K views · 1.4K likes · 276 reposts · 135 replies Open on X →

Delightful ‘Times’ piece about the English Sunday league goalkeeper who could be the next monarch in a Ugandan kingdom. Long live the Shotstopper! https://t.co/OBEWlyD5YH 7.3K views · 41 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

During the siege of Sarajevo I came to knew and often interviewed Gen. Ratko Mladic, whose coffin people have been kissing in Belgrade. He was a brutal man with no apparent spark of humanity. His trial at The Hague, which I reported, was an important moment in modern history. 122.8K views · 4.5K likes · 574 reposts · 100 replies Open on X →

US special envoy Jared Kushner said on Sunday that Gaza was “built by NGOs and terrorists”. He added that Gaza's Board of Peace was working on a plan to demilitarise the strip but faced “political issues in Israel” where a “crazy election” made leaders “a little irrational”. htt

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John Simpson ✓@JohnSimpsonNews5 Sep

Springboks vs All Blacks was a magnificent watch. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time in a packed Irish bar in Nice. Boks not perfect but deserved the win. An absolute master-class for N hemisphere teams… 42.2K views · 1.1K likes · 45 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

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Are the Falklands under threat from Argentina? Verbally, yes: Pres Milei is facing strong opposition from even further right in Argentine politics. The real concern for the UK is Pres Trump’s willingness to go along with it. 31.7K views · 970 likes · 96 reposts · 81 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews @NasserIbnHamad You actually do get it. But you’re pretending not because you don’t want to lose your job or get a phone call telling you to delete another tweet. 38.4K views · 2.3K likes · 168 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews Is this your first day as a journalist, John? 69.9K views · 3.3K likes · 168 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews Because it’s about ethnic cleansing and taking land John. You numbnut 22.7K views · 1.3K likes · 15 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →