Journalist and commentator. Previously: Al Jazeera executive producer / Reuters correspondent in Africa and Middle East. Newsletter: proximities.news
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Barry Malone retweeted
This administration in a picture.
They don’t give a solitary fuck about you, your family, your neighbors or your community.
💰 Trump's state dinner table seats billionaires worth a combined $1.13 trillion.
Take a look: tmz.com/2026/09/25/trump-sta…
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Barry Malone retweeted
We cannot stand by and play Israel as they take other international players hostage at gunpoint.
#StopTheGame
🇮🇪🇵🇸 Natalie Abudayyeh was part of the Palestine team that played Bohemians in an international solidarity friendly at Dalymount Park in 2024.
Natalie, now 21, has been detained in an Israeli prison since June having been seized at gun point from her university dorm.
Her family have not been able to see her, her team-mates have not been able to contact her.
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.@VarshaGandikota speaking at @The_Hague_Group meeting today on defending international law.
40 countries attended & discussed the actions needed to turn Israels impunity into accountability.
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Barry Malone retweeted
Could we see another full scale war between Ethiopia and Eritrea?
As tensions rise in east Africa, and Addis Ababa aims for access to the Red Sea, journalist Tsedale Lemma explains why she thinks that there is a 'risk of expansion' in the regional escalation.
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This man is insufferably smug.
#GMB (finally) get to ask Zia Yusuf about his racist tweet.
As Ranvir Singh points out, Yusuf chooses to deflect rather than answering the question.
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Barry Malone retweeted
No single genre of news story annoys me so much as the reframing of gross structural injustice as a “feelgood” story because strangers helped.
Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife's medical bills - strangers raise almost $250K trib.al/iOH2hYR
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Jesus Christ. This is so telling from Hadley Freeman.
There's a genocide happening and her snarky question is about a story from decades ago that Zack had answered to endlessly.
Do these people not understand how tone-deaf they sound? How glib and facile?
Well done to Zack for staying calm and collected in that environment.
Journalist Hadley Freeman drew loud laughs around the room at the Jewish Community Hustings in Holborn and St Pancras when she asked Zack Polanski: ‘If I vote for you, will you promise to make my breasts bigger?’ She had also asked whether the need for such huge security at the event was due to a ‘perception of unsafety’.
When the laughter died down, he said: ‘That’s interesting, you’ve linked those two things because for both the media have misreported what I said. I was very clear when I said that whether someone is actually scared, or they're worried about their safety, neither are acceptable.’
The other bit went unanswered as the debate moved on.
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God the breasts thing is so fucking inane. They should be mortified that they're still trotting it out a year after he was elected leader.
Journalist Hadley Freeman drew loud laughs around the room at the Jewish Community Hustings in Holborn and St Pancras when she asked Zack Polanski: ‘If I vote for you, will you promise to make my breasts bigger?’ She had also asked whether the need for such huge security at the event was due to a ‘perception of unsafety’.
When the laughter died down, he said: ‘That’s interesting, you’ve linked those two things because for both the media have misreported what I said. I was very clear when I said that whether someone is actually scared, or they're worried about their safety, neither are acceptable.’
The other bit went unanswered as the debate moved on.
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Spot on. And "let them drown" has long been the logical conclusion of the "stop the boats" dogwhistle that mainstream politicians willingly deployed.
Ash Sarkar: “There are mobs of men styling themselves as paramilitaries & you’ve had more to say about refugees than racism…This is small penis behaviour. You guys are just saying well, it’s about the small boats - well maybe it’s about the racism & the thuggery”
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Ash Sarkar: “There are mobs of men styling themselves as paramilitaries & you’ve had more to say about refugees than racism…This is small penis behaviour. You guys are just saying well, it’s about the small boats - well maybe it’s about the racism & the thuggery”
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Barry Malone retweeted
Tonight on @C4Dispatches at 11.05pm “Britain’s Gaza secrets exposed”, our latest and 4th film on Gaza since October 7th.
Firstly, as ever we must pay tribute to our colleagues in Gaza who risk their lives every day there. Journalists have been targeted and killed in greater proportional numbers than in any other war in history. In Gaza journalism, like healthcare, the subject of our last film, has become a lethal profession.
We have spent the last year sifting through hundreds of internal FCDO IHL – (international humanitarian law) – assessments of Israel’s military conduct in Gaza. As those who have not looked away will know, 73,000 people, including at least 21,000 children have been killed in what a special @UN commission and the majority of international experts call a Genocide, which was meant to stop with the ceasefire last year, but which has effectively continued, albeit at a slower, but still regular child killing, pace.
So if it is a genocide- what did we, the UK do ? Did we stop it, as is our legal duty if there is a clear risk ? Did we intervene ? Or did we help enable it ?
This film looks at what role our own UK government played, through both Conservate and Labour parties, and the process by which the FCDO assesses whether Israel’s military conduct complied with international law.
Watch at 11.05pm on channel 4 to find out. I don’t want to give anything away but the process led to less than a handful of incidents, out of the many hundreds it examined, most with graphic video evidence, being described as possible war crimes. We try to explain how that happened. Why ? is a question for others- and perhaps international courts. Please watch.
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Barry Malone retweeted
Today Equator published an exclusive extract from Mahmoud Khalil's upcoming memoir, and what is most striking about it is his keen and immediate awareness that he is of just one of many on the sharp end of the Trump administration with even fewer resources than he.
Read it here
The first time Mahmoud Khalil called home, he thought he might be back in a few days.
“Later that night, as I was trying to sleep, I heard loud cheers. A few men approached my bed, calling for me to look at the TV screen. It was split: me and Trump.”
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Barry Malone retweeted
I made a map of the 77 countries that participated in a mass walkout at the United Nations before Benjamin Netanyahu's speech.
What do you notice?
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Oh wait, another.
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And will they let it in?
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire.
Today at #UNGA, the UK, Jordan and Qatar brought together partners to focus attention on the need for humanitarian access and healthcare.
The UK is taking further action, pledging £88m for humanitarian and early recovery support.
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