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Almadani

@almadani.bsky.social
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Former Foreign Correspondent 🌍
Exploring cultures,societies & human stories through Anthropology,Ethnography& Sociology.Sharing unfiltered insights from the heart Blunt like your auntie energy at Thanksgiving all disclaimers apply 🌈🌍♿🤝

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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 41m
Oktoberfest : [7.4] million people who collectively drank [6.7] million litres of beer😍.Bet Munich’s emergency services are now asking everyone to please stop trying to fight lamp posts, marry kebabs, and explain crypto to police horses.Cheers or I should say Prosit! 🍻
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 6h
We are smaller than we think,but arrogance is expensive. "God himself could not sink this ship" the kind of line that history loves to punish. If they take a single lesson from the Titanic, it's: Overconfidence in technology and in our own control is dangerous — reality don't bend to human pride.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 6h
How come this a happy news?: for a weekend ticket at their highest price ever - £408, including a £5 booking fee per ticket - an increase of £29.50 from the last event in 2025….“Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes”? This madness still reminds me of before it was fenced even then..++
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 7h
Well said : “The masks and the matching black serve the same purpose as Mosley's uniforms: to look like an army, and to make a community feel outnumbered… The story of Cable Street is an important one. But the fascists did not stop organising, and one confrontation did not finish the job”….++
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 8h
🧵1/ Let me say something uncomfortable. I'm not shocked by the latest Cornel mass rape scandal. Not by the Epstein files either. And the fact that none of this shocks us anymore ,that is the real scandal.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Myles Lewis-Skelly got Pele daring moves if was his dream to develope as a forward rather than favourite left back role 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a walkover not the lions proving beyond a shadow of a doubt to our EU foe who is the Boss , bring on Latin America let’s wear the Crown for good, sweet revenge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Three Lions should not lift their foot off this pressure and stuff them more, Croatia is not as easy walk over as they seems now, this team never been beaten at home for quite a long time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇭🇷
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly I think Croatia should let those youester today representing their nation a precedent’s replace to their racist hooligans for years to come,to teach both what sport is about and the beautiful game not an arena for their racism vailes and discriminatory behavior 🇭🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You wouldn't let someone with zero medical training, no Hippocratic Oath abide guide, and no ethics cut you open under general or part anaesthetic. So why do we let journalists with no license, no enforced ethical code "operate" on the public mind without consent? Same surgery. Different scalpel…++
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perhaps it's of note that the original 1951 Refugee Convention only covered Europeans: it was extended to non-Europeans by the 1967 New York Protocol.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨⛔️🚨⛔️ We need a brave conversation about cover, not communities 🧵🚨 1/ I’ve watched my Black community in the UK for fifty years. I say this with love, not judgment: some of our hardest wounds came not from enemies outside, but from opportunists who hid inside our cause.👇
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sick and tired of the vicious personal targeting dressed up as journalistic scrutiny, we should have learned from the death of the former Black Cambridge professor. The Guardian sliding into this shameful ethic could push long-time admirers like me to simply give up on another failing MSM outlet.🤬
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I genuinely fear the so called “Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines” across US is no other than a camouflage itself by Trump populist to actual rigs those voting machines by themselves!. Just saying no sold facts on this and no rummers spreading intended
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something that really perplexes me about the Green Party: you can echo the biased critics of Zack Polanski, yet he has still created a great wave across this otherwise idealist party. I've noticed that they appeal, for the most part, to younger and newly enfranchised voters, a generation that..++
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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you say refugees are not welcome, you are either a hypocrite or you are ignorant. Here is why. 🧵1/8 🔨🔨🥊 ⛔️ The religious argument Abraham fled. Moses fled. Jesus fled to Egypt as an infant. Muhammad fled Mecca. Every prophet of all three Abrahamic faiths was a refugee.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤔🤔🧐 1/ The central argument of this piece is genuinely difficult to follow, and I think that difficulty deserves to be named rather than worked around. The title invites us to read gender as central to the discussion. The writer then repeatedly steps back from that framing,…👇👇1/5
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While the MPs’ report identifies some necessary steps for the BBC’s future, it stops short of confronting the real causes of its alarming decline. Merely acknowledging the problem without addressing the BBC’s shameful politicisation not just its Board—is a form of avoiding the elephant in the room.
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nope. Trump will shut down democracy and America will reply with “Angry memes on Facebook” combined with the always devastatingly effective “thoughts and prayers”.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is anyone in America awake? Democrats, watchdogs, democracy defenders, genuinely asking. Or is it just me seeing what looks like the biggest kind of coup unfolding in the US while everyone's distracted by media-fixated trivia drama?..++
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rest in peace, Dame Esther Rantzen. You were truly an inspirational individual and quite a force for the good in us. You carried warmth and wit into every living room, and turned compassion into action. Where there was need. Thank you.🙏🎈🎈 You will always be remembered, and forever loved.❤️
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🙏 It is faith restoring for me and very welcome that the prime minister has now shared my fear and our experts assessment that Russia is conducting information warfare against our nation and is taking action. But I have to disagree with the honourable Richard Foord, of the Lib Dem naive …+🧵1/4
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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📚💙Fifty #sailing destinations to dream of..See how many you can identify (without peeking 🧐) www.bosunbird.com/under-wide-a...
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 The flood is real, and it is not organic. Lately, social media has been drowning in cherry-picked clips and AI-generated montages that reduce the whole of British history to a single charge: the evil of humanity. My first instinct was to treat it as…1/6
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😰⛔️ 🧵I didn’t sleep much. I woke still in deep shock. Not one front page leads with Russia Sergey Lavrov’s Queen move. Checkmate. Maybe only one outlet got it. Maybe The Times. If so, that is it.1/7
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 A government that speaks plainly in a complex world deserves everyone respect. Our Foreign Minister Edmiliband at Labour conference said what needed to be said by any honourable decent honest politician’s unafraid of lobbies or loud front pages with agendas 🇬🇧 🧵1/6
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🥰❤️ I occasionally marvel in wondering if Madonna and time signed a peace agreement without inviting me. timeless glow,"What a legend." Meanwhile,my own reflection is aging with enthusiasm like a fine cheese left in the sun. If anyone has her secret recipe, I'll trade you my eternal gratitude..
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎶🎶 "Like to say to you but I don't know how"🎶🎶 🎶"I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now"🎶 Man City right now😢
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the millionth time, I'm proven wiser than the shambolic BBC newsroom and, sadly, other flagships of our profession. When they speculate on a live terror case, it isn't just unprofessional. It's counterproductive. Terrorism usually involves sophisticated actors,…1/3
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😰☹️. Ah yes, the eternal saga of "the war is over" brought to you by the same man who announces peace deals like announcing he is thinking about maybe going to the gym. Remember those long-running threads I kept here👇👇? The ones where every other week Trump declares the war finished,or…++1/5👇
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵🧵 1/6 Holocaust Remembrance Day isn't a ceremony. This year it hits different. All over Europe, parties that used to hide what they really think are saying it out loud now.🧵
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why didn’t anyone explain to this clown what “ongoing investigations” means? Beyond that, our own security services would be sensible not to disclose those details on sarly stages, SMH—he just wants to claim the achievement for self-publicity.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 team really means business against Denmark 🇩🇰 very exciting game could go either way
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most sickening untold truth in England today is that fascism has been given breath. Many people hush hush whispers especially women have confided in me catually that their partners or elderly relatives keep Hitler's infamous forgery on their shelves, or collect Nazi memorabilia….
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵🧵1:7 I hope this Labour conference is more than theatre. They were given a majority for a reason. Now they must use it to deliver the pledges that can genuinely change lives not manage decline, but reverse it.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
✌️✌️ 1🧵 While is too early to call this ,but now poll suggested a clear majority of voters - well above 60%- would reject the initiative. I shall say it loud :Guät gmacht, Brav, Well done ,Switzerland, it’s louder and clear. And could be a true referendum on behalf of every free democracy on Earth…++
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨🚨⛔️. My faith rests unshakably in our counter-terrorism force, which has no equal. Let us all exercise restraint and await their conclusions; we know we live under threat, and they have warned us of precisely this in recent days…++
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish I can do Moses. Exodus, chapter 14. For him and stretch out my hand over the English Channel, so he can cross on dry ground. 🥰🥰🙏 What a challenge this is!, another Englishman take the impossible after the London lads who walke across Africa lately, give him aloud welcome please🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵🧵: The Meta Glasses discourse just got the reckoning it deserved 1/ For once, the grown-ups showed up. BBC's Zoe Kleinman and Luke Mintz just published a balanced, in-depth look at Meta's smart glasses and it's a different genre entirely from the poor amateurish reports before.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Few minute to go and he done it again!!
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No matter what this outcome ends yes conceding three goals is just not right but you can’t take from England team tonight they were absolutely brilliant I know too many sharpen their knives before the game they will still pile their toxic intended views 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tuchil doing it again only eight minutes to go you don’t waste time changing players !!
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can’t do a mistake like this on international level is just giving this wonderful game away shamble back and he supposedly the only one good at the back 😢 come on England enough heart attack moments🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That would have put the game beyond Spain hope Harry will recap quick . Come on England this really exciting moments 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I guess the omen of leaving that place when we one down now more lively place and more like what Sat prime time should be🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 come on lads
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WAW we the real world best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Come on you glory
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Com on England this our over due World Cup statements 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Different rhythm of football, this, and not the one our style is built for.Still, I reckon England's players will ride it out and eventually absorb and overcome this twenty-minute assault, our back is shamble but they love coming from behind, and those heart-attack moments? We used to live for them.
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Almadani @almadani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Skipped my mates to watch the England game in my loud jersey at the most right die hard-voting pub in Brighton in old days. Turn out I was the only one really bothered about the game. They put it on just for me. Sitting now tragically alone. Could've done this at home. What does that say? No clue.🤔
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