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Alex Hall Hall

@alexhh.bsky.social

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Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Co-host Disorder Podcast. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 10h

🤮https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/donald-trump-gaza-summit-praise-insults-world-leaders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 10h

Almost no media coverage and very little political attention paid to the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails. So much focus only on the Israeli hostages. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 15h

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19h

Give me Ribberty or Give me Death! 🐸🐸🐸

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just ordered an inflatable frog costume like this as my outfit for the #NoKings protest on 18th October!!! (Will serve double duty for Halloween two weeks later 🤭)

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 4d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Hudsonia @bopstyle.bsky.social · 2d

Man, oh, man. There's going to be hundreds of frogs against fascism next week. Costumes are the perfect antidote for Trump lies about insurrections . Go crazy, America and gin up the funny!

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 21h

This is very good by @snellarthur.bsky.social - the right balance of hope and scepticism ://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/credit-where-due?r=ma03l&utm_medium=ios

Credit where due...

Trump, yes. And Qatar. And Turkey. And Jonathan Powell. And European countries...

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 1d

@lewisgoodall.com fancy doing the UK a service and actually investigating this story ?

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a task that shouldn’t be left to @bylinetimes.bsky.social alone: The fourth estate has a job to do in defence of freedom and democracy. Are they too keen to report on the chaos of a Reform government (until that time when mass deportations and arrest of “dissidents” begins?) Too late then.

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Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social · 1d

I say again - subscribe @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

Google or search for “Portland Frog” www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/i...

People Are Obsessed With These Inflatable Frogs At ICE Protests — And They Actually Have A Point

"So, I'm out here protesting in a frog costume — especially in a frog costume — just to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is."

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE THIS! Thank you for giving me this idea for my placard!!!

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

I got a much cheaper knock off version. The original is impossible to get by 18 October and, as you say, soaring in price. Buy shares in #PortlandFrog now!

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

Love it!

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 2d

"There are generations of traumatised kids and parents and individuals on the ground. The mistrust on both sides is huge..."

Ex UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social on the difficult path of peace after #GazaCeasefire

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Byline Podcast: Trump's Gaza Peace Plan with Alex Hall Hall

Former UK ambassador Alex Hall Hall assesses the prospects for Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan.Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices....

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

A genuine moment to celebrate. I’m happy for the freed Palestinians and their families as well. Now, the even harder part begins. I pray to God Israel and Hamas will both honour the terms of the ceasefire, and next steps.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Hamas releases final 13 living hostages on.ft.com/4mY068L

Hamas releases final 13 living hostages

Milestone comes as Donald Trump prepares to address Knesset

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 2d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

Georgians relentlessly fighting for their democracy. We need to display the same determination here in America. There’s no white knight coming to save America from itself. It’s up to every one of us to stand up for our rights, our principles and our constitution. Join #NoKings on 18 October.

Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 2d

“Georgia cannot be captured!”

Protesters march towards Rustaveli Avenue, blocked for the 319th consecutive day. #GeorgiaProtests

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with everything you say

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

America’s continuing descent into once unimaginable chaos. My family, my friends, my neighbors are all affected by this madness. Pressure and stress is mounting. At some stage, matters will erupt or implode, spectacularly badly either way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forces

www.theguardian.com

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