Mark Dummett
@markdummett.bsky.social
Head of business and human rights team @amnesty - currently enjoying a sabbatical. ex HRW, BBC & Reuters. All posts my own.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
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The news that a national lockdown could have been avoided is shattering. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who lost loved ones during the pandemic.
Kemi Badenoch should apologise on behalf of the Conservative Party. This tragedy must never be repeated.
Kemi Badenoch should apologise on behalf of the Conservative Party. This tragedy must never be repeated.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The news that a national lockdown could have been avoided is shattering. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who lost loved ones during the pandemic.
Kemi Badenoch should apologise on behalf of the Conservative Party. This tragedy must never be repeated.
Kemi Badenoch should apologise on behalf of the Conservative Party. This tragedy must never be repeated.
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EU inaction in DRC kills!
Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org
gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org
gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
EU inaction in DRC kills!
Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org
gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org
gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Not this again. Referring to "blood smartphones", like "blood cobalt" or "blood batteries" does nothing to help the people of the DRC, but instead encourages those bad faith actors who don't want battery tech to succeed so that we keep driving cars fueled by petrol.
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...
Blood Smartphones? Congolese Mining And The Human Cost Of High Tech
An accident in an illegal mine near Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has left at least 70 people dead. It is yet another tragedy in a region where hundreds of thousands of people work wit...
worldcrunch.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Not this again. Referring to "blood smartphones", like "blood cobalt" or "blood batteries" does nothing to help the people of the DRC, but instead encourages those bad faith actors who don't want battery tech to succeed so that we keep driving cars fueled by petrol.
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/...
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Sports clubs are, at the end of the day, answerable to their supporters. Fans of all the other teams helping Rwanda sportswash its reputation should take their cue from the Gunners For Peace. www.instagram.com/p/DRPGbqHjNZw/
Gunners For Peace on Instagram: "This is a Big Club decision. We all know that money talks, but if fans get together and speak louder then they have to listen.
It shows that @arsenal Football Club ...
1,224 likes, 43 comments - gunnersforpeace on November 19, 2025: "This is a Big Club decision. We all know that money talks, but if fans get together and speak louder then they have to listen.
It s...
www.instagram.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Sports clubs are, at the end of the day, answerable to their supporters. Fans of all the other teams helping Rwanda sportswash its reputation should take their cue from the Gunners For Peace. www.instagram.com/p/DRPGbqHjNZw/
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@hrw.org : Israel Emptying Refugee Camps in West Bank a Crime Against Humanity www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said ...
www.hrw.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
@hrw.org : Israel Emptying Refugee Camps in West Bank a Crime Against Humanity www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Finally!
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Finally!
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How powerful do fossil fuel companies feel right now? Energy Transfer, the company that built Dakota Access Pipeline and recently won a big verdict against Greenpeace, wants a North Dakota court to step in and halt a lawsuit against it in the Netherlands.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
How powerful do fossil fuel companies feel right now? Energy Transfer, the company that built Dakota Access Pipeline and recently won a big verdict against Greenpeace, wants a North Dakota court to step in and halt a lawsuit against it in the Netherlands.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport’s Director General received "Social Outstanding Award" by war criminal Min Aung Hlaing. Badge of honour drenched in blood.
Int'l arm of Rostec has provided fighter jets, helicopters, missiles & UAVs to the military, fuelling its nationwide terror campaign.
Int'l arm of Rostec has provided fighter jets, helicopters, missiles & UAVs to the military, fuelling its nationwide terror campaign.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport’s Director General received "Social Outstanding Award" by war criminal Min Aung Hlaing. Badge of honour drenched in blood.
Int'l arm of Rostec has provided fighter jets, helicopters, missiles & UAVs to the military, fuelling its nationwide terror campaign.
Int'l arm of Rostec has provided fighter jets, helicopters, missiles & UAVs to the military, fuelling its nationwide terror campaign.
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ICYM Cutting heat pump and energy efficiency funding is a bad idea. Doing it while attacking middle class climate action is a really bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
The Treasury is at risk of undermining one of its only growth stories
Reports heat pump grants are to be cut, and the way the proposed changes have been communicated, will dent confidence across the green economy
www.businessgreen.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICYM Cutting heat pump and energy efficiency funding is a bad idea. Doing it while attacking middle class climate action is a really bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Recommended: Dead Man Walking at the #ENO. Powerful, emotional and thought provoking.
www.eno.org/events/dead-...
www.eno.org/events/dead-...
Dead Man Walking | Buy Opera Tickets for 2025 | ENO
Book tickets to see one of the greatest 21st-century operas live at the London Coliseum in 2025: the new ENO production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking.
www.eno.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Recommended: Dead Man Walking at the #ENO. Powerful, emotional and thought provoking.
www.eno.org/events/dead-...
www.eno.org/events/dead-...
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The juxtaposition of these figures on the high # of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP and the images of Indigenous protestors literally breaking the doors to get in exemplifies the injustice of climate governance. hhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The juxtaposition of these figures on the high # of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP and the images of Indigenous protestors literally breaking the doors to get in exemplifies the injustice of climate governance. hhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30
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Amazing. If Britain isn't your friend then who the hell do you have left?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Amazing. If Britain isn't your friend then who the hell do you have left?
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Very easy for Treasury to characterise heat pump grants as being kickbacks for middle class families, but they are primarily a mechanism for catalysing a market that will then benefit everyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very easy for Treasury to characterise heat pump grants as being kickbacks for middle class families, but they are primarily a mechanism for catalysing a market that will then benefit everyone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Govt should be increasing not cutting subsidies for heat pumps.
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of government plans to bring down energy bills at the budget.
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is planning to announce a series of measures to bring down energy bills amid concerns the country’s stubbornly high cost of living is driving millions of voters to Reform UK. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Govt should be increasing not cutting subsidies for heat pumps.
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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European leaders must reintroduce key protections in the next phase of negotiations.
New research commissioned by @amnesty.org &
@globalwitness.org shows that the majority of Europeans (75%) want human rights & environmental protection. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
New research commissioned by @amnesty.org &
@globalwitness.org shows that the majority of Europeans (75%) want human rights & environmental protection. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
EU: New research suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights and environmental protection in face of EU rollback
New polling by Ipsos reveals that a large majority of people (75%) across 10 European countries think it is important that the European Union (EU) uphold its own environmental laws. The new survey of ...
www.amnesty.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
European leaders must reintroduce key protections in the next phase of negotiations.
New research commissioned by @amnesty.org &
@globalwitness.org shows that the majority of Europeans (75%) want human rights & environmental protection. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
New research commissioned by @amnesty.org &
@globalwitness.org shows that the majority of Europeans (75%) want human rights & environmental protection. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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A huge blow for people & the planet.
Today, @europarl.europa.eu voted in favour of deregulating corporations.
This backsliding will have devastating consequences for workers & the climate.
#CSDDD #OmnibusI #EPlenary
Today, @europarl.europa.eu voted in favour of deregulating corporations.
This backsliding will have devastating consequences for workers & the climate.
#CSDDD #OmnibusI #EPlenary
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A huge blow for people & the planet.
Today, @europarl.europa.eu voted in favour of deregulating corporations.
This backsliding will have devastating consequences for workers & the climate.
#CSDDD #OmnibusI #EPlenary
Today, @europarl.europa.eu voted in favour of deregulating corporations.
This backsliding will have devastating consequences for workers & the climate.
#CSDDD #OmnibusI #EPlenary
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A new museum has been set up to celebrate the Benin Bronzes but the monarch opposed the idea. As I’ve said before, this all stems from the root problem—seeing these items just as art, when they mean a lot more to their owners. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #Nigeria
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A new museum has been set up to celebrate the Benin Bronzes but the monarch opposed the idea. As I’ve said before, this all stems from the root problem—seeing these items just as art, when they mean a lot more to their owners. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #Nigeria
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine
Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty Inter...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
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UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.
Your rights and freedoms are in danger.
NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/