Phil McDuff

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In 1989, the first year the Sunday Times Magazine compiled its rich list, the 0.001% wealthiest families living in the UK – about 200 families – owned wealth equivalent to 5% of UK GDP. Today that same group of the population owns wealth equivalent to 20% of UK GDP. It means that if they spent all their wealth, these 200 families could buy the equivalent of a fifth of all the goods and services produced in a given year in the UK.
Sanad, Amir's younger brother, crying with his mother, who is in bed with an eye patch on.
The racist and homophobic "loony left x cartoon with Kinnock as Napoleon saying "I don't know what effect my troops will have on the enemy, but, by god, they frighten me." The "troops" are various appalling stereotypes including, amongst others, "gay power."
A tiktok video of a girl explaining that you're supposed to be able to actually figure out the intended audience of a piece of text without needing it spelled out by the author.
A woman looking into the camera, narrating. There are photos of Amir and his mother at the bottom of the screen.
A poster Amir has put together with his issues. "Save my mother's sight. She can only see with one eye. She's in pain everyday single day. We need your help before it's too late " "My mother is suffering from a severe eye disease. She can only see with one eye. The other eye is bleeding inside. She needs urgent treatment and expensive eye drops. Every day her pain gets worse" There are photos of Amir and his family and a QR code linking to the fundraiser
Bella on her back, curled up with her head almost under her own backside, somehow
Two phases of the paper’s long working day became particularly crucial. In the morning, his most valued lieutenants would gather in his large office to be interrogated about the articles they had commissioned or might commission. Dacre would lean back, faux-casually, in his black leather chair, and sometimes rest his long legs on the desk. He liked the meeting to involve debate and welcomed being challenged, up to a point, but once he had made up his mind, even his smallest instruction was to be obeyed. “You very much know that you’ve got to do a story in a specific way,” a reporter who had recently left the Mail told me when I wrote about the paper in 2001. Another said: “Dacre will express some random opinion [and] it will dominate the paper for days.”
Amir and his mother. Her eye is swollen half shut.
The yellow pages. So big. So sleek. So yellow.
A selfie of Amir in the tent.
A poster Amir has put together with his issues. "Save my mother's sight. She can only see with one eye. She's in pain everyday single day. We need your help before it's too late " "My mother is suffering from a severe eye disease. She can only see with one eye. The other eye is bleeding inside. She needs urgent treatment and expensive eye drops. Every day her pain gets worse" There are photos of Amir and his family and a QR code linking to the fundraiser.
The meme with the guy getting laughed at because he has pissed his pants, saying "hehe rent free" to himself.
Amir takes a selfie under a blue tarp tent.
Sanad and Mayar in the tent. They look hot and tired.
Sanad and Mayar in their tent, looking at the camera. Mayar is a young girl, 12, dressed all in pink. Sanad is 3, with light brown hair, dressed jn green. They both look tired.
Amir's mother in bed with an eye patch on one eye
Amir's mother in bed with her youngest son
Amir's mother and her youngest son
Amir with his mother, with an eye patch over her eye.
Amir sits with his mother, who is in bed with a patch over one eye.
Amir's mother lying in bed with an eye patch on
Umm Amir in bed with an eye patch over her eye while her young son, Sanad, cries beside her.
A selfie of Amir in front of the tents.
A picture of the ruins of the refugee camp. The tents are burned down. Salvaged jars and bottles are in a pile near the camera.
A view of all the ruined tents in gaza
A picture showing the destruction of the tents near Mawasi camp. It is near total, nothing is left standing.
A video showing people running past burned out tents.
Amir's brother Sanad crying next to his mother, who is lying under a blue blanket with an eye patch on.
Bella laid down in a somewhat "upside-down croissant" configuration.
Sanad laid on a blanket with his mouth hanging open. He looks very unwell.
A digital thermometer showing 10% humidity and 40.7°c heat
Muhammed faces the camera. He has red blotches and swelling on his face.
Amir's brother comforts his mother in bed
A restaurant in Gaza before the war. Waiters bring a birthday cake to the table and give it to a younger Yassin while clapping. Khalil has a big smile on his face.
Amir and his mother. She is in bed with a face mask and eye patch on.
Ghaith eating a piece of bread. He is wearing a green t shirt and shorts.
Amir taking a selfie in a blue tent with a hole torn in the ceiling.
Amir with his hoodie on in front of his mother, lying in bed with a patch over her eye.
Mayar and Sanad outside the tent. They hold a sign saying "we are hungry".
Amir in a tent taking a selfie. His mother is behind him with an eyepatch and face mask on, under a pink blanket.
Amir in front of white tents. The sky is grey and dusty.
A pair of glasses missing a lens
Mug saying "world's best uncle ever"
Amir sits in front of a crowd at the aid site with a white plastic UNICEF bag
Amir with his brother Sanad and sister Mayar taking a selfie
Mango and cranberry overnight oats
Khalil's father
Amir taking a selfie.
Amir's brother Sanad and sister Mayar. They look dirty, tired and sad.
A brown and black puppy lays down on a blanket, sprawled out, totally asleep
Amir sits with his brother Sanad and his sister Mayar. They all say hi and wave to the camera.
[17/06, 07:30] Khalil Farwana: I truly feel like I'm facing all these problems, and thank God I can perform at a time when even humans are unable to cope, but we overcome the problem. [17/06, 07:31] Khalil Farwana: Look at how many problems and challenges I faced in just the last month; it wasn't easy. [17/06, 07:32] Khalil Farwana: Your support through your writings is what saves my family. I don't know anyone who donates; I post things and donations reach me. Yesterday, I swear to God, I didn't receive anything; my children were desperate for food. [17/06, 07:33] Khalil Farwana: But I told them I go to work, but I haven't achieved what I want, and they remain hungry. [17/06, 07:33] Khalil Farwana: Hunger is now the biggest challenge, and the treatment for Ghaith and the repair of the bicycle are also needed.
Amir taking a selfie under a blue tarpaulin.
A brown and black terrier cross chewing on a rawhide chew.
Mohammed and Yassin asleep under blankets
Bella with her ears going all inside out for some reason
Bella the dog chomping on a bit of tree bigger than her head.
A cute mongrel puppy sits neatly on a blue couch. She has rottweiler colouring and big floppy spaniel ears. She is in fact a cocker spaniel/Patterdale terrier cross.