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Tom Fletcher

Celebrity

Tom Fletcher is a musician and member of the band McFly, known for composing music for theatrical productions.

Notable Quotes

"The response from West End audiences of all ages has been unlike anything I've ever experienced."
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"What’s really special about Paddington is that coming from Peru to London looking for a home, looking for family, that’s a very real story for a lot of people."
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"More aid trucks were entering Gaza, but that it was a 'huge job' to get vital supplies to those in need."
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"We've got to step back from the brink right now."
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"we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day, funding this war spent on destruction, while politicians continue to boast about cutting aid budgets for those in greatest need."
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"we're seeing an increasingly deadly alliance of technology and killing with impunity."
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"it tears through markets, supply chains, food prices, and when that happens, it's the most vulnerable people who are hit first and hardest."
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"We're seeing these crises escalate rapidly with consequences that are out of control for those instigating the conflict."
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"We're seeing an increasingly deadly alliance of technology and killing with impunity."
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"OCHA reminds all parties that civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected at all times, in accordance with international humanitarian law."
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"We are in a moment of grave peril for the Middle East and, actually, I believe, for the wider world."
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"These (constraints) will damage our humanitarian supply chains, reduce the humanitarian supplies we can get to people who need them, but they’ll also drive up energy costs and food costs across the region."
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"This really is a perfect storm of factors right now, and I’m seriously worried."
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"We’ve just about put some money together to keep more of our UN humanitarian flights in the air, but they’ve suddenly, almost overnight, become much more expensive."
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"We’re seeing large-scale movements into densely populated urban areas where shelter capacity is already overstretched."
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"The current escalation is compounding a situation that is already critical."
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"somewhere along the way international law had been 'thrown aside'"
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"the epidemic is killing someone every 30 minutes"
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