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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

#PublicTransport #WayToGo

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 14h

A call for more rail investment in west Wales, including the reopening of a line closed to passengers over 70 years ago, received unanimous backing from Carmarthenshire councillors

Councillors back call for more rail funding and reopening of line

Richard Youle, local democracy reporter A call for more rail investment in west Wales, including the reopening of a line closed to passengers over 70 years ago, received unanimous backing from Carmart...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

Hi Mabel! I can't vote, sorry, as I live across the (eastern) pond but I wanted you to know that I support you 🦴

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨 #CSA

Excellent report! Thanks @cathynewman.bsky.social and all participants 🙏🏼

@axrenton.bsky.social #ICYMI

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 15h

Exclusive: A Channel 4 News investigation reveals shocking allegations the author of The Penguin Lessons - a memoir turned into a hit film starring Steve Coogan - abused boys at a school in Dorset in the 1970s

📩 Read the full newsletter from Channel 4 News:
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Exclusive: ‘The Penguin Lessons' author accused of historic sexual abuse

Survivors call on Lionsgate to withdraw Steve Coogan film adaptation and for film royalties to be donated to charities, writes Cathy Newman.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 13h

Peace in Middle East is ‘unpredictable’ – former Israeli hostage negotiator

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Peace in Middle East is ‘unpredictable’ – former Israeli hostage negotiator

We spoke to the former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent, informative interview. Thanks @gershonbaskin.bsky.social and @krishgm.bsky.social.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 12h

Get well soon 🌿

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 19h

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The Blogs: We can begin to breathe again: Initial thoughts on this morning’s developments

A quick take on the end of the war from my backchannel perspective: It could have been done long ago; Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 2d

I sat on the Defend our Juries protest as a Jew opposing genocide and antisemitism countering the absurd insult that to oppose genocide is antisemitic. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @jewishvoice.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 14h

Bravo!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17h

Tim Crosland offers a first-hand account of his recent treatment by police and reflects on what these escalating clampdowns mean for democracy and justice in the UK.

- @BylineTimes

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Meet the Ex-Goverment Lawyer Arrested under the Terrorism Act...

YouTube video by Byline TV

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 21h

#TheNobel

(no, not that one...)

#LiteratureMatters

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 22h

Daring to dream after two years under fire: Life in Gaza

For two years, our lives have been on hold amid constant air strikes and fighting. Now, we finally have reason to hope

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 22h

#NatureMatters

🍃 seeds and plant scraps, trapped underground for more than a century, roared back to life. Peat bogs&wetlands buried under <25ft of dirt/gravel more than a century ago, in an attempt to
pacify the remaining scraps of wild around what is now one of North America’s largest cities🍃

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 22h

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 22h

@tpfilmclub.bsky.social Are you finally back at The Star, in Chester Road? Ages since I've been but hoping to return soon. Thanks 📽️

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23h

Starmer yesterday met the co-founder of Indian tech group Infosys - who set up India’s controversial ID system - to try and learn lessons for the UK version

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India’s digital ID a ‘massive success’, says Keir Starmer

British prime minister shrugs off criticism of controversial database as he prepares plans for UK scheme

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 23h

Which co-founder (there were several according to @wikipedia.org? Rishi Sunak's father-in-law 🤔
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Infosys - Wikipedia

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 2d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

Wealth gaps between families at the top of the wealth distribution and those in the middle reached £1.3 million in 2020-22.

This gap increased by £17,000 between 2018-20 and 2020-22.

Read more aboult what's been happening to wealth: buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Chart showing absolute gap between average family wealth per adult within each wealth decile and average wealth for the fifth decile: GB

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

An investigation is underway at a high school into an incident where a victim of racist abuse was apparently treated more harshly than the fellow pupil who abused him ✍️Martin Shipton

School racial abuse victim 'treated more harshly' than abuser

Martin Shipton An investigation is underway at a high school into an incident where a victim of racist abuse was apparently treated more harshly than the fellow pupil who abused him. The uncle of a Ye...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

@josiah.writes.news

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

🤝 Trump and Netanyahu’s ‘special relationship’ explained

Read the latest newsletter from Channel 4 News’ Anushka Asthana in Washington 👇📩

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Trump and Netanyahu’s ‘special relationship’ explained

If agreement is reached on stage one of a peace deal - including the release of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners - it would be unquestionably historic, writes Anushka Asthana

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 1d

30,000 troops in Vietnam race to rescue families after record floods e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Typhoon #Matmo #Flood #Hanoi #Vietnam

30,000 troops in Vietnam race to rescue families after record floods - VnExpress International

Vietnam's military has mobilized over 30,000 troops, helicopters and rescue boats to rush aid as floodwaters surge across northern provinces in the wake of Typhoon Matmo.

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