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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27d

This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 4

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Sep 1

Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Traditional skills breathing new life into our much-loved windmills

In the first of an occasional series on how traditional crafts are still essential for the maintenance of our heritage, Mark Kendall talks to a millwright

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Jaimie Kaffash @jkaffash.bsky.social · Aug 30

Love this article from @manchestermill.bsky.social. Local journalism has been decimated in recent years, but this shows the beauty of it when done well. Knowing the area, knowing the leaders, digging around in the streets manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him

Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Aug 30

“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain

This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oxford journalists have joined a nationwide protest against the killing of 219 journalists in Gaza. Anna Wagstaff, local secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Our colleagues are the only reporters able to broadcast to the world the devastation, death and famine Gazans are facing.”

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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social

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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social

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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social

Belgium: Solidarity action with Gazan journalists unites 400 in urgent call for EU action / IFJ

“Our journalists are paying the price. They are killed every day. We want this occupation to end. We want the genocide and the killing of journalists to stop. The EU is complicit in their killing.”

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · Aug 26

The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.

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Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action

The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...

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NUJ London Freelance Branch 🗞️ @nujlfb.bsky.social · Aug 5

✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom

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Open letter on protecting journalists and defending truth in Gaza

The NUJ, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) are among signatories of open letter urging action to protect journalists and truth in Gaza.

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Oxford & District NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social · Aug 26

STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...

Stop killing journalists in Gaza!

1.00pm, Wednesday August 27th, Bonn Square OxfordSupport the Oxford NUJ vigil More than 215 journalists in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli military since the conflict began. On Wednesday 27 Au…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 19

NEW:

“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · Aug 13

Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making you safer.

It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it.

The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.

The Great British fear factory: manufacturing a lawless London

Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 12

Trump: We're going to be adding a magnificent ballroom—most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere. We need it.

Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 12

I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jul 29

Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics

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Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics

Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Jul 11

Trump: the comprehensive Mexican food acronyms

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jul 11

JUST IN: Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists covering protests or restricting their movements under most circumstances..

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Jul 11

"We want to see the end to a situation where innocent people are being starved."

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan aligns with Baroness Helena Kennedy's view that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · Jul 10

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