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Open Justice: the journalists fighting secrecy in the courts

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 4h

4/ 5 Oct 21:
Open Justice: the journalists fighting secrecy in the courts
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Why Local Journalism Matters

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 4h

3/ 5 Oct 14: Why Local Journalism Matters
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Real world lessons from and for local journalism

Towards a Decolonised Journalism: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 4h

2/ 5 Today, Oct 8:
Towards a Decolonised Journalism: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition
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There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 4h

1/ 5 Today is the first of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Media Forum series, laid on by @mediacomgold.bsky.social. #journalism #media #communications
Everyone welcome. Details 👇🏽

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 5h

Per @vittles.bsky.social on the superb restaurant threatened with closure in Elephant & Castle, #London: Latin Elephant is organising a public protest & creating a template for residents to email MPs & Council to urge scrutiny of what’s happening at Castle Square open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 5h

Devex reports that Thailand and South Korea are planning to create binding laws that enable environmental due diligence and give rights to people affected by unscrupulous businesses. www.rashmee.com/forget-trump...

Forget Trump, UK Tories. Rest of world cares about green rules | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Don’t despair, all those taking in the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of environmental regulations, climate change initiatives and sustainable measures. Fear not when you hear that the UK’...

Forget Trump, UK Tories. Rest of world cares about green rules | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 5h

Forget Trump, UK Tories. Rest of world cares about green rules www.rashmee.com/forget-trump...

Don’t despair, all those taking in the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of environmental regulations, climate change initiatives and sustainable measures. Fear not when you hear that the UK’...

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 7h

Join us this evening at @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion and film-screening on how to find the tools to do the essential work of #journalism. Details 👇🏽 complete with empanadas! There’s a livestream too on this link: www.youtube.com/live/IHf4Iue...

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 8h

Join us this evening at @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion and film-screening on how to find the tools to do the essential work of #journalism. Details 👇🏽 complete with empanadas!
There’s a livestream too on this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EsL...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 19h

#bariweiss CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 20h

Per @bloomberg.com : "Aside from sharing the reverse of each other’s initials, Taylor Swift and Sanae Takaichi — who is likely to become Japan’s first-ever female prime minister — have a great deal in common. They’re both musicians. They’ve dabbled with motorcycles..."

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 21h

In an interview with @bloomberg.com ,Citadel founder Ken Griffin called #gold’s rise “really concerning,” warning that investors are now treating gold as safer than the dollar. qz.com/gold-surge-h...

Gold prices keep hitting records. Wall Street is worried

Gold keeps shattering records, an extreme move for an asset that typically posts single-digit annual gains. Citadel's Ken Griffin calls it “really concerning”

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 21h

Spot on @vermontgmg.bsky.social : "The Republican Congress and the Trump administration made this bed; they, across all three branches, are fully responsible for the crash of our constitutional system..." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 21h

Agree with @vermontgmg.bsky.social , the #US is not in a constitutional crisis but a crash. #Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 22h

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social 's Rats in a Sack on Michael Crick's lament anyone believes young #Farage sang Hitler Youth songs: "....the journalist who initially reported the claims of the songs [was] Crick himself on Channel 4 News in September 2013!" www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Michael Crick u-turns on Farage

The journalist rubbished as ‘absurd’ racism allegations which he himself first reported

www.thenewworld.co.uk

Keir Starmer and the British-ness of his home secretary’s protest | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 1d

A few days ago, #UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood was waving two flags at Labour's annual conference – the St George’s Cross and the Union Jack. In 2014, she was lying on the floor of her local supermarket in protest against products made in #Israeli settlements. www.rashmee.com/keir-starmer...

The Guardian’s Poppy Noor offers a telling scene from Shabana Mahmood’s past life, on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, which triggered by a massive military campaign...

Keir Starmer and the British-ness of his home secretary’s protest | Rashmee Roshan Lall

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer and the British-ness of his home secretary’s protest www.rashmee.com/keir-starmer...

The Guardian’s Poppy Noor offers a telling scene from Shabana Mahmood’s past life, on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, which triggered by a massive military campaign...

Let Taylor Swift rip off other artists

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 1d

Join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, as @mediacomgold.bsky.social discusses the tools we might use to rebuild #journalism as a liberatory practice. Everyone welcome. Details 👇
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting argument by @jhweissmann.bsky.social for The Argument in favour of Taylor Swift going down paths others have been before. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Overly strict copyright laws are bad for creativity.

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 2d

Things you didn't know (or want to know) about UK shadow chancellor Mel Stride, per @politico.eu : He starts the day with an icy-cold wild swim; is a licensed pilot, scuba diver; wrote an unpublished novel… and is a qualified tour guide for British landmarks like Stonehenge and the Tower of London.

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps #India’s real short-term goal is to be the South African rand or the Australian dollar of South Asia and embed its currency as a regional reserve? www.rashmee.com/india-wants-...

India wants to take the rupee global…at least, regionally | Rashmee Roshan Lall

To gauge the Trump effect on the wider world, consider this bombshell news from India: It wants to internationalise the rupee and plug its use in trade, especially in its own region, the near abroad (...

India wants to take the rupee global…at least, regionally | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 3d

#India wants to take the #rupee global…at least, regionally www.rashmee.com/india-wants-...

To gauge the Trump effect on the wider world, consider this bombshell news from India: It wants to internationalise the rupee and plug its use in trade, especially in its own region, the near abroad (...

Trump's Contradictory Statements - What Exactly is He Saying to India?

Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 3d

@edwardluce.bsky.social calls it correctly (if dispiritingly for Indians who aren't used to thinking along those lines) in a super convo with Karan Thapar: For #Trump, "#India is in #China's backyard".
thewire.in/diplomacy/tr...

The US National Editor and Chief US Commentator of the Financial Times, Edward Luce, discusses the seemingly contradictory statements and social media posts from President Donald Trump with Karan Thap...

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