Paul Docherty
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I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil
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December 2, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed
The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
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A DAY FOR GAZA
The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza.
“Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”
The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza.
“Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
A DAY FOR GAZA
The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza.
“Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”
The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza.
“Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”
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February 3, 2026
February 3, 2026
Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:22 AM
February 3, 2026
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February 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 AM
"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
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Please listen to this interview.
"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Please listen to this interview.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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January 5, 2026
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:43 AM
January 5, 2026
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Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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November 20, 2025
November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
November 20, 2025
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Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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Just a couple of days left to register for our 'What Would a Wellbeing Economy Strategy Look Like?' webinar with Gerry McCartney, 12pm on Thursday 2nd October
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September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Just a couple of days left to register for our 'What Would a Wellbeing Economy Strategy Look Like?' webinar with Gerry McCartney, 12pm on Thursday 2nd October
tinyurl.com/WESG01
tinyurl.com/WESG01
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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There is "a fundamental problem at the heart of our welfare state; namely the apparent assumption that poor people are not creative and have no potential for anything other than unskilled labour, because creative ability is supposedly reserved for those who enjoy wealth and privilege"
Well said!
Well said!
The welfare state and the entrapment of low-income creatives
Welfare bias traps poor and disabled creatives, wasting talent and silencing voices that could enrich our culture and economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There is "a fundamental problem at the heart of our welfare state; namely the apparent assumption that poor people are not creative and have no potential for anything other than unskilled labour, because creative ability is supposedly reserved for those who enjoy wealth and privilege"
Well said!
Well said!