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Having risked my life in war zones for the BBC, I know this: cuts to the World Service will be disastrous | Martin Bell

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40 years ago a horrific fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade ground claimed the lives of 56 people. It took less than four minutes for a small fire to become a raging inferno. Warnings had been ignored.

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Toxic chlorine cloud near Barcelona confines more than 160,000 indoors

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There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

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🇺🇸 Non-MAGA Americans - listen up! At the Bylines Network (UK), we've a new project to amplify non-MAGA American voices at a time when US media are not adequately capturing the chaos, fear & disruption in people's lives. But we're collecting the stories. This is citizen journalism. Take a look. 👇

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This is the end (IYKYK)

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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson has convinced me we should try to start saying "convergent evidence" instead of "scientific consensus." Going to take a while to change, but I explored it in my column this week. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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This is what Spielman’s OFSTED did to teachers in England, in league with Michael Gove (also reported to have been recommended for a peerage) and recently knighted Nick Gibb. Disgraceful. #EduTwitter @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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Turkish chemist Ayşe Saffet Rıza Alpar was born 122 years ago today - she received her PhD from the University of Hamburg in 1932, returning to Turkey to build up its chemistry program from 1933 until her retirement in 1976, authoring multiple texts on industrial chemistry. #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪

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Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit From the new Private Eye, out now.

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

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We'll make your family's summer memories more affordable this year.   The Canada Strong Pass will make our National Parks, national galleries, museums, and VIA Rail free for kids under 18.   Take a look: liberal.ca/mark-carneys...

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