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Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements. Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.
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submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

submitted 18 hours ago • 52 comments

In December 2023, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired to massacre Palestinians in Gaza. He belongs in the dock at The Hague, not platformed on the BBC.

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

22 June 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Eva Drach, was born in Gyor. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

#BlueSkyArtShow #Narrow #Valetta #Malta #ClassicMono #blackandwhitephotography #travelphotography #EastCoastKin #WeAreRoamers #Cityscape

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

submitted 16 hours ago • 130 comments

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

submitted 15 hours ago • 219 comments

The figure is now over 240k ++ and I don’t understand the lack of concern on ongoing preventable deaths for the same reason in our population in the UK. This should matter to the government but it doesn’t.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Oh dear, will the UK ever stop squawking like a parrot on the USA's shoulder? Will Starmer not learn from Bliar's mistakes? bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Wise and sobering words.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

submitted 21 hours ago • 1759 comments

Not to address the Climate Emergency is more expensive than addressing it. Today: tornados in Germany. www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has quit her job as a government whip in opposition to the government's plans to cut disability benefits The Labour MP wrote in a letter to the prime minister she could not vote "for reforms which include cuts to disabled people's finances" 👏 news.sky.com/story/labour...

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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

20 June 1938 | A Czech Jewish girl, Eva Červenková, was born in České Budějovice. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments