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Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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Not only did the IDF deliberately attack an ambulance and murder the health workers travelling in it, it appears likely the survivors of the initial attack were executed in cold blood at short range. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

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Fine work to have the lead response of Guardian readers in this week’s “You be the judge” come from “Jesus, 39”. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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"Oasis or Blur?" I asked, trying to discern a mirage in the desert

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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Lazio going out to something automatically generated by iCloud Keychain

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Hard Labour with Jason Cowley

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Harry Gunnar Solskjaer

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ok but if you look closely she false starts, definite DQ

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This is the funniest thing I've seen all week

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Just realised I wrote "personal independence payment (PIP) payment" in the intro and it wasn't even a typo 🫠

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"Possible solutions include allowing backbenchers to abstain" Abstentions won't stop these cuts going through - and neither threats nor agreements to abstain are likely to wring significant concessions from the government either. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Likely to lose PIP: 23,000 with cancer, 38,000 with MS & neuropathic diseases, 214,000 with arthritis, 38,000 with cardiovascular disease, 45,000 with respiratory diseases, 11,000 with cerebral palsy & neurological muscular diseases And their unpaid (family) carer will lose Carer's Allowance

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NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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The FT bringing much needed clarity to an important question, although you’d have thought that some of this policy work could have been done in Opposition

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"the Israeli government instead chose to break the ceasefire... Israel’s soul is being ripped out and we, members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, fear for the future of the Israel we love" A brave letter: www.ft.com/content/6a50...

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Intriguingly, though pollsters have similar overall shares for Labour and Reform, there's a bit of a divide on where the Lab 24 vote is going: YouGov: 15% to left (Lib Dem, Green), 7% right (Reform, Con), 12% don't know FocalData: 12% left, 16% right, 6% DK Opinium: 11% left, 11% right, 14% DK

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

suddenly just remembered "cupcake fascism"

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New: Roughly 1,325,250 people (45.8%) of PIP Daily Living component recipients will lose their benefit if the #GreenPaper proposals progress. The average annual loss would be c.£4,000, with many losing all support despite significant functional impairments. (FOI: 👏 Martin Bonner) #WelfareNotWarfare

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Absolutely over the moon to be longlisted for the Paul Foot awards for my investigation into military sexual abuse for @opendemocracy.net and a huge thank you to the survivors who told their stories. www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

NARRATOR: Nvidia's Taiwanese-American founder Jensen Huang refused to attend Trump's inauguration.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

On 16 March, DHSC announced “crack teams” of top clinicians working in 20 trusts had reduced the waiting list by 130% more than in trusts elsewhere. As a result, the scheme (called FF20 – Further Faster 20), is being rolled out across the country. The claim examined🧵 www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

After X’s repressive actions, hundreds of thousands in Turkey joined Bluesky, seeking a freer space. Reports of government censorship here are deeply troubling. Don’t squander this trust. This is a critical moment for principled leadership—not silent compromise. @jay.bsky.team

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Convincing Paris Saint-Germain supporters to take black rubbish bags back to Paris as souvenirs of winning the quarter-final.

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