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“Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more”
Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more
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Bellingcat has just launched a tool for searching through transcripts of local council meetings in the UK, which should help counter acts like these council-search.bellingcat.com
Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.
Reform council’s Nottingham Post ban a ‘massive attack on local democracy’
Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign of things to come should the party form the next government, the outlet’s editor has warned. In an unprecedented move, Nottinghamshire county council’s four-month-old Reform administration has said it will no longer deal with the Nottingham Post, its online edition and a team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that it manages. Continue reading...
✍️ llkley Literature Festival 2025 programme announced
The north’s longest-running literary festival announces a stellar 2025 line-up – and general tickets have just gone on sale
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social
The north’s longest-running literary festival announces a stellar 2025 line-up – and general tickets have just gone on sale
Cowardly, irresponsible and anti-democratic. What are they afraid of?
Ask not what your country has done for you but what have you done for your country, your community, your local natural habitat..? Sat on a vandalised roundabout waving flags.
Surely a first question journalists should be asking Reform on migration is: "Are you prepared to send innocent people back to torture and death?" Because that's what 'detain and deport' without proper assessment means.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
"It is not obvious what electoral benefit the government expects to gain from its current stance."
This, by @anandmenon.bsky.social, is so good
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
“Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.”
Robert Burns
