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The horror, the horror…
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On Saturday we took peaceful action at the Grand National, to save lives and bring about a kinder world. In response we were brutalised by police and private security, we've experienced broken bones, dog bites and pepperspray. Is this what democracy looks like?
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Mary Corrigan, mother of Keith McGrath, one of the 97 people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough, has passed away.
At the new inquests in 2014 she said her son was "the shining star of my life."
Loving Mum, stalwart fighter for justice.
RIP.
#JFT97
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We're almost coming to the end of our stock now. It's highly unlikely any of these issues will be reprinted. Collectors items! Please go and grab one or all of them! Lots of exclusive content for less than the price of a few pints 👍
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THREE ISSUE BUNDLES NOW AVAILABLE!
Hard copies of issues 2, 4 and 5 are still available and you can now get all three for just £7! Posted worldwide!
fearless.wales/products/fid-l
Ps - issue 1 reprint is getting closer!
Pps - issue 6 coming very soon!
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The interactive "Ancient Earth" globe allows you to view the continents at varies stages from today back to 750 million years ago. You can even look for your home address in the search field to see where you would've lived back then. Source: buff.ly/2x8tfvk
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10 years ago I met a disabled little boy in a respite children’s home in Leicester. Only it wasn’t a respite for him, it was his home and he’d lived there for 3 years. His foster mum who he’d lived from birth died suddenly when he was 3 and he never ate or drank again. 🧵
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The Wild Guide North East bookshop talks kick off next week ~ April 26th May 2nd May 4th launch event May 11th…all welcome to come & say hello 👋
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There’s a whiff of grift to writers’ agents selling courses for £hundreds that teach writers how to pitch to them.
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It's the biggest libel settlement in history. The only case which has been more costly is phone-hacking, which has cost News Corp £1bn+ all told
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Fox agrees $787.5m last-minute settlement in Dominion libel case pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newsp
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How are those sunlit uplands looking?
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Inflation in the UK the highest in the G7- by some margin (latest figs for each)
UK 
10.1%
France 
6.6%
Germany 
7.8%
US 
5.3%
Italy 
8.1%
Canada 
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Japan 
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France 6.6%
Germany 7.8%
US 5.3%
Italy 8.1%
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Inflation is at 10.1% in March. A drop of 0.3 percentage points from last month, but still at a crippling level for people
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If you thought U.K. libel bills were eyewatering…
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BREAKING: Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says $787.5 million settlement. “The truth matters, lies have consequences,” he says.
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Ooh finally, an opportunity to promote *my* book:
It contains a section about the "new world order", a long-standing right-wing conspiracy theory concerning a mysterious elite who want to replace democracy with transnational governance.
amazon.co.uk/Conspiracy-His
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"The New Elite have long pushed for a new world order in which democracy is replaced by 'transnational governance' – a new system, led by highly educated technocrats who see domestic politics, the masses, national democracy as an unnecessary hindrance"
mattgoodwin.substack.com/p/how-britain-
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I'd really like to fill my books with more work for the next month. If you need:
Fun and funny copy
Conversational copy
Easy to understand copy
Scripts
A new TOV
Then I want to talk to you! Don't be shy, I don't bite.
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18 April 1975. John Lennon’s last BBC TV interview, was broadcast on the BBC2 rock show, The Old Grey Whistle Test, with “Whispering” Bob Harris. It had been recorded in New York City on the day before.
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IF we beat Yeovil, they'll be relegated. I hope that we'll be classy enough to avoid the "going down" chants etc. Make it all about us. But applaud those visiting fans. I was at Lincoln in our last League 2 game. They applauded us and wished us well. #WxmAFC
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And the Bank of England will look at this and say to themselves “too much money washing around if prices are that high, interest rates will just have to rise…again.”
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Food inflation soars to 17.2%, with BoE policymaker pinning blame on one thing
thelondoneconomic.com/politics/food-
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While the johnny-come-lately term ‘Brecknock Beacons’ was coined in the 18th century.
Bannau Brycheiniog it is then, if only to set blood pressure rising at GB News.
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The excellent Jack Thurston, with a great thread on Bannau Brycheiniog, making the point that it is not some woke neologism, but dates back to the 1530s…
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Bannau Brycheiniog - the new (in fact, very old) official name for the Brecon Beacons National Park offers a chance for non-Welsh speakers to master four super-useful rules on Welsh language pronunciation. /
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Bannau Brycheiniog - the new (in fact, very old) official name for the Brecon Beacons National Park offers a chance for non-Welsh speakers to master four super-useful rules on Welsh language pronunciation. /🧵
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Unsurprisingly turned off replies to their tweets after their CEO Andi Owens introduced us to ‘Pity City’…
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zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
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Andi Owen received $1.29 million in bonuses in 2022 and $1.12 million in 2021. Furthermore, the fiscal year for her company isn’t over yet and bonuses have not been determined or handed out yet, including hers.
vice.com/en/article/g5y…
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It's one of the UK's most distinctive landforms. And ten years on from a damaging tidal surge, the ecology of the Spurn Peninsula is bouncing back. Full story shortly and later on . Drone: Stills:
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How do you set a bear trap for someone who thinks they’re very clever? The golden rule is “Only ask questions you already know the answers to”. Here’s Sunak getting “bear-trapped” times a squillion! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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I’m a barrister seeking a legal assistant, to start August 2023. The position is part-time, paid, and would give those looking for pupillage experience in the Manchester criminal courts.
More application info from me at lisa.boocock@cps.gov.uk
Closing date 15 May.
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🎤 Would you like to build a straw man? 🎶
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Ben Shapiro: "The great suspicion is that in Frozen 4, they'll make Elsa a lesbian ... If they do that, it is the end of Disney as a company. Predict it. You can write it down. It is April 17th. If they do that in Frozen 4, it will destroy Disney."
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If you happen to be in London on May 2nd, it would be lovely to see you...
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Tuesday 2nd May 18:30 
Join us for an adventurous evening with travel writer and photographer @sarahbanks21 with the stunning new Wild Guide – North East England 
Tickets are now on sale, get yours by clicking on this link
stanfords.co.uk/event-wild-gui
Join us for an adventurous evening with travel writer and photographer @sarahbanks21 with the stunning new Wild Guide – North East England
Tickets are now on sale, get yours by clicking on this link
stanfords.co.uk/event-wild-gui
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Brecon Beacons national park renamed Bannau Brycheiniog in Welsh language move - The Guardian should have watched the video it links to in this story - where Michael Sheen obv correctly pronounces Brycheiniog, and it’s not ‘Bruck-ein-iog’
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when my uncle died unexpectedly my mother had to tell his ‘common-law wife’ - quite literally over his dead body - that the ‘Chinese spam caller’ he was arguing with on the phone every day was actually his legal wife that he’d met through a Chinese mail-order bride service
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It’s actually a commendable effort to simultaneously misunderstand the role of the CPS, the job of the DPP, the function of a jury, the impact of guilty pleas, the difference in status between allegation, charge and conviction and to deliver that ignorance in just 16 words.
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Sir Keir Starmer convicted just 55% of sex offenders in final year as nation’s top prosecutor... thesun.co.uk/news/22054752/
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As Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Keir Starmer led the Crown Prosecution Service which decides which cases should be prosecuted and prepares cases and presents them at court. It is for judges to sentence offenders and determine convictions, not the DPP.
cps.gov.uk/about-cps
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Look, Robbie, no- one knows what sleekit means, let’s start again…There was a young man from Pitlochry…
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10 Walks and Hikes from the Wild Guide to North East England by Sarah Banks | Living North ~ lovely show in this month’s
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When you become American president they show you the Roswell files, when you become Scottish first minister.....
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Humza Yousaf says he only discovered SNP bought a luxury motorhome after he became party leader
bbc.in/3o8g3ke
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