If you want to understand how the war in Ukraine started, then it's worth checking out the video series that myself and many colleagues worked on that documented the early and most violent phase of the conflict for
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Formerly: Conflict, social unrest.
Currently: Climate, environment.
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Will labour give our rights to protest back to us? This is a massive question for Starmer.
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The Met arrested members of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team. They are volunteers. They were pulled last night at 2am and have been held for 14 hours. One of them came out of the station in tears. Police didn’t apologise.
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broke: polyvinyl buying the american football house
woke: constellation records buying the mysterious structure from the gy!be cover
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Met’s supposed rationalisation of clear overreach on the grounds it’s “once in a generation”, which doesn’t really hold up to any scrutiny at all
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We understand public concern following arrests made this morning.
We police proportionately and in the context of the event.
This is a once in a generation moment and that has been a key consideration.
You can read more here 
news.met.police.uk/news/the-kings
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looks like Tom Delonge in the First Date video twitter.com/edwardderuiter…
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loud noises scaring horses, you say?
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Man arrested in St James’s Park for bringing megaphone. “It could scare the horses” police officer tells me.
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You can't claim to support or care about democracy if you don't find anything wrong with this image
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Man arrested in St James’s Park for bringing megaphone. “It could scare the horses” police officer tells me.
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The problem with Charles is a lot of the right wing headbangers spent years calling him a beyond the pale leftie, and now the same deranged right wing freaks are all desperate for everyone to show him the correct deference just because. Just doesn't feel like they even mean it
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Republican protesters near Trafalgar Square being told by a Met Police officer that they may be arrested for public nuisance for chanting “Not My King”
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Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.
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Disrespect and disagreement are not disorder.
Its a very bad mistake indeed to arrest the organisers of a protest and provide a major focal point of controversy, rather than allowing a protest to proceed. I hope is quickly allowed to resume his pro-Republic protest
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Arrested, seemingly, for possessing a megaphone at a royal event.
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If I had any doubt about actively not participating in Coronation celebrations then people being arrested, before they’ve even protested, has made up my mind. Peaceful protest is a democratic right. These are the actions of a police state
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Couldn't think of a better republican recruitment tool than these images
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Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.
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Conservatives hit 1,000 losses
LAB: 2,552 (+505)
CON: 2,172 (-1,005)
LDM: 1,548 (+402)
GRN: 450 (+230)
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The constant stream of videos showing Ukrainian drone-dropped munitions just doesn’t stop. Hundreds upon hundreds of attacks. The diffusion of this weapon is fascinating, originating with Hezbollah/Jund al-Aqsa in Syria (Aug/Sep, 2016 respectively)
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The tank of the Russian occupation troops burns beautifully! 
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Emo Christmas has come early this year
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That's two Tory MPs who thought it would be a good idea to do a live TV interview whilst council results were being announced in the background lol
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Lib Deb update from Stratford upon Avon - just beaten the Conservative Leader of council
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Tory MP messages me “we’re in deep s**t”
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One of the more interesting millionaire origin stories I guess #ForzaNapoli
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Labour & Tories criticise young people, ignore their concerns & burden them with future debt, climate crisis & decline & will seem surprised young people aren’t impassioned by these parties or engaged in politics. Everything is about older home owners. British politics is broken
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Noncing is okay but saying you have a problem with your family is the worst thing you can do...
Fucking hell
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Nostradamus over here
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Huge blow to Starmer as Brits say Sunak is the best leader & reject woke Labour thesun.co.uk/news/22217770/
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Tories frankly lucky that the country is about to enter the Coronation black hole over the weekend
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Breaking:
John Curtice says local election results are ‘unambiguously bad’ for Tories and they could lose 1,000 seats
‘The clear message of the night is indeed that the Conservatives have done badly’
Their vote share is down on May 2019 so far
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Support this #BandcampFriday
And not just cause we're in this one but because this is a really brilliant creative endeavour supporting other brilliant creative endeavours!
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Still some copies of issue 9 featuring @regalcheer @cylsrecords @BigHugBand and others
surfacenoisezine.bandcamp.com/merch/surface-
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12,058 days later, Napoli are champions of Italy again 
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The unhoused should have access to housing and mental health care, and maybe they shouldn’t get killed.
MAGAs: That sounds evil.
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Elon Musk is liking tweets implying Jordan Neely deserved to die.
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Quite a video of a Russian drone shot down above Maidan, a few hundred yards from the Ukrainian presidential palace. Looks like a Forpost, a Russian licensed version of the Israeli IAI Searcher drone.
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Fuck around, find out etc
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Can you think of a more perfect metaphor for the war than doing something incredibly stupid then being surprised when someone clocks you in the face? twitter.com/NOELreports/st…
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BREAKING: A jury finds multiple Proud Boys — including their chairman, Enrique Tarrio — GUILTY of seditious conspiracy over their outsize role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
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Hi Met Police, just checking whether peacefully holding a sign saying “Not My King” out of the processional route but within the crowd counts as “undermining this celebration”. If you will arrest for doing so, can you clarify what offence would be committed?
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Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.
We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.
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You can have some shaping operations as a little treat
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Fire detected at oil refinery in Ilsky, these will make strikes 3 and 4 against oil infrastructure in Russia in less than a week. twitter.com/COUPSURE/statu…
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It is #pollingday.
🚨Don't forget your id.
🚨If you don't have id you can still potentially register for an emergency proxy by 5pm today.
🚨Media, stop conflating local and national. People tend to vote more about potholes than parliamentary policies.
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Interesting thread from Afghans making the most of humanitarian visas issued by Brazil’s embassy in Tehran to head for the U.S.
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Darien Gap Thread: I was in Necocli, Colombia last weekend and came across this group of 3 families from Afghanistan. They were tying to cross the Darien Gap on their way to the U.S: So, how does a group of Afghanis end up in a small town between South and Central America?
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I'm as intrigued as everybody else about this explosion above the Kremlin, but noobody was hurt and if it is supposed to be pretext for escalation note that at least 21 people were killed by the Russian shelling of Kherson today.
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