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    27 Jan 2019

    An interview I did with my grandma about coming face to face with Hitler before escaping Nazi Germany for

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    11 hours ago

    In a new escalation against Egyptian human rights movement a judge added Mohamed al-Baqer and Alaa Abdelfatah to the "terrorists list" for five years, without charging them with a criminal offence, nor giving them an opportunity to challenge the evidence

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    8 hours ago

    Urban archaeology - framing a city through its construction sites. thanks

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Loujains sister Lina tells me: “From the beginning it has been a sham trial and a show trial so it wont magically become a fair trial. I'm extremely nervous about tomorrow. But I'm also hopeful they release her. I really miss my sister. Not a second goes by that I dont miss her”

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Jailed Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul to stand trial tomorrow

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    12 hours ago

    The nice people have put together this vibrant list of documentaries to view online 👇

    British Culture Archive's top 10 documentaries to watch before lockdown's over:
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    12 hours ago

    authorities should not deport Uyghur men back to possible arbitrary detention and torture in . crown prince ’s apparent endorsement of China’s persecution of the Muslim Uyghur community is bad enough

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    Nov 23

    Centre Point, New Oxford Street 1961-66 Richard Seifert & Partners

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Couple lockdown legends I walked past who were singing No Scrubs by TLC

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  10. 13 hours ago

    Looking to interview women who have changed careers during the pandemic for an article for The Independent as studies show many women are moving into totally different areas of work in the wake of Covid chaos. Please DM me if you want to speak. Thanks !

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  11. 13 hours ago

    Woman who started claiming UC in pandemic tells me: "Your friends want to go for dinner but you have to sit back and think I can’t afford it. It is isolating. There is a lot of guilt about spending money on anything. The reality is, I’m in a situation which I can’t get out of”.

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  12. 13 hours ago

    ‘The joyful side of life has disappeared’: 7 in 10 young women claiming benefits ‘applied for first time in pandemic’

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    15 hours ago

    We were just announced that has a trial tomorrow.

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    Nov 23

    The brutal killing of an Indigenous family from the Mastanahua tribe in the Peruvian Amazon has local tribes on edge and authorities searching for answers

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  15. Nov 23

    What a grim indictment of surging homelessness that there is now a tent which someone lives in slap bang outside my house. London is starting to look like the “tent cities” in the US.

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  16. Nov 23

    A 14-yr-old girl from Cornwall says: “I was walking by a road and a group of men shouted and made inappropriate sexual gestures to me. I was wearing my school uniform and was visibly underage. A few minutes later another man drove past and shouted something out of the window."

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  17. Nov 23

    Tune in tomorrow to listen to the amazing David Challen discuss the very pressing issue of responsible reporting on domestic violence

    Please join me + a great panel hosted by at 14:00 GMT tomorrow for an important conversation: ‘Responsible Reporting on Domestic Violence’ Panel: Details on how to join here👇🏻
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    Nov 21

    This is the most worrying development in family law that I have seen in my 20 plus years of practice

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    Nov 23

    "Getting a free train ticket was what guaranteed my safety." – Ava, survivor 4 women a day use the scheme to travel to a refuge. We’re excited this life-saving service will be extended to March 2021

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  20. Nov 23

    Almost three-quarters of women scared of exercising outside in dark amid lockdown: 'Fear of harassment likely playing a big part in this'

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  21. Nov 23

    Upsetting but wholly unsurprising to see this specialist lawyer seems to think nothing has changed since I wrote this story about family courts and parental alienation almost a year ago

    This is the most worrying development in family law that I have seen in my 20 plus years of practice
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