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Glazing van, or a new novel 🤔
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Putting the "assault rifle" in "vehicular assault" 🇺🇸🦅
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Ayn Rand was the Jordan Peterson of her era; an intellectually mediocre figure who built fame and fortune by making rapacious white men feel just. It’s not a new or interesting approach to audience building. twitter.com/nateffo/status…
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Attention, culture journos, music reviewers, theatre sleuths and book critics
Attention, writers, poets, producers, filmmakers, artists of all ilks and their agents:
We at The Lead are amping up our culture coverage - and we need you.
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you write about your favourite band, your unknown brilliant artist, the book that's been overlooked or the thing everyone missed about that movie, and we pay you. simple.
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CALL FOR CULTURE PITCHES
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Defending democracy means letting George Galloway and his Kremln cranks have their meeting - me for
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Folks- what is the best site for Greek (Cretan) villas I haven't heard of? I.e. not bookings com and not airbnb?
Charging the sick for being sick.
Mark my words: this will be end of the NHS if the Tories have their way.
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PM Netanyahu:
"From the beginning of the month, security forces have evacuated 38 illegal Palestinian buildings in Judea and Samaria
Palestinians will no longer be allowed to run amok with illegal construction, in an attempt to establish facts on the ground"
#israelfascism
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I was laid off last Friday with the entire visuals team while on vacation. Watching the sea was incredibly comforting. Possibilities abound, I know my passion for visual, data things will sail me far. Pls reach out if you see a chance for us to do this together.
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‘I went back to work 5 days after giving birth. I was bleeding at my desk. Cost of living crisis will force more mums to return to work early’
Amy Howarth says poor maternity pay is forcing women back to work
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Interesting little story on the growing volume of rare earths from China - including those needed for weapons systems, used in Ukraine - coming to Europe on train tracks through Russia...
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Ian Black was a real one: a MENA reporter as solid as they come, who took cub journos from the region seriously long before anyone else did. That alone made an impact on many in my generation of writers from Israel-Palestine, alongside so much of his work. He'll be missed. RIP.
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שתפו, שכולם יראו את הצביעות:
אתמול בהפגנה הייתי התימני היחיד!
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currently owed nearly two grand in late payments for articles I wrote between march and May last year (:
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Just learned that the dude is not just any dude, but fantastic actor, spoken word artist and poet . If you speak Hebrew, you can watch one of his pieces here:
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Is it possible to be an ‘unconscious racist’? It’s a tricky term to digest. But if you cut through the linguistic gymnastics, the end result is simple: undermining the experiences of the players who reported John Yems, writes
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It is the scene in the rear-view mirror that is truly horrifying. The British economy is in a generation-long slough of despond, a slow-burning economic catastrophe.
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Humbled by the invitation from The Lead to publish my take on the democratic challenge of Brazil and on Lula’s military dilema.
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For context, atop of being utterly unhinged, this is from a lifelong opponent of gay marriage. Lest you thought transphobia and homophobia were somehow separate issues.
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"We should split our rent with the rats."
Students at Manchester Uni are on rent strike, citing poor living conditions and extortionate prices.
@Lewis_Goodall paid them a visit to see for himself.
Listen on @GlobalPlayer
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(photo: Shaul Golan)
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Israel: Bans the Palestinian flag.
This dude: makes a flag that says "Palestinian Flag".
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Don't know how to say this so will just write it down as it comes. Apologies if raw.
ChatGPT is not AI. It's me. I'm typing all this stuff for everyone. It's exhausting and that Nick Cave song I wrote was really good.
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While we're on the subject of strikes, the anti-strikes bill is far worse than we thought. The "Minimum Services" bill is so vague it would allow any passing minister to force as many people into work as they please. /
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this guy is having a normal one on this cute pic of me and my friends
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Frankly, I prefer ex-combatants like Prince Harry to be upfront about having killed, over ex-soldiers hiding what they did behind "professional discretion" or "national security." We need more accountability, not less.
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Sad news is that I'm moving on from JCWI at the end of Jan
Good news is I'm taking an exciting little break - expect spam
Even better news is there is now a vacancy to work with the phenomenal and all our superstar colleagues across the organisation🧡
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We're hiring a Digital Content and Fundraising Manager!
We've grown our audiences x4 in recent years and we want to build on that growth, reaching more people who want to fight against this Government's cruel, anti-migrant rules!
Deadline: 13 February
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Katy works for me. She is single & earns less than 30k, rents a room for £775pcm in Central London, has student debt, £120 a month on travelling to work saves money every month, goes on foreign holidays & does not need to use a foodbank.
Katy makes my point really well.
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This is a tremendous and important book. Everyone should read My Fourth Time, We Drowned. It will teach you a lot about some of the gross power imbalances in the world.
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‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ makes the Easons bestsellers chart for the first time (that I know of). This is amazing to see. It’s been a huge challenge getting people to engage with the realities in this book. Thanks to everyone who has read/shared/told others about it.
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Anti-trans activists must know they're spouting the same arguments long deployed against gay people - would-be sexual predators, threats to children, defiers of the laws of biology, etc etc
They just think: "This time it's justified!"
History will be the judge of that.
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A domestic has found the little room with a fold out chair that we sleep in on breaks on nights and has started making it up with fresh sheets every day, and honestly it’s done more to make me feel like a valued employee than anything else this week. I even got a towel tonight!!
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My child is banned from the school playground/canteen for her hair, its neatly braided in a natural colour, I gave them a lesson on the history of black womens hairs cultural significance of braiding, they chose violence, has a racist hair policy!!!
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Considering a hard pivot to Canadian politics
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Many congratulations to , a hero of modern journalism, on her acquittal after a heinous and politically motivated prosecution
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Until 1998, a point of order during a vote in the House of Commons could only be made while wearing a hat.
A collapsible opera top hat was kept with the doormen solely for this purpose, as seen worn by Tony Marlow in this clip from 1994.
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Now is as good at time as any to say I'm working in London for a while, commissioning and editing some non-US stories. Would love to hear pitches from anywhere, but particularly Asia, Africa and the Middle East. peter.guest@wired.com.
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