Will Coldwell

He had the kind of body that would shame Adonis... 🎶

Prison system in England came within days of collapse, report says Former chief inspector Dame Anne Owers finds 18 years of short-term fixes failed to tackle deep-seated problems

18 years of short term fixes failed to tackle deep-seated problems across the system
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Perception Vs reality of crime consistently makes my brain melt 🫠

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

“It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world.”

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Staring into the abyss, France calls for the recognition of Palestine and Britain says it’s really really bad to spray-paint planes.

The Price of Occupation In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist.

Stunning, haunting photos from the West Bank. Brings to mind the work of Leticia Battaglia

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Epping asylum hotel protesters ‘upset for legitimate reasons’, minister says Jonathan Reynolds says ‘I understand the frustrations people have’, as police brace for further unrest

Good to know that Labour is sympathetic to vigilante hate mobs

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”

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Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?

PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!

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9. work should only be your no1 life priority if you're like, president or king, or maybe some high level CEO - everyone else should be able to have a life where work occupies as much space as family, friends, hobbies, etc, enough with this work obsession

Thanks for sharing 🙏

V interesting report, worth reading. Council Tax reform is definitely long overdue

Excellent investigative reporting and big questions to be asked of one of London's biggest landlords 👏

Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to tur...

The imagined color of life under communism, gray has revealed itself to be the actual hue of globalized capital. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the...

The Dial is a super mag, which I've had the pleasure of contributing to a couple of times.

For its summer reading list I recommended one book I can't stop thinking about – Dirty Work by @epress.bsky.social

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Keir Starmer once stood up for protesters. Now he calls them terrorists As a human rights lawyer, Starmer defended direct action on grounds of conscience. But the world is now a much less forgiving place

After Keir Starmer proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, even some of his own backbenchers are concluding the former human rights lawyer believes in nothing, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
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How many war crimes will it take for the Labour party to show some moral backbone on Gaza? It's shameful

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

It is absolutely sickening that stories like have become almost completely inconsequential in political terms

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Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty

"Last week I was not a terrorist. This week I am"

Ronan Bennet on the absurd, dystopian attacks on civil liberties

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Shame I need to run across the track and add the missing apostrophe.

Why Pilots Don’t Get Therapy A detailed system meant to keep pilots from flying when they need mental-health care may be leading them to avoid the help they need.

Anyone else watching the Rehearsal?

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Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids - bellingcat Bellingcat collected videos and images from recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, analysing trends and apparent tactics used by law enforcement.

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences

Fascinating

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Seriously depressing talk from Yvette Cooper on #r4today this morn. We showed how dangerous these practices are last year www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Hard to believe this is the same Yvette Cooper who used to do a great job at grilling Tory ministers about these sort of stupid ideas

The BBC has confirmed it won’t air its documentary on Gaza’s medics. I know some of the journalists involved and they’re absolutely excellent. This statement is mealy-mouthed; you can’t “both sides” the facts on the ground of a genocide, and there’s a clear public interest in documenting those facts

Inside America’s Death Chambers What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption

Incredibly grisly, beautifully written

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Thanks for sharing, John

‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West End Dubbed ‘Britain’s meanest landlord’, Asif Aziz is fighting it out with a tiny cinema that counts Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal and other Hollywood heroes as fans. How did the capital’s cultural landm...

Excellent piece on the fate of the Prince Charles cinema and central YMCA (two places I happen to love) by @willcoldwell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West End Dubbed ‘Britain’s meanest landlord’, Asif Aziz is fighting it out with a tiny cinema that counts Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal and other Hollywood heroes as fans. How did the capital’s cultural landm...

London has always been under the thumb of powerful landlords, and they prefer to operate under the radar.

For @theguardian.com I wrote about one of them, an elusive figure named Asif Aziz, better known as "Mr West End"

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How the Dad Shift is trying to modernise parenthood The UK’s paternity leave offer is the worst in Europe. Alex Lloyd Hunter wants to change that

Fathers are being urged to take part in a ‘Dad Strike’ today to protest the UK’s paternity leave system. Last year, one of the organisers Alex Lloyd Hunter spoke to @willcoldwell.bsky.social‬.
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