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I was just having this conversation about how life is in Ukraine

I am seeing people in Dubai tweeting about how normal things are today, shops being open etc – which is great and I am glad you are safe (I have family there too). It isn't that unexpected tho? Cities in Ukraine operate fairly normally despite hundreds more strikes a day.

I didn’t know Paul Conroy personally but so sad to hear of his death, at too young an age. His bravery and determination to show the reality of war, and to platform the voices of its victims, was vital in getting the truth out. Rest in power.

I am devastated to learn that my dear friend, my brother in arms, Paul Conroy has gone on to the next life.

He was one of the bravest men I have ever known. I can barely believe it, we only spoke yesterday.

His loss will be felt profoundly by us all.

Rest in peace @reflextv.bsky.social

I’m appalled by this from the Mail. Ugly, straightforward racism, and amplifying the spurious claim of its favoured candidate (even the Reform party chair said last week that any irregularities wouldn’t have changed the result).

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

The Ukrainian children waiting for parents who may never return From suburban Kyiv to the battlefields of the Donbas, Maxim Tucker encounters a generation unsure whether they will ever see their families reunited

Moving testimony from Ukraine’s kids

The Ukrainian children waiting for parents who may never return

www.thetimes.com/article/5a79...

Biden on Trump's SOTU speech: The guy talked for almost 2 hours, but never mentioned the anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Not once. I’ve spent a lot of time in Ukraine. The incredible bravery of those people. Imagine how they feel, wondering,

This is one of my fave social experiments apart from how many times I get shoved

🇮🇷❗️ Iranian media claimed that a girls’ elementary school in Iran’s Hormozgan province was struck by U.S.–Israeli airstrikes.

At least 36 students are reported killed, with children and teachers still believed to be under the rubble as rescue operations continue.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

The Ukrainian grandads who fix up rockets to fire at Putin’s men Since the invasion the tight-knit volunteers of the Steppe Wolves have fought so younger generations won’t know the brutal rule of Moscow they grew up with

Extraordinary interview in the Times with a Ukrainian dedushka born in a Soviet gulag, his parents deemed “enemies of the people”, now aged nearly 70 he repairs rockets and missiles on the frontlines

The Ukrainian grandads who fix up rockets to fire at Putin’s men

www.thetimes.com/article/2ac9...

Even now you will find very senior people in Labour who just do not take the threat from the left seriously at all, and who simply refuse to believe who their own voters actually are. Now that the Greens actually realise who their voters can be, they have a big opening.

Oh wow, huge news! What are your plans now?

Sudan: People with Disabilities Targeted in North Darfur The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of Sudan’s two main warring parties, targeted, abused, and killed people with disabilities during and after their October 26, 2025, takeover of El Fasher, North Dar...

We hear little about it in the news but disabled people are being horrifically targeted in the Sudan war.

Human Rights Watch report RSF have killed civilians including a blind child, a man with Down syndrome called “insane”, and a 14 year old wheelchair user. A horror.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

A great reminder of the power of local journalism.

Credit to @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social and our sister publication @theleaduk.bsky.social Lancashire who drew attention to this story first!

national.thelead.uk/p/prime-mini...

They don’t mean men

End the occupation. Russian troops out of Ukraine

Slava Ukraini

‘A patriotic act’: the Ukrainians having babies and raising children in wartime Birthrates have fallen since Russia’s invasion but some have held on to hope and are bringing up children despite risks

You have to have hope - this is a lovely article in dark times

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Statement by UK trade unions in solidarity with Ukraine, on the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion Statement issued by UK trade unions, in association with USC, on 23 February 2026, for the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. All the signatories ar…

On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, the Trades Union Congress and nine unions representing a majority of organised workers in the UK have issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine and its workers. Please read + share! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/02/23/u...

Well it was the unseen exam text for World War One literature

Graduated in the long hot summer of 2006 and it was lush

My a level English teacher also stuck on Blackadder Goes Forth when she was having a “bad quitting smoking day” but it turned up as the blind text in the exam so that actually worked out.

Every end of year or sometimes end of term we would watch the first 45 min of 10 Things I Hate About You but our teachers never thought to pick it up where we left off, so it was years before I saw the rest of the film

From the people who brought you “Hey - what if Karadzic is the good guy?”

Oh you think Ukraine is a proxy war because something something Putin, AND you think rape victims are hysterical? How surprising.