A 13-year-old Ukrainian used LEGO to introduce English-speaking audiences to poet and human rights hero Vasyl Stus.

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To be the Police or not – the important question How a Thurrock Council department was issued a police.uk domain and had ID cards marked ‘Warrant Card’, despite not being a police body

A council department in Thurrock called NATIS obtained a .police.uk domain, issued ‘warrant cards’, and operated nationally – without ever being part of UK policing. JJ Jackson’s investigation reveals how.

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Kemi Badenoch Refuses to Reject Donald Trump's 'Ethnic Cleansing' Plan for Gaza A spokesman for the Conservative leader would not reiterate the party's previous support for a two state solution for Israel and Palestine

🔴Kemi Badenoch Refuses to Reject Donald Trump’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Plan for Gaza

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Autistic perspectives sought for new study on comics and inclusion Autistic people in the UK are being invited to participate in a University of Cambridge-led project exploring the uniquely powerful connection between autism and comics

Autistic people in the UK are being invited to participate in a University of Cambridge-led project exploring the uniquely powerful connection between autism and comics | Tom Kirk

What a cliffhanger. Can’t wait for Nosferathree.

I was in Santa Monica 10 years ago and read this disturbing report in the Newspaper

Bust sculture created in clay featuring the head and shoulders, facing center right, of a female figure with short curled hair, eyes closed, a white paint effect covers the face and drips down over a blue shirt, the sculpture is on a white surface with a plain gray-white background

Fiona Gibson, contemporary sculptor based in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her work is based on local mythology

It feels like there's a steady stream of English retirees coming from Lancashire, etc.
It also doesn't help that the transport connections between North and South Wales are so bad.