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Photography & photoart, semi-retired circle & folk dance teacher & musician in York, UK, also posting political & environmental items. Photos at Pixels/Fine Art America, Redbubble; a smaller amount at Pictorem, Teepublic and Photo4Me.

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This feeling is called hope Three electoral lessons from a week of progressive victories.

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08.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the Cover-up: How Prince Andrew was exposed Behind the headlines lies a deeper story of privilege, protection and a public kept in the dark

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08.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January

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08.11.2025 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tourism to Xinjiang booms as China gives the region a makeover China has repackaged Xinjiang into a tourist haven, touting

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02.11.2025 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts Exclusive: Labour peer calls for change in the law after company terminates contracts of strike ‘ringleaders’

Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts www.theguardian.com/business/202...

01.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

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01.11.2025 11:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Take action for uncontacted peoples! Uncontacted Indigenous peoples’ forests are being invaded and ripped up to extract resources and make way for roads and ranches, by those who value profits over human rights and survival. Send an ema...

Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action!
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28.10.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Brothers in the forest' - the fight to protect an isolated Amazon tribe Peru's Mashco Piro face a struggle to survive in the 21st Century, but locals want to help them.

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26.10.2025 08:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

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22.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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21.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tories set a tax trap and Rachel Reeves walked straight into it. It may be her defining mistake | Chris Mullin By taking Jeremy Hunt’s NI cuts and ruling out other rises, Labour tried to out-Tory the Tories. And made a bad situation worse, says former Labour minister Chris Mullin

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21.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

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20.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’ Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’

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20.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave? Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

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11.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

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11.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shuts down internet For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.

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30.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

Free speech - only for right-wingers? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

22.09.2025 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’

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21.09.2025 10:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines

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20.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

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20.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities The decree also outlaws the teaching of 18 subjects, including human rights and sexual harassment.

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19.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence

How not to start a revolution......https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/18/baader-meinhof?CMP=share_btn_url

18.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jews and Israel are not the same. That lie is enabling atrocities | Norman Solomon The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

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16.09.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’ Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

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15.09.2025 11:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump news at a glance: Kirk critics lose jobs amid rancour after killing Numerous firings reported as authorities search out commentary deemed offensive on conservative free speech advocate’s killing – key stories from 13 September 2025 at a glance

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ...A bit ironic given all the "free speech" guff that has issued from the far right...

14.09.2025 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Israeli forces took over my home and then they set it on fire' Palestinian Nasser Faratawi found his West Bank home and business in ruins months after the IDF seized it.

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13.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They always blame immigrants so you won’t blame billionaires. 😉

09.06.2025 01:08 — 👍 130    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 2
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‘I wanted to go on my own terms’: former Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Farage, Trump 2.0 and his decision to stand down He was the young, gay, mixed-race leader labelled a ‘badass’ by Matt Damon who unexpectedly quit. He talks about the ‘likability’ of rightwing populists – and his fears for the future of politics

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13.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home A BBC investigation raises questions about how the Reform UK leader's partner paid for a home in his constituency.

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11.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boris Johnson secretly lobbied UAE for billion-dollar private venture, leak suggests Former prime minister courted senior Abu Dhabi official he had hosted in No 10 in apparent breach of rules

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09.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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