Kate Smart

And it coincides with the Home Office ending its funding for free specialist EUSS advice services like @settled.bsky.social

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‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,...

What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social

Justin Webb saying the quiet part out loud on #r4today :

JW: “Does it change the way the royal family are reported now?”

Ex-BBC Peter Hunt: “You would hope so. Because the key word is ‘reporting’. Reporters are meant to report.”

JW: “But we don’t, do we? I mean, we haven’t.”

Welsh 'Repair Shop' helps you get your items fixed for free The Repair Shop is the hit BBC show which follows a workshop where broken or damaged family heirlooms are brought back to life. A Welsh organisation launched in the year The Repair Shop first hit our ...

Love the Repair Shop on TV? Then you'll love Repair Cafe Wales

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Some notes on the coming fun with Gibraltar

tl;dr There's an agreement, that needs to be in place for 10 April, but no one knows exactly what it is yet

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Been to the restored 1938 Saltdean Lido today on a recce for the upcoming @seasidenetwork.bsky.social symposium to be held in partnership with our friends @hbap1924.bsky.social
Full details will be available soon but you can save the date now to join us on *FRIDAY 26 JUNE*

A very bedraggled-looking Little Owl is slumped in the hollow of a tree, eyes half-closed and feathers ruffled. Its expression is one of pure exhaustion, as if it has just rolled out of bed and immediately regretted it. Nestled in its cosy nook, it appears utterly unprepared for the day ahead, radiating the unmistakable energy of someone who desperately needs a strong coffee before dealing with anything remotely productive.

Mood: unprepared and under-caffeinated.

#MondayMotivation

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History Will Not Be Kind to How the UK Treated Meghan Sussex While Protecting Prince Andrew For years, Meghan was treated like she was the biggest problem the Royal Family had ever faced. Newspapers, TV panels, and social media picked apart everything about her, what she wore, how she spoke, who her family was, how she held her baby, and even how she stood next to her husband. The message was loud and constant: she was “disruptive,” she was “divisive,” she was “bringing down the monarchy.” It went on for so long that it started to feel normal to blame her for almost anything that went wrong within the UK.

History Will Not Be Kind to How the UK Treated Meghan Sussex While Protecting Prince Andrew

For years, Meghan was treated like she was the biggest problem the Royal Family had ever faced. Newspapers, TV panels, and social media picked apart everything about her, what she wore, how she spoke, who…

Charity ‘haemorrhaging money’ into security in light of anti-refugee sentiment

A charity that supports survivors of torture is “haemorrhaging money” into security measures, with some employees “scared to come to work”, its chief executive has said

Let’s celebrate #Welsh #Charities #Week - #Wythnos #Elusennau #Cymru!

Hats off to the amazing charities & people in Wales! Together we can all "shine a bit of light in the dark," playing our part, changing lives...🙏

#WelshCharitiesWeek #wythnoselusennaucymru #Playyourpartchangelives #TogetherWeCan

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.

The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.

A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.

A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

Aer Lingus passengers flying from Ireland to UK require passport under rule change Change to take effect from February 25th despite Common Travel Area measures

"From February 25th, all Irish nationals must have a passport to travel to the UK on Aer Lingus flights despite the long-standing Common Travel Area (CTA) arrangement, the airline said" www.irishtimes.com/life-style/t...

British values

William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:

Recent immigrant to South Wales complains about immigration in an area that has some of the lowest numbers of immigrants in the UK... 🤔

Chicken in some Welsh school dinners imported from China and Thailand Chicken from thousands of miles away is particularly prevalent in some Welsh counties.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are running 3 free training sessions for front line staff, managers, and decision makers in local authorities - ‘Children in care- citizenship and immigration training’ which you can sign up to here:

gmiau.org/settlement-a...

Also evidence that essentially eliminating irregular immigration - as Australia has - doesn't, by itself, stop the radical right.

My photo shows the left side profile of a head of a cave lion skilfully carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian culture). Carved details include muzzle, nose, eye, raised ears, and cross-hatching on the neck to indicate a mane. The ivory is a light creamy brown in colour with a surface sheen, and darker patches caused by time spent buried in the ground. It is displayed against a dark background. The head measures 2.95 cm in length x 2.11 cm in height. On display Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart.

Wonderful Ice Age art!

Some 40,000 years ago, this tiny head of a cave lion was skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory. It is one of the oldest known works of figurative art!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

Jeffrey Epstein sent Peter Mandelson $75,000, documents show Newly released files include three payments from disgraced financier’s JPMorgan account to former UK power broker

Lord Peter Mandelson was sent money directly from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as early as 2003, according to new files released by US government

The files record three payments in 2003/4 from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts of $25,000 each, all mentioning Mandelson

www.ft.com/content/1728...

Building Connection: how local community action promotes social cohesion — BCT In response to the Equality and Social Justice Committee’s inquiry into social cohesion , BCT’s Policy and Research Advisor, Eleri Williams, explores how local community action promotes social cohesi...

Good to catch up on this week's #Senedd debate on Social Cohesion, following ESJ Inquiry led by Committee Chair @jennyrathbone.bsky.social.

A focus on building social capital and social infrastructure is essential to strengthening cohesion in Wales. Read our blog for more: tinyurl.com/yf462jtr

Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland: Changing, complex, contradictory - Migration Policy Scotland The third wave of Migration Policy Scotland’s annual representative survey provides a detailed picture of how views are evolving. This attitudinal survey series provides policymakers and others with e...

Out today: MPS Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey 2025
migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications...

Blue water texture overlays white text reading 'Take Back Control of Water' Green Party tagline- Real Hope, Real Change appears at the top of the image.

The government's Water White Paper doesn't tackle the root cause of the water crisis- privatisation.

As bills soar, shareholders pocket outrageous payouts for crumbling infrastructure, outages and sewage pollution.

Greens want water back where it belongs- in public hands.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Listen. Watch. Share. Repeat.

So needed. No doubting its message will be heard (just listening in historic Runnymede, England).

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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