Dan Gregory

En direct, guerre à Gaza : le bateau humanitaire « Madleen » se rapproche de l’enclave palestinienne Un navire humanitaire avec à son bord 12 militants, dont Greta Thunberg et Rima Hassan, transportant des « jus de fruits, du lait, du riz, des conserves, des barrettes de protéine », a atteint les côtes égyptiennes, ont annoncé samedi les organisateurs.

En direct, guerre à Gaza : le bateau humanitaire « Madleen » se rapproche de l’enclave palestinienne

Where’s your boat, Nigel? Reform UK’s leader is “heavily invested in fishing” – so why hasn’t he registered it?

Nigel Farage says he owns a fishing boat and is "heavily invested" in the industry. But it's still not in the Register of Interests, 56 days after he said it.

Where’s the boat, Nigel?

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Equity Class Network Manifesto A manifesto on increasing working-class representation in the arts, formed by working class members.

Working class representation in the creative industries is at the lowest level in a decade.

The Equity Class Network Manifesto is a blueprint for change, setting out demands for industry & government - from free childcare to making class a protected characteristic

www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...

Quick question for British TV drama nerds: are there still any dramas shot using a 'traditional' in-studio three camera set up?

I assume that's how 'live' episodes of soaps are shot but I'm wondering because I'm wondering if there's been a Dogme kind of drama using older methods of TV production

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.

Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

Photo shows Paul W Fleming, a white man in his 30s with silver hair. He wears a suit and round wire glasses.

Equity is Industrial. Action. Ready.

Our newly re-elected General Secretary Paul W Fleming has been clear in his speech to #EquityConference2025 in Derry today that Equity will not back down from our demands.

Save River City campaign gets backing of Equity conference Members of Equity, the performing arts and entertainment trade union, have unanimously passed a motion at their annual conference in Derry, to campaign to save River City.

Members of Equity have unanimously backed the campaign to save River City.

BBC Scotland bosses must think again and save the much-loved soap.

#SaveRiverCity #EquityConference2025

Full story:
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/sa...

Wait until they find out that he’s of mixed race. Spanish, Italian, French and it’s believed he could also be of black descent.

A Scottish coastal landscape under soft brown tones. Overlaid text reads: “This is what the union costs.” Subheading below says: “A UK-US trade deal was signed. Scotland wasn’t even told.”

The UK and US just signed a trade deal.
Scotland wasn’t even told.

Not consulted. Not informed. Not considered.

Scottish whisky and salmon weren’t included.

And when the damage hits, they’ll tell us we’re “too poor” to be independent.

This is what the union costs.

#ImagineScotland

Park Service suspends air-quality monitoring at all national parks The Trump administration has paused but not canceled contracts for the monitoring program, which collects data on harmful air pollutants at 63 national parks.

The Trump administration has temporarily suspended an air-quality monitoring program at national parks across the country, according to an internal email obtained by The Post and two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

BBC News, "Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament in 2016"

Quelle surprise....

Chilling

Trump calls for 100 percent tariff on foreign-made films to save ‘dying’ Hollywood The announcement, which confounded film executives and foreign leaders, would escalate Trump’s trade war by including services. What happens next remains unclear.

President Donald Trump called for a 100 percent tariff on movies produced overseas in a Truth Social post Sunday night, confounding studio executives and critics about what this could mean for the heavily globalized film industry.

photo is image of Paul W Fleming below which reads 'Elected. Paul W Fleming Re-elected Equity General Secretary'.

Image reads 'it's an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won't let you down" - Paul W Fleming

Image reads 'Paul W Fleming won with 81% yes vote. Thank you to all members who voted.'

Paul W Fleming has been re-elected as General Secretary of Equity with 81% of the vote.

“It’s an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won’t let you down.”

Read more: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...

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In the Forest of Dean
I know just the spot

Opinion | It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President Trump’s authoritarian actions are vandalizing the American project.

America is facing a great national test — “of our Constitution, our institutions, our citizens — as President Trump ignores courts and sabotages universities and his officers grab people off the street,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

Unions back Equity’s call for greater co-ordination of activity to tackle the rise of the far right An Equity motion calling for improved co-ordination of anti-racist action across the trade union movement and with allied organisations was passed unanimously at the TUC Black Workers Conference, 11-1...

Read the full story 👇https://www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/unions-back-equity-s-call-for-greater-co-ordination-of-activity-to-tackle-the-rise-of-the-far-right

Bluebells in the garden

A large crowd of protesters gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photo by Tim Evans/AFP — Getty Images

Demonstrators gathered across the U.S. on Saturday for a day of protest against President Trump and his policies. Read more: nyti.ms/3Ebi0oi

Gave up on that after all the recipes for gannet

No you are making us worse off.

Well remember when we put a customs barrier on the causeway. Think it was on the 1st of April too.

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Major Reform U.K. Donor Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier (Gift Article) The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

Fascinating story by my colleague @bradleyjane.bsky.social, on how H.R. Smith Group, a donor to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, sold sensitive technology to a major supplier of Russia's blacklisted state weapons agency: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

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