Gill Oliver
@justajourno.bsky.social
#News #reporter #Stratford Herald covering South #Warwicks. Ex #Oxford Mail. Features writer specialising in #housing & #business with side order of #tech #journalist, #editor, #NUJ member #copywriter, #storyteller #Welsh & #ginger
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I'm absolutely bloody sick of self-appointed "patriots" claiming to adore Britain while trying to destroy our national institutions – including, this week, our world-revered public broadcaster.
📝 New rant 👇
📝 New rant 👇
The ‘patriots’ who loathe Britain
They claim to love our country, but want to destroy all its institutions...
writesbright.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I'm absolutely bloody sick of self-appointed "patriots" claiming to adore Britain while trying to destroy our national institutions – including, this week, our world-revered public broadcaster.
📝 New rant 👇
📝 New rant 👇
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The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
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Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
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On Monday, demolition crews began tearing down part of the White House for the $250 million addition.
President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
On Monday, demolition crews began tearing down part of the White House for the $250 million addition.
President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
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Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
The U.S. military demonstration that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel on a California Highway Patrol vehicle, resulting in damage, agency officials said Sunday.
www.latimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
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‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
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This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
September 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
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NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
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Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Traditional skills breathing new life into our much-loved windmills
In the first of an occasional series on how traditional crafts are still essential for the maintenance of our heritage, Mark Kendall talks to a millwright
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Love this article from @manchestermill.bsky.social. Local journalism has been decimated in recent years, but this shows the beauty of it when done well. Knowing the area, knowing the leaders, digging around in the streets manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
manchestermill.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Love this article from @manchestermill.bsky.social. Local journalism has been decimated in recent years, but this shows the beauty of it when done well. Knowing the area, knowing the leaders, digging around in the streets manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain
This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain
This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
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Oxford journalists have joined a nationwide protest against the killing of 219 journalists in Gaza. Anna Wagstaff, local secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Our colleagues are the only reporters able to broadcast to the world the devastation, death and famine Gazans are facing.”
August 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Oxford journalists have joined a nationwide protest against the killing of 219 journalists in Gaza. Anna Wagstaff, local secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Our colleagues are the only reporters able to broadcast to the world the devastation, death and famine Gazans are facing.”
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
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#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social
Belgium: Solidarity action with Gazan journalists unites 400 in urgent call for EU action / IFJ
“Our journalists are paying the price. They are killed every day. We want this occupation to end. We want the genocide and the killing of journalists to stop. The EU is complicit in their killing.”
www.ifj.org
August 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social
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The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action
The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...
www.nuj.org.uk
August 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
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✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom
Read in full here:
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom
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Open letter on protecting journalists and defending truth in Gaza
The NUJ, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) are among signatories of open letter urging action to protect journalists and truth in Gaza.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom
Read in full here:
Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom
Read in full here:
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STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...
Stop killing journalists in Gaza!
1.00pm, Wednesday August 27th, Bonn Square OxfordSupport the Oxford NUJ vigil More than 215 journalists in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli military since the conflict began. On Wednesday 27 Au…
oxfordnuj.wordpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
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NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
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Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making you safer.
It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it.
The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.
It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it.
The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.
The Great British fear factory: manufacturing a lawless London
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making you safer.
It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it.
The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.
It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it.
The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.
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Trump: We're going to be adding a magnificent ballroom—most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere. We need it.
Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.
Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Trump: We're going to be adding a magnificent ballroom—most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere. We need it.
Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.
Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.
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I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
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Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...