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Reading FC, #SellBeforeWeDai. Nature and animal lover WWF. Not a fan of nationalists. No DMs, please, unless it's regards to football
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Surprised to see so many headlines from news outlets suggesting Putin has agreed to a ceasefire.

He’s done no such thing. He’s basically said he would do in theory, providing his conditions are met, on his terms. Which is just a variation on what he’s always said.
March 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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And of course the wide-ranging 468 page Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse which took 7 years to complete, published in 2022 & led by Prof Alexis Jay 👇

www.iicsa.org.uk
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), led by Prof. Alexis Jay, is investigating the extent to which institutions in England and Wales failed to protect children from sexual abuse.
www.iicsa.org.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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TELFORD Jul 2022

UK-WIDE Child Sexual Exploitation - Home Affairs Select Committee June 2013
January 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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ROTHERHAM 2014 - independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation by Alexis Jay which covered CSE in the town 1997-2013 
 
ROTHERHAM 2015 - Louise Casey looked at whether Rotherham Coucil was ‘fit for purpose’ given their abdication of responsibility for vulnerable kids
January 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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ROCHDALE 2013
Serious case review highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect kids

GTR MANCHESTER 2020 - Manc-wide Independent Review commissioned by Mayor Andy Burnham (Part 1)
 
OLDHAM 2022 – Burnham review (Part 2)

ROCHDALE 2024 - Burnham review (Part 3)
January 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Failures of the CONSERVATIVE government to apply recommendations of the panel on grooming gangs
In 2023 Prof Jay and the Victims & Survivors Consultative Panel said:

‘We are deeply disappointed that the Conservative gov has not accepted the full package of recommendations made in the final report’
January 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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In 2023 Prof Jay and the Victims & Survivors Consultative Panel said:

‘We are deeply disappointed that the Conservative gov has not accepted the full package of recommendations made in the final report’
January 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet.

And send this little critter out into the world.

August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).

And good Lord I’m terrified.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Sounds fair to me!
January 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#ReadingFC overperforming on xG according to @theathletic.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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How Manchester City went from world’s best to straw men in 12 months | Barney Ronay
How Manchester City went from world’s best to straw men in 12 months | Barney Ronay
Rodri’s injury, Erling Haaland and Pep Guardiola all play a role in this champion team’s profound collapse Eight weeks, 12 games and nine defeats into Manchester City’s descent into the footballing upside down, Pep Guardiola has at least identified the…
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Haaland is all about the numbers. Here are some interesting ones. In the five previous seasons without him City scored more goals than they have in two and half seasons with him. With Haaland they average 2.3 goals per game. Without him that was up at 2.6.?
December 24, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Drax Biomass Power Station is burning the equivalent of 27 million trees a year and getting paid public money to do it! Tell the UK government to stop subsidising forest destruction. act.gp/3CNWh2h
UK government: Stop funding Drax’s forest destruction
Drax’s destructive operations are being bankrolled by UK taxpayers.
act.gp
November 25, 2024 at 6:33 PM
An absolutely frightening expose of the new US 'Defence Secretary'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’
Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
November 22, 2024 at 9:19 PM
"But what struck through to me was the confusion caused by people getting information from social media. Partly this is because we barely have any good local newspapers anymore. In the past, if you disagreed on policy, there was a shared idea of what the basic facts were. That doesn’t exist now.”
November 22, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Period
November 21, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.
November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Release the Gaetz report.

Pass it on.
November 17, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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FWIW, I think that it may well be exposure to other views which has increased polarisation. In the olden days, a Guardian reader wouldn't have had a clue what was in the Mail. And vice versa. Social media has increased exposure to different views. And very often, people react in outrage to them.
November 16, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Martin Lewis and James Dyson blame Rachel Reeves. Tommy Robinson blames immigrants. Here's the actual problem
November 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Twitter deactivated
November 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM