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I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
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Scrapping the two-child cap could lift 470,000 children out of poverty.
If the Government wants national renewal, it must invest in our greatest asset: young people.
Give them the best chance in life—better education, more opportunity, and we all benefit.
It’s common sense.
If the Government wants national renewal, it must invest in our greatest asset: young people.
Give them the best chance in life—better education, more opportunity, and we all benefit.
It’s common sense.
Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap?
Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long?
www.newstatesman.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Scrapping the two-child cap could lift 470,000 children out of poverty.
If the Government wants national renewal, it must invest in our greatest asset: young people.
Give them the best chance in life—better education, more opportunity, and we all benefit.
It’s common sense.
If the Government wants national renewal, it must invest in our greatest asset: young people.
Give them the best chance in life—better education, more opportunity, and we all benefit.
It’s common sense.
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“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF
The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.
www.msf.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
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September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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From today, young people aged 16-21 can get £1 bus fares across Wales by applying for a free mytravelpass
£1 bus fares for young people in Wales come into effect
From today, Monday 1 September, young people aged 16-21 can get £1 bus fares across Wales by applying for a free mytravelpass. The one-year pilot scheme is designed to make travel more accessible and ...
wp.me
September 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
From today, young people aged 16-21 can get £1 bus fares across Wales by applying for a free mytravelpass
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Another data point highlighting Welsh Govt’s *disastrous* decision back in 2006 to refuse full devolution of rail in Wales (infrastructure and services). The single worse decision since the return of the Welsh Parliament in 1999. #Cymru #Wales
From next Monday, your rail commute will be cheaper.
We’re scrapping peak rail fares in Scotland for good.
Under the SNP, public ownership of rail means fairer prices – making travel cheaper, greener and easier for everyone.
We’re scrapping peak rail fares in Scotland for good.
Under the SNP, public ownership of rail means fairer prices – making travel cheaper, greener and easier for everyone.
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
All of us at @childreninwales.org.uk are shocked & saddened to hear the news about Hefin David. Hefin’s valuable contributions to Welsh policy-making, in particular to support children with additional learning needs, will be sorely missed. We send our condolences to his family, friends & colleagues
August 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All of us at @childreninwales.org.uk are shocked & saddened to hear the news about Hefin David. Hefin’s valuable contributions to Welsh policy-making, in particular to support children with additional learning needs, will be sorely missed. We send our condolences to his family, friends & colleagues
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Voters across the political spectrum want to "take back control" with public ownership 👇👇👇
It would bring down bills and improve how the country works
Where is the focus, where is the airtime on this incredibly popular policy that would make our lives better? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥
It would bring down bills and improve how the country works
Where is the focus, where is the airtime on this incredibly popular policy that would make our lives better? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥
August 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Voters across the political spectrum want to "take back control" with public ownership 👇👇👇
It would bring down bills and improve how the country works
Where is the focus, where is the airtime on this incredibly popular policy that would make our lives better? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥
It would bring down bills and improve how the country works
Where is the focus, where is the airtime on this incredibly popular policy that would make our lives better? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥
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Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.
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Dyma ni yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn Wrecsam.
Yma drwy’r wythnos - fe welwch ni yn Hwb y Sector Gwirfoddol.
Dewch draw i ddysgu am ein gwaith yn cefnogi hawliau a lles plant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac i gymryd ran yn ein Helfa Drysor 🗺️🧭
#eisteddfod #eisteddfod2025
Yma drwy’r wythnos - fe welwch ni yn Hwb y Sector Gwirfoddol.
Dewch draw i ddysgu am ein gwaith yn cefnogi hawliau a lles plant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac i gymryd ran yn ein Helfa Drysor 🗺️🧭
#eisteddfod #eisteddfod2025
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Dyma ni yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn Wrecsam.
Yma drwy’r wythnos - fe welwch ni yn Hwb y Sector Gwirfoddol.
Dewch draw i ddysgu am ein gwaith yn cefnogi hawliau a lles plant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac i gymryd ran yn ein Helfa Drysor 🗺️🧭
#eisteddfod #eisteddfod2025
Yma drwy’r wythnos - fe welwch ni yn Hwb y Sector Gwirfoddol.
Dewch draw i ddysgu am ein gwaith yn cefnogi hawliau a lles plant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac i gymryd ran yn ein Helfa Drysor 🗺️🧭
#eisteddfod #eisteddfod2025
Zero integrity.
Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW
August 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Zero integrity.
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RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
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This is really impressive. Proper comms, so that the public understand the amount of money (close to zero) available, and there's no wiggle room for rumour-mongers and troublemakers. Hats off to the team at Mansfield Council.
July 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is really impressive. Proper comms, so that the public understand the amount of money (close to zero) available, and there's no wiggle room for rumour-mongers and troublemakers. Hats off to the team at Mansfield Council.
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When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
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Great to be at @livemusicnowuk.bsky.social's Unlocking Futures: Music is Medicine for Perinatal Mental Health, hearing about the Lullaby Project in NPT - showing how music supports bonding & wellbeing from the start.
Article 31: the right to culture & the arts
www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lullaby-cymru/
Article 31: the right to culture & the arts
www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lullaby-cymru/
July 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Great to be at @livemusicnowuk.bsky.social's Unlocking Futures: Music is Medicine for Perinatal Mental Health, hearing about the Lullaby Project in NPT - showing how music supports bonding & wellbeing from the start.
Article 31: the right to culture & the arts
www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lullaby-cymru/
Article 31: the right to culture & the arts
www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lullaby-cymru/
This is a message to Keir Starmer.
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.
We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.
Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS
July 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Da iawn to all who have pushed for cheaper public transport for young people in Wales. A really positive step forwards.
www.gov.wales/1-bus-fares-...
www.gov.wales/1-bus-fares-...
£1 bus fares for young people from September | GOV.WALES
Young people aged 16 to 21 will be able to ride on buses across Wales for just £1 from September.
www.gov.wales
July 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Da iawn to all who have pushed for cheaper public transport for young people in Wales. A really positive step forwards.
www.gov.wales/1-bus-fares-...
www.gov.wales/1-bus-fares-...
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❗ BREAKING: Almost 40,000 more children are at risk of not having enough food or a warm home because of the 2-child limit, compared to last year.
Our social security system is failing to protect children from hunger.
Our social security system is failing to protect children from hunger.
July 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
❗ BREAKING: Almost 40,000 more children are at risk of not having enough food or a warm home because of the 2-child limit, compared to last year.
Our social security system is failing to protect children from hunger.
Our social security system is failing to protect children from hunger.
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“The two-child limit on benefit payments is now affecting nearly 1.7m children – an increase of nearly 40,000.” Lynn Perry, our CEO, has shared her thoughts on government statistics released today that reveal the number of households affected by the two-child limit on benefits. More: brnw.ch/21wU2to
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The two-child limit on benefit payments is now affecting nearly 1.7m children – an increase of nearly 40,000.” Lynn Perry, our CEO, has shared her thoughts on government statistics released today that reveal the number of households affected by the two-child limit on benefits. More: brnw.ch/21wU2to
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Cawson ni ddiwrnod gwych yn #Gofod3 gyda’n Tîm Prosiectau a’n Prif Swyddog Gweithredol yn cysylltu â’r sector gwirfoddol. Uchafbwynt oedd ffilm Wythnos y Gwirfoddolwyr gyda phobl ifanc a Jane Hutt MS, yn lansio’r weledigaeth newydd. Diolch i @wcvacymru.bsky.social am ddigwyddiad ysbrydoledig.
We had a fantastic day at #Gofod3 with our Projects Team and CEO connecting with the voluntary sector. A highlight was seeing Volunteers’ Week footage of young people meeting Jane Hutt MS, launching the new Vision for Volunteering. Thanks to WCVA for an inspiring event.
July 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cawson ni ddiwrnod gwych yn #Gofod3 gyda’n Tîm Prosiectau a’n Prif Swyddog Gweithredol yn cysylltu â’r sector gwirfoddol. Uchafbwynt oedd ffilm Wythnos y Gwirfoddolwyr gyda phobl ifanc a Jane Hutt MS, yn lansio’r weledigaeth newydd. Diolch i @wcvacymru.bsky.social am ddigwyddiad ysbrydoledig.
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Pathetic stuff from ‘senior government sources’.
July 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Pathetic stuff from ‘senior government sources’.
Great to be at @wcvacymru.bsky.social #Gofod3 conference today for the launch of the new Volunteering Vision for Wales. Particularly pleased to hear from young volunteers engaged in our Building Voices work - a partnership between the Football Association of Wales and @childreninwales.org.uk
July 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Great to be at @wcvacymru.bsky.social #Gofod3 conference today for the launch of the new Volunteering Vision for Wales. Particularly pleased to hear from young volunteers engaged in our Building Voices work - a partnership between the Football Association of Wales and @childreninwales.org.uk
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The initial results are in for Phase 1 of Wirral's 20mph rollout. An amazing success. Imagine arguing against this stuff
"A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)"
Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...
"A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)"
Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The initial results are in for Phase 1 of Wirral's 20mph rollout. An amazing success. Imagine arguing against this stuff
"A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)"
Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...
"A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)"
Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely