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Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol
Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol
Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the world
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Explainer: Why are tensions flaring again between Afghanistan and Pakistan? reut.rs/3LYUmz2
Explainer: Why are tensions flaring again between Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children and a woman, and injured four others.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Explainer: Why are tensions flaring again between Afghanistan and Pakistan? reut.rs/3LYUmz2
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Reform showing more of their open, different approach to politics.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reform showing more of their open, different approach to politics.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
chuffed.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
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It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
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Latest from me: on seven-party politics, why it's not going to go away & how Labour and the Tories are completely thrown by it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome to 21st-century politics: a bitter revolt against power that will consume Labour and the Tories | John Harris
A mood of turbulence and insurgency against the two main parties has been building for years, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Latest from me: on seven-party politics, why it's not going to go away & how Labour and the Tories are completely thrown by it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have."
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have."
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
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Thank you @drrachelclarke.com for amplifying your voice for our sector. Fundraising should be to enhance care & our spaces, not pay for the core specialist provision. We receive 34,000 calls a year to our 24/7 advice line: I’m not sure everyone realises the scale of what hospices are providing.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Thank you @drrachelclarke.com for amplifying your voice for our sector. Fundraising should be to enhance care & our spaces, not pay for the core specialist provision. We receive 34,000 calls a year to our 24/7 advice line: I’m not sure everyone realises the scale of what hospices are providing.
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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Irony of ironies. "Shorn of defectors to Reform, Conservative loyalists are relatively moderate on immigration, Europe and climate change. The much diminished band of Tory supporters includes a significant minority who remain loyal to the party’s moderate, inclusive, internationalist traditions."
The divisions in his ranks that threaten Farage
Keir Starmer is not the only leader with problems. Reform is attracting two different tribes of new supporters. Their unity may not last
kellnerp.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Irony of ironies. "Shorn of defectors to Reform, Conservative loyalists are relatively moderate on immigration, Europe and climate change. The much diminished band of Tory supporters includes a significant minority who remain loyal to the party’s moderate, inclusive, internationalist traditions."
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‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
Relatives share with the Guardian final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman’s rule
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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A remarkable choice of booking...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor on to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A remarkable choice of booking...
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The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.
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We can't be cutting social security anymore, people are barely coping. It should be seen as much as a human rights issue as access to justice. www.bigissue.com/opinion/jp-m...
Don't listen to JP Morgan. Britain's benefits system is dire
Investment bank JP Morgan called for Britain to cut benefits spending. Naomi McAuliffe, of Amnesty International UK, challenges this.
www.bigissue.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We can't be cutting social security anymore, people are barely coping. It should be seen as much as a human rights issue as access to justice. www.bigissue.com/opinion/jp-m...
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Extremely graphic content
#BBCNews - 'Our job is only killing' - how #Sudan 's brutal militia carried out a massacre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#rsf #elFasher
#BBCNews - 'Our job is only killing' - how #Sudan 's brutal militia carried out a massacre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#rsf #elFasher
'Our job is only killing' - how Sudan's brutal militia carried out a massacre in el-fasher
BBC Verify tracks how the RSF killed unarmed people in a massacre that humanitarian officials believe left 2,000 dead.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Extremely graphic content
#BBCNews - 'Our job is only killing' - how #Sudan 's brutal militia carried out a massacre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#rsf #elFasher
#BBCNews - 'Our job is only killing' - how #Sudan 's brutal militia carried out a massacre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#rsf #elFasher
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.
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Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *Staysure *Boxt *SunLife *AllClearTravel *Polish Tourism Organisation *SimplyFactoring *Freshpet *AvantiTravelInsurance *XmasTreeWorld *TwistedGifts *MoneyfactsCompare *RealXmasTree *CandlelightUK *HousingUnits *ReclaimNation *WeFixLondon *RangefordLiving
GB News is an 'anti-Muslim hate channel', two-year study into output concludes
GB News “accounted for almost 50 per cent of all mentions of Muslims or Islam on UK news channels” in a two-year period, a study has found ...
www.thenational.scot
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *Staysure *Boxt *SunLife *AllClearTravel *Polish Tourism Organisation *SimplyFactoring *Freshpet *AvantiTravelInsurance *XmasTreeWorld *TwistedGifts *MoneyfactsCompare *RealXmasTree *CandlelightUK *HousingUnits *ReclaimNation *WeFixLondon *RangefordLiving