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notes on sudan

@notesonsudan.bsky.social

These two amazing South Sudanese friends - Giel Malual and John Kuei - are walking the length of the UK in freezing weather (set off on 23 Dec) to raise money for displaced Sudanese children in refugee camps in Chad. Link here you're able to support and/or repost: www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-w...

January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM

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Gail Myerscough

@gailmyerscough.co.uk

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You might like my prints, homewares, cards and T-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture
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November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM

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Robert Hutton

@roberthutton.co.uk

Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.

Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…

thecritic.co.uk

October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

In just eight months, President Trump has secured a jillion dollars of new investment and reduced crime by infinity percent. Eat that, libs.

September 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Annie Leymarie

@annieleymarie.bsky.social

In pink, the very sweet and peaceful Anna, 80-year-old with serious health issues, well loved in our South East London community for her generosity and kindness, being arrested as a terrorist!
@elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, what is your government doing??
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Police arrest 55 protesters in London for holding signs supporting Palestine Action

The force has already arrested 70 people for taking part in similar protests in the past fortnight

www.independent.co.uk

July 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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News Eye

@newseye.bsky.social

Israel can take out an Iranian commander 1000km away with a drone missile through a single bedroom wall, without any other damage.

But to target a Hamas leader a few kilometres away, they need to raze whole neighborhoods to the ground.

Is it obvious yet?

A picture of the apartment building in Tehran where Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was killed. The building shows a hole in the side and scorch marks where a bomb drone has apparently hit. The window of the apartment shows smoke from flames. Almost no other building is damaged, not even the windows broken. Photo credit to Alpha Defense.

June 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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dag

@davidallengreen.bsky.social

NEW

How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing

Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The best explanation is perhaps not that the prince and Watson had finally buckled to costs risk; it instead looks like a desperate last-minute move by a publisher anxious to avoid a public trial of the claims.

It appears from the evidence available that NGN signalled that it would actually accept liability. If so, this would change everything. If NGN accepted it was liable for at least the main part of the claims, there would be no need for a full trial—for there would be nothing to be tried. The prince and the politician would not now be able to force a full trial even if they had wanted to do.

For a defendant to admit liability is an unusual, if not unique litigation ploy.

January 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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The Secret Barrister

@barristersecret.bsky.social

If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.

January 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM