Matt Allison
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Musician - Amateur Theologian - Idealist justice thinker - Dog lover
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Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department
Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department
Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response
Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he…
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department
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I signed this letter. You may wish to do so too: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...
To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans
Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.
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March 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I signed this letter. You may wish to do so too: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...
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Boosting public funding is the only way to make the arts more inclusive | Letters
Boosting public funding is the only way to make the arts more inclusive | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to Guardian analysis on how the arts sector is still a barrier for working-class people
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Boosting public funding is the only way to make the arts more inclusive | Letters
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On the plus side, the last 24 hours have gone a LONG way to refuting all of those rumours that the tangerine grope-machine is a Russian agent...
March 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
On the plus side, the last 24 hours have gone a LONG way to refuting all of those rumours that the tangerine grope-machine is a Russian agent...
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Stadium-ready UK singer Myles Smith: ‘For the working class, music opportunities are few and far between’
Stadium-ready UK singer Myles Smith: ‘For the working class, music opportunities are few and far between’
Up for three Brit awards this weekend including song of the year for his epic hit Stargazing, the former sociology student condemns how austerity has damaged the arts
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Stadium-ready UK singer Myles Smith: ‘For the working class, music opportunities are few and far between’
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The ugly truth: Europe has been more generous to Russia than Ukraine.
Paying the costs of war
Keir Starmer’s defence spending increase is a very expensive lesson in failing to plan ahead.
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March 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The ugly truth: Europe has been more generous to Russia than Ukraine.
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Billionaires aren’t gods. They’re parasites. And when enough people stop feeding them, their whole empire crumbles.
How To Starve The Billionaires
Dear Humans,
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February 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Billionaires aren’t gods. They’re parasites. And when enough people stop feeding them, their whole empire crumbles.
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Can we revoke that invitation of a state visit please
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Can we revoke that invitation of a state visit please
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One is a TV star-turned-hero of the free world.
One is a Putin-appeasing orange shitclown who should be in prison.
#TeamZelensky
One is a Putin-appeasing orange shitclown who should be in prison.
#TeamZelensky
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
One is a TV star-turned-hero of the free world.
One is a Putin-appeasing orange shitclown who should be in prison.
#TeamZelensky
One is a Putin-appeasing orange shitclown who should be in prison.
#TeamZelensky
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All these people breaking cover on believing that only white people can be English are the ones that raged about ‘political correctness’ & ‘wokeness’ without ever being able to explain what it was. I’ve been dealing with them & their cowardly bigotries for years.
February 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
All these people breaking cover on believing that only white people can be English are the ones that raged about ‘political correctness’ & ‘wokeness’ without ever being able to explain what it was. I’ve been dealing with them & their cowardly bigotries for years.
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When I was a teenager in an evangelical church in Arizona, my pastor would have used this as an illustration of the Antichrist.
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When I was a teenager in an evangelical church in Arizona, my pastor would have used this as an illustration of the Antichrist.
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David Lammy is getting a lot of vitriol today for being a hypocrite, which on the one hand I can understand. But on the other hand he’s the Foreign Secretary, what was he supposed to do? Knee him in the balls and call him a c*nt?
February 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
David Lammy is getting a lot of vitriol today for being a hypocrite, which on the one hand I can understand. But on the other hand he’s the Foreign Secretary, what was he supposed to do? Knee him in the balls and call him a c*nt?
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Kudos 👏👏👏
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
* Anneliese Dodds: soft left intellectual pushed to resign over Starmer’s slide right
* UK politics live – latest updates…
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February 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Kudos 👏👏👏
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China’s defence ministry warns Taiwan ‘we will get you, sooner or later’
China’s defence ministry warns Taiwan ‘we will get you, sooner or later’
Threat after Taipei announces bigger military drills appears to mirror a line from children’s film Ne Zha 2
China’s defence ministry spokesperson has warned Taiwan “we will come and get you, sooner or later”, after Taipei announced an expansion of…
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
China’s defence ministry warns Taiwan ‘we will get you, sooner or later’
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Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’
Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’
Lauded former editor ‘appalled’ by billionaire newspaper owner’s overhaul of opinion section to narrow focus
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Marty Baron, a highly regarded…
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February 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’
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Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram
Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram
Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels…
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram
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Boehly believes Netflix could ‘maintain’ Premier League’s global success
Boehly believes Netflix could ‘maintain’ Premier League’s global success
Todd Boehly has said the Premier League should consider selling its global TV rights to Netflix, as he shrugged off tensions with Chelsea supporters
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Boehly believes Netflix could ‘maintain’ Premier League’s global success
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Planetary parade: Mercury falls into line for rare seven-planet alignment
Planetary parade: Mercury falls into line for rare seven-planet alignment
The seven will appear to form a straight line in the night sky in display that won’t be seen again until 2040
Seven planets will appear to align in the night sky on the last day of February in what is known as a planetary parade.
These planetary…
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Planetary parade: Mercury falls into line for rare seven-planet alignment
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Braverman seems desperate for the approbation of people who, according to her own manifesto of self-loathing & blatant racism, can never bestow it.
She wonders aloud how many generations must pass before you're English (SIX??) & concludes "it is a question without an easy answer" but that "there must be some form of consensus".
There is a consensus. It's the view of almost everyone in this country that you can be English without being white.
There is a consensus. It's the view of almost everyone in this country that you can be English without being white.
February 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Braverman seems desperate for the approbation of people who, according to her own manifesto of self-loathing & blatant racism, can never bestow it.
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We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on forever.
February 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on forever.
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Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
Study counteracts claims by conservative lawmakers that books being removed from classrooms are sexually explicit
The majority of banned books in US public schools last year dealt with people of color, LGBTQ+ people and other demographics, according to a…
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds