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Mother. Believe in dance as restorative.
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To get a chance to win, donate to the Just Giving page. Each entry costs £5 and you can enter as many times as you like! Add a note to your entry informing Ani of which artwork’s raffle (or raffles!) you would like to be entered into www.justgiving.com/page/ani-sau...
Ani's fundraiser for The National Deaf Children's Society
Help Ani Saunders raise money to support The National Deaf Children's Society
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November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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So you get the LP on vinyl and a unique artwork by me in one; I've painted over the sleeve in oils to create this homage to a Paul Nash painting called Flight of the Magnolia. Plus you get an archival quality print of the image here, and I've signed the label on the disc.
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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WIN A UNIQUE ARTWORK BY ME, WITH PROCEEDS TO CHARITY
Really nice to be asked by @aniglass.bsky.social to create something new from the artwork of her album Phantasmagoria (which features my photography) for the charity National Deaf Children's Society @ndcs-uk.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Lesson 2 - from the "lost month", as Baroness Hallett so vividly describes it - February 2020:

If you can't be arsed to do your job even as a deadly pandemic grips the world, you certainly don't deserve to be within a thousand miles of Downing Street.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
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November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown
‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown
His mother had lived in the same house for 83 years. When the floods came, no one was ready. This is Paul Gilbert’s story
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Kinship care supports thousands of children raised by relatives when parents can’t look after them — but what happens when they turn 18?
Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness
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October 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
An interesting read however Millar needs to redefine his understanding of disability before making such statements.
September 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding
‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding
Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes
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July 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea that the public sphere belongs to men
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July 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell
Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell
The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor
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July 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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The Poverty Alliance and Fair By Design gave cameras to 15 people on low incomes to show what being refused credit or a loan meant for them.
I got a loan to help me pay for my dad's funeral. It sent me spiralling into debt
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May 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks.

But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof.

They were held in prison for 3 days then deported.

DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.
April 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026
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April 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children
‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children
Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him
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February 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all
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February 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward
Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward
Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe What is a nation? There are several, varying definitions, but ultimately it comes down to the same answer: a large…
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February 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This begins to address current concerns on the disappearing presence and the multiple values of dance within learning. There is much more to say and far more to do to ensure dance is reinstated for all it has to offer...
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career
Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career
Exclusive: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s One of the world’s most celebrated financiers, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, has been accused of exploiting his position at the storied bank to…
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February 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM