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Shafi Musaddique
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Journalist covering minorities in Europe. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, iPaper etc.

Formerly of BBC World Service, the Economist, Euronews and more.

🖊️ Human rights
💭 Decolonisation
📚 History, art and literature nerd. Hosting @HistFest
One of the best things about London. Walking into a world class university like the LSE after work, for free, and listening to a lecture about how a new economy - bringing power to the people - could emerge.
January 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I'll be doing a live Zeteo Zoom town hall with the one and only Greta Thunberg at 3pm Eastern today (2 and a half hours from now), talking climate change, LA wildfires, Gaza, and more.

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LIVE Q&A with Greta Thunberg *Today*! Register Now
Mehdi and the world's best-known climate activist will be discussing the California wildfires, the state of the global climate crisis, and her fight for justice from Palestine to Western Sahara.
zeteo.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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How can EU tackle big tech? 1. Speed up DSA probe. 2. Pressure Ireland. 3. Use the existing EU rules "to switch big tech’s algorithms off at a stroke.....People, rather than big tech’s algorithms, would again decide what they say/see". By tech expert/litigator

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I’m putting together a Substack on Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia.

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writesbright.substack.com
Sam Bright | Substack
Investigations and insights about the rich, right-wing, and powerful. Click to read Sam Bright, a Substack publication.
writesbright.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just reading the headline is shocking enough. When will this get any better?
Nearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rent
Exclusive: Shelter poll shows housing crisis is causing hardship even for those with jobs
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄
🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.
December 24, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London is quite something. Bringing together VVG's paintings spread over the world under one roof. Including two "sunflower" paintings - one of them leaving the USA for the first time since the 1930s.
December 20, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Hello new followers! I'm a journalist covering minorities in Europe. Just returned to the UK after a year and a half in Estonia.

A former life investigating human rights abuses in garment factories.

Mostly I love joining the dots between people and movements
December 20, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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In the spirit of sharing, we’ve put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians). What would you add to the list? 🎄🎁🍿

open.substack.com/pub/histfest...
The best historical shows (and a couple of films) to stream this Christmas
In the spirit of sharing, we thought we’d put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians).
open.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Well. This feels like 2010 Twitter all over again. Hello... World.
December 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM