wjones000.bsky.social
@wjones000.bsky.social
Welsh, LFC fan, interested in politics, history, sport, and the beauty of the natural world.
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Joined this platform hope it's genuinely committed to free speech within legal limits, where people engage respectfully even when they have diametrically opposed perspectives. We can disagree without rancour.
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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.

This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
April 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Mauritius is unlikely to return any Chagossians to their homeland once the islands are ceded by Britain, the government has admitted
Chagos Islanders unlikely to go home under UK deal with Mauritius
www.thetimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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‘As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media.’ Damning takedown letter to Guardian from recently ex-Observer editor Paul Webster

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media | Letter
Letters: Former Observer editor Paul Webster responds to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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100+ Guardian & Observer journalists have written to the Guardian to ask why the Scott Trust has refused to answer basic questions about the deal to give the Observer to a financially failing media start-up
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Key questions about the sale of the Observer that remain unanswered | Letter
Letters: Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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“One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis”

“The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis
The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Joined this platform hope it's genuinely committed to free speech within legal limits, where people engage respectfully even when they have diametrically opposed perspectives. We can disagree without rancour.
December 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM