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Sir David Attenborough turns 100 on 8 May. Before the polished documentaries, there were days-long journeys, empty airports – and flights that didn’t always make it back intact... And of course wildlife..... but where? Read on 👇

British police armed with Google Translate outwitted by Chinese gangs. Officers lack knowledge of Chinese organised crime, allowing offenders running prostitution rings and smuggling drugs to evade arrest, a study has found. @bbvt-uptij.bsky.social @ortv.bsky.social @nrpsinterpreter.bsky.social

‘Of course I accepted!’: Angel Otero on working with Bad Bunny … and bringing Puerto Rican flair to Somerset

Why the #Irish #language is having a moment — and running out of time Gaeilge is trending culturally. So why is it, according to census data, also dying? bigthink.com/strange-maps... via @bigthink.com #Gaeilge #langsky

New from my blog: Interpreters Need to Act Responsibly Before Celebrating a Speech on Social Media. | The Professional Interpreter ow.ly/sLOl50YT6It

Here are cards anyone can carry in their wallet and request translation or interpretation services as required by law. Know Your Rights to Language Access - American Translators Association (ATA) www.atanet.org/client-assis...

Sir David Attenborough is a national hero 💚🌍 To celebrate his 100th birthday and all he’s done to inspire us to protect our planet, he should be honored with a permanent statue. Agree? Join me by signing @JohannaBaxter MP’s petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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THE CRAFT OF WRITING. Lisa Lee on translating an emotion. manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription... @bbvt-uptij.bsky.social @ortv.bsky.social @nrpsinterpreter.bsky.social

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UNHCR publishes audit of Home Office asylum interviews, calls for improvements www.ein.org.uk/news/unhcr-p...

“Be My Cheese?”: Cultural Nuance Benchmarking for Machine Translation in Multilingual LLMs Madison Van Doren, Casey Ford, Jennifer Barajas & Cory Holland arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04729 @bbvt-uptij.bsky.social @ortv.bsky.social @nrpsinterpreter.bsky.social

What a remarkable young woman.

Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages fondaskreyol.org/article/crac... #png #language #diversity #langsky

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

This one hits hard.

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nternational Conference on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application www.tripsconference2026.com @bbvt-uptij.bsky.social @nrpsinterpreter.bsky.social

National Register of Public Service Interpreters published a statement: ‘As long as bookings continue to be outsourced by agencies at inadequate rates offered to qualified and regulated interpreters, the current backlog… will continue growing. www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/cri...

A story of absence: documents should have been shared, but have not; people should be in court, but are not; defendants absent because prison van delayed; prosecutor not turned up; no interpreter. A story of courts that should be sitting but are not. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Fascinating! "...although there is a constitutional and statutory right to speak Irish in court in Ireland, it may be harder to locate a qualified interpreter in Ireland than in the UK – where no such right exists."

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🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity. Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”

Stop the "Catapult Killer Influencers": Across the UK, children and teenagers are buying military-grade catapults hunting for "content". But now there’s something we can all do to end this sickening social media trend. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Juries don't just serve justice they serve society. This post explores how contracting jury trial will fray the social fabric. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

But translation was never just a technical challenge. It is an act of witnessing. An interpreter does not merely convert words from one language to another. They carry meaning across the chasm between us. www.politico.eu/article/when...

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Belonging grows when communities create spaces for real connection, where newcomers and locals enrich one another – Helen’s story | Helen Wildig and Nazish Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social @seryndippyt.bsky.social

📈Today, 11 December 2025, 70 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting. That's 14% of them. #courtstats #CS11122025 courtstats.co.uk

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Highlights from the Railways Bill session in Parliament pt4. Here's Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry on the scandal of Rolling Stock Companies. 🤑Every time you buy a train ticket, approx 25% of the cost goes on paying the rent being charged by the ROSCOs to the train lines. @sianberry.bsky.social

A shortage of British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters is a significant barrier to the success of a proposed law. The British Sign Language (Wales) Bill aims to promote and facilitate the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in Wales. www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2567950...

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

The government intends to reduce the right to jury trial. I think this is a bad thing. But what do the judges think? open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

14. The government artificially restricting court “sitting days” - effectively closing perfectly usable courtrooms and forcing judges to stay at home, to make a tiny saving on court staff. This happened regularly under the last government. The new lot are still doing it.

As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency. The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries. Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.

By coincidence, I took a screen shot of this tweet by the Lord chancellor and justice secretary David Lammy, in 2020 when he was in opposition.

Juries don’t cause backlogs — underfunding does, ’ Jason Lartey, LCCSA president, tells @thetimes.com, asking justice secretary David Lammy to meet him and see what it's like on the "frontline" of the system. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Court interpreter service is ‘going badly wrong’ - in @TimesLaw. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in almost five years, says Barclays www.theguardian.com/business/202...

📈Today, 9 December 2025, 66 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting. That's 13% of them. #courtstats #CS09122025 courtstats.co.uk

"[ICE officers] are sitting there, waiting to see who speaks a foreign language, who needs an interpreter, and then they're following those people out of court to question and detain them," she said. "Not everybody has an ICE detainer."

I recall being in a mags court one day when *three* booked interpreters failed to turn up. One case was a simple remand in custody of a Chinese sailor so they used Google Translate to tell him what was happening and had to hope it was correct.