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'What If?' Brighton Summit - What's In A name? - What if journalism is not about truth? - What if there were no journalists? 3 of the speakers... Sheela Banerjee, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social and Clive Myrie BBC @sussexbylines.co.uk www.brightonsummit.com

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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.” – Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Full report ⤵️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

It's our 5th birthday! 🎉🎂🍾 A massive thank-you to all our contributors - writers, editors, and proofreaders, for building a brilliant Bylines over the past five years, and here's to the next five! @sussexbylines.co.uk goes from strength to strength @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

The soccer world is behind Jess Carter ❤️

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

First 2 speakers announced for this year's Brighton Summit. And one of them is @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Editor at @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DJ86PnzIIL...

Sure Start was a huge success in the years it ran, raising so many children out of poverty and giving families support when they most needed it. I hope the government listens to these recommendations, whatever the cost, and helps a new generation benefit www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Sounds like a plan

In Parliament this week, I called for the planned cuts to disability benefits to be scrapped. We should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poorest. Instead, we should be taxing the wealthiest. If the Government does not drop its plans, I'll be voting against the cuts.

Care work is a migration route that is desperately needed, has helped at least stem the sector's recruitment crisis, has a knock-on effect on A&E/ambulance wait times, and isn't particularly unpopular voters. yeah let's hammer it

For anyone who visits care homes regularly, you will know how much of a disaster this is

No trade deal can ever make up for losing our place in the EU single market - which is much more than a trade deal, it is a border free market of almost half a billion people, on our doorstep.

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base www.politico.eu/article/elon...

💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."

My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. You can pre-order from Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8

Scratch a transphobe, a racist bleeds.

89% of the world's population want stronger measures on climate change, but believe they're in the minority. This extends to 62% of REFORM VOTERS. So where does this rhetoric of climate action being 'woke nonsense' come from? (*cough*Oil companies*cough*). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎂 Yorkshire Bylines celebrates five years of citizen journalism The Bylines Network turns five: from democratic deficit to 18 million hits, citizen journalism is alive and kicking – and needs your support By Louise Houghton for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The mainstream media is letting the country down. Badly. If you support Bylines Network as a citizen journalism (ie democratic and pluralistic) alternative... ...then please chip in! We're changing the system. 👇

Trump Turmoil. After announcing tariff exemptions for smartphones and computers Trump has changed his mind. New tariffs are coming. No business can plan. No challenge from US Congress as the self-appointed King makes laws. The cult followers love it. Oblivious to economic and political damage.

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

A week after my remarks on the Senate floor I am more energized then ever to continue to fight for Americans on Medicaid, Americans worried about Social Security, Americans looking for opportunity in their local economy.

Privatisation Racket. 20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24. Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%. They get subsidies too. More in the linked article.

The richest 10% own 57% of all wealth, but most of it isn't earned – it’s inherited or inflated by rising asset prices. Yet we tax income, not wealth. That’s not just unfair, it’s bad economics. But there are better solutions than wealth taxes | Stephen McNair @eastangliabylines.co.uk

More blood loss at the Observer. No jobs would be lost they said, as the Observer New Review & mag ate both gutted. Less than half the staff electing to go. Senior Times journalists in pretty much all roles. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Trump launches trade wars. 10% tariff on imports from UK, 20% from the EU, 54% from China. 25% on all auto imports. Repairs/Insurance costs will increase. $660bn a year cost hike for US customers/businesses. Retaliation inevitable. New alliances will be forged.

This month is the 5th birthday of the Bylines Network! 🎉 So please celebrate by making sure you're following all the publications of the network -- and a few others that we rank as top public good journalism. 👇👇

Just recovering from celebrating two @watchthisspce.bsky.social award wins! Professional Service Of The Year for Watch This Sp_ce Brighton Girl Of The Year for Kaia Allen-Bevan At the Brighton Girl Awards. Time for a rest this weekend 😁

Save the Children says this could be the first Labour government to “oversee a rise” in child poverty rather than a decline. Still, I’m sure disabled mums can comfort their hungry children with the news Rachel Reeves has managed to stick to her fiscal rules.

Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment

PAY ATTENTION “It is clear that the trans-Atlantic relationship, as was, is over, and there is, at best, an indifferent disdain,” said Tocci, who formerly advised a top E.U. official. “And at worst, and closer to that, there is an active attempt to undermine Europe.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

“Now’s the moment to speak honestly about Brexit’s colossal harm. Most know it already. Even 54% of Britons who voted leave …say they would accept free movement for UK & EU citizens in exchange for single market access” Spot on ⁦‪@pollytoynbee‬⁩ Labour urgently needs to start making the case 👇

At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell

The PEP: Penultimate Episode Podcast #severance podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

film still #63 Britt and Dan when we all went outside to see the total eclipse in April of 2024. Then we went back inside to work. #severance

Thanks to everyone in Keels, Bonavista and Port Union Newfoundland. We had the best time in such a beautiful place and everyone was so welcoming. #severance

Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇

Silent minority: 15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate What’s Starmer going to do about that? Is it only the sick and vulnerable his government are going after?! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All Labour MPs have reportedly been called in to Downing Street for talks with Starmer about the expected disability benefits cuts. If you have a Labour MP, this is the time to email them. Tell them your objections. Tell them your experience.

Please sign this www.change.org/p/demand-spo...?

Labour’s reported disability benefit cuts are not just about budgeting but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else). My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for Palestinians – the killings, displacements and denial of aid continue | Nesrine Malik

NEW: My piece for the Observer on how I was so deep into my investigation into Cambridge Analytica that I failed to realise that Hannah - my ex's daughter - was facing a human version of it: a stalker who was harvesting her data and weaponising it against her. 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Oh yes it's World Book Day... here's my book www.koganpage.com/responsible-...