Alison Hutcheson
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🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-foreign-lobbying-in-british-politics?source=bluesky&utm_campaign=blast143835&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=1e6574c3-5cec-4634-8f47-c5ddd85044dc
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
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People have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a different story. Last year saw: The lowest murder rate per capita since records began The fewest murders of those aged under 25 this century One of the lowest numbers of homicides for almost three decades
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/london-homicide-rate-drops-to-lowest-in-more-than-a-decade?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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This is very good news.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Young care leavers in England to get free prescriptions, dental and eye services
Those under-25 to receive help while a pilot will trial paid internships in NHS and a guaranteed interview scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/23/young-care-leavers-england-free-prescriptions-dental-eye-services?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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BBC News - 'We were sacked from Rockstar North for trying to unionise'
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'We were sacked from Rockstar North for trying to unionise'
Former staff at the Grand Theft Auto creator are seeking an employment tribunal over alleged "union-busting".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp89990rgdno
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK can create 5,400 jobs if it stops plastic waste exports, report finds
Campaigners say closure of loophole making it cheaper to export rather than recycle will boost circular economy
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/uk-can-create-5400-jobs-if-it-stops-plastic-waste-exports-report-finds
about 2 months ago
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Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/wind-power-cut-uk-energy-costs-ucl-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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This is an excellent idea. We all need to be able to talk about death and dying.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Moffat Academy among first to offer course on death
Senior pupils took part in discussions around grief, funerals and legal issues.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rp52djzeko
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More of this sort of thing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast
Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/fishing-nets-money-a-one-man-recycling-revolution-on-the-cornish-coast?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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Prof Christina Pagel
3 months ago
Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.
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Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs
Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/18/private-schools-educated-most-powerful-jobs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
4 months ago
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Train hit branch just outside Oxford. It's going to be a while.....
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Good morning
@npitchford.bsky.social
There are ever changing penguin tableaux in the wall by the River Kelvin, close to where I live. They have an impressive grasp of current affairs.
8 months ago
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Hello
@octopus.energy
Emailed 6/1/25 as my IHD doesn't work and electricity readings don't update automatically in the app (gas fine)Supplied info and was told it was being escalated and would be 3-5 days. Chased and on 21/2/25 was told it was being worked on. Tumbleweed since.
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Thin is the new thick: designers of ‘cardboard’ house win RIBA award
Japanese practice Sanaa’s slender, stripped-back buildings boast walls that are just 16mm thick and concrete canopies that look as if they could float away
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/06/cardboard-house-designers-sanaa-win-riba-award?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
11 months ago
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may I ask if you're going to get your piece corrected?
@theguardian.com
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12 months ago
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Hello
@sarahsloat.bsky.social
, just read your Guardian Staying healthy over 60 piece. If you're writing about health in the UK you should know that Health is devolved in Scotland. We are offered bowel cancer tests from age 50, in England it's 54, soon to become 50.
12 months ago
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Brian Moore
about 1 year ago
This needs amplifying.
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Having just arrived from you know where, I find I've forgotten what I used to post about as I'd stopped using it, other than to chase businesses customer service.
about 1 year ago
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