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The Bell smashing it again by taking the time to bring out the human stories and local history that bigger news headlines are rooted in.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
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Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
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Addy the Walnut
1 day ago
They should stop in the first safe country they pass through
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Wealthy British nationals fleeing Gulf conflict bypass UK to avoid tax bills
High-net-worth residents of UAE heading to Ireland and France to wait out missile attacks before tax year ends
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/14/wealthy-british-nationals-fleeing-gulf-conflict-bypass-uk-to-avoid-tax-bills
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This should be read as a companion piece to the Vittles article about the shittiness underpinning Jamie Oliver's campaigning on school meals.
www.ft.com/content/9589...
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Did you miss Jamieās Italian? Me neither
Jāamie Oliver is re-inflicting the chain on a distinctly non-clamouring public
https://www.ft.com/content/95893e83-f81e-43dc-9f31-13c167700302?shareType=nongift
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This should be read as a companion piece to the FT article about Jamie's Italian. It's more important to read this one though.
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Effie Seiberg
3 days ago
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of āhighly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democratā while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
Theyāre saying the quiet part out loud now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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Very very worth a read, this packs in a wealth of horrible detail and treats it with the disgust and contempt it deserves.
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Come friendly bombs, and fall on this
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timothy faust
5 days ago
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel
5 days ago
Amazing idea, and that name! Bravo! š§Ŗ
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It's giving "Mormons retroactively converting Anne Frank"
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cait (and adonis)
6 days ago
wow and the missile just did that? by itself? that's crazy
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Zara Gladman
7 days ago
My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. Iāve set up a fundraiser. If you havenāt done anything for international womenās day yet, hereās a chance to support a women-run business in need:
www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...
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Union street fire: support Haus of Hair
Last month, my wonderful hairdresser and friend Gemma left her job to fulfil her dream of starting her own salon with fellow stylist Aimee. 'Haus of Hair' opened last week. I visited on Friday and wa...
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhnIJygMi
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It is truly incredible that with a conflagration on this scale, nobody was killed or even injured. I think it's worth taking a minute to think about the systems and people that made that happen.
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Jonathan Foyle
7 days ago
A map of the many burnings of Glasgow's historic buildings
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...
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Tinderbox: The Bell launches a new map of Glasgow's many fires
The propensity for so many buildings to catch fire has stoked conspiracy theories galore. Is there anything to them?
https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fire-glasgow-burning-building/
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Past Glasgow
7 days ago
Was only a matter of time, but the cupola has gone.
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Hetan Shah
8 days ago
āYou couldnāt treat any other group in our society ā Jew, Muslim, Black, white, disabled ā the way weāre being treated. Because itās discriminatory. Apart from anything else, itās deeply uncivilised.ā Chotiner could not have done this better than
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Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: āThey donāt care about fox hunting. Itās about usā
The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege ā and his numerous tattoos
https://www.ft.com/content/ab4d34b3-b73a-48a6-8654-6792c9c39d20?shareType=nongift
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Aidan McGlynn
7 days ago
This is the building we're currently losing
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Why did this have to be one of the four days a year in Glasgow when it doesn't fucking rain?
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The Herald
7 days ago
Footage as the fire next to Glasgow Central station spreads. Follow LIVE updates:
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
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Thinking tonight of the firefighters and their families, and everyone whose job obliges them to be there for the rest of this long, cold night breathing in a toxic mess of smoke and fumes.
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Aaron Rupar
7 days ago
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html#tncms-source=latest_posts
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Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre
13 days ago
It is an irrefutable fact that many lighthouse workers recorded in history were male. Yet the sisters, wives and daughters of keepers did so much more than merely assist in emergencies. š Learn more about female Lighthouse Keepers of the UK and US š
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Garrett M. Graff
12 days ago
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Alasdair Beckett-King
about 1 month ago
Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)
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Mate that's the last thing they want, get that green light switched off ffs
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Katie Martin
13 days ago
āWho could take that kind of commander-in-chief seriously?ā
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Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war
[FREE TO READ] Reason for conflict that has already killed hundreds of Iranians and six US soldiers remains unclear
https://as.ft.com/r/c0061b12-dd9a-4053-9baf-f7357c646f53
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Jonn Elledge
15 days ago
It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they donāt stop. Not once; not ever. What, you might wonder, the hell?
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When is an international station not an international station?
The great Stratford mystery.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/when-is-an-international-station
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Jordan
15 days ago
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Chris Marshall
19 days ago
"I was hoping people would understand. My mind was saying: These people have seen the film. They will know I canāt help this. They will know itās not me." Q&A with John Davidson which helps cut through all the hot takes about Tourette's.
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
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John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Touretteās Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: āI Felt a Wave of Shameā (EXCLUSIVE)
John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/john-davidson-tourettes-tics-bafta-n-word-interview-1236671850/
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Carole Cadwalladr
19 days ago
NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by
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@thenerve.news
which starts with āYachtgateā, Mandelsonās 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
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Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread
When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel
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Gone With The Muppets
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Josie Glausiusz
25 days ago
The answer: Epstein's friends and collaborators knew, and they were complicit. [Despite the barrel-loads of excuses and claims they "never witnessed or participated in any misconduct," et cetera ad nauseum. Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...
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The Price of Admission to Epsteinās World: Silence
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/well/epstein-files-associates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.rKg1.ierS9JKOOr3Z&smid=url-share
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Ben Phillips
27 days ago
I donāt know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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This series is the best gentle British magical realism. Check it out.
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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The Transformative Power of the White āRace Traitorā
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.html
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Orcspiration
about 1 month ago
YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.
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Alf Dubs
about 1 month ago
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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āPulling up the drawbridgeā: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmoodās plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they wonāt ājust do things because of their backgroundā
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/alf-dubs-shabana-mahmood-labour-plans-child-refugees?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Eric Umansky
about 1 month ago
My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows
www.propublica.org/article/life...
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This is an important piece to revisit now and then although it will not make you feel any better about things.
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Evan Greer
about 1 month ago
I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years. Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it talk to us
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Josh Halliday
about 2 months ago
Britain's high streets will be one of the key electoral battlegrounds for months and years to come. Reform UK are making big advances in towns suffering the greatest high street decline. Big piece from one multibillionaire-owned town centre in County Durham:
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āYouād be ashamed to bring someone hereā: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reformās road to No 10
Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon ownerās holdings have made it a symbol of d...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/jan/28/newton-aycliffe-county-durham-high-street-decline
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Dave Weigel
about 2 months ago
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Stanley Pignal
about 2 months ago
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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A fistbump across the centuries to this one monk writing a stroppy text about his boss.
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molly conger
about 2 months ago
damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors
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This Is NOT Business As Usual
2 months ago
White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here. Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.
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abraconagra
about 2 months ago
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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I vote we call things like this "a toothcomb" I find them kinda delightful tbh.
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