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🔴 Sad to say that Hyphen’s parent company is consulting on shutting the website and laying off all of its staff, including me.
It’s obviously devastating news for a superb team whose journalism has had real impact this week alone. I’m so proud to have worked alongside them. 🧵
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I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy, along with a load of my amazing colleagues in the UK. Another bad day for good journalism in this country
If anyone needs an editor, reporter, barman, ageing centre forward or hype man hit me up
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Before coming to Congress, he spent 8 years as the senior attorney and national spokesperson for a Christian nationalist group dedicated to dismantling LGBTQ+ rights and outlawing abortion.
This is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker. huffpost.com/entry/mike-john…
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🚨more juicy whatsapps from the covid inquiry...
chief scientific adviser angela mclean called rishi sunak "dr death the chancellor" in 2020 re eat out to help out
she also called prof carl heneghan a "fuckwitt" [sic]...who happens to be next up to give evidence today😬
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🚨 Huge story on @openDemocracy tonight: the government knew back in 2020 that prioritising NHS beds had been 'to the detriment' of care homes, & its emergency response team was woefully understaffed as late as Feb 2020. All in top secret internal review
opendemocracy.net/en/secreti…
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EXCL: Sources close to the @NEUnion executive confirm to @HuffPostUK that teachers have 'overwhelmingly' voted for strike action. Formal result will be announced at 5
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If it passes, teachers will join the current wave of industrial action by nurses, rail workers, ambulance workers and civil servants.
Full story here: huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/e…
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The false equivalence here is doing so much work you could use it to power a city
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Tory leadership hopeful ‘hates’ the policy she brought forward as equalities minister, suggests Iain Duncan Smith bit.ly/3JL0PbF
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Rishi Sunak's David Brent-like "yep" after his attempt at Welsh is easily my highlight of the campaign
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As explained on yesterday’s @HacksOnTap, I’m a brand new voting member of the UK Tory party (you don’t have to be a UK citizen to join)! We’ve invited both @RishiSunak and @trussliz to join @davidaxelrod and me for a quick, fun interview on the pod and get my undecided vote! 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Ever wondered what the candidates see during a TV debate? This is their view on set at Victoria Hall for #BBCOurNextPM
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Wow. Bristol Council comms boss suggests that BBC-funded local democracy reporter @AlexGSeabrook shouldn’t be asking Mayor Marvin Rees about flying 9,000 miles to speak on climate change. She says Alex is not “a journalist from a newspaper”
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PM: "The Chancellor and I will be saying more about [cost of living] in the days to come."
Treasury source: "No announcements as far as we are aware."
Source close to PM: "It would be wrong to build up expectations of a major moment.”
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🚨 I'm wrapping up a few gigs & have availability for new work & for first time in a while I'm open to a full-time gig
Mid East, investigations, international affairs, reporting/editing shifts. Open to anything remote as I can't leave Lebanon for a little while
RTs appreciated!
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Ministerial statement published on the Online Safety Bill, maybe the most important piece of legislation to be published in a generation, and it includes a link to the Wikipedia page about the Bill questions-statements.parliam…