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Breaking: Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK has confirmed one of its producers has been arrested. The producer worked on an investigation RTHK did into how police responded (and failed to
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1 in 52 people experience homelessness in London, yet the Conservative mayoral candidate @ShaunBaileyUK seems to think they can just save for a deposit on a house?? How out of
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OK so everyone has seen the "viral" photo going around of the piles of mailboxes in Wisconsin being used as evidence that Trump is sabotaging USPS. Problem is, they have
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1/ Was interviewed by @crunchbasenews about "Loneliness in Tech", check out the article below.The long interview I did was reduced to a few soundbites, so here's my more nuanced take
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1/ Spent much of today in meetings about the impact of closure of France-UK border to accompanied freight, and @scotgov⁩ is actively engaged in supporting resolution of these issues. A
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.@craigbrucesmith's written a very nice piece about the role that Commissions have played in the past to help us understand our history and suggests that now might be a good
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Sadly the #NationalTrust is becoming a joke. As #Hexham MP I want reform of this, once great, organisation. A thread on:- their redundancy plan - their £1Billion+ assets - and
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[thread] 1 of 7I've been waiting for this letter to be published. Let's address some important aspects.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/a-new-year-s-feast-spread-the-virus-and-now-divides-scientists 2 of 7At the bo
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There’s a lot of enthusiasm to view climate change as a security issue. I wrote about why that’s dangerous:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-27/making-climate-a-national-security-issue-downplays-human-cost First, in case i
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Speaking truth to power is easier said than done, but if we conceal the reality of our journeys, we become complicit in the structures that oppress us. Catch me on
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When all you do is speak to a fringe that was never majority view because you imagine it might vote for you in future; when you don’t even want to
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If you spend as much time as I do studying ed policy + politics, and are also a parent and live in an urban area (my kid’s preK is located
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THREAD:1/ According to @DevinNunes's @HouseIntel "Report on Russian Active Measures", if one follows the redacted superscripts, information about the Headquarters of Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) was obtained thr
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Is healthcare spending costs going up? Yes. Is is sustainable like this? No.Can the government fix it? Yes. Can the government fix it without collaboration?No. Lack of collaboration is actually
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The name Scott Dewar has been brought to my attention.He's a career public servant and probably a spook.In 2019, he was the CoS in Linda Reynolds' office. The election was
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I think about this a lot. My first reporting job involved doing the weekend police blotter at a paper that at the time barely had a website. It was a
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