Elizabeth Ash (she/her)
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Former @LibraryCampaign Trustee, a founding member of @SpeakUp4Libs, Chairs @CroydonNbrhoods Vegan🌱 (she/her) All for more peace, laughter and honesty
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Joined January 2011
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
theguardian.com
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
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Sorry, everyone. I think we've gone and done a thoughtful, balanced episode on #Budget2026, that is more about the economics and the politics, rather than the gossippy nonsense that gets hacks excited. #NotSorry
🆕 SPOILER ALERT - Unpicking the Budget 📈 The good stuff The less good stuff The economic rationale The political consequences Balance, humour, @pimlicat, @sturdyalex & top economist @realVickyPryce. 🍊 https://t.co/qdaX0Aaley 🍏
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🚨Sir Ian McKellen is quoting Thomas More, writing in 1517 during anti-immigrant riots in London 🔥 when terrified foreigners were dragged from their homes and blamed for every social ill. More asked the mob a simple question: “What would you do, if you were the stranger?” 500
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Anyone in mainstream media covering this one?
🚩🚩🚩Newly released Bannon–Epstein messages (2017–19) show Epstein was giving daily strategic advice to Steve Bannon while Bannon and Farage were building a transatlantic far-right project. Epstein wasn’t just a social acquaintance. He was in the room, digitally, for the
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“There was a toxic and chaotic culture at the heart of uk government”
Baroness Heather Hallett, "Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that's 23,000 fewer deaths" "Had the restrictions short of a stay at
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A mum and dad who were detained by police after complaining about their daughter's school on WhatsApp, have said they feel 'vindicated' after the force agreed to pay them £20,000 in compensation https://t.co/kJCbxyLHx0
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Maxie Allen, 50, and Rosalind Levine, 47, from Borehamwood, were detained in January by Hertfordshire Police and held in a police cell for eight hours following the dispute.
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Reform council repaints road markings for school which closed in 2016 https://t.co/qqGcG8fDjO
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Kent County Council sold the disused school site to a government agency in March, but has repainted yellow zigzags and "School Keep Clear" warnings.
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@nicoatridge @KirstieMAllsopp I’d argue differently and say let’s test Kirstie’s commitment to a debate on cost-cutting. The royal family costs half a billion a year, a figure that can be slashed by scrapping the Sovereign Grant and ending all tax exemptions.
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Is this true/untrue @KirstieMAllsopp
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BBC | At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA and now I'm suing https://t.co/jaHXugVtyT
bbc.co.uk
Lana Ponting is part of a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for its alleged role in the MK-Ultra experiments.
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#Reform Council in #Lancashire … The #Reform Councillor in charge of care homes, is going to shut council care homes, forcing residents to move to private care homes. On an ‘unrelated’ note, the same #Reform Councillor is the owner of multiple local private care homes.
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Tommy Robinson: 'I challenge any journalist to come to Luton and find Muslims with non Muslims.' I'm a journalist from Luton and this man is talking utter nonsense. A pleasure to work on this film, chatting to incredible people in my hometown and separating fact from fiction.
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I'm backing @WeAreNightwatch through @coopuk Local Community Fund https://t.co/ZsrYvtQFkd
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BBC News | Met Police officers sacked after BBC Panorama investigation
bbc.co.uk
The chair of the panel called the conduct of Sgt Joe McIlvenny and PCs Philip Neilson and Martin Borg a "disgrace".
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Say what you like about Prince Andrew, but who else would be generous enough to give £12million to someone they haven't met for something they haven't done?
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Western intelligence agencies eye neo-fascist fight clubs: ‘an international white supremacist movement’
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Security services are monitoring ‘active clubs’ as they move across borders to spread their extremist ideology
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MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links
theguardian.com
Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals
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