Lucy Bailey
@LABailey
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Producer @BBCWorldService radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. I prefer Bluesky!
Tunbridge Wells, England, UK
Joined May 2008
Ed Davey, Leader of the Lib Dems, comes to Tunbridge Wells to see for himself the scale of the problem before raising it with the Prime Minister
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NEW: Downing Street has said @sewateruk should be "straining every sinew" to restore water to the residents of Tunbridge Wells as the outage continues into its fourth day. Cc @ThreshedThought Here's what PM's Official Spokesman said today:
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Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey says that the four day water outage in Tunbridge Wells "has become an emergency", and that if necessary the Government should send in the army to help on the ground.
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I am calling on David Hinton, the CEO of South East Water, to resign. 24,000 properties have endured three days of South East Waterās chaotic emergency response and woeful communication. Itās an utter disgrace and a total failure of leadership by David Hinton. Every
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No migrant worker or member of their family shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour, according to the International Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers. #CMW opens in Geneva on Monday. ā¹ļø https://t.co/AK25pN3HNl
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Publishing confidential/without prejudice settlement correspondence is an unusual legal tactic. I'm not sure it will catch on.
For the past seven months, I have stayed silent. But the truth is, I have enduredĀ five years of pure torture,Ā relentless press and media attacks, every single day, without responding. Enough is enough. It is time for the public to know the truth. This year alone, three
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve_news We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!ššš
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla @sarah_donaldson @JaneFerg @ImogenCarter launch title with redundancy payouts After Observer sale "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" https://t.co/pa7pTKUL8d
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Right. A bit more about what weāre up to. Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. Link below (because of Xās anti-news bias.)
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After more than 20 years of roadblocks, a federal judge has ruled the evidence of Saudi Arabiaās role in 9/11 warrants a trial. For the families, this is the most consequential step yet toward accountability and justice.
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NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and thereās a lot going on here, so letās get into the weeds š§µ
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mRNA vaccines have already saved millions of lives from Covid and could save even more from flu. Cancelling investments in critical research will set us backĀ and cost us time and lives if bird flu emerges as the next pandemic.Ā https://t.co/LT1UUUGzAw
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The Trump administration said it was cancelling $766 million in funding for a Moderna vaccine contract that was supposed to help pay for the development of a shot that would protect people against...
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This isn't a thread about the genocide in Gaza. It's a thread about a likely genocide somewhere else: Ethiopia. But please don't scroll on and ignore it. This story deserves amplification.
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At the European humanitarian forum in Brussels today, I said that the world is again failing its commitment of ānever againā with the people of #Gaza. We failed them under our watch, day after day. The war is making International Humanitarian Law including the Geneva
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Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the worldās leading genocide scholars ā including renowned Holocaust experts ā describe Israelās actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
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