The UK's current youth vaping problem is hardly a surprise when the health official in charge of vape policy was privately meeting Juul over dinner and giving advice on a UK entry whilst the US youth vaping epidemic was kicking off. Read more here >> theexamination.org/articles/top-u…

Ramzy is a brilliant editor, he's made all my stories shine and made me a much stronger reporter. I'll really miss working with him.

Adam is a fantastic reporter and an all-round sound guy. Like with all the other amazing reporters from Open Democracy who have today lost their jobs, any media outlet would be lucky to have him.

Fellows of The RSA are coming together to demand an independent inquiry.

For too long Andy Haldane and co have not been held to account & have been left to drag the RSA through the mud.

If you're a Fellow, join the call below!

rsainquiry.org

The following statement is made in response to allegations made across social media in relation to antisemitism awareness training being planned by the Trust.

Not a good look.

Goldsmiths University sent information about redundancies to staff that contained a reference to another institution, after it copy and pasted parts of a similar document from the University of Kent and did not change the text. 🤦‍♂️

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-uni…

...And now it's also been covered in Polish.

polishexpress.co.uk/imigranci-boja…

really pleased to announce that I've joined Centre for Climate Reporting as an Investigations Reporter! 🥳🥳

I'll be digging into big climate stories so exciting times ahead for me and the planet 🌍🌳

The Westminster debate this week appears to confirm that 3 British lives > 30,000 Palestinian lives.

In some areas at least the UK still commands a high rate of exchange.

New rules requiring voters to produce photographic ID before being able to vote led to about 14,000 people being turned away at last year’s local elections in the UK

Marginalised groups say they’re disproportionately affected 👇

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

University of Portsmouth: We are putting 398 staff at risk of redundancy.

Also University of Portsmouth: We are spending £250m on new buildings🤯

Completely unacceptable, members are now being consulted on taking strike action.

UCU Portsmouth

portsmouth.co.uk/education/stri…

📢NEW REPORT
Today we launch our latest #research on recruitment to the Seasonal Worker Scheme in UK #agriculture .
Interviews with 400+ #workers found many face debt and misinformation❌
🌱The report: bit.ly/3TKoDSp
📰As reported by Financial Times: bit.ly/3U20k2v

Seasonal workers left open to exploitation by visa scheme that puts many in debt.

on.ft.com/3J1VP2D via Financial Times

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: wck.org/news/gaza-team…

Remember the CPS saying Claudia Webbe MP threatened to throw acid over someone?

Well, they made it up. And when that inaccuracy was later conceded, they didn’t change the press release.

What on earth?! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Thrilled to announce I'll be working with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism for the next two years reporting on the family courts & continuing our investigative series #familycourtfiles which examines how allegations of domestic/sexual abuse are handled by the family justice system 🧵tinyurl.com/2nbmr4sv

About a year ago, I started looking into links between an obscure gig work platform and facial recognition companies which the Russian government has used to identify and detain protesters, dissidents, and more recently, people paying their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Housing regulator finds Lewisham is in breach of its requirement on housing standards:
- almost one in five homes don't meet Decent Homes Standard
- 5,000 fire remedial actions from fire risk assessments were currently overdue of which more than 200 were high-risk actions

Tomorrow's rollout of Live Facial Recognition in Lewisham is deeply concerning

LFR has serious racial bias and privacy implications, is legally dubious and has never been debated in parliament. Local consultation has been minimal, with elected members notified just 2 weeks ago🧵

Check out this 🧵from Migrant Democracy Project responding to xenophobic trolls in a classy & informative way.

Many migrants (from the thread it seems many Brits also) are unaware of their voting rights. In my more than 20 yrs in the UK, this is the first time I see an org try & fix that