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Ukraine wants to join the EU. President Zelensky is begging the EU to make it a candidate country now. RT if you support Ukraine’s ambition.

If you were thinking of a stay at the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, you may like to know that its proprietor, John Mappin, is a big fan of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. There are other reasons you might want to give it a miss, as I described here: westcountryvoices.co.uk/qanon-in-cornw…

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This is a must-read 🧵 by Katie French — thanks Ray Massey for highlighting it. Incredible behaviour by Hampshire Police

Someone please send the Shadow Minister for Equalities a dictionary and a backbone. #HappyInternationalWomensDay

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Lorenzo Perrone, a civilian worker in #Auschwitz, risked his life to help save Primo Levi by bringing him food daily for half a year. yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti…

There is a straight line from mainstream politicians recoiling from being asked to define “women” and the inability of women to meet without this happening.

“It is the writer’s duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is the reader’s civic duty to learn this truth”“To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.” on.ft.com/37RwvwS

Absolute corker from our Hadley Freeman here. The woman is a national treasure: unherd.com/2022/04/the-we…

Day & night set up Swynford Manor for Molly & Rourai, with #designerflowersessex…what a a fantastic night! Great crowd. #canmbridgeDJ #essexdj #weddingdj #weddingstyling #weddingproduction #newmarketwedding #swynfordmanorwedding

JULIE BINDEL will sue council which banned her talk at a library mol.im/a/10955299 via Mail Online

A true friend of our country #Macron

We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.

A damning and direct article by Brendon O’Neil, on Eddie Izzard using the women’s toilets at a Sheffield Labour Party meeting. recently. “Eddie Izzard was born male and he will die male”. Intrusion isn’t inclusion, pal! spiked-online.com/2022/10/02/edd…

This is what should now be dominating the UK news - not conference speeches - OPEC is deliberately siding with Russian against Ukraine's allies - by cutting oil production in the midst of an energy crisis. The decision will deepen poverty and conflict worldwide The Rest Is Politics

Those of us who have worked alongside Jeremy Bowen know him to be an excellent and honest reporter. This is yet another conspiracy theory aimed at undermining the BBC and other western news outlets reporting from Ukraine.