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Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children has been visible from the outset, the UN says.

'The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says Russian authorities "at the highest level" have deported "thousands" of children from the occupied areas of Ukraine and Putin's "direct involvement" has been "visible from the outset".'

#c4news
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In West Yorkshire, we’re investing in innovation and backing our entrepreneurs.

We’ve announced our Big Ideas Challenge winners - three businesses with innovative solutions to make our region healthier.

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Unforgivable

This is the front page of the Tehran Times today.

Trump fired a Tomahawk missile on a school full of children in Minab, Iran.

Then launched another missile to kill the parents who rushed in to rescue them.

168 schoolkids killed. Then their parents.

History will never forget.

Great to join my good friend @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social and Labour Muslims Network for their annual Iftar.

Banner at the top of the exhibition page on the Whitworth Art Gallery website, showing a section of Hokusai's Beneath the Great Wave.

Really looking forward to this exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, from 14 March:

Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige

www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

The racist and xenophobe Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch PVV, was booed and chased out of the city of Groningen last Saturday because many people are fed up with his tirades against immigrants. As a result, he had to stop handing out flyers.

In this video, you can see and hear what happened.

Cheering start to the day! Loving the 🚜

I still think about this a lot.

Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

And it is done. Who your dad is no longer gives you a guaranteed say on the law of the land. We have tonight done what so many Labour people have sought to do throughout our history: no more hereditary peers

Couldn’t agree more. The very sight/sound of him induces disgust.

This.

Harold Wilson who used to be MP in my adopted home town of Huyton

Standing up to the US is necessary at times, Harold Wilson refused to get the UK dragged into the Vietnam conflict. Keir Starmer has also done the right thing by saying NO to trump.
Statue located in Huyton village where he used to be the MP, felt proud of him and Keir today when I passed it

CNN found explicit footages of young girls (not women as said in the video) all not redacted and in some instances showing nudity.
This is an humiliating example that the DOJ does not work for the victims but for the perpetrators.
Let’s continue to talk about the Trump Epstein Files.

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Can’t you just hear it now “IRAN STOLE OUR TOMAHAWK MISSILES AND BOMBED THEMSELVES”.

I ❤️ Morocco

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Advice on how to grow old frequently comes from such banal or bloodless sources that we can be forgiven for ignoring it. Public health officia...

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”

There is still beauty in the world.
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Upholding Liberal Education Love of the world, not meaningless tests, must be the heart of liberal education.

“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...

The Afghan women left to die Without female doctors, women in Afghanistan are being denied medical care – as the recent earthquake made painfully clear

We're delighted that Jamaima Afridi has been shortlisted for @amnestyuk.bsky.social's Gaby Rado Award for her exceptional reporting for New Humanist on the women's healthcare crisis in Afghanistan.

Catch up now on this must-read story:

He looks suspiciously like a Viking to me. Get back to Scandinavia!

First New V-Level subjects announced from 2027 Ministers say

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: The first V Levels have been revealed.

They’ll finally give students the ability to study a high-quality blend of both vocational and academic qualifications, setting them up for work and life.

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New cohesion plan offers welcome foundations – more action must follow - British Future Sunder Katwala discusses the government’s new social cohesion action plan, 'Protecting What Matters', published today.

ICYMI: Our @sundersays.bsky.social examines the government's new 'Protecting what matters' action plan on social cohesion, published yesterday:
www.britishfuture.org/new-cohesion...

100 Labour achievements

I'm constantly baffled by people particularly the media and a handful of Labour MP's who manage to completely ignore the achievements of this Government to date. Not expecting universal agreement but the many, many positives are never mentioned, I seriously don't understand why.

Govt definition of anti-Muslim hostility. Non-statutory definition "focused on protecting individuals rather than religion or belief" with "clearer parameters" to "support a better understanding of when legitimate debate crosses into unacceptable hatred, prejudice or discrimination"

Watch. War makes money for the rich & powerful.
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