Jann Visconti 🔶 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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Ex-Londoner in rural East Anglia. Advocate for the environment, women’s rights and democracy. 🔶Liberal Democrat 🔶Pro-EU. Cheerful. Lover of cats and the arts. #adoptdontshop

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“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.” ― Roy T. Bennett Mary Sauer artwork

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How do we deal with the fact that the head of MI5 says that Russia is the biggest threat, and our closest ally, Donald Trump, is regarding Putin with as a friend" Emily Thornberry, "It's as if Donald Trump's default position is to be sympathetic to Putin."

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Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough.

This "war" did not start last week.

It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Next month, Türkiye will host #COP31, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Ahead of the conference, authorities in Türkiye are arbitrarily arresting and prosecuting activists and others involved in environmental protests.

New from HRW: https://bit.ly/4ykcSnN

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Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst were arrested on this day 1905 after disrupting a Liberal rally at Manchester's Free Trade Hall attended by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey. They shouted: ‘Will the Liberal government give votes to women?’

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Hundreds of early-release prisoners in England and Wales not being tagged, say MPs

theguardian.comHundreds of early-release prisoners in England and Wales not being tagged, say MPsClive Efford says Serco has failed to source enough tags, as police and probation struggle with influx of newly released offenders * UK politics live – latest updates Hundreds of prisoners released early across England and Wales, including stalkers and violent offenders, are not being tagged by Serco, MPs have said, despite pledges for the “toughest supervision in British history”. As the government begins to discharge a second tranche of 650 offenders to relieve the prison overcrowding crisis, police and probation officers have said that they are struggling to cope with a new influx of offenders who are supposed to be monitored in the community. Continue reading...
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