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Bob Owen

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” But nothing in the papers from Irkutsk, where there have been reports of a potentially “dangerous infection.” #ReadingRussia
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What are Russian newspapers saying about reports of a potentially "dangerous infection" in Irkutsk?
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Support for the 2 state solution among Israeli Jews went from 40+ in 1994 to a peak of 70% in 2007-8. Netanyahu came to power in 2009 and it has been falling ever since. Source: Israel Democracy Institute.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Saying that Zionism is racism is like saying Communism is totalitarianism. Both are 19th century ideologies that generated wide sympathy and were seen as progressive, and when put to practice to create and reshape states, created enormous injustice. 1/
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
European political elites need to understand that if they say European security isn't possible without the US, they are actually saying that European security isn't possible. For many reasons, they don't want to accept that, but they urgently need to.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔴 Protests against Palantir across England today. In July, we published this deep dive into Palantir, its lobbying in Britain and the myriad problems NHS staff have had with its software. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: We are one! The @thenerve.news is celebrating its first birthday today!!! With the news that we are financially sustainable!!! THANK YOU so much to the many, many people who helped us get here. Your support is everything! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...
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The Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first year
Newsletter-led newsbrand from ex-Observer journalists now said to be financially sustainable.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Such sad news that the legendary Dame Esther Rantzen has passed away. Campaigning right until the very end. It was an honour to interview her several times in her final years. Thoughts with her family, who loved her so dearly.
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Lisa Manic @lisamanic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you used to listen to @robinince.bsky.social on The Infinite Monkey Cage then give his new podcast series a go. This episode with @chanda.blacksky.app was very interesting and enlightening. It also added a few more books to my To Be Read pile! tinyurl.com/374udvz8
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Chanda Prescod Weinstein in LIBERATION CONVERSATIONS | Robin Ince
Chanda is a scientist and science populariser I adore - whether it is "queering the universe" or explaining how Star Trek has rocked her w
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away” Read the full Q&A between author Omar El Akkad and Bafta-winning journalist Ramita Navai here www.thenerve.news/p/omar-el-ak...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smotrich's plan is to push the entire West Bank population to the yellow areas, and annex the remaining 82%.
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is brave here, a lone woman speaking out against xenophobia or the gangs of black clad men in masks, you decide.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day 669 of #GeorgiaProtests The 33rd anniversary of the capture of Sokhumi, Abkhazia. 📷 Tinatin Bolokadze
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Valérie Valère (1961 –1981) was a French writer. #CelebratingWomen
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026
“I can’t let this kind of rhetoric dominate the whole conversation. There has to be a way of talking about this issue without denying people’s humanity” @natashawalter.bsky.social meets Rachel Marsh, who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm, pictured being interviewed for Newsnight
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who is brave here, a lone woman speaking out against xenophobia or the gangs of black clad men in masks, you decide: www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With many thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social for clipping it - a feat that is entirely beyond me.
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brutal and brilliant.
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week's post: How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/how-... If your mortgage payments increased, would you cut back on visits to the doctor and help for an elderly relative, but leave all your other spending unchanged?
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How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases?
As you are almost certainly aware, the government is having to pay much more in interest on its debt than it used to do. Here is a chart b...
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/09/2026
The real reason AI bosses want a pause: They aren’t afraid of superintelligence, they are afraid of competition, writes Nerve tech columnist @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition. By Cory Doctorow. Image of OpenAI, Meta and Google logos.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴 NEW Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500 By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@davidallengreen.bsky.social I used to make statutory instrument jokes, but they kept getting laid before parliament.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
There was a time when Steven Pinker was the media's favourite scientist. Then came the debunking of his field of study, a flirtation with “race science”, and links to Epstein Journalist and cultural critic @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social dissects what went wrong 🔗👇
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: How Steven Pinker (pictured in a stylised green photograph) lost his way
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone who talks with sadness, alarm and concern about what is happening in Israel and Palestine, but opposes any sanctions on the Kahanist government, is doing "hopes and prayers"
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I felt sure that Matthew Syed wouldn't be allowed to be a presenter on the BBC after this. I'll go and check. Oh, apparently this type of radically political and partisan speech is fine.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bankrolling legal cases is part of the far-right's lawfare strategy. Cf Peter Thiel vs. Gawker (via The Hulk).
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf...
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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor
Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf
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Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: The Reform councillor supporting Patriot Platform, and the veteran-led group who want to establish a UK version of ICE. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔴 NEW The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network By Katherine Denkinson Read below. ↓
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Papers have now been filed for this case. But we still need support for the crowdfunding. Please do share and please donate. Without financial support we won't be able to keep taking these cases. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New post: Racism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns' mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/raci... What politicians and the media do today is like describing Mosley’s blackshirts in the 1930s as protesters with legitimate concerns about the government letting in too many Jewish refugees.
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Racism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns'.
During the 2010 election campaign, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was questioned by a member of the public about immigration. Shortly afterwa...
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: AI giants warn their tech could kill us all. Their proposed safety rules could help kill off cheaper competition. Our @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation exposes unproven runaway claims and a looming financial blackhole worth 10% of world GDP 1/20 bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...
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Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
There's always a new grift www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Likely to become even more raw as more people realise that a change only affecting people in England and Wales was defeated by MPs from Scotland and Northern Ireland! If it had only been voted on by MPs whose constituents were affected, it would have passed.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔎 From the archive: Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested As Reform receive £72m from Crypto Kings
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What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Omer Bartov & Peter Beinart in Conversation: Israel: What Went Wrong?
YouTube video by Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“I genuinely hesitate to engage with [Trump's $5,000 dividend] as if it's a good-faith offer, or as if its cost, inflationary impact, or economic effect is why it shouldn't happen. To do that, is to engage with it on Trump's terms. It is a democratic outrage and should be treated as nothing else.”
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Sunday School: CTRL-GRIFT-DELETE
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In Moscow I visit a new Metro station that references the war in Ukraine, a museum that heroises Russian & North Korean soldiers and I try to gauge the mood on the streets. An extended edition of #ReadingRussia
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Russia: a 'holy war', a subway station and the mood on the street
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/09/2026
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Stewart Lee: Danny Tommo’s masked patriots are coming for the Mail – if Millets doesn’t run out of balaclavas first
When the rightwing pro-Christian protesters are standing outside the rightwing pro-Christian newspaper demanding to be bought a house, you hardly need a satirist to intervene
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/09/2026
Journalist Stephen Grey, who spent years investigating the tycoon accused of masterminding the journalist’s murder, says his outrageous acquittal has left a grieving family without justice – and yet still not without hope 🔗👇
was there for the Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict. It was like hearing a court rule the Earth is flat. Protestors holding placards reading ‘Mafia Government’ and photos of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Valletta, Malta, November 2019
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