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Gill Oliver

@justajourno.bsky.social
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#News #reporter #Stratford Herald covering South #Warwicks. Ex #Oxford Mail. Features writer specialising in #housing & #business with side order of #tech #journalist, #editor, #NUJ member #copywriter, #storyteller #Welsh & #ginger

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is no end to this cat's lies
Large orange cat in a window, deadpan face, with the following sign: 
A QUICK NOTE
ABOUT THE ORANGE CAT
His name is Kevin.
Kevin does not belong to this café.
Kevin has a home.
Kevin is fed at home.
Kevin has convinced at least 14 customers that he has not eaten in several days.
This is a lie.
Kevin has already had breakfast Twice.
Please stop buying him sausage. Kevin weighs 8.4 kg.
Kevin is currently on a diet.
Kevin strongly disagrees with this decision
Small sticker in the lower right reads: dog friendly
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🚨‼️ Breaking 🚨‼️ Leon Black is walking out of our Epstein Oversight investigation after refusing to answer questions about his NDAs with women.
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said: “This constant cycle of cuts and cost-saving must end [...] The BBC cannot provide quality journalism without the talented and experienced workers who make it possible.” www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ responds to first wave of BBC cuts
The NUJ has warned that further brutal BBC cuts will be “devastating” for workers and audiences, urging management and the government to prioritise investing in the broadcaster.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
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Oxford & District NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tickets out now for the Oxford launch of Atypical Girl - a memoir by our very own music journalism star Penny Kiley, about "Liverpool, punk rock, and trying to be normal". It tells her story of covering Liverpools vibrant punk and post-punk music scene in the late 70s and 80s fixr.co/event/penny-...
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Penny Kiley: Atypical Girl (Author Talk) tickets on Thursday, Mar 19 | Gulp Fiction | FIXR
Buy tickets to Penny Kiley: Atypical Girl (Author Talk) on Thursday, Mar 19 at Gulp Fiction | FIXR
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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
One for #punk fans - a #music #journalist who was in the thick of it, shares her memories of the heyday of punk - #Oxford book launch is next month, details below:
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/12/2025
Five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet were barred from entering the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them “radical activists” who undercut free speech.
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They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"there's a new serif in town"
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Oxford & District NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A magnificent shout out to @oxfordnuj.bsky.social member @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social , currently heading to London to receive the Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology, from the Zoological Society of London, for his book ‘Cull of the Wild’ #oxford #journalism @zslofficial.bsky.social
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I'm absolutely bloody sick of self-appointed "patriots" claiming to adore Britain while trying to destroy our national institutions – including, this week, our world-revered public broadcaster. 📝 New rant 👇
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The ‘patriots’ who loathe Britain
They claim to love our country, but want to destroy all its institutions...
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/10/2025
Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
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White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/10/2025
On Monday, demolition crews began tearing down part of the White House for the $250 million addition. President Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. wapo.st/4hl7jyF
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 19/10/2025
Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
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Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says
The U.S. military demonstration that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel on a California Highway Patrol vehicle, resulting in damage, agency officials said Sunday.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2025
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
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‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 04/09/2025
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/09/2025
Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Traditional skills breathing new life into our much-loved windmills
In the first of an occasional series on how traditional crafts are still essential for the maintenance of our heritage, Mark Kendall talks to a millwright
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Jaimie Kaffash @jkaffash.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Love this article from @manchestermill.bsky.social. Local journalism has been decimated in recent years, but this shows the beauty of it when done well. Knowing the area, knowing the leaders, digging around in the streets manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Oxford journalists have joined a nationwide protest against the killing of 219 journalists in Gaza. Anna Wagstaff, local secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Our colleagues are the only reporters able to broadcast to the world the devastation, death and famine Gazans are facing.”
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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
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Oxford NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social protest in #Oxford Stop killing #journalists in #Gaza @nujofficial.bsky.social
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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
#Belgium: 400 unite in solidarity with Gazan journalists in Brussels, demanding urgent #EU action. "Our colleagues are working in appalling conditions on the ground. Let’s not forget them. Let’s not forget those who continue to inform us,” said IFJ GS @abellanger.bsky.social ✊ @efjeurope.bsky.social
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Belgium: Solidarity action with Gazan journalists unites 400 in urgent call for EU action / IFJ
“Our journalists are paying the price. They are killed every day. We want this occupation to end. We want the genocide and the killing of journalists to stop. The EU is complicit in their killing.”
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
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Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action
The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...
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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
✍️ Protecting journalists, defending truth in Gaza Add your name to the open letter from UK journalists to @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy. @IFJGlobal.bsky.social @InfoPJS @warchilduk.bsky.social #pressfreedom Read in full here:
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Open letter on protecting journalists and defending truth in Gaza
The NUJ, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) are among signatories of open letter urging action to protect journalists and truth in Gaza.
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Oxford & District NUJ @oxfordnuj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS IN GAZA! #Oxford protest and vigil tomorrow 1.00pm in Bonn square. Please join us to remember more than 200 Palestinian #journalists killed in #Gaza by the Israeli military. The killing must stop! Killing journalists is a war crime! oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s...
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Stop killing journalists in Gaza!
1.00pm, Wednesday August 27th, Bonn Square OxfordSupport the Oxford NUJ vigil More than 215 journalists in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli military since the conflict began. On Wednesday 27 Au…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/08/2025
NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 13/08/2025
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making you safer. It’s about making you scared – and blaming migrants while they’re at it. The Bear explains how the Great British Fear Factory works.
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The Great British fear factory: manufacturing a lawless London
Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2025
Trump: We're going to be adding a magnificent ballroom—most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere. We need it. Meiselas: We need it? No, we literally don’t. We need health care. We need affordable housing. We need an end to wars. We need peace in Gaza. We don’t need a ballroom.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/08/2025
I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Trump: the comprehensive Mexican food acronyms From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
JUST IN: Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists covering protests or restricting their movements under most circumstances.. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 11/07/2025
"We want to see the end to a situation where innocent people are being starved." Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan aligns with Baroness Helena Kennedy's view that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. @lewisgoodall.com
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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
My blog about #startup trends: 🦸‍♀️D2C brands like Purdy & Figg & Who Gives A Crap prove you can grow fast and ethically 🛍️ Get ‘phygital’: Online meets offline 🧠 Passion-led innovation: authenticity 🌍 Diversity, AI & climate-consciousness 💪Collaboration is currency Read here: shorturl.at/9QSMT
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Brexit has been slammed as a 'complete disaster' that 'ruined most of the country' in a poll marking nine years since the UK voted to leave the EU www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Brexit a 'disaster' that 'ruined the country' - referendum 'should be repeated'
On the ninth anniversary of the day the UK voted to leave the EU, we asked readers to have their say on whether Brexit has been a success - and Mirror readers had a lot to say on the matter.
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Gill Oliver @justajourno.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
They're eating the cat and jobs:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A gulag in the swamp and Medicaid cuts. Even the Trump fragrance can’t wash away the stench of this agenda. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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A Gulag in the Swamp and Medicaid Cuts: Even the New Trump Fragrance Won't Wash Away This Stench...
Republicans can't sell this bill so Trump distracts with more cruelty
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We call on President Trump and his administration today to end their inflammatory attacks on CNN's @natashabertrand.bsky.social, and journalists and news organizations more broadly following reporting of an early intelligence assessment of the U.S. strikes in Iran. pen.org/press-releas...
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Personal Attacks on Journalists Erode Trust in Fact-Based Reporting and Send the Message that Truth-Telling is Unpatriotic - PEN America
Rather than addressing the substance of his own administration’s intelligence report, President Trump has resorted to vilifying journalists who accurately characterized that intelligence, sending a da...
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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New reporting: The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US’ top general told senators during a briefing on Thursday. www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/p...
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US’ top general tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US’ top general...
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Stephen Henry @stephenhenry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Exeter, pursued by a bear
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Schrödinger’s nuclear program: it is both completely destroyed and must be surrendered.
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