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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10h
National security adviser’s wife accused of supporting Palestine Action ‘God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action,’ God help us if @labouruk.bsky.social doesn’t do the sensible thing, Lift The Ban, and the humane thing: end the genocide. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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National security adviser’s wife accused of supporting Palestine Action
‘God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action,’ Sarah Helm, who is the wife of Jonathan Powell, wrote on X
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12h
Some of Israel's largest construction firms are bidding for billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Gaza, but no contracts have been awarded yet. 'All the companies are gathering data and waiting for the political green light,' says one executive www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-10...
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Israeli companies see billions in the ruins of Gaza
Some of Israel's largest construction firms are bidding for billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Gaza, but no contracts have been awarded yet. 'All the companies are gathering data and waiting ...
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12h
You’re telling me there’s not a viable market for a driver-less and passenger-less car?
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Over The Top Under The Radar @overunderpod.bsky.social · 14h
The Green Party are "at it again", if you believe the headlines. But is there actually anything wrong with the motion? @unrelentingego.bsky.social isn't so sure. 🎧 Full episode available below! #UKnews #Palestine #OTTUTR
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h
British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit
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British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit
NFU analysis of official data shows falls in exports to UK’s largest trading partner since 2019 include 70% for sugar and 74% for egg products Exports of British food and drink to the EU have collapsed by more than a third since Brexit with eggs, chicken and potato producers badly hit, new figures show. Analysis by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) of HMRC data shows a sharp fall in exports in the year to July compared with the same period in 2019, with sugar dropping the most, down 70%. Continue reading...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23h
Israelis and Palestinians have traded blame for the interruption that deprives the 2.1mn population of the devastated strip of an important source of food and other essential goods. ft.trib.al/Daxktl9
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 23h
Increasingly, after reading about the latest oligarch or billionaire tech-bros travesty, I find myself idly researching the cultural and social history of guillotines.
Guillotine engraving
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 23h
Israel killed my father and brother. A year after the 'ceasefire', I cannot reach their graves - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israe…
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Israel killed my father and brother. A year after the 'ceasefire', I cannot reach their graves
Israel's expanding Yellow Line swallows more of Gaza as hospitals are forced to close and displaced families face another winter in worn-out tents
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 23h
How Reform UK is closely linked to the United Arab Emirates A new report from Fairsquare demonstrates just how close links are between Reform UK and the regime in the United Arab Emirates northeastbylines.co.uk/news/nationa...
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How Reform UK is closely linked to the United Arab Emirates
A new report from Fairsquare demonstrates just how close links are between Reform UK and the regime in the United Arab Emirates
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/10/2026
Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027
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Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027
Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more money Thames Water has asked its creditors for another £2.4bn as the embattled water company comes close to running out of cash. The UK’s largest water company said on Thursday it needed another short-term cash injection because it would be unable to reach a longer-term deal to sort out its giant debt pile before running out of cash by “the end of 2026 or the start of 2027”. Continue reading...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 15/10/2026
Architectural Thread has won the 2026 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize for a heritage-led regeneration project in Redruth, Cornwall.
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Buttermarket in Cornwall scoops both Stephen Lawrence Prize and RIBA’s Conservation Award
Buttermarket in Cornwall scoops both Stephen Lawrence Prize and RIBA’s Conservation Award
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pretty long winded way to admit you lost a war?
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 15/10/2026
A 157-home local authority-commissioned housing scheme in south London, designed by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFFARCHITECTS, has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
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Council-built long shot wins 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW: A Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari has been pulled from Penguin Random House just before its release. As a result of the dispute, a long-running series of nonfiction books by marginalized folks on the histories of their peoples is also ending at Penguin Alana + Jenan speak out:
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Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release
Authors withdraw book planned for young readers after disputes with editors over characterizations of 7 October
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW Sally Rooney and Faber are not overreacting in withdrawing books from the UK market Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Faber withdrawing Sally Rooney's books from the UK is no overreaction
Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow ‘zero-click’ spyware to be used against targets, Canadian university researchers have said. “The spyware requires no interaction from the victim to be secretly installed” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026
According to news reports, HSI seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's "passports", plural. Has anyone seen the judicial warrant? Did a judge authorize the seizure of Omar's official black diplomatic passport that members of Congress are entitled to and required to use for official government travel?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As I’ve said for years: when the right - and particularly the crackpot racist far right - talk about freedom and free speech, they are talking about *their personal, unlimited freedom*. Their freedom permits, and often actively requires, policemen thrashing you in the head with batons.
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The advice on which former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper based her proscription of Palestine Action has never been published.
My assumption is that it outlined the organisation's behaviour and its implications for national security. That's all well and good.
But it turns out that proscribing Palestine Action (PA) has had follow-on benefits which make Cooper's decision seem even more laudable.
We've all seen the protests, when PA supporters who couldn't place Palestine on a map sit motionless on the ground with their PA placards.
They call it civil disobedience, but which of us hasn't thought what a simple, peaceful way it would be to clear these awful people not just off the streets but out of society itself.
- Stephen Pollard
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Adam Boulton: "she, in common with a lot of people in Ireland is taking a very strong pro Palestine & I have to say anti Israel & anti Jewish stance" Adam, can you provide evidence that Sally Rooney is taking an anti Jewish stance? Or are you, in fact, lying to smear critics of Israel?
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sorry, I’ll be prioritising the wellbeing of planet, plants and animals (including humans) above machines. If that means ‘murdering’ a few computers in your eyes by unplugging them, so-be-it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/10/2026
BT charged me for more than a year despite landline being dead
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BT charged me for more than a year despite landline being dead
It is billing £32.99 a month but I have had no functioning phone line since it switched me to Digital Voice
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Fifa has paid 4 million USD in rent for its (most often empty) office in the Trump Tower. #thepeoplesgame
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Un bureau de la FIFA dans la Trump Tower pour 4 millions de dollars de loyer, symbole des liens forts entre Infantino et Trump
Selon des documents dont « Le Monde » a pris connaissance, la Fédération internationale de football a consenti, en 2025, à verser à la société Trump Tower Commercial LLC un loyer total de près de 4 mi...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The hypocrisy of the UK govt laid bare. Defence minister @lukepollard.bsky.social (talking about the Houthis & Iran): "You are responsible if you fire a missile at a civilian target.. countries should not have their civilian infrastructure targeted by extremists or by another state"
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Countries led by Saudi Arabia & Russia are pressing climate scientists to delay publication of a report, so it's not ready for a major evaluation of country commitments on cutting emissions Even in scientific processes the fingers of oil interests cause trouble www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Fleur Ravensbergen delivers her report on the feasibility of paramilitary tranbsition in Northern Ireland today, 28 years after the Good Friday Agreement. A Keir Starmer appointee - she's spent 13 months privileging groups who are actively recruiting, controlling and terrorising the North. [1/n]
bbc.co.uk
Paramilitary racist violence deeply worrying development - report
Police intelligence pointed to the participation of individual loyalist paramilitary members during recent disorder.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 12/10/2026
On October 10 2026, The Daily Telegraph (7am), Daily Mail (5.20pm), and GB News (12.25pm) all published news reports that a University of Oxford lecturer had been charged with possessing indecent images of children; three classed as category B (the second most serious category)
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/
courthousenews.com
Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference
Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister — @nafeez.bsky.social The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
bylinetimes.com
Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/10/2026
Climate Researcher Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table in deciding the planet’s fate. That was until one morning last September in London, when she took part in the first in a series of war games.
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They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think
Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wh...
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Nick Grant @ecominimalnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Writing The Good Building Book, Jon and I had students and lecturers in mind as a key audience. A number of positive reviews by lecturers and students confirm the value. Please consider adding it to your reading list if you are involved in any aspect of building. www.waterstones.com/book/the-goo...
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The Good Building Book by Jon Broome, Nick Grant | Waterstones
Buy The Good Building Book by Jon Broome, Nick Grant from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who is what? What even is the ‘threat’?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If only we had some kind of unbiased Commission dealing with things like Human Rights, and perhaps Equalities. It’s the kind of institution that might be useful in this situation with political parties.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
First time I’ve heard of this - RIP Dr Fortune Gomo
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For a couple of years that was the Jeremy Bowen slot whilst the BBC didn’t want to face up to what was occurring in Gaza.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2026
Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets Aides of Roman Abramovich – including staff at the global accountancy firm Deloitte – falsified paperwork mapping the oligarch’s sprawling offshore business empire, records suggest, helping his businesses dodge tax and disguise assets. New analysis of leaked corporate records uncovers what appears to have been a long-running and carefully orchestrated strategy of backdating documents. Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just like BDO with Manchester City.
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Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heat pumps *are* defense spending. They cut our reliance on gas, and so weaken Russia.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be a truly terrible idea, decimating the heat pump industry and leaving UK climate and energy policy in disarray www.nesta.org.uk/blog/four-re...
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Four reasons why scrapping the Boiler Upgrade Scheme would leave the UK’s energy policy in disarray
Four reasons why scrapping the Boiler Upgrade Scheme would leave the UK’s energy policy in disarray
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On cancelling all UK overseas aid; Justin Webb’s journalistic response - ‘sure’
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MarkRoweLondon @markrowelondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Worth juxtaposing to when he interviews Milliband or Polanski.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2026
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say Ministers are preparing to slash the amount of money available to subsidise heat pumps as they look for ways to fund higher defence spending, sources have told the Guardian. Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary, has been tasked with finding more than £2bn in savings from her budget to help pay for defence investment under a plan drawn up by the previous government. Continue reading...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland after it felled 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest in Muhos plus 200 hectares in Kajaani without completing an environmental impact assessment (EIA). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Green Party has written to the Telegraph demanding an apology and retraction for publishing these two cartoons, which they say use "well known racist and antisemitic tropes in depicting Mothin Ali and Zack Polanski"
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 11/10/2026
AI data centers demand is driving up smartphone costs and squeezing cheap budget phones off the market restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-center…
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Spiked's 'Battle Of Ideas Festival' wiped all information this evening about Lola Salem, Gove's recently-ex girlfriend now facing child pornography charges. I would expect to receive very poor odds if betting on her being on 'Team Smacking' on this panel (also a long time Frank Furedi/Spiked cause)
Partial schedule for Spiked's 'battle of ideas' right wing 'debate festival'.

Panel on the right is for "GENTLE PARENTING VS SMACKING" 
Speakers: Naomi Firsht, Ashley Frawley, Emma Gilland, Nancy McDermott, LOLA SALEM, Chair: Ellie Lee
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