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Olly H

@ollyhaynes.bsky.social
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Hedging my bets until platforms collapse. Journalist covering politics, protest, France and more. Work in Guardian, Jacobin RollingStoneUK, The Fence etc. ollyhaynesjournalist.mystrikingly.c…

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Green European Journal @greeneujournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
With less than a year to go before France’s presidential election, far-right Marine Le Pen seems almost certain to reach the run-off. Her party’s success largely stems from its leaders’ ability to rally working-class voters while securing support from business elites. But can they maintain unity?
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Le Pen-Bardella: The Far Right Playing Both Sides
The RN has risen thanks to its leaders’ ability to rally working-class voters while securing support from business elites. Can it maintain unity?
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔴NEW: Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group Me / @ollyhaynes.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: bylinetimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to "stop importing an invasive foreign serf class"
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It was great to work with Sam on this piece and shine a light on the connections between Reform and parts of the Trump administration.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Christopher Harborne, Reform’s biggest donor, and Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick share a financial interest in the crypto giant Tether. Meanwhile, Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted the firm 👇🏻
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted Tether, a firm that issues the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. Lutnick’s family owns Cantor Fitzgerald, which holds […]
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🔴 NEW: The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture By Olly Haynes Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country Read the full story below.
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The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture
Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In yet another attack on the public right to know, the Judicial Appointments Commission is seeking costs from a journalist who had the temerity to force it to respond to an FOI ruling he says it was not complying with by seeking court enforcement action. www.thetimes.com/article/8d9e...
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Judge-appointing body is trying to silence journalists
Six years ago I started to investigate the judiciary — I uncovered a seeming morass of misogyny, bullying and racism
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/04/2026
People are always like “the German word for this, the German word for that” but the Chinese don’t get enough credit for coming up with the phrase ”the garbage time of history” to describe the present.
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There's a Reform candidate for Abbey ward in Greenwich called Austin Powers who will be accompanied by his suggestively named comrades Ruth Handyside and Greg Rodwell. greenwichwire.co.uk/greenwich-coun…
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Allan Barte @allanbarte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"Après les municipales viendra le moment de la clarification." - F. Hollande Traduction : Une fois que j’aurai sauvé ma ville grâce aux insoumis, je dirai à nouveau qu’ils sont infréquentables. #Municipales2026 ▶️ ko-fi.com/allanbarte Source : www.lopinion.fr/politique/vi...
Dessin d'actualité d'Allan BARTE faisant référence au meme  Drakeposting - Hotline Bling

Titre : François Hollande clarifie sa position

En haut à gauche, François Hollande, visage sévère, main devant lui comme s'il refusait quelque chose. A côté, écrit dans une case noire :« FAIRE ALLIANCE AVEC LFI ? JAMAIS DE LA VIE ! »
En bas à gauche, François Hollande, détendu et souriant, les yeux fermés, approuvant d'un signe de la main.  A côté, écrit dans une case noire « Sauf pour être député ou pour garder ma ville »
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📌 ICYMI — Is Paris About to Swing to the Right? As voters prepare to go to the polls in the 'City of Light', Olly Haynes examines whether growing unity between the right and far-right in the French capital could be about to take it on a dark turn
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Is Paris About to Swing to the Right?
As voters prepare to go to the polls in the 'City of Light', Olly Haynes examines whether growing unity between the right and far-right in the French capital could be about to take it on a dark turn
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📌 ICYMI — How Palestinians Really Feel About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza Palestinians accuse the President of attempting to "pacify the victim" while overseeing a "slow genocide" in Gaza bylinetimes.com/2026/02/18/how-pale…
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How Palestinians Really Feel About Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza
Palestinians accuse the President of attempting to "pacify the victim" while overseeing a "slow genocide" in Gaza
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🔴How YouTube’s Algorithm Pushed People Into Neo-Nazism A new study reveals how the video sharing platform helped radicalise leading figures on the far right bylinetimes.com/2026/01/27/h...
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How YouTube's Algorithm Pushed People Into Neo-Nazism
A new study reveals how the video sharing platform helped radicalise leading figures on the far right
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 07/01/2026
🔎 NEW Reform council that promised cuts has handed out a £30,000 contract to a company owned by a party supporter which was involved with 10 serious pollution incidents in 2024. Investigation by @ollyhaynes.bsky.social: goodlaw.social/kip5
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Reform council that promised cuts delivers payday for party backer
Reform councils have increased spending and handed out a £30,000 contract to a company owned by a party supporter which was involved with 10 serious pollution incidents in 2024.
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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 07/01/2026
O'tacos! partout! maintenant!
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/12/2025
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🔴Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War Chest as ‘Billionaires Wait in the Wings’ to Back Nigel Farage for PM The self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ party took almost four times more from big money donors last quarter than any of their rivals bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/r...
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Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War Chest as 'Billionaires Wait in the Wings' to Back Nigel Farage for PM
The self-proclaimed 'anti-establishment' party took almost four times more from big money donors last quarter than any of their rivals
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The only time Macron has ever made a concession that wasn't to the politics of the RN was to the Gilets Jaunes. A concession obtained by force, not through negotiation.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🔴 Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000 EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
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Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party's director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My piece on a couple of transparency loopholes in the APPG rules. The number of PLGs, APPGs by another name which evade the rules, has doubled since their existence was first reported last year.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🔴The Parliamentary Funding Loophole Allowing Murdoch To Dodge Scrutiny ‘MPs engaging with these groups may have no idea whose interests dominate the funding… allowing wealthy interests to quietly steer policy’ bylinetimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
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The Parliamentary Funding Loophole Allowing Murdoch To Dodge Scrutiny
'MPs engaging with these groups may have no idea whose interests dominate the funding... allowing wealthy interests to quietly steer policy'
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🔴‘House of the People’ Citizens’ Assembly Provides Alternative to UK’s Far-Right Descent’ The first sitting of the assembly recommended a ‘People’s Charter’, backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/h...
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'House of the People' Citizens' Assembly Provides Alternative to UK's Far-Right Descent'
The first sitting of the assembly recommended a 'People's Charter', backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Think this is the purest and most open distillation of what is an increasingly influential among elites, strain of thought on the British Christian right which goes “I oppose Islam because it is hostile to mainstream modern British thought, which I am explicitly hostile towards”.
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My piece on the far right billionaires funding the NatCon movement. Thanks to @jasonaw.bsky.social who I spoke to for it.
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My piece on the far right billionaires funding the NatCon movement. Thanks to @jasonaw.bsky.social who I spoke to for it.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🔴‘A Warning From Europe on Why Keir Starmer’s ‘Blue Labour’ Strategy Is Such a Dangerous Dead End’ Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes bylinetimes.com/2025/06/05/e...
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'A Warning From Europe on Why Keir Starmer's 'Blue Labour' Strategy Is Such a Dangerous Dead End'
Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the very far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes
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Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reaction ending in a great crash. www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/a-grea...
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A Great Trump Crash? — The Democracy Collaborative
Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reac...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
One Gaza doctor told the Tribunal that he witnessed "mass casualty events" multiple times a day.
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Gaza Tribunal Gathers in Sarajevo in Attempt to Hold Israel to Account Over 'Genocide and War Crimes'
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"The blame for the civilian dead lies with Hamas.. When this war began, I said with confidence that Israeli forces would never target children." Finkelstein's line is that only *now* has it become obvious that Israel is committing systematic war crimes against civilians. [1/2] archive.ph/uPmxW
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My piece in the Guardian on the trajectory of climate protest www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back | Oliver Haynes
The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action, says journalist Oliver Haynes
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My piece in the Guardian on the trajectory of climate protest www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back | Oliver Haynes
The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action, says journalist Oliver Haynes
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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 19/05/2025
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🔴Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country bylinetimes.com/2025/05/16/m...
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
1 of the attendees at the British museum was Robert Stearns, a Christian Zionist, who in the video linked below advocated for the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan and Egypt. Maria Eagle's speech also raises Qs about UK involvement in war crimes bylinetimes.com/2025/05/16/m...
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Labour Minister Defends RAF Gaza Surveillance Flights Amid Growing Scrutiny of UK-Israel Relationship
Defence Minister Maria Eagle spoke at a private Israel Independence Day meeting and said the UK would continue to back the country
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“With far-right politicians and Big Tech billionaires threatening to tear up our national institutions, we need genuinely democratic media that’s owned, controlled by & accountable to the public” — Tom Chivers Our report with @mediareformuk.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social 👇 🖊️ Olly Haynes
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its 'Pro-Establishment Bias' Warns Report
It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza
Journalist Abubaker Abed never wanted to leave his homeland. He describes the excruciating decisions he was forced to make.
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Jerry Levine @jerrylevine.com · 12/05/2025
In no way should a U.S. Citizen be detained, anywhere, because of their protected speech (and neither should a non-citizen, to be clear). To do so is to violate an oath to the Constitution and the rule of law. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike... ( @taylorlorenz.bsky.social )
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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
+ TikTok clout loop, Kai Cenat's next chapter, the "safest white boy", Minecraft marriages, group chat trauma, a MAHA-friendly food app, Altman's kitchen fails, and Silicon Valley's existential crisis
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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David Lammy Accused of Misleading Parliament as New Report Reveals Huge Scale of Continued UK Arms Shipments to Israel
Thousands of items categorised as "munitions of war" continued to be sent to Israel after Keir Starmer's Government suspended a series of arms licenses to the country
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
@jdportes.bsky.social can you follow me back - I'm a reporter working for Byline Times and would be interested in interviewing you for an article. Kind regards, Olly H
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My piece on the likelihood of the ISDS mechanism that insiders say will be contained within the BIT with India. Also touches on the swirling rumours in the legal industry that a Russian oligarch is suing the British state through ISDS.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🔴Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts” bylinetimes.com/2025/05/09/c...
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Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn
Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts”
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great to work with the brilliant @mc00.bsky.social on this one.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔴Controversial Spy-Tech Firm’s Inclusion at NHS Confederation Expo Leads to Speaker Pulling Out An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that ‘many colleagues will have concerns’ about Palantir’s inclusion bylinetimes.com/2025/05/07/p...
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Controversial Spy-Tech Firm’s Inclusion at NHS Confederation Expo Leads to Speaker Pulling Out
An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that 'many colleagues will have concerns' about Palantir's inclusion
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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David Lammy Accused of Misleading Parliament as New Report Reveals Huge Scale of Continued UK Arms Shipments to Israel
Thousands of items categorised as "munitions of war" continued to be sent to Israel after Keir Starmer's Government suspended a series of arms licenses to the country
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Albert Toth @alb-toth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
…finding out that no one really cared, then being told by the editor to cherry pick quotes that made out like they did. Much less of that kind of journalism would be good for everyone
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Albert Toth @alb-toth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
When I was a young hopeful journalist fresh out of university I did a stint of work experience for a local paper. Most of the day was spent going to neighbourhoods where everyone was apparently outraged about something like a new road, or (more worryingly) Travellers etc…
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Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Louis Sarkozy tresse des lauriers à Raquel Garrido qu'il "aime beaucoup" pour des gens de gauche: "Avec Alexis Corbière, ils ont quitté LFI lorsque ce parti est devenu fou, c’est tout à leur honneur", assure le rejeton de l'ex-président dans un portrait laudateur publié par Le Figaro Magazine.
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Harrison Stetler @harrstetler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the April 25 murder of Aboubakar Cissé and the struggle to confront Islamophobia in France: jacobin.com/2025/05/fran...
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In France, the Collective Denial of Islamophobia Is Deadly
A stabbing at a southern French mosque last Friday sparked terror and protest among France’s Muslims. Yet many top politicians refuse to speak of “Islamophobia,” instead leaning into far-right narrati...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/05/2025
BREAKING: A Freedom Flotilla ship was reportedly targeted in a drone attack. The front of the vessel was struck twice, causing a fire and a breach in the hull. The ship was stranded in international waters near Malta. An SOS distress signal has been issued. Video: Freedom Flotilla Coalition
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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fascinating article on the rival views of the french left as they confront a changed world.
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