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Shafi Musaddique

@shafimusaddique.bsky.social
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Journalist covering minorities in Europe. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, iPaper etc. Formerly of BBC World Service, the Economist, Euronews and more. 🖊️ Human rights 💭 Decolonisation 📚 History, art and literature nerd. Hosting @HistFest

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Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
One of the best things about London. Walking into a world class university like the LSE after work, for free, and listening to a lecture about how a new economy - bringing power to the people - could emerge.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I'll be doing a live Zeteo Zoom town hall with the one and only Greta Thunberg at 3pm Eastern today (2 and a half hours from now), talking climate change, LA wildfires, Gaza, and more. Join us and ask your questions in the chat! To subscribe and then register:
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LIVE Q&A with Greta Thunberg *Today*! Register Now
Mehdi and the world's best-known climate activist will be discussing the California wildfires, the state of the global climate crisis, and her fight for justice from Palestine to Western Sahara.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
How can EU tackle big tech? 1. Speed up DSA probe. 2. Pressure Ireland. 3. Use the existing EU rules "to switch big tech’s algorithms off at a stroke.....People, rather than big tech’s algorithms, would again decide what they say/see". By tech expert/litigator www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I’m putting together a Substack on Tommy Robinson’s ties to Russia. Sign up to read it 👇🏻 writesbright.substack.com
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Sam Bright | Substack
Investigations and insights about the rich, right-wing, and powerful. Click to read Sam Bright, a Substack publication.
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Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Just reading the headline is shocking enough. When will this get any better?
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Nearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rent
Exclusive: Shelter poll shows housing crisis is causing hardship even for those with jobs
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.
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Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London is quite something. Bringing together VVG's paintings spread over the world under one roof. Including two "sunflower" paintings - one of them leaving the USA for the first time since the 1930s.
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hello new followers! I'm a journalist covering minorities in Europe. Just returned to the UK after a year and a half in Estonia. A former life investigating human rights abuses in garment factories. Mostly I love joining the dots between people and movements
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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In the spirit of sharing, we’ve put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians). What would you add to the list? 🎄🎁🍿 open.substack.com/pub/histfest...
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The best historical shows (and a couple of films) to stream this Christmas
In the spirit of sharing, we thought we’d put together a little list of the best historical things to stream this festive season (according to historians).
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Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Well. This feels like 2010 Twitter all over again. Hello... World.
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