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Saw it on the internet - must be true. By Amy Claire Mills www.instagram.com/amy_claire_m...

Okay, so I am definitely going to have to go freelance, at least for a while. So, if anyone has any advice on actually building up and finding freelance policy and comms works, including providing media and advocacy training, campaign planning and strategy please let me know.

I think it's probably magic.

Below a photo of a yellow gas/petrol pump with a Shell logo. Instead of the cost, amount and price per gallon, it has Ride Your Bike.

Sorry what now?

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

No idea about beer, but that's a fine glass.

I see what you did there.

I like short chapters too.

Oh how I wish. But no. One day, maybe. *sigh*

The focus. (And obvs also lol.)

They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation.

2/5

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

And the tattoos.

Oh this could be fun. (Would prefer centre-left but pro EU is a good start.)

I know very little about the new owners of the Telegraph, but I can't help feeling just a bit of glee about them being German.

Abysmal.

Must read piece.

'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'

Vote Labour, get Tory policies

Dubai Influencers vs Iran Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Entertainment · 3 March · 54m

Regarding that last repost, here's the skinny on it from The Rest is Entertainment. (They start with it.)

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Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.

That puts a whole new spin on things.

Propagandists in pocket of regime.

It's why all the messaging is the same.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

How straight forward would it be to change the rules/whatever to bar someone like Poilievre who has refused to complete such a check standing or serving as leader?

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Kidical Mass poster shows kids on bikes and a cargo bike with kids in the box up front, all being ridden along the sea front with a row of large white houses in the distance.

A bit out of my area now but what a wonderful poster @bricycles.org.uk have come up with for their next Kidical Mass bike ride.

What's stunning me is how many Art Deco houses/buildings they found. Gorgeous.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Yogurt is your friend here. (Assuming no dairy allergies etc.)

In pushing Labour's extreme and hostile anti-asylum and anti-immigration policies the Home Secretary has lied. She has, deliberately or through ignorance, misled the public on fundamental aspects of both. That alone should surely be a resigning matter

Because what could possibly go wrong? (Rhetorical.) Shameful.

A Very Good Boy? 🙃