#Independence

None of the people, young and old, who hit me up about breaking into photojournalism understand that there is a big difference between being a photojournalist and being a storytelling
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1/ 100 days from today a pivotal Holyrood election is due to be held. I’ve written previously about our AMS electoral system, and how it’s largely misunderstood (https://twitter.com/mabuzzer/status/1283016885873848325). Today, here’s
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Heard of Rhodesia?1889:- British South African Company (BSA) was formed and directed by Cecil Rhodes. His mission was to colonize Southern Africa and exploit its resources (esp. gold) in service
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Throughout this pandemic we have stressed that behaviour and behaviour change are as much to do with information and opportunity as with motivation. And if people breached lockdown it was
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Apparently I don’t need much encouragement to do things. @MrCrystalMighty Trans kids: I was a desister. Threading this thing. Family background: parents together (still are), lower middle class sort
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A respected NunatuKavut Elder, James G. Learning advocated and fought for his people and the lands and waters of Labrador until the day he died.Learning was known for his gentle
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Public Health Ontario is under the political control of the government because of hazy, purposely vague legislation. Which is not well known outside PHO circles = why I was so
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Many are calling the US church to repent from Christian Nationalism.Having been raised with millennialist, dispensational, and fundamentalist beliefs, I’ve spent many years untangling my faith from Christian Nationalism.Here’s a
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Whenever people talk about the "demographic dividend" or the huge time cost of having children I feel like they are just absolutely uncomprehending of how difficult and wearisome elder care
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#ReportLikeTheWestThe US was rocked by sectarian tension as supporters of far Right Christian Nationalist President Trump clashed with police at the US Capitol.The US recently held a hotly contested election
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SKorea lost a decorated war hero yesterday. However, history and reality are not always clean cut. What this obituary fails to mention, but was not unnoticed in Korean-language news media,
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I see various eejits are losing their reason in again over a paper flower, as if War Christmas needed some Newtonian equal and opposite reaction.A note: there's been a war
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NEW: Welsh Brexit Minister @Jeremy_Miles absolutely roasts Biz sec Alok Sharma @AlokSharma_RDG over plans UK internal market bill - warns it will "accelerate the break up" of the UK -
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I fully expected to hate Eve. (Especially after S3, I had concerns.)But Eve actually wound up being an incredibly subtly written character, that when you take a step back says
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"We're now at the stage of dismissing a leading UK university." #Scexit "They are doing a great job in illustrating why non-democratic nationalistic regimes have universities as their first target"
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The 2020 US elections were a reality check for how fragile the legitimacy of elections really is. This is something that paper ballot advocates have been beating the drum on
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