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Retired, carer, runner and poor photographer. I care about the environment, politics and my family- not necessarily in that order. Yorkshire UK.

"Suella Braverman, you called the people in these hotels invaders and criminals. Now you're blaming the British public for not wanting them in their community?

“When the government continuously tells people their country is being invaded by dangerous criminals and the government’s hands are tied because of leftie loony laws, what is the public expected to do?

“Who's actually to blame if the public then decides to fight the invaders?”

Shoaib Khan

#UKPolitics

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23315350.suella-braverman-condemned-shameful-comment-knowsley-protests/

"Adults under 50 in England have just over a week left to take up the NHS offer of a Covid booster jab.

It is the last opportunity for healthy 16-49-year-olds to get a top-up dose - if they have not yet had three jabs."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64496025

Covid: Last chance for adults under-50 to get booster

People aged 16-49 in England have until 12 February to take up the offer of a free vaccine booster.

BBC News

Sporting Victory: Ukraine and the #Olympics

by Edward Lucas

If russian athletes take part, other countries should shun the Paris games.

Extract
Some russian athletes have close ties with the military; others have been pictured at pro-war rallies, sporting the loathed Z symbol. Are Ukrainians really expected to share the changing rooms, tracks, and podiums of Paris with them?

Read more here🔗 https://cepa.org/article/ban-russia-from-paris-2024-olypmics-to-help-ukraine-win/

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#IOC #StandWithUkraine

Sporting Victory: Ukraine and the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee says Russian athletes may take part in the Paris 2024 games as “neutrals.” That would mark a step back.

CEPA

Whoa, from European Commssion President von der Leyen.

"We have completely got rid of our dependency on Russian fossil fuels. It went much faster than we expected... So we have the possibility to redirect or reorient the additional funding of REPowerEU – ≈€250 billion – to our net-zero industries."

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_521

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

European Commission - European Commission

6 February 1927 | Józef Kocik was born in Cracow. This Polish boy was deported by to Auschwitz on 3 June 1942 from a prison in Krakow & registered as number 37282. For an escape attempt on 12 February 1943 he was taken to Block 11 & shot on the next day. He was 16 years old.

In our podcast Dr. Wanda Witek-Malicka from Memorial’s Research Center talks about the Auschwitz camp through th e eyes of a child: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-15-The-camp-through-eyes-of-a-child-e1ct7qo

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #history #histodons #children #podcast

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Liz Truss: an utterly dismal prime minister. Insanely arrogant. Dangerously ideological. Wildly irresponsible. And startlingly delusional.
And now the Torygraph prints her 4000 word whingefest about what’s to blame for her failure. Apparently, it’s not her.
Which will be a comfort to all the people made significantly worse off by her farcical time in office.
Seriously Liz. This ‘comeback’ of yours is just another desperately bad idea.

The British government has been suppressing evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 referendum consistently and systematically since questions were first raised about the reliability of the referendum result in 2016...

https://kentbylines.co.uk/russian-interference-in-brexit-referendum/

Russian interference in Brexit referendum – Kent Bylines

Last week the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) agreed to hear the case that there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.

Kent Bylines

“The thing we understand, which is proven in international research, is that providing housing for homeless persons is always more cost-effective for society than keeping people homeless…We did a study that showed when a former homeless person gets housing, even with support, the cost savings for society are at least €15,000/person per year.”

Canadian city learning from Finland.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-wants-to-eradicate-homelessness-here-s-how-finland-is-doing-it-1.6728398

London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here's how Finland is doing it | CBC News

A successful Finnish plan to eradicate homelessness is one London may want to consider as it works to redesign housing and health services.

CBC
Sunday #Sunset on the Solway from #Rockliffe #DumfriesandGalloway
High pressure is often the key to stunning sunsets, and this evening was no exception! Glorious colour on the Solway, long after the sun had set.