Debbie Eade

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Journalist and translator in Spain, looking forward to retirement! Helping in the fight for justice for victims of Francoism. Loves: history, travel, books, art, cats, nature...
Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m

Support grows for expansion of free school meals to struggling families in face of rising hunger

The Guardian
Revealed: Brits are paying the highest electricity bills in the entire world - CityAM

New research reveals that the UK has the highest electricity bills in the world.

CityAM
UK government to grant sanctioned Russians ‘privacy’

Exclusive: Foreign Office has pledged to protect the privacy of those trying to get sanctions removed

openDemocracy
Tory sleaze is back – and here’s the proof

Rishi Sunak promised to end era of scandal, but the Conservatives are ‘rolling in it’ once again, writes Adam Forrest

The Independent
Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 20,000 Hungarian Jews, shot on the banks of the Danube, having been forced to remove their shoes. The shoes were deemed to hold value. Sculptor Gyula Pauer’s monument is composed of 60 pairs of shoes in iron. #HolocaustMemorialDay 

Johnson has trousered £1M in just over 6 weeks but the taxpayer gets the £220,000+? bill for his legal fees. Because that’s the ‘established precedent’. It’s also the ‘established precedent’ that ministers be sacked for serious breaches of the ministerial code. But they routinely ignore that one.

That aside though, in a country where so many cannot afford legal representation and legal aid has been cut to the bone, to have taxpayers forking out for Johnson’s legal fees, is beyond sickening.

If Rishi Sunak doesn’t drop the macho act, we’re in for a spring of continuing misery

The wave of public sector strikes will only get worse until the government realises that compromise is not a dirty word

The Guardian

Following its #ransomware attack, The Guardian has warned staff today that their personal data has been accessed.

May include name, National Insurance number, address, date of birth, bank account, salary, identity documents such as passports. ☹️