Something strange happens to Earth every 26 seconds and no one really knows why
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Getting rid of the European Convention on Human Rights won’t stop a single boat of. migrants | The Independent
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Getting rid of the European Convention on Human Rights won’t stop a single boat of. migrants
As New Labour grandees unite with Red Wall Labour MPs to call for the European Court of Human Rights to be reformed – legislation that Nigel Farage wants to scrap – Sean O’Grady says the mainstreaming of the view that it is no longer workable or need…Sean O'Grady (The Independent)
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Autism And LGBTQ+ Identities: What’s The Link?
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Don’t bet against children: tax gambling giants more now!
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We’re in a child poverty emergency, and it'll only get worse unless the Government does more.
Gambling giants don't pay their fair share but taxing them more could raise billions to help children.act.38degrees.org.uk
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Students whose parents were warmer towards them tend to have better socio-emotional skills
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Students whose parents were warmer towards them tend to have better socio-emotional skills
New research indicates that parental warmth is linked to better socio-emotional skills and greater well-being among Chinese college students.Vladimir Hedrih (PsyPost Psychology News)
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New psychology research identifies a key factor behind support for harsh leaders
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New psychology research identifies a key factor behind support for harsh leaders
People differ in how they respond to antagonistic leadership. A new study finds that those who see the world as a high-stakes competition tend to judge confrontational behavior as effective, while others see it as a sign of incompetence.Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)
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Scientists link immune markers to mental health symptoms in children with chronic illness
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Scientists link immune markers to mental health symptoms in children with chronic illness
Researchers have found that certain immune markers in the blood are linked to internalizing and externalizing symptoms in chronically ill children.Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)
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New research shows people shift moral arguments to fit their stance on women’s bodies
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New research shows people shift moral arguments to fit their stance on women’s bodies
Researchers examining debates over women’s bodily autonomy find that harm arguments often operate less as genuine moral convictions and more as rhetorical tools.Mane Kara-Yakoubian (PsyPost Psychology News)
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Mindfulness app helps reduce anxiety and stress in autistic adults, study finds
The article admits the study had some significant limitations so it isn't conclusive.
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Mindfulness app helps reduce anxiety and stress in autistic adults, study finds
New research indicates that a six-week self-guided mindfulness app helped autistic adults experience meaningful reductions in anxiety, stress, and negative emotions.Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)
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A common childhood virus could be silently fueling Alzheimer's disease in old age
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A common childhood virus could be silently fueling Alzheimer’s disease in old age
A virus best known for causing cold sores may dramatically increase the risk of Alzheimer’s in people with a specific gene variant. New evidence suggests herpes reactivation in the brain may trigger the destructive changes seen in the disease.Ruth Itzhaki (PsyPost Psychology News)
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From Channel 4 news: Farage & Reform & their plans to return people back to counties they are in danger in & repeal human rights & asylum legislation.
Remember they plan to repeal the human rights legislation & wouldn't claim it will affect anyone except asylum seekers but it will. You repeal the human rights act its everyone's rights they are repealing. Many group's won't be replaced or replaced with equal rights.
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1,122 likes, 802 comments - channel4news on August 26, 2025: "“We cannot be responsible for all the world’s sins.Instagram
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COVID booster denied to 13 million disabled & vulnerable people
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COVID booster denied to 13 million disabled & vulnerable people
To put it simply, it’s too expensive to give disabled people the COVID booster, so the government won't be doing that anymoreRachel Charlton-Dailey (The Canary)
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How UK government is cracking down on ‘honour-based’ abuse – Channel 4 News
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How UK government is cracking down on ‘honour-based’ abuse
It's known as "honour-based" abuse - violence carried out against people accused of bringing shame on either themselves, their family or community - and the government is cracking down on it with a series of new measures.Channel 4 News
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Does the UK really want Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plan? – Channel 4 News
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Does the UK really want Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plan?
Nigel Farage has put mass deportations at the centre of his new immigration plan — promising to detain and remove hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from the UK.Channel 4 News
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Farage’s deportation plans are ‘off the wall’ – Home Office minister – Channel 4 News
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Farage’s deportation plans are ‘off the wall’ – Home Office minister
We spoke to the Home Office Minister Lord Hanson and asked him what he made of Nigel Farage's plans.Channel 4 News
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‘Decades of failures’ fuelling immigration anger – Reform UK board member – Channel 4 News
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‘Decades of failures’ fuelling immigration anger – Reform UK board member
We spoke to Gawain Towler who has worked with Nigel Farage for many years and a few days ago was elected to the party's decision-making board.Channel 4 News
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‘Staggering’: 89,000 hospitality jobs lost since Labour’s budget – Channel 4 News
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‘Staggering’: 89,000 hospitality jobs lost since Labour’s budget
New figures show more than half of all job losses in the UK since the last budget have come from the hospitality sector.Channel 4 News
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‘Business wasn’t sustainable’ after Labour budget, says former restaurant owner – Channel 4 News
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‘Business wasn’t sustainable’ after Labour budget, says former restaurant owner
We spoke to Richard Crampton-Platt, whose South London restaurant Cafe Britaly closed down earlier this year.Channel 4 News
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Netanyahu says Israel is committed to Gaza City assault – Channel 4 News
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Netanyahu says Israel is committed to Gaza City assault
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel remains determined to free all the hostages and defeat Hamas.Channel 4 News
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Five journalists killed in Israeli Gaza hospital strike – Channel 4 News
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Five journalists killed in Israeli Gaza hospital strike
Israeli airstrikes on the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza have killed at least 20 people, including five journalistsChannel 4 News
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‘Deliberate targeting of healthcare staff and journalists’ – witness to Israeli strike on Nasser hospital – Channel 4 News
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‘Deliberate targeting of healthcare staff and journalists’ – witness to Israeli strike on Nasser hospital
We spoke to Liz Allcock, head of humanitarian protection at Medical Aid for Palestinians.Channel 4 News
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Kneecap rapper faces wait on terrorism charge – Channel 4 News
Emphasising Palestine and Action in the same sentence now counts as supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. 1 man arrested for supporting a terrorist organisation for having those 2 words separately in the same sentence on a home made placard.
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Kneecap rapper faces wait on terrorism charge
Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will have to wait a month to find out what's happening to a charge of terrorism against him.Channel 4 News
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As Netanyahu starves Gaza, there is a whole new battle to be fought in Israel – against complacency | Aluf Benn | The Guardian
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As Netanyahu starves Gaza, there is a whole new battle to be fought in Israel – against complacency
Here in Tel Aviv, beaches and restaurants are packed. Amid that distraction, the PM is playing his power games and purging his generals, says Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of HaaretzAluf Benn (The Guardian)
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Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
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Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report
Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staffEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Nicotine that is legal to sell & be used by children & are packaged like tubs of sweets. They can be stronger than cigarettes.
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Disclosure - Shorts: Nicotine Pouches: What’s the Problem?
Katie McEvinney goes undercover and finds nicotine pouches marketed the same way as sweets.BBC iPlayer
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Sharing suspects’ ethnicity won’t stop all instances of disinformation, says minister – UK politics live
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Sharing suspects’ ethnicity won’t stop all instances of disinformation, says minister – UK politics live
Policing minister Diana Johnson says government wants a suspect’s nationality and ethnicity released in most casesAmy Sedghi (The Guardian)
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‘It felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale’: US comics on the dangers of political satire
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Israel kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists in targeted strike on Gaza City – Channel 4 News
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Israel kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists in targeted strike on Gaza City
Five journalists working for Al Jazeera were killed by Israel in a targeted airstrike on a tent city in Gaza City on Sunday.Channel 4 News
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Leicester City Council to end post-16 school transport for SEND students – Channel 4 News
Many other councils are considering doing the same. This will mean many Special School children not getting the help needed to be fit for work increasing the numbers on life long out of work benefits.
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Leicester City Council to end post-16 school transport for SEND students
In Leicester, the future of school students with special educational needs and disabilities has been thrown into doubt, after the city council announced it would only fund home-to-school transport for those aged 16 or over in "exceptional circumstanc…Channel 4 News
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Impact of SEND cuts are ‘heartbreaking’ – advisory group member – Channel 4 News
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Impact of SEND cuts are ‘heartbreaking’ – advisory group member
Transport costs are not the only pressure facing students with special educational needs.Channel 4 News
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DWP recruits covert surveillance officers to spy on disabled people
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DWP recruits covert surveillance officers to spy on disabled people
After it previously denied it was doing this, the DWP is now openly recruiting more surveillance staff in another sinister moveSteve Topple (The Canary)
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A brilliant recent conservation project to increase the number of indo-pacific leopard sharks in the wild. Rasharking the ocean. I learnt about it on Wilderness with Simon Reeve. StAR Project.
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Wilderness with Simon Reeve
An epic adventure into the unknown. Simon Reeve's toughest journey yet - into the heart of Earth's last great wild areas, where nature is at its most beautiful and fragile.BBC iPlayer
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‘The worst day of all time’: Afghans speak of safety fears after UK data leak | Ministry of Defence | The Guardian
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Aid workers deliver lifesaving help in the toughest situations. They should never be targets.
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Why drugs are wreaking havoc on the prison system – Channel 4 News
Methods the drugs are coming in include drones & being thrown over the wall. I can see the possibility of prisons needing to be covered by netting.
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Several children ‘seriously unwell’ amid rise in measles cases as alert issued by NHS | The Independent
This is a disease we have a vaccine to prevent that does kill people. This is unnecessary suffering.
Starmer is turning into ‘continuity Rishi Sunak’, says Liberal Democrats leader | Keir Starmer | The Guardian
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new breakaway party will only boost Nigel Farage, Neil Kinnock
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Starmer’s welfare 'reform' wobble: armourers boom, disabled doomed | Morning Star
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Pupils with special needs forced to travel long distances to school, councils warn | Morning Star
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Women for Refugee Women : Sign our open letter: Lift the ban on working
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Code of practice for services, public functions and associations: consultation 2025 | EHRC
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Petition · Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community - United Kingdom · Change.org
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Petition · Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community - United Kingdom · Change.org
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