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Girl, 14, charged in connection with triple stabbing at school in Manchester (www.theguardian.com)
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Man allowed to drive off from nursery with wrong child (www.bbc.com)
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Drugs gang leader who sent 23,000 texts jailed (www.bbc.com)
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UK school leavers and new students to be offered meningitis B vaccine (www.theguardian.com)
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Far-right activist Tommy Robinson says "Russia is not the enemy of Britain" as he travels to Moscow to meet Elon Musk’s father (www.independent.co.uk)
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Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has claimed “Russia is not the enemy of Britain” after he travelled to Moscow and met with Elon Musk’s father, Errol.

Elon Musk has long been a supporter of Robinson, with both men calling for people to take to the streets in response to the knife attack in Belfast.

Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared a list of places where protests were said to be taking place at 7pm on Tuesday following the Belfast attack, saying: “The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people.”

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Police were warned for months about addresses targeted in Belfast riots (www.theguardian.com)
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London council seizes social housing flat rented by Sierra Leone first lady (www.theguardian.com)
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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi (www.theatlantic.com)
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Tell your MP: End the Big Tech Rip-Off (action.openrightsgroup.org)
submitted 8 hours ago by Sepia@mander.xyz to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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The UK is dependent on a small number of foreign-owned technology companies for critical public services and infrastructure. Controversial corporations like Palantir, Google and Amazon lock public authorities into contracts, ripping off taxpayer and getting their hands on our data.

We need to end the rip off and build Digital Sovereignty so that the UK has control of its own infrastructure. so that we can end the dominance of Big Tech.

Your MP can help make this happen by supporting an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which would require the Government to publish a Digital Sovereignty Strategy.

MPs will vote on amendments on Tuesday June 16 - we need to tell them how important this is for the UK.

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Wegovy weight-loss pills to be available for patients in UK to buy (www.theguardian.com)
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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds | Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economy (www.theguardian.com)
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[Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast (i.imgur.com)
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alternative video upload: https://streamable.com/e/x8htk0

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More than 100 academics have urged the University of Oxford to reinstate a lecture series that was cancelled after protests from trans activists (johnarmstrongmaths.com)
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Cobr'aint (lemmy.ml)
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Link to video: https://xcancel.com/DillyHussain88/status/2065002722349203720

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'The Two Big Lies About Trans People at the Heart of the EHRC Codes of Practice' (bylinetimes.com)
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[Video] Black guy tries to document white lynch mob, instantly gets attacked (i.imgur.com)
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Ministers want 60% of pupils in England ‘actively’ travelling to school by 2035 (www.theguardian.com)
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Two children die from measles as England data shows 100 new infections (www.theguardian.com)
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World Cup: Can I support England after far-right claimed the flag? (www.bigissue.com)
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Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds (www.bbc.com)
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Discrimination is when white victims (lemmy.ml)
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Make stolen phones unusable, Met Police urges tech giants (www.bbc.com)
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UK, Australia and Canada launch $4 million fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, advance two-state solution (www.gov.uk)
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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9467355

The Peace Fund will invest in programmes that advance a two-state solution, help reduce division, strengthen civil society, and support dialogue and cooperation within and between Israeli and Palestinian communities, building the foundations for peace, a joint statement between the three governments say.

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The fund will seek to scale up and ​attract ​additional donors ⁠once operational.

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Fund announced ahead of meeting ​in Britain between UK ​foreign ⁠minister Yvette Cooper and her Australian and Canadian ⁠counterparts, ​Penny Wong and ​Anita Anand.

[Edit typo.]

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Police officer, 19, dies from crash injuries (www.bbc.com)
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Belfast knife attack disorder 'destabilising', says terror adviser (www.bbc.com)
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