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Fri, 03/03/2023 - 23:11

I arrive outside the Amazon warehouse in Coventry around 6AM on a chilly Tuesday morning. It might be cold, but I’m feeling the warmth of the picket line. It was even colder last month when Amazon workers in Coventry made history by engaging in the UK’s first formal Amazon strike. This time the atmosphere is […]

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Fri, 03/03/2023 - 17:26
The UK Continues Its Decline

From the Guardian:

The number of UK children in food poverty has nearly doubled in the last year to almost 4 million, new data shows, ramping up pressure on ministers to expand the provision of free school meals to struggling families.

According to the Food Foundation thinktank, one in five (22%) of households reported skipping meals, going hungry or not eating for a whole day in January, up from 12% at the equivalent point in 2022.

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Fri, 03/03/2023 - 16:38

SHADOW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe and Shadow Agriculture Minister Mick Veitch were in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 26 February to officially launch the election campaign for Labor’s State candidate Tony Judge. The launch, at Coffs Harbour Surf Club, was attended by party faithful, community leaders and friends of the candidate. Advertise with News of The...

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Fri, 03/03/2023 - 12:00
So why bother? Kellyanne Conway as a truthful witness? Don’t make me laugh: Kellyanne Conway, who managed the final months of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign, met with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday, the latest sign that the office is ramping up its criminal investigation into the former president. The prosecutors are scrutinizing Mr. Trump’s role in a hush money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who has said she had an affair with him. The $130,000 payment was made by Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, and Mr. Trump ultimately reimbursed him. Mr. Cohen has said that Ms. Conway played a small yet notable role in the payment: she was the person Mr. Cohen alerted after making the payment, he wrote in his 2020 memoir. “I called Trump to confirm that the transaction was completed, and the documentation all in place, but he didn’t take my call — obviously a very bad sign, in hindsight,” he wrote. Instead, he wrote, Ms. Conway “called and said she’d pass along the good news.” Ms.