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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 1h

Labour councillor Caroline Firth reflects on the positive changes underway and on the horizon

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 1h

"... Other times I think about how the money could be used to fund playground upgrades or to install speed bumps in antisocial-driving hotspots ..."

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"...Sometimes I think about how I could spend it on social housing, especially after speaking to someone who’s battling with hundreds of other applicants to escape their overcrowded home ..."

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"I often think about what I’d fund in Keighley and Ilkley if someone offered me a million pounds to spend, no strings attached ..."

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 4d

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An essay in response to data that shows recorded race-related hate crime in West Yorkshire has increased significantly since 2010

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 4d

... – it’s not all that surprising to learn that the number of race-related hate crime being recorded in West Yorkshire has increased significantly over the past 15 years. It’s also been reported recently that hate crime more generally is on the up again in England and Wales ...

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 4d

as the internet sage Ethan Zuckerman has described the technology being hammered out by capitalist tech bros in search of their own versions of utopia (while pocketing a pretty penny) ...

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 4d

Living as we do in the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and a post-meaningful world of growth – coupled with the anti-worker agenda of AI ...

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Going live this week: race-related hate crime, immigration, identity and economics ... 🇬🇧

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 8d

🚰 Councillor Ros Brown is quoted in the @theilkleyjournal.co.uk talking about the 'essential' need to bring water back into public ownership.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 8d

Our essay next week looks at how this kind of disturbing racist language is unashamedly being voiced without fear of reproach and no sense of shame …

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To openly quote Hitler and call all non-white immigration illegal is, to quote the American journalist George Parker writing recently about the “depth of America’s moral collapse”, antihuman:

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

These council meetings need journalists.

Qualified journalists.

Who believe in facts.

Who believe in quality.

And who believe and care about the craft of writing.

They need The Ilkley Journal …

And we need you …

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

Who, for example, has five and a half hours (the running time for that last big get together) to sit through a lot of procedural chit chat from locally elected representatives?

Who even wants to?

Yet, these meetings need to be attended, witnessed, reflected on, analysed, digested and reported on.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

These meetings often happen during the day, when lots of us are either at work, on the school run or out and about in the community.

The last big council meeting, for instance, was at 4pm on a Tuesday.

They can also be very long.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

Or even watched an entire session remotely?

Ever?

Our guess is that very few people have turned up or even watched a meeting recently.

Let’s get one thing straight. We’re not having a go.

Far from it.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

District council meetings are a big deal.

Especially the full council meetings.

The ones where most councillors turn up.

The ones where lots of important decisions get discussed and debated.

The ones that affect us all.

But ask yourself: when was the last time you turned up to one?

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

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Yorkshire Water 1 of 3 water companies “responsible” for 81% of serious pollution incidents

As the call for public ownership continues to grow, the Environment Agency reveals that the environmental performance of water companies is very, very poor

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d

Yorkshire Water 1 of 3 water companies “responsible” for 81% of serious pollution incidents ... discover more by tapping on the link below ...

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 12d

We explore all of this next week in an essay, which takes, as its starting point, data about hate crime in West Yorkshire.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 12d

Katie Lam is a Conservative MP "tipped" as a future leader of the party. She is only 34. Her comments are just the latest example of how far attitudes about multiculturalism and the language around race, ethnicity and identity have changed in the UK ...

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 12d

We explore all of this next week in an essay, which takes, as its starting point, data about hate crime in West Yorkshire.

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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 15d

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A trip to the public sauna at Draughton Heights

A former horse box gets a new lease of life as a wood-fired sauna ...

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