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Liz Miles
@lizmiles.bsky.social
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Writer and children’s author. Libraries and literacy campaigner. Proud to have helped save many libraries from closure. www.liz-miles.com
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It’s exasperating when an applaudable pro-reading campaign largely ignores the role of public libraries. Why not publicise a resource that already exists. Maybe @thetimes.com is sidestepping the politics of a diminishing statutory public service? #GetBritainReading
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
Join The Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign
Reading for fun transforms lives, but we’re losing the habit. A stellar group of authors — from Ian McEwan to Marian Keyes — agree with us: it’s time to act
www.thetimes.com
There are so many available and ugly brown and main road-side sites for solar farms, I don’t know why they plan to destroy a beautiful landscape instead. Please sign to save part of Cornwall …

stopsolarfarmlanreath.com
Stop the Boccadon Solar Farm in Lanreath
stopsolarfarmlanreath.com
Catching up on the week's book news, this article from @thebookseller.com stands out: Inclusion: a commercial imperative’. So much to quote, e.g. "What we publish for children doesn’t just have a five-year impact, it has a generational impact." #inclusion

www.thebookseller.com/comment/incl...
Inclusion: a commercial imperative
Why representing a vast range of experiences is vital to ensuring reading for pleasure.
www.thebookseller.com
Please could you save children from an increasingly authoritarian govt and lobby to halt the digital ID cards. I’m astonished that Labour are suggesting a mandatory attack on privacy - it wasn’t even in the manifesto I voted for!
#LabourPartyConference petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
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BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID
It’s being called a ‘BritCard’.
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Liberal Democrats cannot support mandatory digital IDs. People shouldn't be criminalised just because they don't want to hand over their private data.
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The inspirational Eva & her friend Emily from Devon are taking on an incredible challenge to raise & release 220 harvest mice this summer , reintroducing them to a suitable site near their home in collaboration with renowned ecologist Derek Gow . Do donate ! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/evaemilyha...
He also mentioned a Netanyahu plan to annexe part of northern Gaza - approved by the US. Presumably a first step towards Trump’s Riviera.
And Donald Trump watches, rubbing his greedy hands with glee and imagining Gaza as ‘his riviera’ - built on the bodies of dead babies. #inhuman #immoral
Israel has launched substantial air raids and a ground operation in Gaza, targeting Deir al-Balah, the main hub for humanitarian efforts in the devastated Palestinian territory, amid urgent warnings of widening starvation in the coastal strip.

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Israel launches air and ground offensive on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza
Military targets key humanitarian hub that was relatively unscathed by war after ordering Palestinians to leave
www.theguardian.com
@maxjliu.bsky.social I noticed your article on Alfred Wallis’s grave and wonder if the above might be of interest to you?