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Megan Clement
@meganclement.bsky.social
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Europe correspondent, The Observer. Writing a book about feminism and football. Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir. Lecturer in journalism at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle. Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Dec 19
With her powerful message that the shame must change sides, Gisèle Pelicot has transformed France forever. I explain how in this essay for The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/o...
Opinion | Gisèle Pelicot Has Changed France
She has opened up a conversation about sexual violence in a country where a serious reckoning was well overdue.
www.nytimes.com
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 5d
Very irritating headline. Should have stayed as a joke in the newsroom Slack channel.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 7d
"We produce more stuff than ever before but our culture is essentially one mediated through images rather than things. And the things exist mostly in order to be captured in images again."

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Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 7d
Jaguar with gunshot wounds rescued from river in Brazil.

A wounded jaguar, reportedly injured by gunfire, is rescued by Brazilian military police and members of SEPET — the Animal Protection Secretariat for the Amazonas, in the waters of Rio Negro, Brazil
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 8d
Une femme, alors ?
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Libération @liberation.fr · 8d
Démission de Sébastien Lecornu : Bruno Retailleau ne veut ni «un homme de gauche» ni «un macroniste» à Matignon

Suivez notre direct ⬇️
EN DIRECT - Démission de Sébastien Lecornu : Bruno Retailleau ne veut ni «un homme de gauche» ni «un macroniste» à Matignon
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 9d
All right then, let's see if Sébastien Lecornu can hold on longer than his predecessor... Sébastien Lecornu.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 9d
Farewell then, Sebastien Lecornu. We quite literally barely knew you.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 12d
There is almost always a violence against women connection for terror attacks.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape
Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape
Exclusive: Jihad al-Shamie had been due to appear in court over alleged sexual attack earlier this year, sources say • Manchester synagogue attack – latest updates The Manchester synagogue terrorist was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out the attack, the Guardian can reveal. Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was being investigated over the alleged sexual attack which is understood to have taken place earlier this year. Continue reading...
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 12d
In which we discover that Ann Patchett, like all right-thinking people, is a fan of Vegemite toast.

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Glowworms
In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 16d
Bravo to my friend and fellow Parisian @squigglyrick.bsky.social!
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 16d
What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21d
🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair

Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle

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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 22d
From the insertion of IUDs to pregnancy to birth, there has always been an implicit expectation that women should suffer and experience pain, and a minimisation of that pain. The far-right's ideal of a mother is one who dies in labour.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 22d
What underlies the Trump administration's recommendation is obviously all of RFK's false beliefs about autism, but also the conservative conviction that women absolutely should be in pain during pregnancy and childbirth.

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It’s OK to use paracetamol in pregnancy. Here’s what the science says about the link with autism
It’s safe for pregnant women to take paracetamol at any stage of pregnancy. Here’s what the research says about the risk of autism.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 22d
The good folks at @streetpress.bsky.social have produced this fascinating map showing the risk of each council in France voting far-right in the next municipal election. It's based on the work of researcher @alessiomotta.bsky.social

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StreetPress — La bataille des municipales — La méthodologie
La méthodologie utilisée par StreetPress pour la bataille des municipales, une carte qui estime le risque de victoire de l’extrême droite aux municipales 2026
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 23d
Cool photo of Paris city centre.

Taken from space by a satellite able to image scenes off-nadir.

Credit: BlackSky/Ken Joyce
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Libération @liberation.fr · 25d
⚽ A la finale de la Petite Ligue Queer : «Il faudrait accepter que le paysage du foot évolue et penser à repartager»

De plus en plus de clubs féminins et queer de football se créent à Paris et ailleurs en France, souvent dans des conditions précaires. Reportage :
A la finale de la Petite Ligue Queer : «Il faudrait accepter que le paysage du foot évolue et penser à repartager»
Alors que plus en plus de clubs féminins et queer de football se créent à Paris et ailleurs en France, souvent dans des conditions précaires, «Libé» s’est rendu à la finale de la Petite Ligue Queer.
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 27d
Malawi responded quickly after Trump froze HIV programs, ensuring essential services were still up and running. Then officials turned to rethinking their relationship with donors to make sure they would never be put in that position again: theforsaken.substack.com/p/not-going-...
Not going back
The Trump administration's aid cuts have Malawi rethinking its relationship with donors
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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 29d
Ex-en-Provence was right there . . .
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Worldcrunch.com @worldcrunch.com · 29d
Hollywood-En-Provence? How Brangelina’s French Vineyard Dreams Turned Sour

Jolie and Pitt’s idyllic vineyard life in Provence gave way to legal battles, renovations, and a bitter divorce.
Hollywood-En-Provence? How Brangelina’s French Vineyard Dreams Turned Sour
Jolie and Pitt’s idyllic vineyard life in Provence gave way to legal battles, renovations, and a bitter divorce.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
Been waiting four years to write this story!
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
It's a story that encapsulates everything I love about France, everything I love about football, and everything I love about the banlieue (where I live!). And in these horrible times, to work on a piece that is nothing but pure joy is a real privilege.
A group of people in coloured shirts playing football a blue playing field in front of a replica of a window.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
I'm so happy I finally got to write this piece. I could have written 10,000 words about the lucarne and all it represents, but a full page in the paper, with stunning pictures from Nathan Lainé, will have to do.
A page of the observer featuring three photos of children trying to kick a ball through the lucarne d'Évry. The headline reads Back of the fenêtre: football's toughest spot kick is through a French window.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
If you would like to see how hard this is for a normal person, witness my extremely poor attempt.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
These boys eliminated all the adults in the competition, including a police officer in full uniform. It was an absolutely glorious demonstration of the talent, passion and entrepreneurship of the Parisian banlieues – places that are often stereotyped and neglected, not least in the Anglophone press.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
His opponent in the final was – I kid you not – a boy named Zinédine.
A boy in a backwards cap and a purple shirt with Zinedine 93 written on the back. He is lining up to kick a ball through a window.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · Sep 15
Here is 13-year-old Ismaël, who practised in front of the fake window for weeks ahead of the final, with the winning shot. Yes, that is me screaming in the background.
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