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A cautionary tale regarding power in a pretty village, and what happens when it goes too far

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Yorkshire villagers angry over plans to remove beloved geese due to 'health and safety'
Yorkshire villagers angry over plans to remove beloved geese due to 'health and safety'
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August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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An important newspaper editorial, with a link to an equally important article.
Human creativity and effort are being hijacked by the big tech billionaires. Somehow, this has to be stopped, or we will all be much the poorer...
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Plays will no longer be written; music no longer composed; stories no longer imagined; research no longer done. Thoughtful expression is being held at gunpoint."

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Creative industry - Make It Fair: big-tech bandits are holding thoughtful expression at gunpoint
The Yorkshire Post is very fortunate to have writing for it a quill of authors whose talent eclipses that of most in the regional and national press.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Harsh, or about bloody time!?

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Yorkshire woman fined for walking her dog on Cleethorpes beach
A Yorkshire woman has been ordered to pay more than £300 after she walked her dog on Cleethorpes beach.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Adolescence: Netflix masterpiece scarified the conscience of my parenting, leaving in its wake bagfuls of thatch for me to ponder ... and there's a real-life parallel - that haunted me into writing this - that all dads should see👇

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Adolescence - Netflix: if you are a dad to boys, read this now
Listening to Stephen Graham being interviewed by Chris Moyles live on air as part of his Radio X show, I was struck by a parallel that I hadn’t until now spotted in relation to Graham’s Netflix master...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Plague of Angels: York Minster prepares to host something some people think it shouldn't. This piece, by the band's guitarist Mark Mynett, might just make the naysayers pause for thought. 👇

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York Minster v Plague of Angels: band hits back at concerned critics
On Friday, April 25th, 2025, Plague of Angels will make history as we take to the stage in one of the world’s most magnificent cathedrals: York Minster.
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March 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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1: Please be kind to Harry. He is 10-years-old and this
@altontowers.bsky.social review is his first published piece;
2: Please be kind to me, he's my lad and he's on a penny a page view so just move along, now 😆 #Toxicator

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Toxicator: Alton Towers first ride review - through a 10-year-old's eyes
Toxicator is a ground-breaking Huss Top spin flat ride, reaching 78 feet high. Opening on the 15th of March, 2025, guests are seated back to back straight before being taken up to new heights and bein...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Smacking children:

The Yorkshire Post says 👇

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Do you smack your children? The law is coming for you...
‘It never did me any harm’ is the throwaway justification-of-choice for those who lived, or perhaps endured and survived, a less well-informed era of parenting, where societal norms meant that strikin...
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March 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Rishi Sunak: let down by his predecessors and their associated self-serving rabble who together devoured the reputation and appeal of the once great Conservative Party."

The Yorkshire Post says 👇

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Rishi Sunak: do you agree with The Yorkshire Post?
This newspaper is content to be amongst the first to express regret that the Richmond and Northallerton MP Rishi Sunak was not Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for longer than he was.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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‘Rachel from accounts’ has become the quip of choice for low-brow misogynists looking to impress like-minded friends of a similar hue of prejudice when addressing the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves...'

The Yorkshire Post says 👇

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Rachel from accounts? Are you sure?
‘Rachel from accounts’ has become the quip of choice for low-brow misogynists looking to impress like-minded friends of a similar hue of prejudice when addressing the first female Chancellor of the Ex...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Today’s edition carries an extensive examination of coastal Yorkshire, which comes with a worrying timeline for homes, caravan parks and even key roads / routes. Page 3 is a corker, too. Have a great weekend, folks. 😁
February 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Page du jour
February 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Update:

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Yorkshire's Woodsmith mining project will ramp up again ‘no earlier than 2027’, says CEO
The CEO of Anglo American, the firm behind Yorkshire’s major Woodsmith mining project, has said that the company expects the project to “ramp up” again no earlier than 2027.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Morning BlueSkyers 😀
February 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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We’re going nuclear

Morning all
February 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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UPDATE: Doncaster Sheffield Airport

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"Unfair competition": Leeds Bradford Airport boss hits out at plan to give Doncaster Sheffield Airport £90m public subsidy
The boss of Leeds Bradford Airport has hit out at plans to provide a grant of almost £90m in public funds to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
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January 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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EXC: Latest on the mission to revive Doncaster Sheffield Airport - and not everyone seems happy...

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Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Council's controversial £105m plan for reopening site revealed
A new council-owned company backed with £105m in public cash is controversially set to take over the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport after attempts to find a private operator to run the site ...
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January 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Grooming gangs: "One of the many vile comments about you that I've read on Facebook this morning looks not a million miles from an incitement to murder."

Incitement to murder, for telling the truth 👇

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Grooming gangs: like it or not, Elon Musk has made a difference
Irked by the interference of ill-informed billionaire Elon Musk, for his own political ends, I was moved to ask our Westminster Correspondent Ralph Blackburn to examine further the child grooming gang...
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January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Pulled this together a few months ago but now updated with the likes of @jaymitchinson.bsky.social and @gregwrightyp.bsky.social for those interested in a refreshed list
chrisburn.bsky.social Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social · Nov 15
It's a work in progress but here's a starter pack of regional journalists in the UK, including national reporters working outside of London...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Elon Musk tweeted about a story I'd written about the Rotherham CSE scandal this weekend - but it was missing a key bit of context with the publication date erased from the screenshot he shared. Some thoughts here on what happened in my newsletter:
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January 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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You can’t say fairer than that, cocker!
December 11, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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Gregg Wallace: "Now, before you try to get me cancelled for daring to be thoughtful about the fall of the BBC's Masterchef star, the details of which you likely know as little about as I do, allow me to move this on a little, because my point is this:

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The snowflakes will want me cancelled for this one
Before I get going in earnest, a confession: the following musings of this mad man represent a triangulation; an opinion formed through reading - how novel! A venn diagram of views: a nudge by the col...
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December 6, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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There is something you need to remember about cash 👇

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Cash: your guide on how to ensure we keep our hard-earned money in our local economies - tell a friend
A report published today by the British Retail Consortium reveals that though cash is no longer king, it remains crucial to the economy. Cash usage, for the second year in a row, increased, with good ...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Finally!

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Social mobility report: a smorgasbord of the bleeding obvious, but...
The strategy document released today by the Social Mobility Commission is a smorgasbord of the blindingly obvious, a charge sheet of failure and neglect when it comes to the least well off.
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December 5, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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"I ended up being gawped at like I was some sort of pervert at a petrol station..."

A personal rant

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EVs: what's it like making the switch from petrol and diesel to an electric car?
This is an online version of the editor’s regular newsletter. Not all of James’ newsletters are published as online articles as well. To ensure you don’t miss one, subscribe today > https://www.yorksh...
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November 29, 2024 at 1:17 PM