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Damien Gayle

6 years

“If you can read that list without the hairs on the back of your neck beginning to stand up, then maybe #journalism is not for you.” David Randall in The Universal Journalist, 1996.

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2 years

Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.

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“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?” @JustStop_Oil ’s activists explain their action

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It just occurred to me that this is the first major war between civilized nations in my lifetime.

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3 years

Extinction Rebellion dumped seven tons of shit outside the offices of the Daily Mail this morning. 😂

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I've been appointed environment correspondent at the @guardian .

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Avon and Somerset police did not respond to my questions about how they came to make the false claims in the first place.

Police retract claims that officers suffered broken bones at Bristol protest

Avon and Somerset force said in press release officers had broken bones and one had a punctured lung

www.theguardian.com

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Hang on @JustStop_Oil did an even wilder action later

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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🎨 BREAKING: LORA JOHNSON THROWS PAINT ON MET POLICE HQ 🎨 ⚖️ New oil and gas will lead to crop failure, food shortages and the collapse of law and order. Human civilisation as we know it is on the verge of collapse. #FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance

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“It’s an electric train though!” Passengers take issue #ExtinctionRebellion activists who blocked the DLR

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“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?” @JustStop_Oil ’s activists explain their action

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#ExtinctionRebellion activists have disrupted London’s Docklands Light Railway network at Shadwell station

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“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.” Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry ( @ThierryAaron ), who has his hand superglued to the window at @beisgovuk with @ScientistsX

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Scientists with @ScientistsX have glued themselves to the windows of @beisgovuk in a climate change protest

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Breaking: #Colston4 cleared of toppling Edward Colston statute

BLM protesters cleared over toppling of Edward Colston statue

Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protest

www.theguardian.com

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“It’s not okay!” This is the moment Rabbi Jeffrey Newman was arrested and carried away for taking action with #ExtinctionRebellion outside the Bank of England

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Scientists and medics with @XRebellionUK are gathering outside Charing Cross police station to demand the release of Emma Smart ( @smartyfish ), a marine biologist who has been held since Wednesday

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This #insulatebritain member has glued himself to a police van.

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Equipment confiscated from #ExtinctionRebellion included these pink bean bags, which remain under heavy guard from the Met’s territorial support group.

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@elenaukc Lol I’m a reporter with the Guardian

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“What’s that smell? Oh, it’s her knickers,” officers at a north-east London police station said to each other after Dr Konstancja Duff was held down on the floor and her clothes cut off. “Is she rank?” another said.

Met apologises to woman for ‘sexist, derogatory’ language in strip-search

Force pays compensation to Dr Konstancja Duff for language used after CCTV captures officers’ comments

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

BREAKING: 10 women have smashed windows at the HSBC headquarters in Canary Wharf to protest the bank’s investment in fossil fuels.

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“Those eggs are the only justice they’re ever going to see.” Man who threw eggs at King Charles in York says he did for “all the victims of of police brutality, all the victims of slavery and colonialism”

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"Imagine you are surrounded by an armed gang. They tie your hands and legs together, pin you to the ground, and cut off your clothes with scissors." Read Konstancja Duff's own account of her experience, on @novaramedia

The Met Just Apologised After Strip-Searching Me. I Don’t Believe a Word of It | Novara Media

For eight years before their recent U-turn, the officers who assaulted Koshka Duff claimed they were just doing their jobs. They were right, she says: sexual violence is policing’s bread and butter.

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Here’s @LordIanAustin , the former Labour MP ennobled by the Tories, saying he hopes police “didn’t damage their shields and batons” using them on protesters in Bristol this week.

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Is Big Tobacco going to save the world from a respiratory disease? Can 2020 really get any weirder?

British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Cigarette maker says tobacco plants offer potential for faster and safer drug development

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Poll finds 66% of the British public support non-violent direct action to protect nature, @dpcarrington reports.

Huge UK public support for direct action to protect environment – poll

Exclusive: 66% of people back nonviolent action and 75% support solar power being installed on farmland

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Police apparently arresting legal observers at what remains of the #KillTheBill protest in Aldwych. @libertyhq check it out.

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I’ve been sent this footage of police kneeling on or near the neck of a #KillTheBill protester while making an arrest in Parliament Square.

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This is literally a country at war with its own people.

Power to the People ☭🕊

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The country with the third highest military budget in the world is the United States police department.

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Prof Colin Davis from University of Bristol is tackled for spray painting an @extinctsymbol on @beisgovuk . Here he is arrested while explaining his actions to media.

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Anarchist bloc comes streaming into Whitehall after being held in Trafalgar Square #StopTommyRobinson

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Thousand of people have joined a #NoNewNormal demonstration against #lockdown , mass vaccination and other Covid-19 measures in Trafalgar Square.

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4 years

Hundreds of south Londoners take a knee and chant #BlackLivesMatter on Tooting Bec common

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5 years

Rest in peace Jean Charles de Menezes. Never forget.

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Today we are pleased to confirm that the in the latest Honours announcement, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has been nominated to become a Dame. The Commissioner joined @metpoliceuk in 1983 and was appointed as the UK's most senior police officer in April 2017.

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Protesters have blockaded @AstraZeneca ’s cambridge hq to call for the company to waive the patent for its #coronavirus vaccine #PeoplesVaccine

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Activists with @JustStop_Oil have blocked the roads around Trafalgar Square

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Activists from @JustStop_Oil have stopped an oil tanker at the Chiswick roundabout at the start of the M4 in west London

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3 years

A slightly clearer angle of this incident, sent to me by someone else, that appears to show a police officer with his knee on the neck of a #KillTheBill protester in Parliament Square.

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“If it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanise public opinion then it is certainly worth being arrested.” Rabbi Jeffrey Newman in the moments before he was arrested and carried away by police for taking action with #ExtinctionRebellion .

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Police admitted they had no warrant to enter the #ExtinctionRebellion building, but claimed the right after arresting people who had been seen to leave it.

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“Kill the bill,” chant the protesters, in reference to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill currently going through parliament, which will criminalise a number of forms of protest.

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Dr Abi Perrin, 32, a microbiologist from York, explains the posters stuck to @beisgovuk . “This one’s about the number and types of fossil fuels we can extract to expect a liveable future for young people alive now. And it basically says no more new extraction.”

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BREAKING: Nine black Labour MPs are writing to Keir Starmer to warn that the delay to the Forde inquiry "risks further doubling down on the impression that the party is not taking anti-black racism seriously."

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FULL STORY: Police begin preemptive arrests of #ExtinctionRebellion activists ahead of London protests

London police arrest Extinction Rebellion activists before protest

Officers raid building used by climate activists to store items for Westminster rally

www.theguardian.com

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10 months

Respect to the bredda who doesn't clap

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'On Just Stop Oil...I think they need to just stop'

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5 years

Bass and drum at #ExtinctionRebellion Trafalgar Square right now. I’m told that police have stopped arresting rebels “because they’ve run out of space in the cells”

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The prime minister’s dad, Stanley Johnson, with #ExtinctionRebellion insignia at Trafalgar Square. Another “uncooperative crusty”?

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3 years

I think a lot of us are just pinning our hopes on the revolution at this point.

Home ownership unaffordable despite 95% mortgages, analysis shows

Many single thirtysomethings will still find large parts of England and Wales too expensive to buy

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Scientists swooped on @beisgovuk at 11am and glued scientific papers - and their own hands - to the windows of the government department

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"This is an existential threat. Young people should be angry and should be demanding change from their leaders." Filmmaker @JackHarries holds a banner over Westminster bride with activists from #ExtinctionRebellion

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“I want our children and all the people of this earth to be able to live their lives, have their hopes and dreams fulfilled, on a living planet.” London 2012 Olympic gold medalist Etienne Stott on his reasons for joining #ExtinctionRebellion

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4 years

Someone should make a Google map of the UK's imperialist statues, so we can learn a bit more about our history.

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“No new oil. No new gas. No new coal. Insulate Britain.” @JustStop_Oil are on the road in Barbican, central London

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5 years

@elenaukc So I guess you can use it

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This video by Zoe Broughton shows the moment @ScientistsX swooped on @beisgovuk at 11am - after a decoy by @DoctorsXr

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Dr Aaron Thierry explains to a police officer what he’s doing outside @beisgovuk .

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#ExtinctionRebellion said in a statement: “This escalation of pre-emptive tactics by the government and police is a sign that we are being heard and acknowledged as a significant movement.

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An activist with #ExtinctionRebellion said the building had been a “tech hub” storing much of the audiovisual equipment for the protests, including sound systems and lighting, as well as lots of small gazebos.

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Extinction Rebellion London 🌍

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@metpoliceuk stop rebels with "random" MOT and insurance checks. Then arrest driver for having a gazebo in the van. This is not what democracy looks like ⚖️ 12:30, nr Kennington, London.

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3 years

When racism is baked in to our institutions this is what you get.

Boy, 11, referred to Prevent for wanting to give ‘alms to the oppressed’

Teachers contact counter-radicalisation programme after mistakenly believing he said ‘arms’

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RIP my mum, @marirosetta , who passed yesterday afternoon. Always anarchist, always feminist, she was defiant to the end. I love you mum. You can dance again at last. ❤️🖤💚

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Walking round Kennington on a dark night with my mum sticking Class War stickers on lamp posts.

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Thousands of people have joined a protest against coronavirus lockdowns and #VaccinePassports in central London.

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Each one represents a lost child. Migrants rights activists @lgsmigrants pasted 200 missing posters in front of the @ukhomeoffice this morning.

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BREAKING: #Stansted15 convictions quashed on appeal.

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Stansted 15 appeal verdict is due today. Here's a quick reminder of what experts from @UNHumanRights said about their prosecution.

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Close to where @ScientistsX were taking action, @Angus_Climate is on day 31 of his hunger strike calling for @GregHands to arrange a climate change briefing for all MPs. He’s lost 18% of his body weight and says he’s feeling weak but in good spirits.

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When UK climate protesters block a road, they sit in it. When French climate protestors block a road, they build a fucking wall across it.

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An activist from #ExtinctionRebellion said the building had been legitimately rented, but that the landlord had decided to evict them this morning, which is why activists were trying to move equipment today.

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4 years

Police have launched a surprise attack on the #NoNewNormal demonstration

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Here’s my story on today’s @ScientistsX protest at @beisgovuk

XR scientists glue hands to business department in London climate protest

Affiliates of Scientists for Extinction Rebellion highlight climate science they say government is ignoring

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Police draw batons and attack #ExtinctionRebellion protesters as they board the bus blocking the road

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And we wonder why people don’t trust journalists.

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Breaking: David Nixon, 36, was just jailed for eight weeks for contempt of court after he mentioned climate change in his closing address to jurors

Insulate Britain protester faces prison over contempt of court conviction

David Nixon defied judge’s instruction not to cite climate crisis as motivation for causing public nuisance

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Rabbi Jeffrey Newman leads a solemn moment before setting out to be arrested for taking action with #ExtinctionRebellion

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BREAKING: @XRebellionUK activists tip ‘coal’ outside Lloyds of London insurance market to protest Cumbria coal mine plan.

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#ExtinctionRebellion said eight activists had been arrested on conspiracy to cause a public nuisance as they tried to remove equipment from the building

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#ExtinctionRebellion activists are gathering outside the Bank of England for the ‘blood money’ march targeting London’s financial institutions.

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6 years

Proof that you don't actually need to know anything about politics to get a well-paid job writing about politics.

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3 years

More info in this story.

Police under fire for 'assault' of journalist at Bristol protest

Daily Mirror reporter shares footage that appears to show police pushing him and hitting him with a baton

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“Shell have absolutely no intention of stopping investing in fossil fuels ... and that, for me, is a death sentence for my children.” Chloe Naldrett, 42, from Bristol, explains why she has her stand glued to the floor outside @Shell_UKLtd with @XRebellionUK

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Mayoral candidate @Valerie4London is arrested for criminal damage.

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Police have moved in to break up the crowd at the #NoNewNormal demo

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Police make a snatch on #KillTheBill

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People have begun rallying at Speakers Corner in London ahead of the #KillTheBill #PoliceCrackdownBill protest this afternoon.

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"Tear down the fences, open the borders" Protesters chant on #StopTommyRobinson as they head past Oxford Circus

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“I want to live in a world of peace and justice, I want to live in a world of human rights and democracy, and I’m prepared to make people feel uncomfortable in the process.” @jeremycorbyn speaks at the #killthebill #PoliceCrackdownBill protest.

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The Met has sent me this statement

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A scientist is arrested for spray painting an @extinctsymbol on @beisgovuk as part of the @ScientistsX protest

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Activists from @JustStop_Oil have trespassed on to Navigator oil terminal in Thurrock to stop deliveries of petrol

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1 year

Quite a bit of aggro here with this man one of several who has tried to physically remove @RebelsAnimal protesters from the road

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This is fucking outrageous. The British government co-opted the image of Angela Davis for propaganda targeted at black and Muslim women, reveals investigative reporter @IanCobain .

UK counter-terror programme targeted BAME women using Instagram influencers

'Stoosh' campaign aimed at young Asian and Black women was created by media company contracted by Home Office

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"the far right use gender and sexuality as a way to try to mainstream themselves." @daliagebrial on why she and women from the Feminist Antifacist Assembly are marching on the #StopTommyRobinson demo against the #BrexitBetrayalMarch

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Thousands gathering in central London for the #FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah protest. This isn’t even at the meet up point yet.

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It may be that the police have overstepped the mark with their use of Section 14 to effectively ban #ExtinctionRebellion from the entire city. One expert I spoke to tonight called the new conditions "extraordinary" and "a massive abuse of power".

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"Source of threat: state" The Council of Europe has issued a media freedom alert after the arrests of three journalists covering protests by @JustStop_Oil .

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BREAKING: Seventy two people arrested at the #KillTheBill #PoliceCrackdownBill protest in London on Saturday have been released with no further action. Four charged with assaulting an emergency worker. Two charged with obstructing a constable.

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In 2006/7, the deadliest year for knife murders in 40 years, UK police forces had 21,000 more officers and PCSOs - probably the most they've ever had. So no, hiring more police is not the answer to violent crime.

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Excellent from @jeremycorbyn on Cressida Dick linking rising crime and falling police numbers. 'If there are enough police can PM explain why Defence Secretary was offering to send in the military?' #PMQs

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Prince William breaks coronavirus regulations in stupid “patriotic” propaganda stunt.

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Prince William has enjoyed a pint at his local pub as bars and restaurants reopen for the first time in three months in England

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I also want to look into issues of environmental justice, where exposure to environmental harms intersect with social inequalities.

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