Aidan O'Donnell
@aodhanlutetiae.bsky.social
Irish journalist abroad. Doing data for @CardiffJomec, co-dir @compjcdf. Previously @bbc, @rfi and others.
I don't think many Cardiff journalists follow me here, but a new Journocoders event is starting next month if it's of interest. Starts Oct 1. Sign up here: luma.com/journocoders...
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Registrations are now open for September! Come along and learn how to make 3D shaded relief maps with Blender 🌎 luma.com/hax29vgb
Journocoders: Making 3D shaded relief maps with Blender · Luma
This month we'll be learning how to make 3D shaded relief maps with Blender. Blender is free 3D graphics software, which can be used to make 3D models of…
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The last prison minister escaped over the wall just hours before the latest scandal to engulf our collapsing criminal justice system. But there have been 13 of them in 10 years. Can Burnham be level with us about the size of the crisis he has to solve ? app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74224/...
We’re addicted to locking people up—but it doesn’t make any of us safer
Does Andy Burnham have the attention span, the will and the courage to tackle a collapsing justice system?
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A data protection claim brought against Mill Media has been dismissed in what is thought to be the first court test of the journalism exemption in relation to a SAR for personal data pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/co...
Court sets precedent on source protection in Westgaph-Mill Media case
A data protection claim brought against Mill Media by historian Laurence Westgaph has been dismissed leaving the title with £75,000 in costs.
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I went up to Newark, Nottinghamshire yesterday to speak to Robert Jenrick’s constituents. Here’s what they had to say about their MP’s defection and his work in Newark more generally. www.thetimes.com/article/b713...
Robert Jenrick quit Tories for sake of his own career, voters say
Reform is a ‘party of traitors’, says Kemi Badenoch as 57 per cent tell a Times-YouGov poll the former shadow justice secretary defected for his own ambitions
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Why is the BBC calling Zohran Mamdani "radical left"? A fair description or an echo of Donald Trump's language? open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...
Why is the BBC calling Mamdani radical left?
Accurate and impartial or echoing Trump's language?
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This week has been #BannedBooksWeekUK but going through #FOI data on complaints and removal requests, UK library books mostly stay on the shelves. clairemiller.net/2025/10/are-...
Are UK library books at risk of being banned? - Words + Numbers
How many complaints have UK libraries had about books and are they responding by removing titles from their shelves?
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Are you a freelance journalist with knowledge of the valleys? We’re looking for someone to help us with an important piece of work looking at socially deprived council wards in RCT and Bridgend County. Interested? Email huw@talking.wales Diolch
All set for the 'carnival of distraction'. The problem is not in Westminster Magistrates' Court today.
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The Financial Times ... "US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence" www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu
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Friday! Join us to demand again that RTÉ withdraw from the Eurovision in solidarity with the Palestinian call to boycott the contest. Our national broadcaster should not be part of artwashing apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians. #BoycottEurovision2025
Cardiff tournament cancelled by Europe Netball after opposition to Israeli participation, www.europenetball.com/post/europe-...
Europe Netball Open Event - Update 29/04/25
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Ambulance drivers are racking up hundreds of pounds in fines for picking up and dropping off patients in London’s low traffic neighborhoods and driving in bus lanes. Read my story for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/c927...
Ambulance drivers fined for stopping in London’s low-traffic streets
The private ambulances that many NHS trusts rely on for patient transport are paying thousands of pounds in penalties as they fall foul of restrictions
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Interest in the BBC's pope death live page dropped pretty consistently over first 24 hours, from about 80,000 viewers to 8,000.
Financial graphics job with Reuters careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
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Freelance work on finance for a data journalist @financialtimes.com
Freelance Data Journalist, The Banker - immediate start
London
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"taxpayers spent the equivalent of 800 years on hold to HMRC" — you can't get anyone on the phone these days, especially in the tax office, MPs find. www.ft.com/content/57c4...
More and more cars in Britain; less and less space for everything else public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
MORE & MORE CARS IN BRITAIN
A Flourish data visualization by aodhanlutetiae
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The 'basket of goods' for the Consumer Price Index sees some changes for 2024: Stout and hand gel are OUT; Vinyl, Air fryers and gluten-free bread are IN. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...
Cardiff University library has its Christmas tree up!
#datajob at the Times / Sunday Times. Deadline this Sunday www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/30...
Senior data journalist / developer | News UK
The senior data journalist / developer will produce graphics, interactives and data-led stories for the Times and Sunday Times, working with colleagues across both newsrooms and senior news editors. ...
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"Brexit has been one of the great shocks and horrors of my life and for many of my generation" www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Roy Foster: Irish reunification ‘is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago’
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
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La police nationale utilise illégalement un logiciel israélien de reconnaissance faciale
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En 2015, les forces de l’ordre ont acquis, en secret, un logiciel d’analyse d’images de vidéosurveillance de la société israélienne Briefcam. Depuis huit ans, le ministère de l’intérieur dissimule le recours à cet outil qui permet l’emploi de la reconnaissance faciale. Lire l'article
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