Suffolk Broad (aka Anna) 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺

@annadamski.bsky.social

East Anglia Bylines Editor-in-chief and director at Bylines Network. Also Chair of Suffolk for Europe. All voluntary. My quiet retirement is going well.

Kit Marie is a specialist in climate change and education and has written this thoughtful piece for us about how children experience climate change, and how we can answer their questions honestly and sensitively about the changes they see happening around them.

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2w ago

Children are growing up with climate change as part of their lived experience. How do we help them understand it without burdening them with responsibility for fixing it? Kit Marie Rackley argues for honesty, agency and support. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @geogramblings.com

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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It has been a huge privilege starting and running East Anglia Bylines with brilliant fellow volunteers on our editorial board, backed up by hundreds of volunteer contributors who trusted us with their work, covering both local and national issues. If you aren't already - do give EAB a follow/share!

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2mo ago

Five years ago today, East Anglia Bylines published its first edition. Five years later, we're still exposing stories others miss, still run entirely by volunteers, & still going strong thanks to our writers & you, our readers. Here's to the next 5 years! 🥂

Let’s hope that this suggestion is true: that it’s just the Mahmood political groupies briefing it in hope …and that Burnham DOES show more political astuteness. I’d be very happy for her to end up with political egg all over her face. She’s surely earned it. bsky.app/profile/zach...

Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I understood from Burnham supporters is that he is politically far more astute than Starmer. If that is true then appointing Mahmoud as Chancellor is an astonishing faux paux. Quite apart from her utterly alienating record as Home Secretary www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You know when we couldn't celebrate Xmas together because of Covid? When we said: It's only a date, we'll just celebrate better, safer, happier when this terrible time is over. We'll have a great get-together, & we party our socks off. I think we should take the same approach with #America250.

For World Refugee Day, this is a thoughtful and thought-provoking account of what it's like to leave your career and everything you've known, to seek safety in a far-off land. This year's theme is #Courage

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 3mo ago

#WorldRefugeeDay this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. For Meisam Pour tajrishi, the theme of courage is deeply personal. He writes about leaving behind a career, a home, a library of books – and starting again from "sub-zero".

Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.

We’re very happy with our first day at the Suffolk show with lots of great discussions, and our photo booth was a hit with our younger visitors to the stand. If you’re pro-EU please give our new Suffolk for Europe account a follow! 🙏

Suffolk for Europe@suffolkforeurope.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A successful first day for Suffolk for Europe @suffolkforeurope.bsky.social at Suffolk Show. Far more footfall and interest compared to Reform round the corner - particularly from young people (pleasing!) #Rejoin @europeanmovement.co.uk

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system

NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show

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David Attenborough is as charming and gracious as you’d imagine he is. This is an interview I did with him in 1992 and it’s absolutely timeless as he shares amusing anecdotes about his earliest days travelling to some of the remotest locations in the planet.

At home with Sir David Attenborough: a rare interview

As he turns 100, a rare interview captures David Attenborough reflecting on travel in a very different world

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