@matthewpearce.bsky.social
journalist @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/matthew-pearce Please do send stories to: matthew.pearce@guardian.co.uk
Green party members have voted to end the party’s opposition to nuclear power, dropping a commitment to phase out the technology in a major shift in its energy policy 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
Party in England and Wales ditches commitment to phase out nuclear in major shift in its energy policy
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Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...
NAZA - official trailer
YouTube video by The Guardian
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NEW: A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, planning documents show www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets
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‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’
Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to...
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NEW: "An impossible situation": Special educational needs spending deficits could bankrupt dozens of councils @patrickjbutler.bsky.social @raphaelboyd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England
White paper being prepared as councils hope for relief from huge deficits in special educational needs budgets
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Sex workers and lawmakers have demanded that police forces are immediately stopped from issuing 'prostitute's cautions', which “trap people in the conditions that we stigmatise them and marginalise them for” 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Call for end to ‘draconian’ police cautions for sex workers that last until age of 100
A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it
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My story in today’s Observer 👇🏼https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/more-foster-carers-in-england-leaving-than-signing-up-says-ofsted-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
More foster carers in England leaving than signing up, says Ofsted report
Children’s campaigners say ‘national crisis’ adds to trauma for vulnerable young people, amid huge fall in numbers fostering
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There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX
