‘We’re not asking for luxury’: school protesters in Paris suburb feel abandoned by French state 10. October 2026 (11:00) Students say they are desperate to get back to class but conditions are so bad that the protests must continueOn a normal school day, Mohammed, 17, wakes at 6am, cares for his younger siblings to help his single mother who works as a security guard, then takes two crowded buses and a local train to get to his high school in Sevran, a low-income banlieue town in the suburbs north-east of Paris.“There aren’t enough chairs or desks to go round, so some students have to stand up,” Mohammed said. “Classes can be so packed you can’t interact with the teacher. In this year’s heatwaves, it felt like 40 degrees in overcrowded classrooms with no shade or curtains. It was so hot my brain couldn’t function.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Orange Order seek urgent meetings over parade route ban 10. October 2026 (09:15) It comes after Secretary of State Sir Chris Bryant intervened on Friday night to stop a parade being allowed along the Garvaghy Road.(London News)
Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists 10. October 2026 (09:00) Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called TraitorbaseThe owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing” campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-racism activists and business executives who recruit black, Asian and minority ethnic workers.Tom Watson, from Worcester, is alleged to be behind an X account calling itself “Big Time Charlie”, which was deactivated shortly after he was named by the campaign group Hope Not Hate. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
