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I went undercover for several weeks in the Society of St Pius X Resistance, an ultraconservative breakaway Catholic sect, and got a big dose of smells, bells, and holocaust denial.
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The government pressing pause on local government reorganisation means that almost every district in Kent will now have an election next year. TL;DR - I think incumbents are likely to take a beating
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Attended a pretty mad police misconduct hearing: police officer who was working in counter-slavery/prostitution in fact paid for the services of sex workers kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/n…
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‘I’m a vegetarian, but animals don’t have rights like us’
I’m in KentOnline talking species-being, humanism, and how only the superiority of human beings makes it possible for animals to be treated well
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After many many hours of spreadsheet sorting happy to finally have this story out: hundreds of takeaways and cornershops in Kent have 'skilled worker' visa sponsor licences, allowing them to hire from abroad
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In theory there's basically no economic incentive to hire from abroad - you have to pay £600 or so for the licence. The familial benefit which can be gained from using it as a system of chain migration seems to ease the blow, and also makes it easier for example to just under pay
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Pleasure to be alongside @LeaderSaxe last week to jointly receive the Kent Press & Broadcast Awards' Golden Microphone for our coverage of anti-immigration protests
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The most important thing about Burnham becoming PM is probably not anything he'll do himself, but the new forms of opposition he generates. I've written a piece about what the change of PM will mean for Kent politics:
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Dan Esson 🗿 retweeted
Thanks for shortlisting me for Print Journalist of the Year for the fourth year in a row, #KPBA and @Maxim.
Delighted to be a Print Feature Journalist of the Year finalist too.
Well done to my @Kent_Online colleagues, especially @BowlesMbowles, @MaxChesson and @dannyesson
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I’ve written a column about how ludicrously light sentences and other failures of the justice system are creating the groundwork for a violent hang ‘em and flog ‘em style populism
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The point of criminal justice shouldn’t be to satisfy the libidinal urge for revenge, but that can be a pretty potent electoral weapon
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Very pleased to see Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Suzuki enjoyed his visit to Folkestone this bank holiday weekend @AmbJapanUK
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Incredible indictment of NHS management this story. East Kent Hospitals need to save money on staffing, know they must have staff they could do without, but can’t identify them directly, so is asking staff who suspect their superfluousness to come forward
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They tell me this isn’t the same as a redundancy process, which I suppose is true, because that implies clear direction and identification of roles to be abolished. Here they’re just hoping people who suspect their job could be done away with come forward and ask
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