@rogergraef

Filmmaker, writer, broadcaster, criminologist, urbanist, Visiting Prof LSE, former Chair of Complicite, Arsenal fan

 Dorset
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Joined November 2008
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Ukraine conflict: BP under pressure to sell stake in Russian firm@ SHAMEFUL BUT NOT SURPRISING bbc.co.uk/news/business-6052…

Ukraine conflict: BP under pressure to sell stake in Russian firm

The oil giant's boss is warned of UK government concerns about its "overexposure to Russian interests".

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Ukraine: Who is not on the UK sanctions list?SHAMEFUL BUT NOT SURPRISING bbc.co.uk/news/60524666

Why have there been delays to UK Russia sanctions?

Many Russians were sanctioned more quickly by the EU and US than the UK.

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Foreign Office IT issues hampering UK’s response to Ukraine crisis, say insiders

‘Chaos’ caused by failure to combine two computer systems after departments merged, sources claim

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TRULY DISGRACEFUL theguardian.com/business/202…

Innocent Post Office manager’s children told she was a ‘thief’, hears inquiry

Susan Hazzleton says taunting at school happened after she was wrongly accused of stealing £300 despite reporting faults in Horizon IT system

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WHAT A TRAGIC AMBITION theguardian.com/society/2022…

England and Wales to get extra 4,000 prison places in record expansion

Plan unveiled by Dominic Raab could take prisoner total to highest ever at more than 100,000 by mid-2020s

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Replying to @Kevin_Maguire
And when he was up , he wasn’t And when he was down, he was dominos And when he was only half way up he was neither up nor sweating
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Ridicule can nail them
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BREAKING: High Court rules Dido Harding and Mike Coupe appointments were unlawful goodlawproject.org/update/di… #goodlawproject
Tory MPs want end of poisonous ‘cash laundromat’ thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-…
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Tory MPs want end of poisonous ‘cash laundromat’ thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-…
Look at his little smile … the success of knowing that something he launched landed where he wanted it to.
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@Haggis_UK14 Feb 2022
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Q - Keir Starmer has confirmed that he's received death threats following what you said about Savile... do you feel responsible for that & would you like to apologise? Boris Johnson - No, I've said more than enough about that issue
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Johnson’s Starmer slur was just the latest proof of Britain’s rotten political culture@DISGRACEFUL STUFF theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Johnson’s Starmer slur was just the latest proof of Britain’s rotten political culture | Nesrine...

There was more pushback than usual, but the smear didn’t come out of a clear blue sky, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Opinion | The data are clear: The boys are not all right

American men and boys are struggling. Why aren't the media and government paying attention?

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Can the Metropolitan police change after Cressida Dick’s resignation? theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…

Can the Metropolitan police change after Cressida Dick’s resignation?

Five experts on policing explain what the commissioner’s successor must do to put things right and restore public trust in a force mired in scandal and crisis

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I doubt he is paying. More likely either the taxpayer is. Or a soon to be ennobled Tory donor
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@crimlawuk12 Feb 2022
Boris Johnson is paying a lawyer to find a loophole to escape from a law which Boris Johnson made up.
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Cressida Dick: Why is it so hard to fix the Met’s toxic culture? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60352112

Cressida Dick: Why is it so hard to fix the Met’s toxic culture?

The resignation of Britain's most senior constable comes after a series of crises has engulfed the force.

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Exclusive: Hundreds of UK police kept jobs after sickening social media abuses

Sharing porn and a ‘sexualised’ conversation with a teenager among reasons why cops have been disciplined or dismissed since 2018

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Cressida Dick could not solve the Met’s problems. She could barely admit they existed THOUGHTFUL AND INSIGHTFUL theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…

Cressida Dick could not solve the Met’s problems. She could barely admit they existed

There was precedent for a commissioner determined to root out misbehaviour. Failure to follow it cost her the top job, says former Guardian crime reporter Sandra Laville

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“If we were to train ourselves to draw as we build, from the bottom up, when we do, stopping our pencil to make a mark at the joints of pouring or erecting, ornament would grow out of our love for the expression of method.” theparisreview.org/blog/2022…

Structure Is a Design in Light: The Notebooks of Louis I. Kahn by Louis I. Kahn

February 8, 2022 – The architectural space is one where the structure is apparent in the space itself.

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I just signed @friends_earth’s petition to demand that polluters pay for rising energy bills. Will you join me and add your name too? act.friendsoftheearth.uk/pet…
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