Sainsbury's, West Wickham. (Thought I'd join in the fun)

My carriage awaits...

🚨🚨 This is quite a significant EU policy in terms of disability rights. Short 🧵

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EU finally adopts laws on European disability card and disability parking card - including extension to legally resident non-EU citizens - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

European disability card and European parking card for persons with disabilities: Council adopts new directives

The Council has adopted two new directives establishing a European disability card and European parking card for persons with disabilities and extending access to these cards to non-EU citizens legall...

Castell Henllys back in August #Pembrokeshire#Cymru#Wales

From Birmingham to Milan, via Rome and Penarth ... November tour details now up on my website. jonathancoewriter.com/events/

Reminder that it's not just public investment spending that generates medium/long-term benefits - so does (effective) welfare/education spending DWP just published impact/cost-benefit analysis of the Kickstart programme for young unemployed people; assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66fab2...

Taliban to be taken to international court over gender discrimination

Taliban to be taken to international court over gender discrimination

Afghanistan would have six months to provide response before ICJ would hold hearing

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Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

Looking through plane tree leaves, not yet touched by their autumn colours, to Vauxhall Bridge.

Scoffs, smiles, squints: how Kamala Harris’s face spoke volumes in Trump debate

Scoffs, smiles, squints: how Kamala Harris’s face spoke volumes in Trump debate

The vice-president’s many and varied expressions said as much as her words in rebutting her Republican rival