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Britain is rejoining Erasmus+.
From 2027, thousands of students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe, gaining international experience and new skills.
Run by the @BritishCouncil, the programme will unlock a range of opportunities for people from different backgrounds across the UK.
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Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers, is open!
Explore the work and legacy of artist Barrie Cooke, and his remarkable creative friendship with poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
🎟️ FREE
📍The UL & @pembroke1347
loom.ly/64SyJug
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Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker insight on Sam Altman is head and shoulders above anything that has appeared in any UK paper on the AI elite. It is ESSENTIAL reading. @NewYorker @RonanFarrow @andrewmarantz - this is the kind of journalism that changes perception utterly.
(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.
OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?
A thread on some of of our findings:
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The Geneva Convention says it’s a war crime to target journalists, even if they work for an enemy organisation. It’s also a war crime to target medical workers. After the killing of 3 Lebanese TV journos last week, several medics coming to help them were killed as well.
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Mohamed Salah in the Premier League with @LFC 🔴
👕 310 Appearances
⚽️ 189 Goals
📆 92 Assists
🥇 7 Player of the Months
👟 4 Golden Boots
🌟 2 Playmaker awards
🔝 2 Player of Seasons
🏆 2 Premier League titles
The Egyptian King 👑
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I'm sorry but it's hard to see people lie about how legal immigration to the United Kingdom works, and say nothing about it.
I am a legal immigrant to the UK. In 2023, I had to spent roughly £5,000 for a 2.5 years visa, NHS surcharge, biometric appointment and language tests.
I will have to spend £4,000 this year, to extend my visa by another 2.5 years, after which, I'll need to pay again for indefinite leave-to-remain.
On top of that, as a legal immigrant, I am understandably required to pay taxes, national insurance and can NOT claim benefits.
This on-going myth that legal immigrants are free-loading on UK taxpayers is complete bullshit. If anything, I'm subsidising them.
My legal immigrant ass is a net benefit to your country.
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground!
The archive of this beloved literary project was donated to Cambridge University Library in 2024.
Find out more: loom.ly/CkKUpV4
ALT Close-up of hands holding a small booklet titled “London: Poems on the Underground,” featuring a black line illustration of a domed landmark on the cover, with a blurred indoor background and a card with blue flowers resting on the table below.
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✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨
There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at Cambridge University Library incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!
#JaneAusten250
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📣This is your last chance visit the #CuriousCures exhibition before it closes tomorrow, Saturday 6 December.
🔗Book your FREE tickets now: loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Pictured: CUL MS Dd.6.29
ALT An image of an open medieval medical manuscript on a dark red velvet cloth.
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The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: loom.ly/RHh3bbc
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
The Sentencing Council tried to give ethnic minority criminals more lenient sentences, than their white counterparts. Identity politics will destroy our country.
@Conservatives will abolish the Council as part of our plans for Stronger Borders, and tackling two tier justice.
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Did I tell you that
The second Bluemoose book to be adapted for TV.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
Is coming to your BBC screens.
Marvellous!
@thebookseller
@thetimes
@FT
@guardian
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Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors...
The 'Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World' exhibition at Cambridge University Library @theUL takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing, herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery.
Discover how people were curing illness, who was doing it, and the ideas and theories that guided their work.
Book your free ticket now 👇
lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncuri…
#CuriousCures
ALT A person examining an open medieval manuscript featuring a colourful heraldic crest and illuminated text. Additional images below show detailed script and illustrations from other historical documents.
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More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined
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“Occupational therapy provided by local authorities to state school pupils not available to those who opt out of the state system, under legislation brought in by the Tories”
There, fixed it for you.
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Newcastle Central Station in the snow, painting by Peter Burns. #NorthernArt
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👃How did our medieval ancestors deal with ailments like a nasal polyp?
🔎Our Curious Cures exhibition uses Cambridge University’s collection of medieval medical books and manuscripts to find the answer!
Image: MS O.1.20, which is on loan from @Trinity1546
ALT Medieval manuscript showing a surgeon using a pair of forceps to remove a polyp from a patient’s nose. The image is overlayed with the text: "How to cure a nasal polyp in two easy steps" and "Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World"
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Reform UK deputy leader @TiceRichard claimed “this Labour government has allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history”.
He’s not explained what that claim’s based on, but neither we nor the Migration Observatory can find data to support it.
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Interesting Fact of the Day: If Robert Jenrick were to catch 50 fare dodgers a day, recouping £2.90 each time for the taxpayer, it would take him well over 1,000 years to recoup the amount the taxpayer lost when he helped a major Tory donor avoid a £45m tax bill back in 2020.
