📍The BBC guidelines on how to report on Maduro's abduction.

From October 2023 (midway through FY 2023/24) to the latest available data (March 2025), the BBC has lost approximately 580,000–600,000 licences. The combined loss from evasion and cancellations cost the BBC over £1.1 billion in potential revenue in 2024/25 alone.

In 2024-25, there were nearly 2 million visits to unlicensed households (50% increase year-on-year), but fewer people are answering doors, making visits less effective. 73-75% of those prosecuted are women.

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📍Captain Mark Kelly - Navy combat veteran, retired NASA astronaut, and senator - is been threatened by Trump for reminding military personnel that they have the right to disobey unlawful orders.

He says,

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

He added,

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

Military personnel are bound by duty, discipline, and the chain of command. But that duty does not extend to illegal actions. Under both U.S. military law and international standards, service members are legally required to refuse unlawful orders—a point often overlooked in public discourse and sometimes misunderstood within the ranks.

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⚡️BREAKING

Occupation forces are firing intensively in the town of Al-Zawaid in the central Gaza Strip.

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⚡️BREAKING

The occupation forces are advancing around the Abu Zaytoun area in the Jabaliya camp, north of Gaza.

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📍Delcy Rodríguez assumes the role of acting/interim President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in compliance with the ruling by the Venezuelan Supreme Court and expels French diplomats, because Macron sided with Trump.

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📍Western civilisation - Paris edition

It's snowing on the tent of at least 300 unaccompanied minors. They are sleeping rough for lack of better options.

The wind chill forecast is -6°C tonight.

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