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Month: February 2021

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Amplify Stroud

Parents distraught over Academy Trust plan to Close Severn View Academy

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 Amplify Stroud

Educators, Parents, and Children need an ambitious Covid Recovery Plan

February 18, 2021 Amplify Stroud

Clothing colonialism: Stroud and the East India Company

February 12, 2021 Amplify Stroud

A low bar: Why is Councillor Debbie Young’s continued perpetuation of xenophobic attitudes so unexceptional?

February 9, 2021February 17, 2021 Amplify Stroud

Express Dale-ivery: Ecotricity founder shacks up with right-wing media

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Fake News, Fearmongering and Katie Hopkins – The ugly case of Stroud’s anti-lockdown protestors
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Despite previously being investigated by Stroud District Council’s Monitoring Officer for racist social media activity, Councillor Debbie Young has put her foot in it again, this time for retweeting inaccurate anti-immigrant opinions. Unfortunately, these views are not uncommonly held. Jamie O’Dell explains why #Stroud deserves better.

The popular view of Stroud is as being a progressive and inclusive town that accepts people for who they are. While this is true to an extent, Alex Parnham-Cope interviews local residents and members of Stroud’s transgender community and shows there is still significant room for improvement. 🏳️‍⚧️ #transrights #stroud

Tories too often do what is cheap, not what is right, when it comes to welfare and social protections. We need to campaign to set their priorities straight.

We are rightly disgusted by the measly food hampers that have been sent out to children across the country. However, there are deeper issues at play here that we as a community need to understand in order to move beyond the fleeting outrage when this gets press attention, argues @splashwedesday.

By providing a platform for vaccine skeptics who spread misinformation about coronavirus countermeasures, is the Stroud News and Journal letting its readers down? Jamie O’Dell and Ben Norris take a deeper look at the issue and the potential flaws in the publication's business model.

After a prominent member of Stroud’s anti-lockdown group entered and filmed non-Covid areas of Gloucester Royal Hospital in an attempt to portray it as empty, others have been copying and promoting these dangerous tactics around the country.

As 2020 proves to be the gift that keeps on giving, our thoughts are with those affected by flooding on Slad Road and elsewhere tonight. #2020 #floods #stroud

Former Conservative Councillor Steve Dechan, whose company P14 medical was awarded two PPE contracts worth £276 million by the government earlier in the year, has been in the news again this week after the Sunday Times revealed he bought a £250k Cornwall holiday home. Neither #PPE contract was awarded through competitive tender.

Solidarity with the Palestinian people all day and every day #PalestineDay 🇵🇸

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