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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:32:40 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/24/jesus-army-fellowship-cult-noel-stanton>

"Until she was six, Philippa Barnes was surrounded by things that were hers.
She had a favourite pair of red-and-white-striped dungarees and a long garden
with a strawberry patch. She had a close-knit family: a mum, dad, two brothers

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LOHA creates affordable housing on challenging site in Los Angeles

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:31:05 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.dezeen.com/2025/07/09/loha-affordable-housing-challenging-site-los-angeles/>

"Architecture studio LOHA has completed Isla Intersections, a low-cost housing
complex for formerly homeless residents that comprises stacked shipping
containers and sits on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange.

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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:29:14 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/total-infiltration-how-plastics-industry-swamped-vital-global-treaty-talks>

"Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how
serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is
what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global

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How Wimbledon tennis balls are helping vulnerable UK harvest mice

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:27:08 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a65274518/wimbledon-tennis-balls-help-mice/>

"On Monday, 30th June, tens of thousands of tennis enthusiasts flocked to SW19
again as Wimbledon kicked off for the 138th time. According to its own
estimates, the tournament uses roughly 55,000 tennis balls each year – but what

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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:25:44 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled>

"In March 2024, six months into Israel’s war in Gaza, education in the
territory was decimated. Schools were closed – most had been turned into
shelters – and all 12 of the strip’s universities were partially or fully

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The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:24:09 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/how-qatar-became-the-global-capital-of-diplomacy>

"The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world
stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving
this project?"

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‘Like a detective examining a crime scene.’ Natalie Harkin charts the intimate history of Aboriginal domestic service

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:32:27 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-like-a-detective-examining-a-crime-scene-natalie-harkin-charts-the-intimate-history-of-aboriginal-domestic-service-261657>

"I dip in and out, lured to new depths of surveillance data stirring on
unthinkable currents. There are no limits to these domestic service files. No
solid foundation to ultimately reach or push back and spring up from: just

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The Drying Planet

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:30:42 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels>

"As the planet gets hotter and its reservoirs shrink and its glaciers melt,
people have increasingly drilled into a largely ungoverned, invisible cache of
fresh water: the vast, hidden pools found deep underground.

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What Is America, and for Whom?

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:28:58 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-america-and-for-whom

"“Why is America suddenly so divided? Why is the oldest democracy in the world
falling apart all of a sudden?”

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‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:28:02 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/19/my-parents-got-me-out-of-soviet-russia-at-the-right-time-should-my-family-now-leave-the-us>

"Oh, to have been born in a small, stylish country with good food and
favourable sea breezes. No empire, no holy faith, no condescension, no fatal
ideologies. The fish is grilled, the extended family roll in on their scooters,

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