😱 What should Spurs do now?
Assembled @theathleticfc.bsky.social Avengers and *spoiler alert* we all came to the same conclusion
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...
Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.
1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Torrential rain in Nairobi this week. At least 23 confirmed dead.
nation.africa/kenya/counti...
not since Henry VIII’s wives has a Tudor had such an untimely end at a Palace
The majority of “Dubai expats” come from South Asia and emerging Asia, not just labourers/cleaners but middle class professionals. One of the most important flows of people/remittances across EMs.
Fascinating how absent this is from the image war around Dubai. www.ft.com/content/a7bf...
It's also mind-boggling as the CPS has >5,000 employees. He has actually led a large organisation before. Did he not have to think hard about communicating then? And realise that political communications are an order of magnitude harder than corporate ones?
It's just a really weird phrase to use as well. On top of the "ethnic enemies" stuff, do you think this comes from Biafra?
Red Plenty is quite brilliant. Read it if you haven't!
Went to Stonehenge last week. Hadn't realised that it was constructed over/was in use for over 1,500 years.
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
A graph showing aid over the years to Ukraine. In 2025, aid from the US almost completely stopped, with Europe replacing the US entirely
Europe doesn't abandon its allies.
#EUpol #USpol #Ukraine
Was she always like this or did she change? As shadow development shadow minister it did feel like she was trying to do it - even after a second big demotion. Just bizarre then not to when you got promoted and are actually *in* government.
Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will shortly return around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative - more here:
www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...
By 2030, 60% of people living in extreme poverty will be based in conflict-affected and fragile states. But aid often fails to reach people in these areas of greatest need. ⚠️
Join our event on 25 Feb (in London or online) to reimagine financing in conflict-affected settings: odi.org/en/events/fi...
On the contrary, true revolutionaries read the FT (see Ted Grant)
Suspect it may also be competition. There are just a lot more high quality kids bikes out there now then there used to be (Forme, woom, etc and Yomo and Shyre coming out more recently).
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has resigned after taking responsibility for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US.
But who is McSweeney? In December, Stuart McGurk profiled the PM’s right-hand man.
Great minds, etc!
"The idea of boosting UK government borrowing outside Reeves’ fiscal rules is backed by senior defence figures." - if "senior defence figures" won't argue for raising taxes for defence, who will?
NEW
Why Rwanda is bringing a legal challenge against the United Kingdom
The claim is that the United Kingdom failed to terminate the agreement in time
By me - paywall removed:
emptycity.substack.com/p/why-rwanda...
Includes a possible defence for the government to the claim
New standard unit of measurement just dropped.
This is very good by @alanbeattie.bsky.social on Labour's abandonment of progressive internationalism on aid, trade and immigration, and the lack of reaction by MPs.
I hope many of them read it.
www.ft.com/content/1683...
"There is no right answer here. Selecting the appropriate discount rate is one of the knottiest, most intellectually demanding and impossibly fascinating problems in all of economics."
ifs.org.uk/articles/tre...
Look forward to it David.
Screen shot with text from the article: Tamsyn Barton, Icai’s chief commissioner until July 2024, said that arguing Icai should be cut because there are cuts in aid “does not stand up”. “When there is less money to go round, it is all the more important that independent scrutiny ensures that it is well spent, and that if not, it is called out,” she said.
Precisely.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Update: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/st-paul...
Great lines in this:
"The first priority will be to undertake significant work to prevent any further deterioration in the fabric of the building
Since the early 1800s, St Paul’s Church has served as a place of worship and since 1988 as Freud's café-bar."
🏥 Navigating Resource Allocation: Why Population Net Health Benefit (NHB) is Critical for Evidence-Based Decisions.
🔓 Link to open access article: doi.org/10.1007/s402...
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#GlobalHealth #ResourceAllocation #HealthSystems
For a lighter read Francis Wheen's biography is also fantastic.
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
I am going to try and say a few words about Jon, who was one of the most influential people in my life, and an extraordinary person (very short thread below)
