Steve Garner

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Scientific discovery: the hidden genius of Esther Salaman She studied under Einstein—though it is as a writer, one of the great chroniclers of the 20th century, that she ought to be remembered

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7183...

Salman Rushdie’s uprooted people From meeting EM Forster to being called “the Muslim James Joyce”, India’s greatest novelist speaks about his long and ever-migrating life in letters

Salman Rushdie’s uprooted people

From meeting EM Forster to being called “the Muslim James Joyce”, India’s greatest novelist speaks about his long and ever-migrating life in letters

📕 Tanjil Rashid meets Salman Rushdie

The entire 🧵

Overseas campuses limit freedom of research (and speech, and sexuality, and….)

Plain rice and little else: life for 120,000 refugees inside Mauritania’s vast camp on Mali’s border Over a quarter of a million refugees live in Mbera and nearby villages, and more than half are under 18. But aid cuts mean providing essentials has become even harder

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China's emissions may be falling - here's what you should know Experts are divided if the drop over really means China has reached the peak of its emissions.

BBC News - China's emissions may be falling - here's what you should know - BBC News
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Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.

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Only UK degree course in stringed instrument-making to close Campaigners say knowledge taught at Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts vital to preserve traditional skills, especially luthiery

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

🔴 Russian strike kills young mother near Kyiv.

Ania, 27, shielded her 4-year-old son Mark with her body. She died. Mark is alive but badly injured. His grandparents were also wounded.

Terrorism.

A boy photographed outside, in front of a brick building. He is on a bicycle. He is wearing short trousers and a long-sleeve blouse.

8 May 1932 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt de Jong, was born in Frankfurt am Main. During the war, he lived in Rotterdam.

On 21 October 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.

🚨 #GAZA 🆘
“We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza.

Because if we do nothing about it, we are complicit in what is happening before our eyes.”

- Michael Ryan, WHO Emergency Relief Chief

3. The slogans of Reform will start to come apart with more detailed scrutiny.
4. While F might be v attractive to some, he would be v unattractive to more. To win politicians need to be not too repulsive and have a wider range of policies that are not too offensive to most.

My suspicion is that:
1. With a lower turnout in local elections, a higher proportion of those who do vote are older. This will under represent more progressive younger voters who would turn out in a ge.
2. In a ge more would vote tactically.

Seems unlikely.

Israeli army no longer designates humanitarian zones in Gaza since fighting resumed ***

The expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza will commence, unless stopped. This is ethnic cleansing in action.

Israeli army no longer designates humanitarian zones in Gaza since fighting resumed
@nirhasson.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is a great anecdote.

People can be so strange.

Terrible decision.

How Tariffs Could Upend the Transition to Cleaner Energy The levies are expected to drive up costs for U.S. companies that rely on renewable energy technology from abroad and scramble supply chains worldwide.

"The president’s trade war is expected to drive up the costs of nearly every component of clean-energy production in the United States, from the steel in wind turbines to the batteries in electric vehicles."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/c...

‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts

‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hamas killed 22-year-old Odai Naser Saadi, one of the leaders of the anti-Hamas protest movement in Gaza.

He was kidnapped, tortured for hours, and then executed. His body was dumped at the doorstep of his family’s home, with a chilling message: “This is the price for those who criticize Hamas.”

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages A lawsuit claimed Greenpeace had played a major role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline a decade ago. Greenpeace has said a loss could ruin it.

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for More Than $660 Million in Damages www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
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Russia launched massive attack on Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure with missiles and drones, targeting cities from Kharkiv to Ivano-Frankivsk. This is the first strike since the US stopped sharing early warning data

Der brennende Reichstag am 27./28. Februar 1933

#onthisday Vor 92 Jahren, am 27. Februar 1933, brannte das Reichstagsgebäude in Berlin. Die NS-Regierung nahm den Brand als Vorwand, am Tag darauf die „Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat“, besser bekannt als „Reichstagsbrandverordnung“ zu erlassen. 🧵

Also, the richest are the most intelligent: they are rich because they are smart.