The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
It was genuinely an honor to meet Mr. Chavarria at Tuesday's hearing. His story is incredible; grew up in a refugee camp in Honduras, graduated as a valedictorian at 15, got scholarships in the US, met his husband here, became a US citizen, and is now a school superintendent in Vermont.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
"This is decentralized violence, but it is also state-sponsored violence," Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says of settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/3/sari_bashi_israel_gaza_west_bank
This is so disgusting.
If you’re a Briton born in 2000, and especially if you’re from London, you will also be strongly aware of a loss of patrimony. You are now priced out of your own city, which has become notably alien, declining from being over 70 per cent white British at the time of Blair’s election to just over a third today.
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
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On the Englishness of Sir Tom Stoppard, RIP
www.britishfuture.org/on-the-engli...
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If you are genuinely interested in this, then there is excellent information and guidance on Charity Commission website, on what - in general - trustees can, cannot, should and must do. More about individual charities on the Charity Register.
box of cereal is like a quid more than it was six months ago but at least now disabled people can't put their own money towards a car that's nicer than the government thinks they deserve
It's infuriating to see so much of the media give Kruger the same kid gloves treatment that Rees-Mogg used to get because he is posh and polite and able to wrap his bigotry in enough intellectual tissue paper to make it seem like a political philosophy rather than an expression of white supremacy.
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”
The "don't worry about facial recognition tech" arguments are not faring well...
Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.
Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
Assassinat en France sur ordre d'Hassan II avec la complicité des services français et du Mossad. Les deux auteurs ont notamment exploité des archives israéliennes.
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Elle fait partie des familles des victimes de l'attentat du DC10 d'UTA de 1989, imputable au pouvoir libyen du colonel Kadhafi.
Elle a des choses à nous dire sur Sarkozy et sa victimisation.
A écouter jusqu'à la fin.
Au Nigeria, la bataille du roi Dakolo contre le géant pétrolier Shell
Just seeing this book list is inspiring, before starting to read the books 🙏🏽
Care workers supporting elderly and disabled people have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Sometimes a statistic is counterintuitive. This is not one: every adult in Britain has experienced greater interaction with people of different ethnic backgrounds over their lifetime
As I say in this thread, this statistical fact is obvious in every aspect of our lives, & all of us know/feel it
A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”
Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.
The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Jewish diaspora will continue to be severely let down by a government that claims it cares for us. The words recited in prayer become further from reality: a haven for the oppressed; a land that benefits all its inhabitants; and the implementation of the prophetic ideals of liberty and justice.
Time for my old ECHR Venn diagram, yet again.
"Il n’a été donné aucun argument permettant de justifier de cette catégorie de la population [les ultrariches] qui justifierait qu’elle paie en proportion moins d’impôts." Signé Stiglitz, pas le plus gauchiste des économistes. Reportage @mathiasthepot.bsky.social
www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
Le retour des parapluies roses dans la rue de la Loge à Montpellier pour le mois d'Octobre Rose, campagne de sensibilisation au dépistage du cancer du sein.
#MontpellierEnRose #octobrerose2025
#photo #photographe #photography #streetphotography #cityscape
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
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