Kathy Dodworth
@dodgington.bsky.social
Research Fellow KCL | Voluntary Labour | Global Politics | Health | Kenya | Tanzania | Non-State Actors | Heat Pump Widow
Whose side are you on @andyburnham.bsky.social ? US hedge funds or Thames Water households? Why should 16 million people pay an extra £40 on interest alone for bailout when you can write down Thames Water's debt RIGHT NOW by taking it into special administration? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water creditors to vote on emergency £2.4bn loan as cash runs low
Campaigners say costly new funds will lead to higher bills, which company denies
theguardian.com
🚨 WEBINAR | Trump’s US-UK drug pricing deal raises NHS medicine prices to lift pharma profits. Wed 4 Nov, 8pm, speakers include: @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social, @nickdearden.bsky.social & Gayle Pledger. Sign up ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/events/pharma-greed-kills-how-we-resist-trumps-nhs-attack
I have new publication out on datafication of community health in Kenya and Burundi, in Development and Change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Datafication of Community Health Work: Discipline, Visibility and the State
There has been a concerted drive to expand the scope of ‘data for development’, with a focus on novel technologies. This article highlights a relatively overlooked category of worker in the large-sca...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Um, everyone, you’re way too late to protect the BBC. You’ve all stood by, allowed tabloids or tech to control the narrative and now seem surprised when it affects you. Government minister calls for review of 'unacceptable' BBC Scotland channel closure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government minister McAllan calls for review of 'unacceptable' BBC Scotland channel closure
The BBC announced the dedicated Scotland channel would move online as part of measures to make savings of £500m.
bbc.co.uk
Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅
The scandal of an overpaid Principal at Edinburgh University setting in motion a "vampiric" programme of job cuts gets even worse. Investigative reporting from the journalists of The Ferret highlights Principal Peter Mathieson's murky second job: www.theferret.scot/peter-mathie...
Departing Edinburgh uni boss says he’s committed to the job – but still won’t say what his second role pays
As staff at Scotland’s largest university continue strikes over sweeping cuts, their boss still won’t say what his second job pays on top of his £425,000 salary.
theferret.scot
www.theferret.scot/peter-mathie...
Departing Edinburgh uni boss says he’s committed to the job – but still won’t say what his second role pays
As staff at Scotland’s largest university continue strikes over sweeping cuts, their boss still won’t say what his second job pays on top of his £425,000 salary.
theferret.scot
Fintan O'Toole: Kushner’s political and financial relationship with the UAE’s president, Mohammed bin Zayed ...constitutes what must surely be the worst case of US foreign policy being conducted outside the law and democratic oversight since the Iran-contra scandal...
Book Review: ‘Princes and Thieves,’ by Matthew Cole
The new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy.
nytimes.com
4/Ministers still won’t publish what this deal will cost or what it will do to patients. That’s why we’re taking the government to court, alongside @globaljusticenow.bsky.social. www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nh...
Resist Trump’s NHS attack: stop the unlawful drug pricing power grab!
Just Treatment is a patient-led health justice organisation. Global Justice Now is a non-profit fighting the causes of poverty and injustice.
crowdjustice.com
1/The National Audit Office is to investigate the cost of the government’s drug pricing deal with Trump, after six committee chairs demanded answers. The BMJ reports it could mean 229,000 excess deaths over a decade, with £45bn diverted from NHS services. www.bmj.com/content/395/...
US-UK drug pricing deal: National Audit Office is to investigate costs
Potential cost implications of the drug pricing deal between the US and the UK will be investigated by the UK’s public spending watchdog, the organisation’s leader says. The UK signed a drug trade de...
bmj.com
NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...
The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin
Or why now’s the time to buy a wind-up radio
broligarchy.substack.com
None of these was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Elon Musk was. Odd, that.
The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · last wk.For #BlackHistoryMonth, we're highlighting the achievements of the Black scientists, mathematicians and engineers who have made their impact on the modern world. Read our thread below.
Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’ Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.
Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’
Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
If and when Dems reassume power, they HAVE to tackle campaign finances. It is even in their interests in the long term so have to take any short term hit
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d agoElon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.
So getting Trump to temporarily stop doing something terrible of his own making is sufficient to get some republicans reelected? Give me strength White House lifts tariffs on some Canadian goods as midterm elections loom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US lifts tariffs on some Canadian goods before midterm elections
From 30 October, tariffs will be eased on some products, including certain machinery, and placed on others, such as carpets.
bbc.co.uk
I used to roll my eyes when scaramucci pushed his kompromat theory. But what else explains trumps behaviour? The ‘admiration for strong men’ theory doesn’t cut it
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d agoUS executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership
Oh wow - never thought there’d be a ray of hope from Dundee! Solidarity to all those who got out there…. cmon Edinburgh, if Dundee can do this (where there was actually a financial crisis), you can….
Andy Aydın-Aitchison@andy8chi.bsky.social · 7d agoNew Principal, compulsory redundancies paused, new scope for negotiations. Congratulations to Dundee colleagues for this hard won development. So Edinburgh, new Principal...?
This is too good - he can’t help but perjure himself if this does go ahead. All hail the BBC! You think you hate it (whether from the left or the right) but you need it Trump ordered to answer questions under oath in BBC lawsuit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump ordered to answer questions under oath in BBC lawsuit
Trump is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave in 2021.
bbc.co.uk
"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.
wsj.com
Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall
Concerns about course closures to be raised at University of Edinburgh governing body next week. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2663661...
University bosses warned of serious reputational damage over 90 programme closures
A motion submitted ahead of the next staff and student Senate meeting calls on university leadership to "reconsider" the decision to close 90 programmes.
heraldscotland.com
A reminder that Manchester City's UAE owners are playing footsy with the UK far-right, have been credibly accused of torturing scores of UK citizens, deployed an assassin to UK soil, and probably hacked 10 Downing Street. And unlike Man City, we publish our evidence 👇 fairsq.org/petropopulis...
Petropopulism: FairSquare publishes new report on UAE links to Reform UK and the far-right
A new report from FairSquare highlights the extensive links between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the UK’s Reform party and the far-right, and calls for the UAE to be added to the “Enhanced Tier”...
fairsq.org
Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w agoDeath by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Say what you will about the tenets of Suella Braverman's politics, but she is making academics everywhere feel pretty good about the sales figures for their niche monographs.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3w agoSuella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
agreed. This is opportunity to re-educate about the huge contribution ppl from other countries make to our society (this is separate to the asylum issue). And restoring family visa for students would be low hanging fruit to help unis. Not addressing these is simply ceding ground to the far right
Minnie Rahman@minnierahman.bsky.social · 3w agoAndy Burnham's proposals are sadly incoherent. It's unpopular to say this. But you cannot want a National Care Service and an end to rough sleeping while making huge, detrimental changes to the immigration system. The Earned Settlement proposals need to be scrapped. Sign our petition.
