And if you are wondering what a breakdown in global shipping looks like, a good place to start is thinking about net food importers. Our World in Data has a handy map:

💔 This was our night in Kyiv, Ukraine. Once again, a night of terror. At least 17 people lost their lives, and more than 40 others were injured.

Also love how not a single analyst, policymaker, journo or academic from Germany, Norway, Ukraine, France, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Sweden, Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Netherlands etc etc was asked for feedback by the authors of this UK think tank report.

Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

England has seen a 45% decline over the last decade in the number of health visitors (nurses and midwives who treat young children at their home), according to BBC analysis BBC News - The real reason child vaccination rates are falling - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The real reason child vaccination rates are falling

As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations

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Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Anno Domini 2026 and this is the secretary for public health of the first power country in the world.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:

2. Clean indoor air: helpful in a pandemic and good for health and learning at all times (and not just in schools but other buildings too) 3. Effective public health measures: testing, contact tracing, support for isolation, communication, etc 10/12

If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.

It’s educational nostalgia. All this talk of reindustrialising fails to acknowledge how advanced manufacturing is, and how you need fewer workers to achieve the same or higher productivity, and how more of those workers proportionately will need level 5 and level 6 qualifications

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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Ukraine intercepted only one ballistic missile last night because the country has run out of missiles for its Patriot systems. In Kyiv, nine people were killed and 30 injured. Every delayed decision eventually arrives in Ukraine in the form of death and destruction.

Quite.

CN #Ceuta Ukrainischer Außenminister Volltext in Alt

I got a question for you: If Europeans cannot count on one another when a Member State is under pressure at the Union’s external border, what confidence should they have that solidarity will prevail when the threat is military rather than migratory?

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

ICYMI: We published James Ritchie's entertaining and thought-provoking piece on the Life in the UK Test, exploring how its stranger-than-fiction questions sometimes feel more surreal than the fantasy and sci-fi he reads off the clock. Well worth a read if you missed it.

Life in the UK Test – stranger than fiction? - Free Movement

When I am lawyering, I am reading. When I am not lawyering, I am also usually reading. Away from the office I am not, as a rule, reading about immigration

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Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Morocco appears to be deliberately transporting thousands of migrants toward the Spanish border, facilitating an invasion of Spain.

Did you ever see this magnificent prose poem by Pàdraig MacAoidh?

And just to note... graduates of Chinese universities seem to be having the same issues as those in the UK and elsewhere. This age of global markets affects every national government in their decisions, even if political attitudes are typically insular. www.ft.com/content/cfe0...

Chinese student high-flyers set sights on police and military academies

Weak economy boosts appeal of institutions that can offer more secure job prospects than even top-tier universities

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The new EU 'right to repair' rules take effect today. These include: 🔧 a right for consumers to claim the cost of repairs to producers 📄 a European repair information form 🖱 an online repair platform that connects consumers with repairers See → link.europa.eu/8BpP4r

Right to repair products

Find out how the EU has created incentives for producers and consumers to make repairing products easier and more attractive, in order to reduce waste and promote more sustainable business models.

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1/12 In 1939 a German mathematician, Ott-Heinrich Keller, asked a seemingly simple question about polynomial functions. It became known as the Jacobian conjecture. It remained open for 87 years. #maths #HistMath #Mathsky 🧪 #mathematics

The International Olympic Committee is lifting the suspension of Russian boxers while Russia is bombing the old boxing center in Kherson. The IOC is on the wrong side of history.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Bridget Phillipson, reflecting on her years spent standing idly by while UK higher education crumbled into the abyss and tens of thousands of university workers implored her to do something, literally anything, to save their jobs: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME THO www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

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This tells me this is as good as it gets for this approach. They couldn't make money out of it as a condition of access to the data. They solved the easy problem of structured proteins, but haven't a clue how to solve intrinsically disordered proteins. What's left? No profit, no more glory.

Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

The gig and small economy is increasingly the way people make a living, and governments should be supporting it rather than having the attitude that it is wrong and we should all aspire to work in a factory that isn't coming back anyway. Cross-Europe problem.