There has been little mention of the 72 people who drowned or were crushed trying to reach Ceuta last week. A shocking figure that's been eclipsed by right wing press fear mongering. The incident and how it started is now coming under welcome scrutiny www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets
People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects
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1. Almost no one who stormed into Ceuta in the last days will get into the EU. 2. Hysteria in the wider EU over Ceuta will blow over. 3. The row over securing Ceuta will remain a political hot potato between PSOE, PP and Vox. 4. The bigger loser from this mess will be Morocco
Colby like many other American leaders and analysts is fundamentally Cakeist in assuming that the United States can sustain the same level of authority it had in Europe during the Cold War while contributing far less to European security
Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · last wk.US undersecretary of defence Colby announces that the US forces’ “Europe Posture Review” has begun. This is about creating a “NATO 3.0”, aka NATO with less US.
Thanks to @kevinmilligan.bsky.social et al for this study on the impact of universal childcare on women's income - Long run impact on women's earnings far beyond the childcare years - Increased tax remittances, reduced social insurance - Recoups 75-117% of program costs www.nber.org/papers/w35514
There is a chasm between the European political view of the modern economy and its reality, leading to a vicious circle of promises that simply cannot be met. Not to say there aren't many issues with the current situation, just not these. ecipe.org/publications...
The WhatsApp World Order: Learning to Live with the New Global Political Economy
An inter-connectivity and technology revolution transformed the world over the last 30 years - with AI being the latest instalment. Multiple, interlocking, instant networks now cover the world like an
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The other question here would be what actual problem is being solved by extending 'no access to public funds' to ILR holders
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w agoHome Office floating "compromise" on "earned settlement" reforms - settlement/ILR after 5 years, but no access to benefits until 10 years. Some thoughts..(1/4) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):
The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?
An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.
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One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · last mo.Elon Musk doesn't believe gutting USAID caused any deaths. He claims his DOGE team was unable to find kids the agency was helping. Well, here are some specific people he could talk to: parents whose kids are now dead, and kids who are now orphaned, thanks to him. www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-the-cu...
Oh now Thiel is talking about the "reproducibility crisis" in science, amazing Wait these guys are all myna birds, aren't they. They hear a few words said by someone else and they just grab them and repeat them without understanding. Now I see why they love LLMs so much.
I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
I think this chart from @andrewgoodwin.bsky.social at Oxford Economics cuts to the heart of UK fiscal policy - whatever the chat about market vibes, who's gonna be chancellor etc Basically the UK economy is not expected to grow quickly enough to outrun its debt costs (with only Italy in same boat).
Starmer is unironically the closest gov to just ending immigration the UK will have for a long, long while I'm betting right now all my savings that Farage will let in statistically more people in but nobody will care because he'll very publicly deport 20 guys to Pitcairn and say slurs
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
These trends in terms of Central and Eastern European economic development were in quantitative and qualitative terms already visible from space by 2016 yet universally ignored in Brexit debates
Myth 5: 'EU immigration only fell because of Brexit, so we should have just kept recruiting workers from the EU'. Central, Eastern and Southern Europe has seen strong economic growth while having low birth rates. Net migration from the rest of the EU to Germany is now negative. (6/6)
There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
Global CO2 emissions have plateaued since 2013, leading to a slower growth in atmospheric CO2 than would have otherwise been the case. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I've taken look at what would have happened if emissions had continued to grow: www.theclimatebrink....
There is much debate about how centralised our political system is compared to other countries. But is this mirrored in the financial system? Recent analysis suggests so! The map below shows the different risk premiums on investment yields by place after the 2008 crash. Short 🧵 1/5
It's really worth scrutinising the way the aesthetics of Britishness themselves are a way of pacifying doubts among the listeners about a man's character and ideas
It's so striking how much conservative ideology rests entirely on lies. You can look up which books are getting assigned in colleges! The idea that higher education has a "disdain for Western civilization" is laughable.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis may be one of the most pusillanimous, and disingenuous, bits of writing on the right's attempt to destroy the humanities in the US.
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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I'm a climate expert. I know 1000s of climate experts. One fact we all know: poor people care about climate more than rich people. Hardly surprising when you can't afford AC, work outside, etc. A few issues in the article... /1
I suspect a lot of Iranians whose economic futures and infrastructure are getting permanently smashed along the way might care a little
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 4mo ago“We’ve bombed 38 bajillion targets!!!” Okay. Is Hormuz open? No? Then who gives a fuck.
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.
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