Jess Salter
@jesssalt.bsky.social
Media relations @bondngo.bsky.social - international development, UK aid, climate finance, international issues. Occasional music musings. Loiner in London.
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...
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NEW: During last month’s record-breaking heatwave, there were more than 2,700 heat-related deaths in France. That’s according to new analysis for @carbonbrief.org from @ccallahan45.bsky.social and @andrewdessler.com Read more: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-f...
Brutal opening paragraph. But it's 100% factual. I wish more outlets wrote like this. euobserver.com/223378/talib...
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...
UK admits it doesn't know when deadline for military spending will be met - but still cuts 40% from overseas aid, which experts say will make us less secure. With @bondngo.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4Klq...
"Unbelievable" Aid Cuts "Will Cost Lives"
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"International NGOs are actively considering what their role should be in the future" @bondngo.bsky.social's Romilly Greenhill for @the-independent.com on what the future of international development looks like, calling on the UK gov to put words into action: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
People deserve the chance to decide how UK aid is spent in a changing world
As the impact of the UK’s decision to slash international development funding really starts to hit home, NGOs are pushing to shift decision-making over projects to local people, Romilly Greenhill writ...
independent.co.uk
Details are beginning to emerge about what’s being slashed under the UK aid cuts, with programmes like this one which trains healthcare workers in six African countries - work that ultimately protects the UK and the rest of the world's health security. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK government axes flagship global health project
Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics
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It was Gordon Brown who launched the #HealthPartnerships approach in 2007, harnessing #NHS expertise to drive #UHC delivery in #LMICs. It is this Labour Govt which is ending this work, 18 years later. A sad moment. #UKGlobalHealthSummit @katlay.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK government axes flagship global health project
Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics
theguardian.com
93 UK INGOs have issued a joint statement to mark one year since the UK aid cuts were announced, calling on the government to set out a plan to reverse the cuts, ensure poverty reduction is central to it development agenda & help make the global system fairer. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Close to 100 charities condemn ‘devastating’ impact of a year of UK aid cuts
In a joint statement, 93 NGOs call on the government to reverse ‘short-sighted’ reduction of up to 40 per cent in Britain’s aid budget
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The British minister talks proudly here of the UK’s role in helping flood survivors in Mozambique. What isn’t mentioned is that the U.K. is slashing its aid budget so help like this is getting rarer youtu.be/1dfNpUNp52Y?...
Mozambique hit by worst flooding in more than 20 years
YouTube video by Sky News
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One overlooked aspect is that graduates are now forecast to cover 83% of higher education costs – the funding system has been almost entirely privatised.
Hugh Bonneville, "I condemn the October 7th Hamas attack just as much as I condemn what Israel has done to Gaza" "All I care about is humanity" "And most people watching this program would agree with that"
The amount of published social media posts that have the typo "know" instead of "no" that I've seen in the last few days is worrying...
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Let's not forget that Trump just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández - ex-Honduras president who backed a coup, committed election fraud, violently repressed activists, lawyers, Indigenous people, youth etc - and was entenced to 35 years by an American jury for trafficking drugs and weapons into the US
With over 30 countries facing high risk of debt distress & most of these debts owed to private creditors governed under English law, the UK and other governing jurisdictions, must use their powers to compel private creditors to comply with greater debt relief. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How private investors are making billions from countries in debt
Exclusive: As an escalating climate crisis and a difficult economic outlook put ever greater pressure on developing countries, new analysis shows how wealthy private investors in the Global North are ...
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How do public perceptions of government spending match with reality? A YouGov experiment put a series of govt spending areas as head to head match-ups and asked Britons to say which they thought more was spent on Read more here: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Cutting UK aid is not a simple solution - Zia Yusuf claims the UK sends "hundreds of millions" to Turkey, but figures show the country received just £13m last year, mainly for a refugee support programme, given Turkey hosts the world's 2nd largest amount of refugees. www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
Bond reacts to Reform UK proposals to cut the UK aid budget by 90 per cent to £1 billion | Bond
Today, Tuesday 18th November, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared that the Chancellor should slash the UK aid budget by 90% to £1 billion, to
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My alma mater @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is cutting the modern languages undergrad courses. As an alum of Spanish this is incredibly damaging for students & runs the risk of turning into the "University of Little England" The decision needs reversing. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC News
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
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In this @lbc.co.uk piece, @elliechowns.bsky.social proposes 4 policies that Labour could introduce to strengthen the public finances without hitting ordinary people, including taxing the super-rich, going further on polluter pays & supporting a fairer global tax system. www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
This is how Labour can fix the finances - without forcing ordinary people to pay the price | LBC
Rachel Reeves should ask the wealthiest and the biggest polluters to contribute their fair share, writes Ellie Chowns MP.
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"To safeguard fragile gains against malaria, NTDs and other diseases, the UK government must maintain its support for international development. Eliminating these scourges is in the UK public’s best interest." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts could set back fragile gains in eliminating neglected tropical diseases | Letter
Letter: In response to an editorial on the uptick in malaria, Prof Heather Ferguson writes that progress against dengue, leprosy, rabies and other conditions could unravel
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Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Don't just call Reform racist and expect the country to agree with you. Show them an alternative, what an alternative future could look like to Reform's pathway to further economic decline.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 10mo agoStarmer must not repeat the Democrats’ mistakes on.ft.com/42LgB0O | opinion
The world's least developed & most climate-vulnerable countries are paying more in debt than they receive in climate funding, new research from @iied.bsky.social finds. @bondngo.bsky.social urges the UK and other rich countries to end this vicious cycle. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Poor nations pay more on debt interest than they get for climate aid
The world’s least developed countries paid US $37 billion (£28bn) to service their debts in 2023, but received only $32 billion (£24bn) in climate finance
independent.co.uk
