Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, was in Jamaica these past few days. One of the main purposes was to discuss the deepening of their cooperation, especially on reparation demands for slavery and colonialism. jis.gov.jm/jamaica-deep...

Before stephensi arrived in 2013, Djibouti was on the cusp of declaring malaria eradicated. In 2012, there were just 27 cases. Two years later, cases shot up to nearly 1,700... and in 2020, there was an explosion: more than 70,000 cases. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities

The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.

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The UK Conservatives are rejecting former centre-right cabinet ministers, but welcoming literal ex-Nazis who've done jail time for violent crimes Apparently, it's time to believe in redemption and second chances www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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This is Susan Murray of Truro, Nova Scotia. Yesterday, she became the first volunteer in the world to be dosed with a trial Moderna vaccine against the new ebola strain In all, 80 Canadians have stepped up in a phase 1 clinical trial to help end the epidemic in West Africa cepi.net/modernas-bun...

It’s believed there are 860 children stranded in Ceuta, unable to go forward but without their parents to return to Morocco One girl watched her little brother drown, then was separated from her mother www.arabnews.com/node/2653258...

Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing

CEUTA: The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of...

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This is the inevitable result of politicians and the media licensing gutter racism as ‘reasonable opinions’ Relatedly, if you cannot be treated by a non-white medical professional, then you should be deemed to have refused treatment news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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Taylor Farms salad is sold in Canada too. There was a...healthy amount left untouched on the shelf at my local Farm Boy yesterday I would appreciate a slightly more robust approach from CFIA, but perhaps they're still working out which of its 1,371 jobs to cut www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Two people have died from cyclosporiasis in Michigan, marking the first fatalities in the largest U.S. outbreak of the intestinal illness

If I wanted to protect the most prestigious and highly paid jobs for the social groups who usually hold them I'd probably design an education system that discouraged poorer children from studying the entry qualifications for these jobs as early as possible..

If we want men to join female-dominated sectors, we have to pay more for that work, and show that the work has value and status. But we won't, cause that means paying women more for work we don't actually value www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

If a man won't do certain work because he deems it girly, or it offends his own sense of masculinity, that is a man problem, not a job problem He's not a small child who needs patronizing. Why are we conning him into his own employment by telling him healthcare is actually very macho and strong

Instead of telling men that women-dominated workplaces are actually macho cause they get to lift old people and be strong heroes (??), we could instead ask men why their concepts of masculinity mean they exclude themselves from huge sectors of the economy www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

The best way to make women-dominated jobs attractive to men is to pay more for them. Not stupid gimmicks like telling men that care work is actually macho Men join sectors where pay and status are increasing. And pay and status increase when men join those sectors www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?

Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."

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Deciding whether kids are "academic" or "technical" at an early age is going to work out particularly badly for boys, who are generally later developers and where stereotyping is likely to push them towards the non-academic path.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why do so many progressives want this? I just don't get it.

"An iron rule of education systems is that the earlier they select into academic and non-academic routes, the greater the socio-economic gap. Parents with resources will spend whatever is necessary to ensure their child gets on to the higher status stream" samf.substack.com/p/burnhams-f...

Burnham's first mistake

The problem with his education plan

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Thoughtful, enjoyable piece that outlines three critical ways to deal with the US: - Hedging through solidarity - Patient diversification and strategic autonomy - Applying leverage in places where US capital is vulnerable caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/multipolar...

Peter Jones argues the term 'middle powers' leads to misty-eyed nostalgia and national mythology He argues we need another term that describes what we're really trying to do - club together with other small but wealthy nations to hedge against the US thewalrus.ca/canada-middl...

Canada Keeps Calling Itself a Middle Power. It Isn’t | The Walrus

The idea once reflected geopolitical reality. Today it’s mostly a comforting illusion

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The UK government has set out the biggest constitutional change since devolution. A new document outlines how the machinery of government will be rewired, and how the powers and funding of regions and cities will change www.gov.uk/government/p...

Rewiring the State – Cabinet Statement (HTML)

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Terrorism arrests in the UK increased by 1,200% this year The 2,800 people arrested for supporting Palestine Action, is more than the number of people arrested for all terrorism offences in the last decade combined inews.co.uk/news/retired...

How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects

Suspects arrested for holding signs reading, 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action'

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The only real way to prevent migration by eliminating pull factors is to tank your own economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

My job involves working out how to fund and organize progressive movements This book charts the evolution of and connections between far right figures. It illustrates how connected they are, how they fund each other, and how their beliefs have remained remarkably untouched since the 1930s

Solidarity is the EU's greatest strength In their haste to capitalize on anti-immigration sentiment, European centre-right politicians have strengthened MAGA/Russian propaganda and undermined the very asset that protects them as a unit

Nathalie Tocci@nathalietocci.bsky.social · 3d ago

When an EU member is in trouble, esp if instigated from outside, as for Spain in Ceuta, solidarity should be the only EU response. Far-right reactions is yet more proof there’s no “moderate” far-right, only different ways far right forces seek to dismantle European integration

I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

Arundhati Roy: "For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke" thewire.in/rights/cockr...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

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"When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, experts warned oil prices could hit $150 or $200 a barrel in a few weeks. The great mystery is why that hasn’t happened.....Now an explanation seems to be emerging: China" www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

The Great Chinese Oil Mystery

America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.

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Take note. "For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries." From the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 👇

Looks like Labour has stormed the Greater Manchester byelection. Votes still being counted but we're told they've won in places where Reform UK and the Greens dominated in May – including all wards in Green MP Hannah Spencer's constituency. "It's a massive turnaround," says Labour source.

As every far right grifter jumps on the Ceuta incident, the people at the centre of it - vulnerable, desperate people who have been tricked, exploited and endangered for political gain - have been entirely removed from their own story

"The hoards are at the gates" Ceuta is in North Africa

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 5d ago

Message from our main ally…

The tweet saying "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those 57 who have died trying to reach Ceuta" was part of this thread but got lost?

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 5d ago

The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.

It's notable that when Belarus/Russia did this to Poland, other EU countries didn't respond by blaming Poland. They blamed Belarus/Russia. No mystery why Europe's governing conservatives are blaming the EU's only leftist prime minister.