Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As an alumna of Spanish at Nottingham, this is incredibly depressing especially because the academics in the department were so dedicated, supportive and all around amazing. Once a course is closed, it will be very hard to re-open, closing off opportunities for many. 020
Reposted by Jess SalterJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death. 5851231737
Reposted by Jess SalterLucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 14/08/2026Britain is cutting direct aid by more than 40% to a raft of fragile and conflict-hit states incl South Sudan, Somalia & Afghanistan Overall, Foreign Office appeared to reduce its total intl development spending last year by more than double its initial forecast www.ft.com/content/ef45...ft.comFragile states in Africa and Middle East hit by more than 40% cut in UK direct aidCampaigners sound alarm over cuts to development spending pushed through to fund defence investment 13225
Reposted by Jess SalterAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it 1862662738
Reposted by Jess SalterJosh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026As 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. 651273582
Reposted by Jess SalterThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2026Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli striketheguardian.comAid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strikeEgyptian 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... 12243174
Reposted by Jess SalterCecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 07/07/2026NEW: 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... 04537
Reposted by Jess SalterToby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Brutal opening paragraph. But it's 100% factual. I wish more outlets wrote like this. euobserver.com/223378/talib... 17030
Reposted by Jess SalterGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026We 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 8264381782
Reposted by Jess SalterIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 22/04/2026It 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... 14519202
Reposted by Jess Salterbylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026UK 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...open.spotify.com"Unbelievable" Aid Cuts "Will Cost Lives" 0115
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"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...independent.co.ukPeople deserve the chance to decide how UK aid is spent in a changing worldAs 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... 000
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Details 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...theguardian.comUK government axes flagship global health projectProgramme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics 001
Reposted by Jess SalterBen Simms @bensimms65.bsky.social · 12/03/2026It 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...theguardian.comUK government axes flagship global health projectProgramme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics 013
Reposted by Jess SalterIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US inews.co.uk/opinion/hegs... 30824202
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 25/02/202693 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...independent.co.ukClose to 100 charities condemn ‘devastating’ impact of a year of UK aid cutsIn 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 000
Reposted by Jess SalterJoe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The 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?...youtu.beMozambique hit by worst flooding in more than 20 yearsYouTube video by Sky News 053
Reposted by Jess SalterGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026One overlooked aspect is that graduates are now forecast to cover 83% of higher education costs – the funding system has been almost entirely privatised. 513232
Reposted by Jess SalterFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Hugh 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" 516718
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The 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... 000
Reposted by Jess SalterCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text. 3927971346
Reposted by Jess SalterNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Let'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 210450
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 22/12/2025With 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...independent.co.ukHow private investors are making billions from countries in debtExclusive: 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 ... 000
Reposted by Jess SalterYouGov @yougov.co.uk · 18/11/2025How 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... 13810
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Cutting 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.org.ukBond reacts to Reform UK proposals to cut the UK aid budget by 90 per cent to £1 billion | BondToday, 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 010
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025My 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....www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.orgMusic and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC NewsIn a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer". 010
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025In 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...lbc.co.ukThis is how Labour can fix the finances - without forcing ordinary people to pay the price | LBCRachel Reeves should ask the wealthiest and the biggest polluters to contribute their fair share, writes Ellie Chowns MP. 010
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025"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...theguardian.comAid cuts could set back fragile gains in eliminating neglected tropical diseases | LetterLetter: 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 010
Reposted by Jess Salterzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Even 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...apnews.comStarving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across MyanmarU.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. 9307140
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Don'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. 000
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The 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...independent.co.ukPoor nations pay more on debt interest than they get for climate aidThe 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 000
Reposted by Jess SalterTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right 0459
Reposted by Jess Salterbondngo.bsky.social @bondngo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Today marks the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Two years on, the conflict in Gaza continues, with at least 67,160 Palestinians confirmed killed and Gaza enduring one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in our time. www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/10...buff.lyBond statement on the second anniversary of the 7th October attacks | Bond7 October 2025 marks the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Two years on, the conflict in Gaza continues, with at least 67,160 001
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Tell me it's party conference season without telling me it's party conference season #labourpartyconference 010
Reposted by Jess SalterChelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 27/09/2025"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children. As social order unravels, it is mostly girls who are raped, & then scorned for having been raped." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Tax on Being a Girl 13817
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 25/09/2025"The UK was represented by a less senior figure in climate envoy Rachel Kyte. The FCDO told @the-independent.com that the UK had no message for the media at the summit - and at one panel on the future of aid Kyte did not appear, despite being on the programme." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukAfrican countries push for radical change to tackle climate crisis as key summit endsNick Ferris reports from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where activists back ambitious final declaration at second African Climate Summit – but pile scorn on lack of help from rich nations 010
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025BII concentrates 53% of it's investments in 5 middle-income countries (India, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa & Kenya) despite it's mandate to support economic growth for the benefit of the poorest populations. @bondngo.bsky.social's new briefing on BII in @devex.com 👇 www.devex.com/news/bii-has...devex.comBII has grown — but is it delivering for the poorest?A new analysis by Bond UK raises questions about whether the U.K.’s development finance institution is living up to its mandate, even as it expands in size and reach. 010
Reposted by Jess SalterDawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 14/09/2025As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾 1227299
Reposted by Jess SalterBremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 11/09/2025Spain, Ireland and now Slovenia saying they will not participate in Eurovision this year if Isreal remains a participant 301125384
Reposted by Jess SalterThe Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025A note to The Lead readers about Angela Rayner at the top of our weekend newsletter 23011
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This is out of the Trump playbook. How low are the Tories going to stoop 010
Reposted by Jess SalterSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Labour had 9.7 million voters in July 2024. 2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right 2.6 million to centre/left (27%) 900k Labour to LD (9%) 800k Labour to Green (8%) 900k across others (9%) 800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%) A sliver to Cons 1715361
Reposted by Jess SalterNicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025This video doing the rounds again today. What Farage is promising still impossible. 12311
Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Wearing a black T-shirt in a coffee shop and someone asks me for the bill. 🙈 000
Reposted by Jess SalterJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025The IDF planned a journalist’s killing. 619078
Reposted by Jess SalterLouisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...washingtonpost.comMass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger riseAid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people. 24740
Reposted by Jess SalterNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24/07/2025BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation - too little, too late from most mainstream media who have framed this genocide as a war and Israel's right to self-defense for 21 months www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comBBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvationReuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip 076