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Jess Salter

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Media relations @bondngo.bsky.social - international development, UK aid, climate finance, international issues. Occasional music musings. Loiner in London.

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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As 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.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria 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.
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 14/08/2026
Britain 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...
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Fragile states in Africa and Middle East hit by more than 40% cut in UK direct aid
Campaigners sound alarm over cuts to development spending pushed through to fund defence investment
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very 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
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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.
cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2026
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
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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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Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 07/07/2026
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...
Chart of estimated deaths from heat in France over 12-29 June 2026, with an inset estimating daily deaths.
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Brutal opening paragraph. But it's 100% factual. I wish more outlets wrote like this. euobserver.com/223378/talib...
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bloody hell.
Thread - on Threads - of three posts from someone whose screen name is 'blueskies 1977':

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 | have been an election agent for the Labour Party for 8 years Yesterday, for
the first time ever, | cried at a count. Was it because we'd lost a lot of seats,
because we had? No. | cried because a very hard working, dedicated, British
born Councillor of Pakistani descent had the word "deport' written next to her
name on a ballot paper with a Reform vote. When the doubtful papers were
shown to candidates and agents, | challenged the Reform agent to disown the
vote and he refused.

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 | saw a number of other ballot papers with racist, islamophobic and antisemitic
comments. I'm used to the abusive comments about parties and policies on
papers, we tend to have a laugh with them. I'm also used to the many pictures
of penises on ballot papers (you guys are all so original), but | haven't seen so
much hatred written on ballot papers. What are we becoming as a country?
Why do people feel emboldened to put their hatred out there? It's vile.

blueskies 1977
For those commenting that the ballot paper should be rejected, in law it can't be. If a
clear voting intent is shown for the correct number of candidates, it will only be
rejected it there is anything, such as a signature, initials or name, that could identify
the voter or the official mark is defaced or damaged.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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...
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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"Unbelievable" Aid Cuts "Will Cost Lives"
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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...
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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...
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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...
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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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Ben Simms @bensimms65.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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...
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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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US inews.co.uk/opinion/hegs...
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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...
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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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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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?...
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Mozambique hit by worst flooding in more than 20 years
YouTube video by Sky News
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
One overlooked aspect is that graduates are now forecast to cover 83% of higher education costs – the funding system has been almost entirely privatised.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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"
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It's their world and we're just living in it.
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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...
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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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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 18/11/2025
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...
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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...
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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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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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....
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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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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
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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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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...
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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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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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...
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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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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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.
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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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
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right
Headline: "Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term"
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bondngo.bsky.social @bondngo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Today 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...
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Bond statement on the second anniversary of the 7th October attacks | Bond
7 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
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Tell me it's party conference season without telling me it's party conference season #labourpartyconference
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Chelsea 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...
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Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
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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...
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African countries push for radical change to tackle climate crisis as key summit ends
Nick 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
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
BII 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...
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BII 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.
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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
As 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.👇🏾
The Parliamentary Black Caucus condemns in the strongest terms the recent rise in racism, abuse and anti-migrant hatred that we have witnessed in many parts of our beloved country.

Whilst all people have the right to peaceful protest, we are clear that racism, intimidation and violence have no place in our society and must be met with a clear and robust response from the police authorities.

From people being assaulted and abused in public because of their ethnicity, religion or dress, to racist graffiti sprayed on buildings, to intimidatory and violent protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, this is an alarming time for many people, especially those from minoritised communities.

We stand in solidarity with all those who are fearful, targeted or at risk.The Government must show leadership. It must take urgent steps to reduce tensions, call out and challenge racist rhetoric and behaviour wherever it occurs, and take far more seriously the threat posed by the far right — which police have identified as the UK’s fastest-growing threat.

We also call on the public to reject the divisive agenda of the far right, who are seeking to exploit recent tensions to spread anti-migrant hatred as well as mis and disinformation. This country is stronger when we stand together.

We absolutely should have space in our country for informed discussions around migration, immigration and integration. This should be based on facts, compassion and most importantly, humanity.

The Parliamentary Black Caucus believes in a patriotism that is inclusive, welcoming and proudly anti-racist — because only unity and solidarity will defeat the far right.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 11/09/2025
Spain, Ireland and now Slovenia saying they will not participate in Eurovision this year if Isreal remains a participant
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The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A note to The Lead readers about Angela Rayner at the top of our weekend newsletter
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is out of the Trump playbook. How low are the Tories going to stoop
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Labour 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
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This video doing the rounds again today. What Farage is promising still impossible.
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Jess Salter @jesssalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wearing a black T-shirt in a coffee shop and someone asks me for the bill. 🙈
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The IDF planned a journalist’s killing.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
After 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...
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid 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.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
BBC, 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...
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BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip
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