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David Simon

@urbandavidsimon.bsky.social
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Professor @Royal Holloway, University of London; cities and climate change, IPCC Lead Author - AR7 special report on climate change and cities; Arid Cities Network; development theory, policy and practice; political ecology; transdisciplinarity.

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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Our ancient woodlands are at a crossroads: if we delay restoring them much longer there may be nothing left. Please share the petition as far as you can because the more people who know and care, the better chance our ancient woodlands have of returning to life. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Over 100,000 acres of our public forests used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger than the Isle of W...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Read more on the murky goings-on behind the scenes in Belém during the COP30 negotiations - CarbonBrief's analysis of contradictions and anomalies in the informal list of countries blocking mention of a transition from fossil fuels in the final declaration ... www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...
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Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief has obtained a leaked copy of the “informal list” of countries that were characterised as “blocking” the fossil-fuel roadmap’sat COP30.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚨GOOD NEWS: Seabed mining blocked in the Cook Islands thanks to local resistance. It’s a massive win for Pacific Peoples and communities fighting this emerging threat. Don’t ever let them tell you people power doesn’t work!
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A really important High Court verdict in Kenya that challenges the claimed hegemony of transnational corporations and their claims over IPR (intellectual property rights) against local and indigenous communities and small farmers over their own biological resources ...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is big: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal - Greenpeace International
Borgarting Court of Appeal agreed with Greenpeace Nordic and Natur og Ungdom that three oil fields in the Norwegian North Sea are illegal.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A timely reminder: x.com/drsimevans/s...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Recentering the world, Amazonizing COP - SUMAÚMA
Since last Sunday, November 2, SUMAÚMA has been sailing toward Belém with nearly 100 people - Indigenous, Quilombola, and Ribeirinha leaders, scientists, journalists, and artists. We are on our way to...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨 It's really, really hard not to tire of the human race sometimes... 😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 28/10/2025
SHOCKING: Global use of coal hit record high in 2024. We must change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
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Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...
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‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust
The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The sad story of how one of my US colleagues lost his research funding from the federal government and the important work on urban heat and atmospheric greenhouse gases was shut down ... He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
More evidence of impact of anthropogenic warming on excess deaths during this year’s summer heat in Europe … www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The American Geophysical Union (ASU) is documenting the scale and extent of the breathtaking assault on US climate science and policy: eos.org/research-and... ASU editors also just published a scathing rebuttal of the Orwellian presidential executive order: doi.org/10.1029/2025... - a must read
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The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/08/2025
studies show that heatwaves lead to a rise in hospitalisations of people with mental disorders, an increase in emergency psychiatric visits and mental health helpline calls, a rise in suicide rates people with mental health conditions are three times more likely to die during a heatwave
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As the EU heats up, minds start to crack - Euractiv
"People with mental and behavioural disorders are at higher risk of a deterioration in their health,"  WHO Programme Manager Dorota Jarosinska told Euractiv
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14/08/2025
Official figures released yesterday show that nearly 440,000 hectares have been burned in wildfires so far this year in the EU This is more than DOUBLE the size of the area burned this time last year Unchecked climate change makes this more likely and more dangerous
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Current wildfire situation in Europe
See the most recent data on the forest fire situation in the EU and the weather forecast for the coming days.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 14/08/2025
#PlasticsTreaty talks are stalled over lack of ambition, with the Chair’s draft being described by Greenpeace International as a “gift to the petrochemical industry & a betrayal of humanity." 🚨⏳Govts have hours to stand up & deliver a treaty that cuts production.
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Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline
Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Truly horrific - as is what’s happening now in Sudan - both hidden or, more accurately, ignored African wars www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women
Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 04/08/2025
'Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned.' This is a crisis fuelled by profit and delay. We need urgent action.
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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Really authoritative and important - also a great teaching aid.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The data in the new study published in PNAS and reported here are really worrying in terms of academic integrity and the implications for future research building on such work. Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖 Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Very good news for the deep ocean seabed and a boost for its multilateral governance: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
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International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company - Oceanographic
The landmark decision has been earmarked as a critical step in protecting the deep sea - recognised as the common heritage of humankind.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave
After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Concerning but not insurprising update from @UNHabitat on progress implementing #SDG11: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Shocking hidden cost of sudden culling of USAID funds for healthcare in rural Mozambique - and far from the only such case: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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These are the children the United States left to die in Mozambique
In Mozambique, the health system is overwhelmingly built on US money. When the Trump administration instantly pulled much of this funding without warning, disease and death spread. Spotlight and Groun...
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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David Simon 💙 on X: "Shocking hidden cost of the sudden, unannounced culling of USAID-funded health services in rural Mozambique. Many similar situations elsewhere. These are the children the United States left to die in Mozambique https://t.co/KQLp3wMtXQ" / X
Shocking hidden cost of the sudden, unannounced culling of USAID-funded health services in rural Mozambique. Many similar situations elsewhere. These are the children the United States left to die in Mozambique https://t.co/KQLp3wMtXQ
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 17/06/2025
As the nickel mining industry expands, a threat has emerged to Raja Ampat -the Last Paradise on Earth- and also a home for Indigenous West Papuans. Greenpeace Indonesia continues to demand full and permanent protection for the entire ecosystem. #SaveRajaAmpat www.ft.com/content/b8dc...
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Indonesia launches rare crackdown on nickel mines in ‘last paradise’
President Prabowo Subianto cancels most mining permits issued in the coral-rich Raja Ampat archipelago
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A sad state of US affairs, self-harming and a loss globally
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Powerful statement on behalf of UK-based Jews who do not support the extremist and counter-productive policies of the current Israeli government yachad.org.uk/statement-on...
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Statement on UK sanctions against Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich | Yachad
Today the UK government, along with other international allies, announced an important and moral decision to sanction far-right Israeli ministers ... Read more
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Another unwelcome piece of evidence that we’re still building a bad future, thanks to lagged feedback loops …
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Yllek @yllekaj.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I won't disclose how long I sat, watching & waiting to capture this video but I am going to tell you, the actual speed of the transformation took 8 minutes. In order to share this with you, I sped up the video 8 times. I present to you, the transformation of a varied eggfly caterpillar to chrysalis🦋
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
China's solar power rush accelerates before the June deadline when prices paid to new installations change: a whopping 45 GW installed in one month, more than the total solar capacity of Australia or Spain.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but it’s full of contradictions theconversation.com/anti-environ...
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Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but it’s full of contradictions
Some of the contradictions of anti-environmentalism reflect its departure from traditional conservatism.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 30/04/2025
The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term as US President have been a disaster for people and the planet.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Very happy to share the publication today of a new blog post on Transforming Society with Bianca Vienni-Baptista on progress with inter- and transdisciplinary research methods and results: lnkd.in/eDHACE7C and our recent special collection in Julie Thompson Klein's memory: lnkd.in/e7EPAtgm
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
City-sized iceberg scraping ocean floor - dramatic new evidence about British - Irish ice sheet retreat c18,000 y bp … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Iceberg tracks found off UK coast could shed light on Antarctica
Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Climate change is figuratively and literally burning up the planet… www.washingtonpost.com/video/climat...
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Wildfire forces evacuations in New Jersey
The Jones Wildfire exploded on April 22 in eastern New Jersey and quickly consumed 8,500 acres, forcing evacuations.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Deserves to be widely read - not least by those of us engaging with IPCC AR7, just starting with the Special Report in Climate Change and Cities
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Yet another sign of future climates in the here and now …
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Sobering assessment by the top US banks of the state of likely global warming, esp in view of Trump’s policies: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal.
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Orangutan extinction for gold
Only 800 Tapanuli orangutans remain, and a British-owned mine could wipe them out. But we can be their voice!
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Delighted to announce publication of an open access Special Collection in #GlobalSocialChallengesJournal on inter- and transdisciplinary knowledges co-edited with #BiancaVienniBaptista (ETH, Zürich) in memory of #JulieThompsonKlein, fellow founding editor-in-chief, lnkd.in/e7EPAtgm.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 05/04/2025
Global fast fashion brands are churning out more clothes than the planet can handle. Today’s trends are tomorrow’s trash with our clothes made cheaply and disposed of quickly. Here are four activists - and more - from Africa who are pushing back…
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4 African activists taking on fast fashion - Greenpeace International
The Global North’s fashion addiction is fueling environmental disasters across Africa. Here are four activists from the continent pushing back on fast fashion.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17/03/2025
Donald Trump’s escalating trade war will damage global growth, OECD warns www.ft.com/content/21eece45-b99b-42…
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Donald Trump’s escalating trade war will damage global growth, OECD warns
Forecasts downgraded for a dozen G20 economies and alarm sounded on ‘ratcheting up’ of trade barriers
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Michael Faraday's notebooks have been unearthed from the Royal Institution archive - they will be digitised & made accessible online for the first time. Among many other achievements, his work laid the foundations for Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. 🧪⚛️⚗️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein
Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/02/2025
Starmer faces darkening mood among Labour MPs after aid cuts www.ft.com/content/4e487c84-19fb-46…
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Starmer faces darkening mood among Labour MPs after aid cuts
Resignation of Anneliese Dodds shows challenges for prime minister as he pursues tough choices
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David Simon @urbandavidsimon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Principled action - in terms of where and how the cuts were made - which is being interpreted as following the Trump-Musk lead and will have a boomerang effect: Minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts
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