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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

After all the bs about "human shields" and "collateral damage" we have events that resist all spin and obfuscation. And yet Israel's defenders carry on with the same old tired formulas.

This. Just this.

How is this not on every front page? How are the Israeli's still getting away with a deliberate campaign of enthic cleansing?

on.ft.com/4eWpc5K

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ https://on.ft.com/3IGEGOY

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The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris

A welcome antidote to the xenophobic nonsense about "low-wage" migrant workers that floods the opinion pages of the Telegraph and Times.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

«C’est la seule solution raisonnable même si elle est dure à prendre» : en Bretagne, un hameau bientôt rasé pour échapper à la montée des eaux Pour parer au risque de submersion marine, plusieurs maisons de Treffiagat (Finistère) vont être détruites. Portée par les élus locaux, cette opération d’adaptation au réchauffement est une première en France.

«C’est la seule solution raisonnable même si elle est dure à prendre» : en Bretagne, un hameau sera bientôt rasé pour échapper à la montée des eaux

Cette opération, qui brise le cœur des habitants, est une première en France. Reportage :

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).

Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).

Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

And "every 0.1% increase in productivity growth reducing the rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio by 25% points".

Always surprised by how NHS funding arguments (as opposed to triple-locked) aren't framed in terms of intergenerational transfers.

Chart shows primary tax receipts and state expenditure by age in the UK. obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

just occasionally there is a really fantastic news story 🥰

A little something for Burns night from wonderful singer & songwriter #FraserNimmo

youtu.be/spWyI-6Ni38?...

A really fascinating and thoughtfully written piece, thank you. Her political wisdom is immense, in spite of her many flaws.

Please ignore the ridiculous and over wrought FT comments, well done for responding to so many in such a measured way!

Tomorrow's Independent front page revealing Brexit's catastrophic cost - five years after the UK left the EU.

- New bureaucracy
- Weaker UK exports
- Labour shortages in key sectors
- Less cash for public services
- Huge divorce bill
- 15% long term hit to UK trade

This is the price of populism.

Incinerators: New plans to limit burning rubbish for energy Tougher regulations unveiled for new energy from waste incinerators which may limit future plants

"Just under half of all the UK's household rubbish is now burned"

Those coffee cups, plastic toys, comedy jumpers that were funny once - woosh, we just burn the lot.

Time to buy less crap.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really superb dataviz, thank you

Russische Sabotage in Europa: Wie Russland einen hybriden Krieg in Europa führt Russland bekämpft europäische Staaten seit Langem mit Desinformation, inzwischen aber auch mit Sabotage und Anschlägen. Wann und wo es Attacken gab

The German weekly Die Zeit has compiled a list of suspected acts of Russian sabotage and hybrid warfare all over Europe since the invasion of Ukraine.

www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

As someone who works in the sector, this is an excellent and long overdue policy which will raise billions in the coming years.

If only Labour had been similarly ambitious on income tax, fuel duty, capital gains and air passenger duty.

If I would be dictator for a day, I would mandate that you are only allowed to published graphs that show the full range of the y-axis.

A lot of rich parents are very upset at the government for charging VAT on private school fees. Maybe they should instead ask why private schools have put up fees so far above inflation over the past 15 years. www.ft.com/content/852b...

2024 aura-t-elle permis d'arrêter de romantiser la prédation entre un adulte et un enfant ? C’est, en tout cas, l’année où Judith Godrèche se déprend en direct d’une certaine version de son histoire et oblige cinéma et spectateurs à changer de regard.

Lire : www.liberation.fr/plus/numeros...

'They've all come to look for West Harptree'

Piratage informatique : Bercy exfiltre le filtre anti-arnaque | Le Canard enchaîné Au ministère de l'Economie, la direction générale des entreprises se montre très douée pour plomber le dispositif chargé de protéger les internautes des sites……

En 2022, Macron avait promis de développer un "filtre anti-arnaque" pour lutter contre les escroqueries en ligne. Depuis, cet outil a été torpillé par Bercy et il n'est pas près de rentrer en service...
lecanardenchaine.fr/police-justice/49756-bercy-exfiltre-le-filtre-anti-arnaque?v=1735399542886

Read this while smashing my head against wall due to the BA website refusing to accept correct passport information. Anyway, FYI for future reference, thanks to Reddit, the workaround is “use FinnAir’s website to manage your BA bookings as they’re on the same system and their IT actually works”.

Toby Young becoming a Lord has reminded me of this incredible exchange

i just think that, at some point, “buying a successful business, loading it with debt, and then closing it down” should lose you money

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

going to keep posting about this piece because I really think that everyone online should read it: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Will IPOs ever come back? Podcast Episode · Unhedged · 17/12/2024 · 22m

Enjoyed this chat on dearth of IPOs & why we sold care btwn @thekrazykobra.bsky.social & @katie0martin.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse.

Resharing this as a gift link because what a story.

“B.A.C. Consulting was a Hungary-based company that was under contract to produce the devices on behalf of a Taiwanese company. … the real identities of the people creating the pagers: Israeli intelligence officers.
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/w...

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in...

This is awful.
Take the time to read to the end
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...