Kathy Dodworth

Out of everyone’s morale atm, I probably have the least sympathy for investors’. As important as it is…

Wow.

The ominous sign the Gulf Stream is nearing COLLAPSE One of the ocean's saltiest regions has become 60 per cent less salty - sparking fears the Gulf Stream could be inching closer to a catastrophic collapse.

Unusual intervention by the Daily Fail which is normally screaming at cyclists & Greta Thunberg. As with Brexit, there’s background consensus among those in/with power that things are terrible but can’t talk about it (unless affects home insurance or holidays) www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Gates Foundation ‘sullied’ by Epstein link, chief says Philanthropic group’s staff express concern about the impact of chair’s ties to disgraced financier after 2008 conviction

The fallout from Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has reached the $86bn Gates Foundation global health philanthropy.

Foundation staff raised concerns at a quarterly town hall meeting with chief executive Mark Suzman last week.

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This story keeps getting bigger.

I heard that the desperation of USAID staff for new / renewed jobs helped forge complicity for the new MOUs signed with African countries, whereby health data is handed over wholesale (and against local laws) to US pharma and other private interests to profit. Ripple effects….

Gen Z’s electoral dilemma Long dismissed as apathetic, Kenya’s youth forced a rupture in 2024. As the 2027 election approaches, their challenge is turning digital rebellion and street protest into political power.

Long dismissed as apathetic, Kenya’s youth forced a rupture in 2024. As the 2027 election approaches, their challenge is turning digital rebellion and street protest into political power. africasacountry.com/2026/02/gen-...

Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections

But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies

It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms

New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

It is important to have at least one person in your TL to make you unexpectedly smile right now

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

In case you missed it this ⬇️ It is still going on. Weirdly in a era where people are asking if a machine can be a person whilst simultaneously treating people like machines. Having to ask questions about both.

It's weird times guys.

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Laura K is a truly terrible journalist

Are they going to also "blame a staffer" for Obama permanently living, 24/7, rent-free in his head?

#pathetic

Great work! It is hard when you suffer unexplained fatigue when asked by OH for concrete work pattern+adjustments. *you* need to have the solution. Lots of things in academia, workshops conferences sap you but needed for promotion. Teaching harder. get penalised in ways that make it hard to advance

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
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What this latest Epstein tranche confirms is that sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking young women was for all these men just part and parcel of running the world

*Adds Chomsky to my growing list of ‘rhetorical radical’ male academics who still think women are garbage*

We’ve known for now decades Mandelson was corrupt. For some reason this translated to some as ‘shrewd politician’ or savvy diplomat. I can’t understand how Starmer manages such consistency in terrible, terrible judgment since taking office

Maybe in their minds can concede point re water but make sure the rich get endlessly richer elsewhere

Hmm, doubt abandoning Thatcherism in its entirety. Would be to concede half century of misdirection. But privately, surely, many must concede certain public goods had to have been kept such?England only country with private water in world (I think?). Public support for renationalisation just a fact

Are there elements of this in Laurence Fox. JK...Once you’re locked in to such proclamations, there’s no going back. no reward for debate or nuance. Extreme positions monetised but begin to believe them. How else to explain why smart, educated, once-rational beings become baiting rabble rousers

How West Midlands Trains nationalisation affects you West Midlands Trains services are transferring to public ownership from 1 February.

lack of outrage from Tories to renationalising UK’s railways shows complicit acceptance that privatisation of this and other public goods (like water) has been an utter disaster for this country. Cost tax payer more?!? We have most expensive and shittest rail in Europe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Global News podcast just used the phrase “ethnic rebels” and it made me wonder if they think that other rebels don’t have an ethnicity?

The director of Melania movie

Cool, 4 more reasons not to watch it

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show ft.trib.al/cioCeTw

it’s insane how much is put back onto academics now. I am not saying my time is more valuable than PS - more that I’m not best placed to be efficient at these systems esp for occasional use. It is worse after my move to KCL - each function has its own portal and you can’t navigate to these easily

Don Lemon Arrested in Connection with Livestreaming Minnesota Protest Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon’s arrest came at her direction in connection with his livestreaming of a protest in Minnesota earlier in January.

Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon’s arrest came at her direction in connection with his livestreaming of a protest in Minnesota earlier in January.

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

Non-state legitimation as practice: the multiplicit making of public authority in Afro-Chinese engagements African states, under market liberalization, have witnessed resurgent non-state intervention, with non-state actors (NSAs) enmeshed in collective good provision or roles associated with the state. ...

I have a new publication out in Globalizations that explores Chinese non-state legitimation in African contexts, setting out a post-Weberian framework to do so www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Donald Trump Is Frightened Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/

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