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‘Austerity’ Osborne bags fortune from £150m bank sale The former chancellor, who presided over Treasury during the Great Recession, will profit handsomely from the sale of Robey Warshaw to a Wall Street inve...

Rags for everyone else, riches for Mr Osborne observer.co.uk/news/busines...

It’s refined in India, but Russian crude is still gushing... Oil products worth millions have been imported from a refinery owned by a sanctioned Russian firm

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University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Amazing

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The Dalai Lama’s last stand As he approaches reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader has set up a fight with Beijing that will endure beyond death

As he approaches reincarnation, the Dalai Lama has set up a fight with Beijing that will endure even beyond death, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.
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Prospect summer double out now! As per journalistic law, a double issue means a bumper issue. Highlights include @oliverbullough.bsky.social on the state of our water, @isabelh.bsky.social on the Dalai Lama, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin plus Mark Gatiss, Brian Cox, and loads more

Might turn out to be good practice for a future occasion

Sorry Yuen Chan! Perhaps a good book or a stiff drink might help :)

why does Trump alway look as though he wants to move in on Xi for kiss? It's really creepy.

Germany’s next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country’s climate commitments

And this from @isabelh.bsky.social on German economic and security fights, what they mean for climate, employment, and where Europe goes next www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

👇 Interested in Orwell? In China? In both? One week from today, come hear what @isabelh.bsky.social Cindy Yu & I have to say about the topic at this in person @orwellprize.bsky.social Festival event in London

What should the ‘China Audit’ include – and should there be a public version? The Tangram | No 05.2025

What should the ‘🇨🇳 Audit’ include – and should there be a public version?

We asked 4 experts in today's #Tangram

✍️ Charles Parton, @isabelh.bsky.social, @george17.bsky.social, @samagoodman.bsky.social

#ObservingChina

What should the ‘China Audit’ include – and should there be a public version? The Tangram | No 05.2025

‘A useful contribution the Audit could make...would be to encourage HM Government to build on the existing commitment to nurture and invest in 🇬🇧 expertise on 🇨🇳 at every level,’ argues @isabelh.bsky.social, Member, China Observatory Advisory Council

#Tangram #ObservingChina

Germany’s next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country’s climate commitments

Across Europe, as in the UK, right-wing parties that dismiss climate action are gaining ground. And Germany has just lost its most senior champion for a green transition, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.
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Israeli tanks are blocking efforts to put out a fire in a medicine store in a Gaza hospital. How much lower can Israel go?

Photos: A Week of Destructive Tornadoes Across the U.S. Images from affected communities in several states

Cimate change in the US: and it is just starting. All while Trump is destroying climate programmes and cutting FEMA aid. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Germany’s next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country’s climate commitments

Germany has a government again. It is keen to revive the nation’s economy and become more independent militarily. But @isabelh.bsky.social asks: will happen to Germany’s climate ambitions?
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The People's Republic of China is a rare example of a "Big Brother" state where Orwell's work is widely read.

So, what *does* Orwell mean in China?

Join us live in London with @jwassers.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social and Cindy Yu.

www.orwellfestival.co.uk/booking/p/ch...

Kashmir’s missing peacemakers The United States once kept India and Pakistan from war. Who can do so now?

The United States once kept India and Pakistan from war. Who can do so now? @isabelh.bsky.social analysis the precarious conflict.
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Because naturally every library needs a luxury jumbo jet. My own local library is feeling a bit left out, but it’s worth noting that it has books, which the Trump Presidential Library is unlikely to have

On that 400million bribe Trump is expecting from Qatar. Is there anything wrong with the current Airforce 1? After the US taxpayer has paid to bring the plane up to necessary security standards they will also have to pay to transfer it to the “Trump Presidential Library”

Kashmir’s missing peacemakers The United States once kept India and Pakistan from war. Who can do so now?

The United States once kept India and Pakistan from war. Who can do so now? essential context on this crisis from @isabelh.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/asia/6...

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Alberta the petro-state behaving like a petro-state.

UK access to EU crime and illegal migration data reportedly denied Blow to Starmer’s hopes of post-Brexit reset and efforts to clear asylum claims amid rise of populist right

Control our borders?
Another Brexit lie exposed. We spend vast effort trying to regain what we've lost
Lack of access to the Eurodac fingerprinting system – which storing 7m+ fingerprint records was lost to Britain with Brexit #brexitlies
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DonaldTrump staged a 100 days made for TV event in a US wheelbarrow factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Apparently nobody noticed the wheelbarrows are made in China. Everything the man does is fake.

Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.

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If its efficacy is questionable, its financial rationale is worse. Projects from Algeria to Texas demonstrate the technology’s troubled history of cost overruns and delays. .. the industry claims a 95% capture rate is achievable, no existing project has consistently captured more than 80% of carbon.

Even if realized at its full announced potential, CCS will only account for about 2.4% of the world’s carbon mitigation by 2030, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s worth noting that not one single CCS project has ever reached its target CO2 capture rate.