You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

I think about this tweet a lot.

The $100 trillion case for open borders, by @n_srnck

'an overwhelming case for open borders can be made even in the traditionally self-interested language of economics'

theconversation.com/the-us-100-tri…

More excellent reporting from Mauritius by Khalil A. Cassimally

thenational.ae/world/africa/v…

An ecologist from Mauritius writes about the oil spill:

Mauritius is reeling from a spreading oil spill – and people are angry with how the government has handled it

theconversation.com/mauritius-is-r…

We should be deeply ashamed of these statistics, as a nation.

Quite incredible how quickly we go from Nigel Farage whining about something, to the Mail splashing on it, to the BBC covering it

Matt Hancock. The state of

Either a sheep minding its own business by Loch Torridon or a MASSIVE sheep in South Wales:

In most countries Diane Abbott would be a hero not a hate figure

Even a two year lockdown would only prevent 0.01°C of global warming – new Nature Climate Change study
theconversation.com/coronavirus-lo…

I was lucky enough to edit John Weeks several times in the early days of The Conversation He was great to work with and amazingly good at explaining the macroeconomics behind political events.
This is a lovely tribute:

I hope the UK one day has a reckoning with the misogynoir that has made Dawn Bulter and Diane Abbott so unsafe in their place of work. It's a national shame.

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

'The head of government doled out permanent votes in the country's legislature to the owner of a faithful propaganda paper in the nation's capital, his own brother, and a prominent member of a allied populist movement who spent the last few years attacking his enemies.'

A helpful guide to the familiar arguments that serve to delay meaningful action on climate change. theconversation.com/climate-denial…

If we're signing somebody called Goode then Eze has to stay. It's the law. Don't care if we end up losing him for free.

I love this sort of 'future geology'

theconversation.com/what-will-covi…

Labour are missing a historic opportunity to define what a post-covid world should look like. This conservatism on the economy isn’t paying off.