What an incredible story

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an Anglophone country how it’s housing policy is going.

Very clear & detailed about how the ceasefire proposal was negotiated and how the US (first Blinken, then Burns) acted as proxies for Israel, only to be repudiated once again. Catastrophic US policy failure/complicity.

Full text of the proposal here: aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/…

So smart of Britain to leave the EU and focus on its relationship with the US just as the American right lost its ****ing mind

Blacklist and blackmail--A group of federal judges signs a letter stating that won't hire anyone with a Columbia degree unless the university meets their demands. This is shameful.

I see we’re running through the stages of grief

Is she describing being a Tory MP in 2015-17

The masks have really come off haven’t they

Exactly, I’ve been saying this for years: the housing crisis in Europe is fuelling the far right. A necessary part of stemming the spread of neo-fascism is reconstructing the housing system along universalist lines that privilege occupancy over ownership theguardian.com/news/article/2…

2021 country-by-country data are out:

US multinationals booked more profits in Ireland and Singapore than in the UK + Canada + Germany + Mexico + China + India combined

Congratulations to the highly productive Irish & Singapore workers*!

* and also to the tax accountants

This from a man who mobilised a campaign to overturn a tenure decision in a university he didn’t even work in

Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation apnews.com/video/israel-g…

“The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says Stephanie Flanders. “They would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.”

If top end medicine increased lifespan *on aggregate*, we'd expect the top income percentiles in US to have higher life expectancy than in UK. That's because rich Americans have access to more 'latest stuff' and spend more on healthcare than richest Brits. But it doesn't seem to…

This was good, about the London Mayor elections. onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-less…

Thirty years ago, the Channel Tunnel finally linked the United Kingdom and France!

This feat brought people closer together, gave new impetus to our trade and confirmed the strength of our political relationship.

Thread on the legalised extortion of leasehold.

There is a growing gap between university graduates and those whose education finished at school 🏫

In this @rmilibandlse talk, Jonathan Hopkin & Elizabeth Simon will discuss whether universities are responsible for the gap.

In person and online. Know more ↙️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

Take a minute to appreciate the statement, and then marvel at the fact that an editor actually made it a serious headline

Haven’t flown Ryanair for a while, and I’ve been remembering why