Just filled in my postal voting documents for the European Elections, because, ironically enough, I won’t be in the EU on Election Day, I will be in 🇬🇧. Wherever in 🇪🇺 you are, please check your calendar& don’t forget to vote.
It matters, more than ever.

“Any sustained discussion of Brexit leads to the conclusion that about halfway through a Starmer government he will have to revisit our relationship with the European Union, having promised not to.”

Daniel Finkelstein is right. I wish The Labour Party would say so. thetimes.co.uk/article/why-we…

Massive blindspot on climate change risks.

The collective Global North *still* has trouble getting its head round the idea that basic stuff like eg the weather, insurance, growing food etc etc isn’t going to work in the same way any more.

Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave theguardian.com/world/article/…

Julian Assange spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. They’re torturing him to threaten the rest of us. Journalists everywhere are in danger until he is free

No peace for war criminals ever 🙂‍↔️

Besides being legally illiterate (the ICC does obviously have jurisdiction), all the “ICC has no jurisdiction” folks are basically saying, it’s not that our friends haven’t committed any crimes, it’s just you can’t touch them. What a defence.

Time to relax...

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Top engineers urge action against faeces in rivers.

Prof Chris Whitty - England's chief medical officer - said it was a 'public health priority as well as an environmental one'. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Biden's Middle East policy has never looked more muddled, contradictory and confused.

The British state is organised around monarchical prerogative power now exercised by politicians and officials who, however well-meaning, exploit the secrecy and executive discretion it confers. Thus the blood scandal and endless cock-ups. Constitutional reform is a necessity.

BREAKING:

Norway announces it will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country.

“We are obliged to arrest Netanyahu if he visits our country after the International Criminal Court issues a decision.”

—Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

The term 'breaking news' has rarely seemed so apt. It's more a category than an alert these days.

This is also why, I fear, a new government is not going to ride to the rescue of universities. Too many boats are burning at the same time.

If accurate, a rare outbreak of common sense in the Cabinet in batting off the xenophobes who would happily trash both the economy and the HE sector for purely ideological reasons..(1/2)

Vive la France. Vive l'État de droit.

Bastani is an affable chap, from my experience, but what compels him to comment so foolishly on a country he doesn’t know and presumably has never visited? It’s like the instant experts I recall from 30 years ago on the former Yugoslavia.

This is so evil

Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks

Exclusive: Members of security forces giving settlers who intercept vital supplies information on location of convoys so that they can stop vital food reaching the starving

Hi! I’ve started a TikTok account - that’s where I’ll be sharing my videos from now on! The link is here ⬇️
Hope to see you there! Ju x

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