How we became Poland’s poor relation theneweuropean.co.uk/how-we-became-…

South China Sea: ‘upsurge’ in Chinese militia vessels as Balikatan drills begin ‘out of the norm’, Philippines says scmp.com/week-asia/poli…

Unintended consequences. Remember when the air in Chinese cities was so polluted you couldn’t see across the street? Fixing that has caused a spike in heating elsewhere, including North America #climate
scmp.com/news/china/sci…

Trump: how to drive away a crowd

“I’ve just returned from Gaza”. Professor Nick Maynard, consultant surgeon at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, on the appalling human cost of Israel’s military assault on Gaza.

And Sunak considers those who protest against such atrocities “extremists”

Giant civilian ferry that has participated in multiple PLA Navy military drills is heading to Xiamen, only 3km from Taiwan-controlled Kinmen, where Chinese coast guard recently began entering prohibited waters.

Happening as Taiwan prepares to inaugurate a new president next Mon.

Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,…

Then we got the Tories

📷Sewage, Brighton, May 2024

Andrew Marr, 'Are you absolutely clear that our environmental and food standards will not be loosened in any way as a result of leaving the EU?'

Michael Gove, 'Yes.. We could have a green Brexit that ensures Britain is an environmental leader'

It's getting dangerously lively in the South China Sea. China sending 'huge force' to Scarborough Shoal ahead of PH civilian mission —maritime expert shar.es/agtr4g via GMA Integrated News

Johnny McEntee, senior advisor to Project 2025 & Trump’s Director of the Office of Personnel Management, says he likes to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it.

This is disgusting and illegal.

Looting food that is headed for starving people... with the complicity of the state

When you have noting to offer, try frightening them into voting for you

How many more damaging measures will this government think of? Universities going bust all over the UK and now we get more measures to discourage high paying overseas students? UK will pay the price for an international student exodus on.ft.com/44Gu8Gt via @financialtimes

And McVey gloats about universities in financial trouble because of immigration crackdown

“I have no sympathy - for too long these universities have been selling immigration to international students rather than education.”

I've been told from a reliable source in the FCDO that the Attorney General has written to the PM about Gaza and war crimes. This letter should be public. If you have it, leak it now. Please RT this.

One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.

Here's a 🧵 explaining why...

How many times do NHS doctors need to speak out about the ways in which we’re quietly being replaced by non-doctors, with neither the knowledge nor consent of the UK public?

It’s a patient safety scandal - happening now, driven by Department of Health and Social Care, aided & abetted by GMC.

via @NYTimes Trump’s long history of fraud and cheating on tax may come back to bite him nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

Message from the Bibby Stockholm on this government' perfomrative cruelty youtu.be/YAiGFX7s6-I?si… via YouTube

📷'CBBC's President Lord Sassoon, Vice Chair Gordon Orr, and Managing Director, China, Tom Simpson, attended this year’s China Development Forum (CDF) ... in Beijing.' Oh and yes, there is a woman in the picture but we 're not going to bother you with her name.