Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments. #Ghana #Students #Education
the Guardian
Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis
Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances
Good article on the excellence on our body politic that is Nigel Farage. #Farage #ReformUK #UKPolitics ‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage
The Nerve
‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage
John Sweeney talks to the journalist and author Michael Crick, who confronted the Reform leader with allegations of schoolboy antisemitism over a d...
"..this is not a fight about a mildly mistaken edit where the gap between statements should have been made clear (and it should have been). It is part of a war on the UK and Europe and its culture" Richard Murphy #BBC #Trump #USPolitics #UKPolitics When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
Funding the Future
When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters i...
Some wonderful nature photography from Nature's best science images of 2025. #Nature #Photography #Environment https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03935-3/index.html
Interesting analysis of voter preferences and which policies all voters agree on. #Politics #UKPolitics Unity and Division in the Public’s Policy Preferences After the 2024 General Election | Political Quarterly
Political Quarterly
Unity and Division in the Public’s Policy Preferences After the 2024 General Election
Switchers are not simply disillusioned Labour supporters, so Labour’s attempts to appeal to them may be unsuccessful.
"Two million Palestinians remain in Gaza. If they are to have any hope for the future, their fate must not rest in the hands of a distracted US president who thinks his job is done" #Israel #Gaza They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks like purgatory | The Observer
The Observer
They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks li...
Israel is still regularly launching attacks inside Gaza and aid is still woefully insufficient, whatever Trump might say
"Are non-profits like the [Canals and Rivers Trust] (CRT)and Peabody – well-intentioned though their staff may be – fronts for asset speculation and sell-offs in the private sector? And are the CRT’s investment decisions being made by people with those inclinations?" Alarming report on how live aboard boaters are being ill served by the CRT. #Canals #Rivers #Boaters #CR The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers | Novara Media
Novara Media
The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers | Novara Media
The Canal and River Trust denies it’s a landlord, but routinely fines, evicts and even repossesses boaters’ homes. Guess who runs it? Cameron B...
A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified as father-of-two fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed. #BondiBeachShooting #Australia Bondi Beach hero dad who disarmed gunman 'shot twice' in wild struggle - World News - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-bondi-beach-hero-dad-36399293?%2F%3F0876087=
"This is not a government being sabotaged by resident doctors - it’s a government terrified of being exposed at having taken over a broken system and having made choices, consciously, to make it even more brittle." Excellent as always from The Bear. #NHS #Labour #UKPolitics Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
"Austerity has scarred the UK for the last 14 years. If it wants to finally break free, then it’s time for a radical new approach. And that starts with rethinking how government finances work" Excellent in the New Statesman re Green Party leader, Zack Polanski's use of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a recent interview.
New Statesman
The economics behind Zack Polanski's claims
The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory