Hard-hitting piece by Aditya Chakrabortty.
Ultimately it comes down to political choices.
Government "talked about growth being the centre of everything, the core of every department’s mission. They went for wealth not health. They chose to tolerate inequality. They opted for more of the same"
American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U.S. military investigators.
Check out this week's IHP news 869: American Psycho times,
Gates/Epstein & International Women’s Day www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... (also with translations & AI summary)
Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0
The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.
New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:
🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000
Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.
'We are living lies: that only future generations are “at risk.” That poor people will be the ones to suffer, while the wealthy are largely spared.....
Our very civilisation—and with it, our health and survival—is under immediate threat.'
Prof Hugh Montgomery
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
I want to change that.
Quite a few of us are raising #globalhealth #ethics double-standards publicly, many many more privately.
Any organization I have ever worked for would demand temporarily pausing in a role until an (ideally independent) investigation has been conducted: www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Learn more about the "Roadmap for Eradicating #Poverty Beyond Growth" - our decisive break from growth-at-all-costs in the name of poverty eradication - and register to follow next month's conference at which it will be presented (22 April): www.neep-poverty.org
Sánchez: We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.
We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country
"...Jeffrey Epstein presents a rare opportunity to hold Bill Gates accountable, and to finally have a larger public debate about extreme wealth and billionaire philanthropy—the common ground that initially brought Epstein and Gates together. " So let's have that independent investigation.
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
Susan Sarandon joins UNRWA to remind the world that, amid devastation in #Gaza, UNRWA continues its work: keeping clinics open, sustaining shelters, and delivering emergency aid and education to thousands.
Together, we are UNRWA.
Donate now at: donate.unrwa.org/help
The giant statue of St Patrick raising a pint outside Dublin’s Temple Bar Pub has been taken down, less than 24 hours after it first appeared on the city centre landmark
jrnl.ie/6969292
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
"the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote... “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry." #WomenInSTEM 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
Member states need to enforce the law.
"Banning children’s access to social media shifts the responsibility for safety from platforms that create the environment to the children who navigate it. States should require platforms to prevent risks to children’s rights ... & hold platforms accountable."
More researchers face consequences for their links to #Epstein. Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic park films, is no longer employed at Chapman University. See my story for Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Gates-Epstein saga continues, and I just published a new piece.
Bill Gates yesterday held an internal meeting at the Gates Foundation to try to address his ties to Epstein. His remarks only magnify the need for his removal.
Read on!
timschwab.substack.com/p/gatess-res...
Ima say this again for the people in the back:
Our governments are giving 100s of billions to the class of people who are now openly saying humans are a resource consumer that must be deleted
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Governing artificial intelligence for planetary health
'Emphasis on hypothetical scenarios involving autonomous superintelligence or catastrophic AI failures can shift focus away from the immediate consequences of data monopolies & unregulated corporate practices.'
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Count me in as an (senior) athlete against climate change and fossil fuel company greenwashing.
End fossil fuel sponsorship of professional sports.
@mason4c.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
A screenshot of a post by the Food Ethics Council which says, in summary, This piece, the first of two written by our Council member Lucy Aphramor, is the first in our new series of articles offering diverse perspectives which challenge and seek to expand the debate on current research, narratives and ways of thinking. There is a depiction of the African continent taken from an old European cartographic print.
A thought-provoking and important perspective.
Worth a read.
#GlobalPolicies
#GlobalPerspectives
A response from @foodethicscouncil.bsky.social to the #EatLancet policy paper
@thelancet.com
Read this fascinating and challenging article via this link:
www.foodethicscouncil.org/opinion/we-n...
I don't know exactly what but something has to be done about the current commoditisation of science. We researchers cannot continue publishing-as-usual in a world where for-profit corporations are enclosing precious knowledge just to boost their profits.
Just been asked to moderate panels at a big event with a high ticket price. But "sorry, they cannot offer a fee" to the moderators who make it possible. I didn't say no because of the money for me, but because of the exploitative business model (similar to academic publishing). This needs to stop.
Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe.
#Climate action, my eye.
Excellent, excellent interview with @manongarcia.bsky.social about the Pélicot trial and how to think about the ubiquity of sexual violence under patriarchy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtE9...
"One conclusion is clear, and it is this: a population’s health is primarily in the hands of the government, and it is a responsibility that politicians must embrace fully."
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice
https://bit.ly/40cMzRJ
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
Capitalism and a "strong public health system" are antithetical.
"MAHA leadership criticizes the pharma industry’s profit motives in order to promote the wellness industry, which of course also operates according to the profit motive."
