A big part of this, is lack of long-term planning
One generation escapes poverty and believes we have "made it" instead of understanding maintaining at this new level requires a new structure generationally
We also don't build additional assets, so there's nothing to lean on
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
Getting blown up by a Russian drone to protect my beautiful nation of privatised water companies, boarded up shops, cracked paving, and political-media class who think I’m a racist because I oppose a genocide.
No thanks mate.
Annie Brewster, born in St Vincent in 1858, one of the pioneering Black nurses of her era. Joining London Hospital in 1881, she led its Ophthalmic ward from 1888. Known as Nurse Ophthalmic, she was admired for caring for elderly patients with vision loss. She died in 1902 aged 43
Born in Barbados 1894 Dr Cecil Belfield Clarke came to the UK in 1914 to study medicine at Cambridge. A gay Black pioneer, he practised in South London for 50 years, championed racial equality & developed Clarke’s Rule an early formula for calculating children’s medicine dosages
Elizabeth Anionwu, Nigerian-Irish nursing pioneer, championed sickle cell & thalassaemia care. Inspired by Mary Seacole, she broke barriers, founding the UK's first screening & counselling centre in Brent in 1979. She fought for equitable healthcare for patients of colour
Grease was considered an old movie when we were growing up in the 2000s.
Now, High School Musical is just as old to today’s kids as Grease was to us back then
Fifteen outlets published 249 articles about Professor Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout surrounding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from the University of Oxford after being charged with possessing indecent images of children.
I’ve spent the last two days trying to pitch a story about the tension between Caribbean & African communities and how it started. Nobody will commission it. They said it’s too niche. So there you have it. No one cares but feel free to keep arguing amongst yourselves!
Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.
Today we announce the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Growing up men who hung around the betting shops were seen as WOTLESS. You would take the piss out of them. Now you have athletes at the peak of their game promoting gambling apps and “prediction markets” to make it cool! One of the WORST addictions you can ever have