Inklings | What new jobs say about NGO expansion and local aid Notes on aid: OCHA enters its donor era, and are big aid groups using pooled funds to grow?

Localisation? What localisation.

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can.

"I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

cartoon panels of a house on fire, person and fireperson. 1. house on fire person says My house is on fire. fireperson replies: we declare your house on fire 2. Person says Can you put it out. Fireperson: no but we did declare it on fire. 3. Person: that should do it thanks. 4. Climate Emergency

Emergency

DO NOT vote for Scottish Labour.

At least 30 feared dead in crush at Haitian tourist site The incident occurred at a

BBC News - At least 30 feared dead in crush at Haitian tourist site

Mediterranean migrant deaths mounting towards 1,000 in 2026: UN

Mediterranean migrant deaths mounting towards 1,000 in 2026: UN https://aje.news/15tq0h

Here's a devastatingly powerful book. Highly recommended. @unicefusa.org @unicefmedia.bsky.social @unicefireland.bsky.social @unicef.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @sallyhayd.bsky.social

Dozens of people are missing and at least two confirmed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Libya. It set sail with more than 100 people on board.

Indeed, “fit for purpose” has been part of English contract law since at least the Sale of Goods Act 1893.

The political application of the phrase may have been a novelty, but the phrase itself was certainly not invented in 2006.

WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

Exactly this. It's time for some leadership.

In a world energy crisis it is not the job of government to allow everyone to carry on with unchanged behaviours. It's the job of government to ensure we all do our bit, and to help those in real need.

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget

❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
❌ EPA: -4.6B
❌ NSF: -3.8B
❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion
❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M)
❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100%

And there's more.

I believe the term is gaslighting.

Wes Streeting: 'Every trans person deserves safety and respect' Writing for PinkNews, Wes Streeting says he wants to reassure trans youngsters that they have not been forgotten.

"Obviously we have no intention of giving trans people safety or respect, or even allowing them to use public toilets, but it's OK to destroy people's lives as long as we mouth these platitudes while we're doing it." www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/03/w...

A tweet from UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood: "if we retreat to the comfort of fairytale, a nightmare will follow, as those who follow us will have none of our restraint"

This post would make more sense – by which I mean any sense – only if Labour wasn't hurtling towards electoral oblivion. But since it is, it doesn't remotely stand up even under its own 'logic'.

I know that getting entry level jobs is really really hard.

But for anyone applying for apprenticeships, don't start each of your answers with:

"Here is a polished version under **300 words
(approx. 260–280 words)** that sounds strong,
focused and competitive:"

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome.

And here, this is especially welcome.

This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all.

www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

This is positive - and there does seem a shift - but a small climb down isnt enough.

The entire proposal - including the asylum changes which are utter immoral madness - need dropping.

And the Home Secretary needs to resign. Any credibility is gone given the scale of this misjudgement.

Case in point of what would not be possible:

This is a really stupid move

This is totally bonkers proposal, it goes in the exact opposite direction to where we need to go 🤦

Restricting timber in construction further would mean we burn through the remaining carbon emissions much quicker.

It needs a robust rebuttal during consultation.

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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.

Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

“It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then ask me where you’re going to put them.“ — Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Ponte Vedra, Spain. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

what if

human beings

with human empathy

in charge

of policy

how would go

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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The city of Tyre is now being asked to evacuate, which is just utter madness. Tyre is 1.5 hours by car from Beirut. x.com/AvichayAdrae...