This is such a brilliant and withering dismantling of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the entire Fennell schtick open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...
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This is such a brilliant and withering dismantling of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the entire Fennell schtick open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...
Thank you for sharing. I hope you can be free of shame and that things are much better now
Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
VACANCY | Programme Officer, Somali Dialogue Platform (SDP)
RVI is recruiting a Programme Officer to support strategy, analysis, coordination and delivery of the SDP in Mogadishu.
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“Touch grass” has intense proxy pro-Branch Davidian vibes.
The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215 15 INVESTIGATION The Djiboutian massacre Ethiopia won’t acknowledge Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity. Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters. zecharias zelalem On 30 January this year, a drone manned from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote, semi-arid village near the Ethiopia Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a second bomb dropped. And then a third. At least eight people were killed, including three children. Several others were injured. Given the village’s remoteness, the incident might have gone unreported if graphic images of the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian social media. A statement from the Djibouti’s defence ministry said the drone struck rebel fighters from the Front for the
Restoration of Unity and Democracy (Frud), a Djiboutian political party with a military wing. It has been fighting for Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s. The Afar are a community split by the colonial border separating Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. “Eight terrorists were neutralised on site,” said a Djibouti military statement. “Unfortunately, collateral damage among Djiboutian civilians in the area has been documented.” International media, including Voice of America, Agence France Presse, and Radio France Internationale reported this version of events. Now, new findings from an open In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was injured in the drone strike. source investigation by The Continent reveal a different reality. The bombs landed inside Ethiopia, not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed fighters – were killed. That distinction matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again tolerating a foreign military targeting its own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during the Tigray conflict. A transparent lie Even before the ink could dry on the Djiboutian military’s statement, The Addis Standard and human rights groups in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports in now-deleted social media posts. The Continent got to work to figure out what really happened. Over the course of eight months, we collected eyewitness testimonies, interviewed human rights activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and examined images and footage from the strike. Our findings align with those of Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the site of the strike. The ammunition residue found on the night of the strike confirms the bomb was manufactured by Roketsan, a state run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye. Former US army explosives expert Trevor Ball identified t…
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
And to deny "male" loneliness because everyone's lonely but then specify women have poor experiences of dating... not helpful
Isn't this part of the crux, though, that girls are socialised to share and be in groups while boys are socialised to be individual?
Claire Denis and Daniel Kaluuya
Current president Claudia Sheinbaum’s approval rating stands at 76 percent. Never in Mexico’s still-nascent democratic history has a single party amassed such sweeping power. Morena’s strength has drawn the attention of the global left, prompting reflection on the political strategies that have enabled Mexico’s left to achieve such extraordinary electoral success. Perhaps the most important reason is the most obvious: Morena has delivered for its base. The transformation in the lives of working-class Mexicans under its rule is undeniable. Since taking power in late 2018, average labor income has risen 30 percent above inflation, lifting more than 13 million people out of poverty. Inequality, measured by the income share of the top 1 percent, has seen its steepest and fastest drop in almost a century, matching in four years what had previously taken nearly two decades to accomplish.
After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK.
Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉
Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message?
Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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So hard when multiple things hit at the same time. Moment by moment. Well done for vocalising
“Yippee ki-yay…”
We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION “Alpha” (Julia Ducournau) “Dossier 137” (Dominik Moll) “Eagles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh) “Eddington” (Ari Aster) “Fuori” (Mario Martone) “The History of Sound” (Oliver Hermanus) “La Petite Dernière” (Hafsia Herzi) “The Mastermind” (Kelly Reichardt) “Nouvelle Vague” (Richard Linklater) “The Phoenician Scheme” (Wes Anderson) “Renoir” (Chie Hayakawa) “Romería” (Carla Simón) “The Secret Agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho) “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier) “A Simple Accident” (Jafar Panahi) “Sirat” (Óliver Laxe) “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski) “Two Prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa) “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
The 19 titles just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:
Thank you! Just enjoyed EAST TO WES for the first time too
Any recommendations on where to start?
Come and work with me/us! PhD under my supervision in the field of "politics and/or conflict around natural resources" in #Uganda and/or #DRC
New opportunity!
ECFR is looking for a new director for the Africa programme!
@ecfrafrica.bsky.social seeks to support a more coherent European Africa strategy, making the case for strong European engagement with African partners.
Find out more & apply here: ecfr.eu/jobs/
Adding names to this Horn of Africa press starter pack.
Will add more as our colleagues make the transition here.
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This summer I published a book on Ecological Ethics and the philosophy of Simone Weil with Routledge. In this article @polrightsrev.bsky.social , I explain the philosophical importance of this work without the philosophical jargon. Please check it out! politicsrights.com/ethics-for-t...
Fascinating story on an environmental aspect of conflict. Makes me think of Cal Flynn's Islands of Abandonment
I wish I were hearing a lot more about #Mexico as an outlier in all the "anti-incumbent wave" analysis
There is at least one...
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Do you know of anyone who's made a Horn of Africa starter pack? If not, could you do one?!
