“Sometimes, I feel very unlucky to be Nepali.” Nepal sent more workers to Qatar than almost any nation, their people built the World Cup. More than 2,000 returned in coffins. I went to Nepal to see just how unfettered ambition collides with dire poverty nytimes.com/2022/11/16/spo…

A careful hiring strategy can make the most of BNP Paribas Wealth’s international heft, says Switzerland CEO Beat Bachmann. ✏Fergus Horsfall #bnpparibas #wealthmanagement #citywireswitzerland citywire.com/ch/news/bnp-pa…

The largest ever study of this was Understanding Society 2012 whose 40k sample allowed it to report ethnic sub-groups. South Asian Muslims from a Commonwealth background place the highest level of importance on being British. The white British place the lowest score

Opinion: Millennials' ire with boomers may soon be replaced by conflict with the privileged, property-owning elites in their own generation, writes John Burn-Murdoch on.ft.com/3vRab32

New survey from Austria “If Austria were to be attacked militarily, should other EU member states support Austria militarily?” 72,28% say yes. “Should Austria, in the case of an armed attack on an EU member state, support this state with armed troops?” 13,58% say yes.

🧵 Raneem Oudeh called police FIVE TIMES the night she and her mum were murdered. A harrowing and unacceptable story of police inaction that not only failed to save their lives, but lowered their risk level with every call as they hadn’t been attacked yet.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d…

Conservative Mayors that aren’t afraid to build and regenerate in their regions have been rewarded. A blueprint for Conservatives across the country.

It's interesting Martin so puzzled by why anti-immigration pitches are much harder to make to young British than young French people. His analysis ("identity politics") is a Very Online/Media Talking Point misperception of causality. The actual drivers offer important insights.

10 days in and no hint of openness about the real choices the winners will face. It is completely obvious. Either they will junk their promises on getting debt down or they’ll cut spending or they’ll raise taxes. Just saying “growth” will not cut it. We deserve some honesty.

The chart I can't quite get out of my head is this one👇 Population-adjusted net migration since 1855(!) We've NEVER seen net migration flows like this before. Whether you put it down to post-Brexit migration rules, post-Covid shifts or something else, it's an ENORMOUS shift...

Why oh why is growth at zero?

”Why don’t the Syrian refugees just return to their homeland?”

We have a Housing Secretary who has lived in social housing.

Do please watch this with sound up, folks, even if you don't do football. For the last 32 years I've lived in an area of England with one of the highest South Asian populations anywhere, & this is the reality I know behind the constant poisonous clouds of racism/ Islamophobia.

What do these impressive women, an Iranian chess master & a French Olympic sprinter, have in common? Both their countries stopped them from competing internationally dressed as they please. Iran forces its female players to wear hijab. France's Olympic team forces them not to.

.Deutsche Bank's Swiss CEO, Loïc Voide, talks hiring, cost-cutting, inflows and the need for quality over quantity from financial intermediaries. ✏Fergus Horsfall #deutschebank #familyoffices #citywireswitzerland citywire.com/ch/news/deutsc…

Ukraine recently sent 1000 tons of flour to Palestine within the #GrainFromUkraine program, supported by World Food Programme Good news is – it has already arrived in Gaza AND bread baked from this flour is being distributed to families in need. It will be enough to feed 100K people for a month

Diese Darstellung der NZZ (Simon Haas) zeigt schön, dass nun systematisch das eintritt, worauf ich bereits letztes Jahr hingewiesen habe (wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/wordpress/?p=3…): Deutschland importiert Hochpreisstrom und exportiert Billigstrom, oft sogar zu negativen Preisen.

Since 2018, Nigerian journalist Philip Obaji Jr.'s has investigated what’s happened to the Wagner Group, or what is happening to Russian operations in Africa, since the death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Here, Obaji tells Reuters Institute what he's learned: twp.ai/1FCzh0