Hear this extraordinary old woman talk about poverty and what she has done about it. youtu.be/VAv9_IefGxM

The brazenness of this regressive funding of schools is quite astonishing.

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Is it time for the UK to adopt this evidence based economic policy? A universal basic income. washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…

Season 2 of @thewesocietypodcast is now live! we launch w/ two excellent podcasts ft. Prof Lawrence Freedman on why Russia can’t win in Ukraine & Prof Linda Bauld on why a good public health system is important for a strong economy & society. Listen today apple.co/3TTfpSC

An interesting set of books and films from two restricted months. wearstheevidence.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/boo…

Good news from McKinsey - "By 2035, renewables will generate 60% of the world’s electricity. But even these projections might be too low. Three years ago, we... asked, “How much faster can they grow?” The answer is: faster than you think they can."

The USA is becoming more integrated archive.ph/2022.11.10-192…

Angola is making steady progress in clearing its minefields. HALO, a British non-profit spearheading the effort, has cleared more than 10 million m2 since the end of the civil war in the 1990s. Much of that effort is being led by all-women teams From Future Crunch

If you grow biofuel (wheat, sugar beet etc) it is 50 to 110 times less effective than covering the land with solar panels. Thanks for this important, policy relevant factoid Michael le Page

Great progress towards full literacy in Latin America over the last 120 years

Listening to Mala's father taking about education in Pakistan. Inspirational

Durham rowers with a headlight in the gloom

This is the 30th anniversary of Cambodia's landmine removal. Over a million landmines and three million explosives have been removed, and 2,531 km2 has been cleared for the construction of homes, schools, farms and roads. Deaths have fallen from 4,320 in 1996 to less than 100.

⚡️A pleasure to work on this excellent review in eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science led by Lauren O'Mahoney Prof Kamlesh Khunti 🧑‍🤝‍🧑194 studies & 735k participants. 📈45% of COVID-19 survivors, regardless of hospitalisation status, experience unresolved symptoms at ∼ 4 months. thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

Have a look at Vijay's reading and viewing over the last month. wearstheevidence.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/boo…

I'm not going to tweet any more. Hope to see you somewhere else sometime. BBC News - Charities' dismay as Twitter disbands safety group bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Just published: The First Year at School: An International Perspective | SpringerLink

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Books & films, November 2023 wearstheevidence.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/boo…