Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so. nyti.ms/4500xIU

Art Nouveau flower shop from 1896 in Brussels, Belgium designed by architect Paul Hankar (1859-1901).

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The July 2025 World Development Indicators (WDI) update is live—featuring new World Bank data on poverty (2021 PPPs), child malnutrition, GDP, and more. A key step forward for global development tracking. Dive in 👇 wrld.bg/rpuC50WrWcT

Scott Bessent admits that he's completely unfit for his job. (As a successful former investment banker, Bessent of course knows perfectly well what the Fed does. He's not unfit because he's stupid, but because there are no limits to how low he will go to please his master.)

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An old Soviet joke. The Russians arrest a Jew for studying Hebrew. “Why are you studying Hebrew in Russia? You will die before being allowed to go to Israel.” “When I die, I will go to heaven and everyone there will speak Hebrew.” “Ha! And what if you go to hell?” “I already

Just when you think it couldn’t get any more absurd. It does.Trump’s EPA now says greenhouse gases don’t endanger people - NPR. apple.news/ANyRHipoYSNOTc…

If Rieux is exemplary for European culture, it's time to ask the barbarians in.

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NYT on Nepal: The Country Where 76% of Cars Sold Are Electric "Subsidies, hydroelectricity and a manufacturing powerhouse neighbor are moving the cars into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else." #alwaysbecharging

TIL about Sweden's secret cold-war nuclear programme economist.com/international/… From The Economist

Thanks to cheap EV imports from China, 76% of cars sold in Nepal are now electric. This is a super fascinating story of how China is helping one of the world’s poorest countries make its automotive sector fully electric.

Sophie Pedder & I interviewed Thierry Burkhard, the outgoing French army chief, last week. We talked about his assessment of Russian threat timelines, why Europe can’t mimic US military strategy, and Anglo-French nuclear co-operation. economist.com/europe/2025/07…

Beatings. Sexual assault. Torture. Done to innocent men, many who had never broken a single law in the United States. No due process. No trials, no judges, no nothing; just the Trump admin giving El Salvador the metaphorical equivalent of a briefcase full of cash to jail them.

The Trump administration has not just stopped all work on the current (sixth) national climate assessment - the past assessments are being disappeared economist.com/briefing/2025/… From The Economist economist.com/briefing/2025/… From The Economist

Farmers consider abandoning drought-hit region in central Hungary reuters.com/sustainability…

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…