The UK is now spending over 50% of the £9.9bn bilateral aid budget within the UK.

Up from 6% in 2013.

Ian Mitchell ONE

Hospital infections kill hundreds of thousands in sub-Saharan Africa, research shows telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

'Polls show RFK Jr would draw most of his support from Biden. The fact that Tim Mellon, a big Trump donor, has given him $20m backs that up. You wouldn't waste that kind of cash on a hopeless cause without a larger aim.' Me on the potential Nader of 2024 ft.com/content/7d7076…

The UK has a growth problem. Innovation is the way forward.

In the AI era, we need a reimagined industrial strategy to speed up the development, adoption & diffusion of innovation.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Jeegar Kakkad Eleni & I set out how: bit.ly/3VsW1zt 1/6

Advances in diagnostics and targeted treatments are improving the outlook for patients with lung cancer bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

'We marvel at Russians, switched off and immobilised while their government commits horrors. That could be us very soon.' Simon Kuper on the profound consequences of people no longer reading the news.

No news is bad news - on.ft.com/3IJo1Y2 via Financial Times

Jeremy Hunt hints at October election

Says that doing a spending review after the election before next April 'if the general election is in October, that will mean it's very, very tight'

Jeremy Hunt suggests that the general election will be held in October

'This particular spending review has to be completed before next April. If the general election is in October that will mean it's very very tight'

He says that if there's another fiscal event before the…

Wes Streeting says he’s willing to have a fight over better use of data in NHS in order to modernise the service - “it’s mission critical” #WiredHealth

It’s been 4 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic over Covid-19. My FT Opinion col asks how well we are set up for the next one. In short, not dire but, in a bid to forget and move on, we risk forgetting what we learnt.
#Vaccines

ft.com/content/77f1be… via @ft

Wow. When I look back at interviews like this one with James Taylor I realise what a ridiculously privileged job I’ve had….Talking to an array of fascinating brilliant people prepared to go into difficult territory.

The head of Navalny's anti-corruption foundation has just been beaten up in Vilnius

Waking up in London to this from OpenAI hitting back at Elon Musk. ChatGPT maker argues it needed to be 'for profit' to develop AGI and has published a load of emails from Musk which claim to undermine his lawsuit - link here openai.com/blog/openai-el…

Great news from Threadneedle Street:

Former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter and former Government Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance will join TBI as Strategic Counsellors, working with colleagues to advise political leaders globally.

Read more: institute.global/insights/news/…

Fascinating and wide-ranging chat with ⁦Anne Applebaum⁩ covering the similarities and differences between Putinism and Stalinism, Trump’s threat to Europe, the war in Ukraine and the changing mood in Europe on.ft.com/3uJXdUc

Masked men sweep up the flowers left in Moscow at the memorial to Boris Nemtsov, killed outside the Kremlin in 2015, after Navalny’s death. One wonders about the self-confidence of a regime that has destroyed all opposition and dissent but still sends security services to do this

The FT's obituary of Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition activist, 1976-2024 ft.com/content/ec5e4b…

I think the Steve Wright theme was the best jingle/branding on the radio.
Love this video of it being recorded.

Many thanks to all the people who agreed to be interviewed for this documentary. Without clinical trial volunteers we would have no new medicines. I hope the programme gives a balanced view of the benefits and limits of the new drugs against Alzheimer’s. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…