‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty: Alongside prosperity in Holborn and St Pancras are thousands of households for whom lifting the two-child benefit cap could mean an end to hunger’ theguardian.com/society/articl…

The CIA put a huge amount of effort and particularly money into fixing the results of the Venezuelan election. I am delighted to say they seem to have failed.

Neo-austerity, as promised. Every pound spent by the UK government is created from nothing, backed by the strength of our institutions and labour. It is criminal negligence to not use our public money to provide the infrastructure and services we need. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

BREAKING: Israeli soldiers gang rape Palestinian detainee. Torture was so severe the detainee had to be hospitalised with "a serious wound in his rectum area". Israeli police raided the Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert where the abuse took place. Israel's Finance

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Tickets are now available for Live Music: Jamie West + Aliyah Kim Keshani + Dan Hoyes at Metronome Coffee House, Morden. ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/morde…

A Christian Palestinian family was forcibly evicted from their land by settlers protected by the Israeli Forces Despite returning with an Israeli court document confirming their rightful ownership, the family was expelled again by the military, while the settlers continued to

Why is the EU funding Israeli arms companies complicit in genocide?

Reeves asked: ‘Do you think privatisation of water was a mistake’ She doubles down on how ‘better regulation’ can control private monopolies Of all the policies to expose Starmer & Reeves as Tories, it is their ideological refusal to nationalise water

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: ‘Lobbyists worked in heart of Labour’s election campaign: Lobbyists described work for Labour – which was not declared to authorities – as ‘great for future relationships’ opendemocracy.net/en/labour-lobb…

Former British Soldier EXPOSES UK Riots youtu.be/EuCLsX2TaZA?si… via YouTube

Full resignation letter from FCDO British diplomat Mark Smith:

AI and the future of behavioural science | LSE Event youtube.com/live/x1hojUoNb… Thanks to everyone who took part and who organised this stimulating discussion.

I've just seen this short documentary on Long-Covid by Grant Wakefield. It's very powerful and, if you are not currently taking simple precautions to reduce how often you get infected with Covid, you should definitely watch it vimeo.com/1017483971

📢 Announcing our next #BCConf2025 keynote... Robert West will discuss how to plan communications to achieve behaviour change, using the COM-B model. Including deciding what to target, techniques, how to develop specific 'messaging' & how AI can help. 👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-chan…

Arguably, the biggest triumph of the ruling class in the UK and US has been to pull the teeth of social democratic parties so that their natural voter base is disillusioned and won't vote for them - leaving the field clear for very powerful right-wing minority rule.

Just a note to say that I'm moving over to BlueSky with the handle Robert West I'll use it to share info on behavioural science, nicotine and tobacco use, research methods, AI and ontologies.