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Also: Maryam Mirzakhani 🇮🇷: Fields Medal 2014. I've not included Nobel Peace Prizes cos they are ludicrous anyway. But let's not forget the history either. Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd. Actual numbers that we use. etc.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

“Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?” (The name of the supplier should come as no surprise) https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantir-led-secret-review

Russia has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and human trafficking during its almost five-year invasion of Ukraine, according to a new UN report 👇

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

HSBC quarterly pre-tax profits surge 32% to $9.6bn (£7.14bn). Banks receive bailouts, subsidies, pay measly return to savers, hike charges, rely on the state as lender of the last resort but threaten retaliation if taxed. Must levy windfall tax.

We need to calm the flood-drought climate whiplash 🌦️ In the national conversation around climate resilience, Britain’s water crisis is almost always framed as two separate emergencies.  [Continued👇] Images: [1]-Cerib/Adobe Stock, [2]-Andee/Pexels/Canva

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

New UN report: Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

It is painful to witness the images coming from the West Bank. The Israeli destructive machine stops at nothing: it uproots entire olive groves, erases years of labor, and devastates what for Palestinians represents life, history, and identity. The Zionist entity be forever dammed 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

The Independent. 'True scale of Reform UK’s donations from overseas donors revealed 80 per cent of the money received by Reform UK from donations in the year 2025-26 has come from individuals or companies who have been based abroad in the past two years'

How strange Reform UK whose leaders supported Brexit and British people 'taking back control' is happy to get most of its funding from millionaires living abroad (ps who never give something for nothing, 'donations' are the British way of corruption buying policies like tax cuts for millionaires)

Voice of Rabbis If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know: Video from Monroe New York, The message was unmistakable: “We oppose and have no part in Zionism and State of israel” Not fringe. Not small.

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Good. The government is finally catching up with where voters have long been on freedom of movement. Our polling repeatedly shows clear support for the advantages it would bring. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-free-movement-andy-burnham-b3073929.html

This is objectively very very funny

A proposed data centre in Llanrumney, Cardiff, would cause serious habitat loss for a colony of dormice. You can ensure the issue isn't forgotten by commenting on the planning application. HURRY because the opportunity ends tomorrow. Find out how below. 👇

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis. They profit from polluting industries, and through the ‘adaptation economy’. Super-rich buy govts, control means of production and think tanks. Victims pay higher prices for food, homes, relocations. Who governs?

A 48-year-old detainee has died at the Folkston ICE facility in Georgia, sparking renewed outrage as the facility faces massive unrest and hunger strikes over horrific conditions. Advocates are demanding answers as the tragic death count in ICE custody continues to rise.

Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social was correct yesterday when he blamed Brexit for small boats crisis👇 youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

The Brazilian left's big win is a blueprint for taking on the far-right, and shows up Democrats in the U.S. who appear ready to botch the next presidential election in two years. Read the full piece by @alonso-gd.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/lulas-incr...

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: The government met representatives of 137 businesses while developing its plans for a huge expansion of artificial intelligence data centres, but did not hold a single meeting with environmental organisations during the period examined.

Apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians are documented, evidenced, relentless. All enabled by the so-called international community, including Ireland. We have legal obligations under international law to act to prevent egregious human rights abuses. #SanctionsNow

Our students and our labor movement in Michigan are ready for a BLUE WAVE!

POLL: U.S. Senate election in Florida 🔴 Ashley Moody 49% 🟢 Angie Nixon 45% - UNF Public Opinion Research Lab, 10/12-10/19, 1,471 likely voters, ±2.81 MOE

UK Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism | Israel Palestine News #palestine #israelpalestinenews

I am Jewish. My grandparents were Jews who escaped the Holocaust. Pogroms were a common practice, ethnic cleansing too, and they managed to escape before the Holocaust. Most of their family members are dead, we’re a broken family tree with missing spots. I support Palestine BECAUSE I am Jewish.

Economics isn’t necessarily a zero-sum game. But power is zero-sum. The more at the top, the less anywhere else. The fact is, wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. To understand the system, we need to understand the cycle.

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

If the BBC treated the Green Party as they do Reform, and Reform as they do the Greens, Reform would be on 10% and the Greens 20%

Connie Chan won't take a dime from AIPAC or their allies. She says Israel is committing genocide, backs a full arms embargo, and wants AIPAC registered as a foreign agent. Vote for Connie Chan in #CA11!

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

Ali Fortescue to Ellie Chowns on the group Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

@zackpolanski.bsky.social and Lula both have one thing in common (apart from great policies to protect the planet and promote social justice that is). They have both had their accounts on Meta/Facebook suspended during elections. Politicians being silenced by Zuckerberg are the best politicians.

What happens if the budget ignores Britain's real debt crisis? If you listen to what he will say, you'd think the national debt is our problem. It isn't. Private sector debt is three times bigger - and that is where the debt crisis will happen. youtu.be/szmZZwwtAm8?...

U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says U.S. was only major economy that failed last year to reduce its carbon pollution or at least slow the growth in how much c02 is spewed by burning fossil fuels. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

⚠️ AIPAC ALERT: The pro-Israel lobby is supporting Republican candidate Jon Bonck (@TeamBonck) in Texas' 38th congressional district. #TX38

⏰️ It's time for a bold, green budget that brings down bills, tackles inequality and works to protect our environment. Will Labour deliver?