#TrueStory: In the early days of Facebook, I befriended someone called James Wanless. Nominative determinism demanded he unfriend me, which he did days later. It hurt, but I still sometimes think about him and hope he, and everyone else who is James Wanless, is doing ok.

Deep appreciation to ⁦@jamesjwan⁩ for his remarkable stewardship of ⁦@africaarguments⁩. His work has been a trusted source for me of insights and provocations — and a great podcast partner when I hosted Into Africa ⁦@CSISAfrica⁩.

Thanks @jamesjwan for skillfully - yet with patience - helping us to narrate #African stories with @africaarguments .

"As well as sadness for the unfinished business, it seems appropriate my main feelings are of boundless gratitude to the 1,000s of incredible people who worked with us and a little pride I got to work with them." @jamesjwan on leaving AA after ten years https://t.co/HXcp2jPVBj

In a time of #climate breakdown, corporate capture, and unhealthy diets, can the humble #food of #Lesotho show us the future?

With the #COP29 #climate talks on the brink, experts call the latest #climatefinance draft a “disgrace” and say “no deal is better than a bad deal”.

Yvette Cooper’s borders announcement today is a betrayal of everyone who voted for change. Ten days since racists attacked asylum seekers & mosques & today Labour announce they’re ramping up the failed narrative that we can just get rid of the people we don’t want here. #r4today

#Greenhydrogen: #Africa is not #Europe’s battery Like elsewhere, #Tunisia’s rush of proposed green hydrogen projects prioritise Europe’s needs over its own. https://t.co/YoDEIQ6fZi

I've been to Australia. That was their best dancer.

We must scrap the inhuman Work Capability Assessments and private provision of disability assessments (e.g. ATOS), scrap punitive sanctions, two-child limit and benefits cap.

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I've just been sentenced to 5 years in prison. The longest ever for nonviolent action. The 'crime'? Giving a talk on civil disobedience as an effective, evidence-based method for stopping the elite from putting enough carbon in the atmosphere to send us to extinction. I have

"#Kenya can have democracy or neocolonial extraction, but not both", writes @FadhelKaboub

“That’s, erm, interesting. Mine? He was the Duke of Edinburgh”.

Votes for Labour in: 2017 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 12,877,918 2019 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 10,269,051 2024 (Keir Starmer) — 9,686,329

John Curtice: "Actually, but for the rise of the Labour Party in Scotland... we would be reporting that basically Labours vote has not changed from what it was in 2019"

This is telling. Labour has not won. The Tories lost and the SNP have lost, whilst Reform and the Greens have won, and the LibDems have been exceedingly organised. But Labour has not won hearts and minds. Not in the slightest.

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"Could the lessons that protesters are learning today...be preparing them for pitched battles with #fossilcapital on the other side of the horizon of current possibilities?" asks @triofrancos, responding to @OlufemiOTaiwo. 🤞 https://t.co/3ljuORVdxa

Implied voting intention if tactical voting were not necessary Labour: 29% (-8 compared to actual voting intention) Conservative: 18% (-2) Reform UK: 16% (=) Green: 13% (+6) Lib Dem: 12% (-2) Other: 9% (+3) https://t.co/VFvDUBqUSN