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Detailed interview by The Guardian is out today. Reducing dependency on the Chinese market and strengthening ties with other emerging markets can help democratic countries to navigate through economic uncertainties whilst restoring our diplomatic backbone.

theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

What an incredible interview. 'We start losing people... That’s the human experience, and you suddenly realize that the human experience is going to be your experience. When that starts to happen to you, it is quite stunning.' nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Your honor it was a full moon

HotShot is taking names out here. #NWSL

Life comes at you fast

What would happen if migrants on boats with limited resources were also seen as brave explorers gifted with curiosity and wonder for depths unknown, I wonder.

You've probably heard about the court case that concluded this week. It's complex and distressing. Thanks to tobi thomas and stellacreasy for joining me on today's episode to talk through it - and the wider problem with Britain's abortion laws.

theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

While Khartoum is the focus for much coverage of Sudan's war, Darfur is plunging into its most brutal chapter in decades.
'One of the worst places to be on Earth at this moment,” one escaped aid worker told Abdi Latif Dahir and cora engelbrecht nytimes.com/2023/06/07/wor…

'In 2021, at least 7 boats appearing to be from nw Africa washed up in the Caribbean & in Brazil. All carried dead bodies.
These 'ghost boats'… an unintended result of years of efforts & billions of dollars spent by Europe to stop crossings on the Med.' apnews.com/article/adrift…

Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

Home Office admits no evidence to support key claim on small boat crossings. Latest desperate example of its attempt to push false narrative of economic migrants vs asylum seekers theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

The UK claims to have killed more than 4,000 militants in nine years of bombing Iraq and Syria, but only one civilian.

Last November, Emma Graham-Harrison and I travelled to Mosul looking for the civilian victims the MoD won't recognise.

theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

Braverman seems unaware Rwanda is responsible for a massive ongoing humanitarian crisis, with 600,000-800,000 displaced, just four hours drive from Kigali. She should try reading the Foreign Office briefs, and visit the border. theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

On the 75th anniversary of Partition, I wrote about the moral power of Partition fiction + the wave of self-taught archivists and oral historians -- midnight's grandchildren -- finding new ways to tell the story newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Festive re-reads: Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy theguardian.com/books/2022/dec…

Edgware Rd #MoroccoVsFrance

“Hope will not be executed” reads protest sign at the university of Tehran.

my last piece from Qatar — I went looking for what's left of Qatar's women's national team nytimes.com/2022/12/10/spo…