“What kind of a tent will protect us from missiles and shrapnel?”
—witness who survived the bombing of the refugee camp

Condemnation has been swift/furious from across the world—Macron’s statement was especially angry—but Bibi always ignores such pleas
nytimes.com/live/2024/05/2…

Important thread on the failure to get a pandemic agreement in place before this week’s World Health Assembly

“the majority of the failures of covid were political, so the designation of a technical treaty, in a technical organisation known to shirk politics was a strange one”

🇬🇧 Just arrived in London (I always stay with my mum, who turns 80 tomorrow!)

4️⃣ things I always do when I’m here

🥔 Packet of Quavers
🥤 With a bottle of Purdey’s—that combo is what I crave most!
🇹🇷Lunch at Meze & Shish, on the High Rd
🎧Alan’s (best 2nd hand vinyl in London!)

I agree (and that whole article about that “pronatalist” family is 🤯)

Top ten album of all time—music of the past that still sounds like the future

Produced by the Mizell Brothers, perhaps the greatest producers of all time? (Certainly up there, I reckon, with the likes of Charles Stepney or David Axelrod)

🎷In my record collection, my strong hunch is that I’ve got as much funk as I have jazz

The 5 artists dominating my vinyl stacks:

Johnny Hammond
Patrice Rushen
Idris Muhammad
Weldon Irvine
Betty Davis

“Shout It Out” is a top 10 funk album of all time

youtu.be/MuEepXJ8JdY?si…

Yes: “If WHO did not exist, it would have to be invented,” says Gordon Brown

I’m looking forward to being at the Tuesday launch of World Health Organization (WHO)’s investment case!

In Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Redundant Assembly,” showing ⁦21cMuseumHotels⁩ Durham, you become the work

The Truth or Dare show 21cMuseumHotels Durham is unbelievably of the moment

This is Pedro Reyes’ “Lady Liberty (as Trojan horse)”—which was originally part of Reyes’ “Doomacracy” installation in NYC