Significant, eye-opening piece in the FT by India's former Central Bank governor, questioning Modi's narrative of economic success - points to high unemployment and ill-conceived industrial policies

ExChancellor and soon to be ex-MP Zahawi who made a mistake which saved him £5m tax until he was caught, will chair Very Group for the Barclay family - renowned for living in tax havens like Brecqhou and Monaco.

Sunak's speech was made at his favourite think tank, Policy Exchange.

Last week, DeSmog revealed that Shell & BP were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence a Policy Exchange report on carbon taxes.

PX has also received cash from ExxonMobil.
desmog.com/2024/05/08/bp-…

⭐️Special Offer!⭐️ We have a class set of 30 copies of Stolen History by Sathnam Sanghera. This is a must read for the History curriculum. The truth about the British Empire and how it shaped us. Set of 30 for £199.00. Contact info in bio. #History #BritishEmpire #KS3

'In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old.'

Increased longevity will bring profound social change - on.ft.com/4ahdC18 via Financial Times

Otto English Yesterday's Britain 🇬🇧 A better Britain 🇬🇧

Liverpool, give it a rest with The Beatles, yeah? You don't hear Wolverhampton banging on about Babylon Zoo.

Dazzling display of the architectural qualities of palms:
'Singularity' from Marc Quinn Light into Life show Kew Gardens.
Precisely modelled on a Bismarckia nobilis leaf from Kew's Palm House (and placed just outside).
Bill Baker 🌴Scott Zona, Ph.D.🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social International Palm Society

May 1945 Queen Elizabeth I hosted an Empire Day Garden Party at Buckingham Palace attended by 2,000 ex Prisoners of War including Sikhs & other Indian Army personnel. My mother was 14 years old then and had been evacuated from Kenya to a boarding school in Punjab…

Mark Gertler was born in Spitalfields, London in 1891 to a family of Polish immigrants, his childhood was marked by poverty, but his artistic talent was recognised by William Rothenstein who encouraged to paint and arranged a scholarship for him to start at the Slade School in…

This is gorgeous.

In just 2 months time Sathnam Sanghera and I will be talking empire and emperors at the Barbican tickets.artist-tix.com/tickets/series… A good meeting.. I hope. Do come along

finally had time to put together a little review! it's been chaotic recently but I'm getting on top of reading again and will post more book content soon! Sathnam Sanghera thank you for writing such an inspiring book 📚

The Raheem Sterling Scholarships are open to Black British students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds from the Greater London area. It is worth up to £16,250 per year. Deadline: 30 May kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…

This is our son James, 17. He's autistic, & very musical. He goes to Sound Lab, a brilliant music project for neurodivergent ppl, with plans to expand. Its current funding will soon end, so we're walking Hadrian's Wall in half term. Pls donate if you can! gofundme.com/f/james-harris…

Black and Asian people with #dementia are diagnosed later, die younger & struggle to access culturally sensitive care

For The Lead I looked into this stark disparity to ask why so many elderly people in minoritised communities are suffering needlessly

thelead.uk/dementia-white…

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Financial Times review of my book Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain. This reviewer (@BoydTonkin ) really gets the book's approach and the spirit in which it's put out there.

If you haven’t heard The Story on the SAS scandal yet, please, please have a listen…

EMPIREWORLD (PublicAffairs) by Sathnam Sanghera, MATRESCENCE (@PantheonBooks) by Lucy Jones, and THE LIGHT EATERS (@harperbooks) by Zoë Schlanger are the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the week 🎉🥂

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