🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Delightful to see the government's promised consultation on a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism – a version of the EU's "CBAM". A UK CBAM will be introduced from 2027, so everything actually rests on what the next (Labour) government chooses to do. gov.uk/government/con…

Penned a short election-eve explainer for Tony Blair Institute for Global Change - give it a read for the briefest overview of what’s at stake in South Africa’s most important election since 1994. More to follow on the geopolitical implications of the result next week 👇🏽👇🏽 institute.global/insights/geopo…

Russia becomes the decisive power in another African conflict, potentially switching backing fm RSF to SAF

A year of war has devastated Sudan. Ivor Prickett and I spent nearly a month in the country recently. This is our first dispatch from the capital, Khartoum — the ground zero of a catastrophic conflict. nytimes.com/2024/06/05/wor…

A great day supporting former colleagues Zalmai Nishat Shaira Karimi and Jemima Shelley at the 3rd Cambridge Massoud Conference (CMC) this weekend. Thank you @MosaicAfg for organising such an important event. Always good to be back in Cambridge too!

The #Sahel is facing an escalating crisis. New TBI research found a 40% increase in the deliberate targeting of water infrastructure, like wells, from 2019-2024, exploiting climate change-induced resource scarcity to assert control and recruit marginalised populations.

Green industrial strategy has the potential to boost economic growth and accelerate the UK’s progress towards #netzero. But realising this ambition requires coherent, long-term policymaking. The choice for government is clear: the UK must seize this moment to shape its

A new piece from my amazing colleague Jaynisha Patel:

'The government is right to champion green jobs, but it must be clearer about where these jobs will be and avoid overselling a manufacturing revival' ✍️ Lindy Fursman & Thomas Smith of Tony Blair Institute for Global Change politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Great piece from Hermione Dace