Older people in England dying without the care they need, says Age UK

Charity urges Jeremy Hunt to spend more on social care, as it warns of ‘tragedies behind closed doors’

Glaciers in Swiss Alps lost 6% of Mass last Year, as Climate Emergency brings brutal Heat Waves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The UN's World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report. As you will have guessed, things don't look good. There were 117 heat waves in 2022 and 58 droughts globally. But there were also 61 wet spells and 63 floods. We are rushing toward weather extremes. Global heating has driven a 6-fold increase in heat waves over the past 40 years. By the way, this spring, India and some other Asian countries confronted the worst April heat wave on record. I've lived in India and Pakistan in April, and even forty years ago it was

ChrisO_wiki on Twitter

“1/ Students in three Moscow universities have reported receiving mobilisation orders en masse, despite being legally exempted from conscription. It's not clear whether they will actually be recruited into the Russian armed forces or whether this is more "data checking". ⬇️”

Twitter made it easier to harass transgender users

Twitter quietly removed a piece of its Hateful Conduct Policy that protects transgender users from targeted deadnaming and misgendering.

Revealed: The Tories are still receiving funds from Russia-linked donors - Good Law Project

Kyiv Accuses Russians of Kidnapping and Selling Ukraine Children for Sex

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner claims to have evidence of an exchange on WhatsApp between two people allegedly discussing using a young boy for a child pornography shoot.

Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia’s Annexation of Crimea - OCCRP

For years, a secret organization run from inside Russia’s parliament successfully interfered with European policies on occupied Ukraine. Leaked emails give a new overview of the operation and show ...