Jess Salter
@jesssalt.bsky.social
Media relations @bondngo.bsky.social - international development, UK aid, climate finance, international issues. Occasional music musings.
Loiner in London.
Loiner in London.
Cutting UK aid is not a simple solution - Zia Yusuf claims the UK sends "hundreds of millions" to Turkey, but figures show the country received just £13m last year, mainly for a refugee support programme, given Turkey hosts the world's 2nd largest amount of refugees. www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
Bond reacts to Reform UK proposals to cut the UK aid budget by 90 per cent to £1 billion | Bond
Today, Tuesday 18th November, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared that the Chancellor should slash the UK aid budget by 90% to £1 billion, to
www.bond.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Cutting UK aid is not a simple solution - Zia Yusuf claims the UK sends "hundreds of millions" to Turkey, but figures show the country received just £13m last year, mainly for a refugee support programme, given Turkey hosts the world's 2nd largest amount of refugees. www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
My alma mater @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is cutting the modern languages undergrad courses. As an alum of Spanish this is incredibly damaging for students & runs the risk of turning into the "University of Little England" The decision needs reversing. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC News
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
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November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My alma mater @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is cutting the modern languages undergrad courses. As an alum of Spanish this is incredibly damaging for students & runs the risk of turning into the "University of Little England" The decision needs reversing. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
In this @lbc.co.uk piece, @elliechowns.bsky.social proposes 4 policies that Labour could introduce to strengthen the public finances without hitting ordinary people, including taxing the super-rich, going further on polluter pays & supporting a fairer global tax system.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
This is how Labour can fix the finances - without forcing ordinary people to pay the price | LBC
Rachel Reeves should ask the wealthiest and the biggest polluters to contribute their fair share, writes Ellie Chowns MP.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In this @lbc.co.uk piece, @elliechowns.bsky.social proposes 4 policies that Labour could introduce to strengthen the public finances without hitting ordinary people, including taxing the super-rich, going further on polluter pays & supporting a fairer global tax system.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
"To safeguard fragile gains against malaria, NTDs and other diseases, the UK government must maintain its support for international development. Eliminating these scourges is in the UK public’s best interest."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts could set back fragile gains in eliminating neglected tropical diseases | Letter
Letter: In response to an editorial on the uptick in malaria, Prof Heather Ferguson writes that progress against dengue, leprosy, rabies and other conditions could unravel
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"To safeguard fragile gains against malaria, NTDs and other diseases, the UK government must maintain its support for international development. Eliminating these scourges is in the UK public’s best interest."
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Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
Don't just call Reform racist and expect the country to agree with you. Show them an alternative, what an alternative future could look like to Reform's pathway to further economic decline.
Starmer must not repeat the Democrats’ mistakes on.ft.com/42LgB0O | opinion
Starmer must not repeat the Democrats’ mistakes
The American left’s failure to defeat Maga Republicans offers valuable lessons to Labour as it confronts Farage
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Don't just call Reform racist and expect the country to agree with you. Show them an alternative, what an alternative future could look like to Reform's pathway to further economic decline.
The world's least developed & most climate-vulnerable countries are paying more in debt than they receive in climate funding, new research from @iied.bsky.social finds.
@bondngo.bsky.social urges the UK and other rich countries to end this vicious cycle.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
@bondngo.bsky.social urges the UK and other rich countries to end this vicious cycle.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Poor nations pay more on debt interest than they get for climate aid
The world’s least developed countries paid US $37 billion (£28bn) to service their debts in 2023, but received only $32 billion (£24bn) in climate finance
www.independent.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The world's least developed & most climate-vulnerable countries are paying more in debt than they receive in climate funding, new research from @iied.bsky.social finds.
@bondngo.bsky.social urges the UK and other rich countries to end this vicious cycle.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
@bondngo.bsky.social urges the UK and other rich countries to end this vicious cycle.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right
October 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right
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Today marks the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Two years on, the conflict in Gaza continues, with at least 67,160 Palestinians confirmed killed and Gaza enduring one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in our time.
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/10...
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/10...
Bond statement on the second anniversary of the 7th October attacks | Bond
7 October 2025 marks the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Two years on, the conflict in Gaza continues, with at least 67,160
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October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today marks the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Two years on, the conflict in Gaza continues, with at least 67,160 Palestinians confirmed killed and Gaza enduring one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in our time.
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/10...
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/10...
Tell me it's party conference season without telling me it's party conference season #labourpartyconference
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Tell me it's party conference season without telling me it's party conference season #labourpartyconference
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"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children. As social order unravels, it is mostly girls who are raped, & then scorned for having been raped."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
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September 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children. As social order unravels, it is mostly girls who are raped, & then scorned for having been raped."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
"The UK was represented by a less senior figure in climate envoy Rachel Kyte. The FCDO told @the-independent.com that the UK had no message for the media at the summit - and at one panel on the future of aid Kyte did not appear, despite being on the programme."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
African countries push for radical change to tackle climate crisis as key summit ends
Nick Ferris reports from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where activists back ambitious final declaration at second African Climate Summit – but pile scorn on lack of help from rich nations
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"The UK was represented by a less senior figure in climate envoy Rachel Kyte. The FCDO told @the-independent.com that the UK had no message for the media at the summit - and at one panel on the future of aid Kyte did not appear, despite being on the programme."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
BII concentrates 53% of it's investments in 5 middle-income countries (India, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa & Kenya) despite it's mandate to support economic growth for the benefit of the poorest populations.
@bondngo.bsky.social's new briefing on BII in @devex.com 👇
www.devex.com/news/bii-has...
@bondngo.bsky.social's new briefing on BII in @devex.com 👇
www.devex.com/news/bii-has...
BII has grown — but is it delivering for the poorest?
A new analysis by Bond UK raises questions about whether the U.K.’s development finance institution is living up to its mandate, even as it expands in size and reach.
www.devex.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
BII concentrates 53% of it's investments in 5 middle-income countries (India, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa & Kenya) despite it's mandate to support economic growth for the benefit of the poorest populations.
@bondngo.bsky.social's new briefing on BII in @devex.com 👇
www.devex.com/news/bii-has...
@bondngo.bsky.social's new briefing on BII in @devex.com 👇
www.devex.com/news/bii-has...
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As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾
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Spain, Ireland and now Slovenia saying they will not participate in Eurovision this year if Isreal remains a participant
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spain, Ireland and now Slovenia saying they will not participate in Eurovision this year if Isreal remains a participant
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A note to The Lead readers about Angela Rayner at the top of our weekend newsletter
September 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A note to The Lead readers about Angela Rayner at the top of our weekend newsletter
This is out of the Trump playbook. How low are the Tories going to stoop
So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference.
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Has never happened before under any previous leader
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is out of the Trump playbook. How low are the Tories going to stoop
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Labour had 9.7 million voters in July 2024.
2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right
2.6 million to centre/left (27%)
900k Labour to LD (9%)
800k Labour to Green (8%)
900k across others (9%)
800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%)
A sliver to Cons
2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right
2.6 million to centre/left (27%)
900k Labour to LD (9%)
800k Labour to Green (8%)
900k across others (9%)
800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%)
A sliver to Cons
September 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Labour had 9.7 million voters in July 2024.
2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right
2.6 million to centre/left (27%)
900k Labour to LD (9%)
800k Labour to Green (8%)
900k across others (9%)
800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%)
A sliver to Cons
2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right
2.6 million to centre/left (27%)
900k Labour to LD (9%)
800k Labour to Green (8%)
900k across others (9%)
800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%)
A sliver to Cons
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This video doing the rounds again today. What Farage is promising still impossible.
August 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This video doing the rounds again today. What Farage is promising still impossible.
Wearing a black T-shirt in a coffee shop and someone asks me for the bill. 🙈
August 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Wearing a black T-shirt in a coffee shop and someone asks me for the bill. 🙈
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The IDF planned a journalist’s killing.
August 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The IDF planned a journalist’s killing.
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After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation - too little, too late from most mainstream media who have framed this genocide as a war and Israel's right to self-defense for 21 months www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation - too little, too late from most mainstream media who have framed this genocide as a war and Israel's right to self-defense for 21 months www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Alex is a world expert on famine. Hear him on Gaza:
“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled.. This is preventable starvation. Entirely manmade and preventable.”
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x.com/AJEnglish/st...
“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled.. This is preventable starvation. Entirely manmade and preventable.”
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x.com/AJEnglish/st...
Al Jazeera English on X: "“If we're required to wait until a genocide has happened to invoke [the Genocide Convention], it's nonsense.” Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, says that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a violation of the Genocide Convention. https://t.co/4BhS43J4RP" / X
“If we're required to wait until a genocide has happened to invoke [the Genocide Convention], it's nonsense.” Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, says that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a violation of the Genocide Convention. https://t.co/4BhS43J4RP
x.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Alex is a world expert on famine. Hear him on Gaza:
“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled.. This is preventable starvation. Entirely manmade and preventable.”
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x.com/AJEnglish/st...
“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled.. This is preventable starvation. Entirely manmade and preventable.”
🧵
x.com/AJEnglish/st...
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Latest Bond statement on Gaza.
For the full accessible statement please follow this link. . . www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
For the full accessible statement please follow this link. . . www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Latest Bond statement on Gaza.
For the full accessible statement please follow this link. . . www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
For the full accessible statement please follow this link. . . www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...