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• More than 30 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, London’s Metropolitan Police have named a new suspect.
• As Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward remarked, the police made numerous mistakes in their initial investigation of the attack.
• Lawrence and his friend Duwayne Brooks were targeted in an unprovoked racist attack by a gang of white youths.

Arrests and acquittals

• But it was two weeks before they made any arrests.
• During this time, police twice observed the suspects removing large rubbish bags from their homes, potentially destroying incriminating evidence.
• This too resulted in acquittals, due to similar conclusions of a lack of evidence.

Macpherson inquiry

• Sir William Macpherson, a retired high court judge, was tasked with examining the circumstances of Lawrence’s murder and the police’s ineffectual investigation.
• The Macpherson report concluded that senior Met officials failed in their leadership, and outlined numerous examples of professional incompetence.
• As one activist declared: “We taught Macpherson and Macpherson taught the world.”

Impact felt today

• Two decades later, Macpherson’s damning declaration of the Met as institutionally racist has had limited impact.
• More recent studies have found little actual evidence of changes in police culture.
• The 2023 Baroness Casey review found that the force is still institutionally racist, as well as institutionally misogynistic and homophobic.

• Such heat waves can occur when the Sahara arrives on our doorstep on the back of unusual winds.
• That process is often very efficiently carried out by the wind and that somewhere is the Sahara, when a southerly wind blows for long enough.
• We have come to call these events African plumes, or sometimes Iberian plumes as you may have heard them described in recent weather forecasts.

Where plumes come from

• African plumes are characterised by a hazy atmosphere laden with dust from the Sahara – the biggest source of that material anywhere on the planet come the summer months in the northern hemisphere.
• Very large particles of dust are raised from the desert surface by gusts blowing over hundreds of kilometres, produced by the outflow of energy from thunderstorms.
• While the process of importing heat from afar might sound exotic, it isn’t really.
• Outside the tropics, the number one method for sorting out that discrepancy in energy is to move heat in the winds.

What the future has in store

• Will warming in the UK in future decades result in more African plumes?
• And the Met Office work shows that these patterns are set to increase in frequency in the future – and also extend into the autumn months.
• We might lose those striking sunsets made of Saharan dust, but the heat is here to stay.

• The Internet and social media posts are ripe with the promise of quick weight loss by injecting Semaglutide.
• As an alternative to prescription Semaglutide, Jinfiniti Precision Medicine suggests using NAD supplements , to help achieve weight loss, safely.
• NAD optimization improves metabolism and energy, and when combined with exercise and caloric restriction, it enhances any weight loss program.
• In summary, the increasing popularity of Semaglutide for weight loss raises concerns about serious health risks from off-label use.

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