Dominic Naish
dnaish.bsky.social
Dominic Naish
@dnaish.bsky.social
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Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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VACANCY | Programme Officer, Somali Dialogue Platform (SDP)

RVI is recruiting a Programme Officer to support strategy, analysis, coordination and delivery of the SDP in Mogadishu.

Open to Somali nationals or those eligible to work in Somalia.

Apply: bit.ly/49KFj5P
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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“Touch grass” has intense proxy pro-Branch Davidian vibes.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
And to deny "male" loneliness because everyone's lonely but then specify women have poor experiences of dating... not helpful
September 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Isn't this part of the crux, though, that girls are socialised to share and be in groups while boys are socialised to be individual?
September 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
September 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK.

Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉

Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message?

Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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VACANCY | Conflict Advisor – RVI Ethiopia

Join RVI in Addis Ababa to lead conflict-sensitive programming and support peacebuilding efforts. Apply by 5 August 2025.

Open to nationals and those with the right to work in Ethiopia.

More info: bit.ly/4oaKBw5
July 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The 19 titles just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:
April 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Come and work with me/us! PhD under my supervision in the field of "politics and/or conflict around natural resources" in #Uganda and/or #DRC
December 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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New opportunity!

ECFR is looking for a new director for the Africa programme!

@ecfrafrica.bsky.social seeks to support a more coherent European Africa strategy, making the case for strong European engagement with African partners.

Find out more & apply here: ecfr.eu/jobs/
Help shape European foreign policy | Career opportunities at ECFR
Join the ECFR team and be part of the future of European foreign policy.
ecfr.eu
November 25, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Adding names to this Horn of Africa press starter pack.

Will add more as our colleagues make the transition here.

go.bsky.app/HsbV3ZY
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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This summer I published a book on Ecological Ethics and the philosophy of Simone Weil with Routledge. In this article @polrightsrev.bsky.social , I explain the philosophical importance of this work without the philosophical jargon. Please check it out! politicsrights.com/ethics-for-t...
Ethics for the End Times - Politics and Rights Review
Explore contemporary ecological ethics and Simone Weil’s philosophy in addressing climate crisis challenges within the Anthropocene epoch.
politicsrights.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Fascinating story on an environmental aspect of conflict. Makes me think of Cal Flynn's Islands of Abandonment
Will Ukraine Embrace an Era of 'War-Wilding'?
Some of the country's wartime environmental catastrophes, scientists say, can be turned into long-term ecological gains.
undark.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I wish I were hearing a lot more about #Mexico as an outlier in all the "anti-incumbent wave" analysis
November 15, 2024 at 12:02 PM
"Societies emerging from conflict are more likely to be faced with a choice: you can have peace or you can have justice, but you can hardly ever have both"
Justice or peace, but not both
The difficult truth behind the popular protest slogan is that for peace to prevail, sometimes justice will never be done
www.ft.com
February 16, 2024 at 9:21 AM
I recently finished Tom Holland's Dominion. I enjoyed it, but how can you write 500+ pages on "the making of the Western mind" and not have a single mention of Kant or Hegel?
February 1, 2024 at 10:37 AM
The cave meme becoming literal
January 29, 2024 at 9:20 AM