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@lettherebebike.bsky.social
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What does Europe get if Russia is not defeated?
More Russian military advances in Europe, more countries invaded by emboldened autocracies, tens of million more refugees who will inevitably want to come to Europe, and hundreds of thousands of deaths, if not more.
March 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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What can you do? THIS.

Be there next Saturday - and show the world, America included, that Europe is united with Ukraine.

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February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Trump's transactional unilateralism rocks Europeans -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puPg...
Trump's unilateralism rocks Munich conference
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
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February 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The function of Trump’s hyperactive 100 ideas a day governance is that it makes voters think that the theatrics of leadership, media parades, viral clips are actually politics and take the place of institutions and constitutions.
February 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Great news!! The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading
💥 It passes!! 💥

The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading.

No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down.

Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏
January 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Blogged: there are two political agendas - one on how to improve the real world and another dealing in fantasies and crank issues, and the latter is dominant: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
The two agendas
Why are UK infrastructure projects so expensive, and what can be done about this? To what extent is the rise of the far-right the result of economic stagnation? How can we raise economic growth given ...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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As G.K Chesterton should have said, when people stop believing in class-based politics, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
January 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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the academic/ professional; the technical/ labourer; and everything else in between. This model of the mind neatly mirrored the view (explicitly borrowed from Plato's Republic) that society should train people for these three roles and castes.
https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
January 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The Lowdon New Year podcast is up with Nick Tyrone and Tim Walker looking ahead to, well, an uncertain future to put it mildly. PLUS seven profiles of writers caught up in current controversies
nickcohen.substack.com/p/new-years-...
New Year’s listening and reading!
The New Year edition of the Lowdown is up.
nickcohen.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Review of the year that saw Trump and the radical right return with a vengeance and maybe the end of “the West” as a coherent force in world affairs. Me with Tim Walker and Nick Tyrone
nickcohen.substack.com/p/merry-chri...
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to one and all!
Dear Readers,
nickcohen.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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What distinguishes post-truth populists from ordinary lying politicians isn’t the number of lies they tell—it’s the number of lies they tell which are mutually exclusive.
December 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Here's something we can all get behind.

In 2025 @europeanmovement.co.uk will take the rejoin Erasmus+ campaign to the heart of government, higher education, and policy makers.

Follow the link to find out more and sign up to show your support.

Please share widely.
This is Erasmus
Erasmus+ empowers students through opportunities to study, work, and grow across Europe. Join us in bringing this programme back to the UK
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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Took a road trip to see the Nuclear Ship Savannah today in Baltimore! This is a civilian nuclear-powered cargo/passenger ship/showboat for Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace campaign. It's now decommissioned with the reactor removed, and occasional tours available.
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Reporting from the Syrian revolutionary celebrations in Ummayad Square, Damascus
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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If you are new to Syria and are having trouble establishing the rights and wrongs, the good and bad of the situation, I wrote this piece in 2018 which should be clarifying.
pulsemedia.org/2018/05/04/a...
Are there really “no good guys” in Syria?
A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action to destroy three chem…
pulsemedia.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Behaviour Management in a nutshell
November 27, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Honnêteté intellectuelle 🧐 

Ces révélations soulèvent des questions cruciales sur la transparence et l'intégrité scientifique des études commandées par les gouvernements. Comment peut-on faire confiance à des conclusions prédéterminées par des biais politiques ?
November 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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No es que siga a Jordi Wild pero Operador Nuclear me parece un gran tipo que hace una gran labor. Esta charla es crema. Os la recomiendo para quitar prejuicios a la energía nuclear #OperadorNuclear #JordiWild
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The Wild Project #240 ft Operador Nuclear | Chernobyl y Fukushima SIN mentiras, Bomba atómica
Alfredo García, conocido en redes como Operador Nuclear, divulgador de la energía atómica visita a Jordi Wild para un podcast en el que se hablará de la ener...
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December 28, 2023 at 3:50 PM