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The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us
July 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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“Austerity’s effects were evident.. across 30 European countries, 44 per cent of children living in conditions of severe material deprivation lived in three nations… Romania…[plus] Italy and the UK – which had pursued aggressive programmes of cuts“
magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/05/21/t...
The cost of austerity
A generation of children have been held back by political opportunism.
magazine.newstatesman.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Wannabe dictator acting like a dictator.
May 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Dan's charisma is that of a mathematics professor with a train model diorama in his basement, Simion's charisma is that of an Eastern European used jewellery salesman, so it's all just incredible scenes.
May 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🇷🇴 Bucharest: Supporters of Nicușor Dan are gathering and celebrating in the city center as he looks set to win Romania’s presidential election. Vote counting is still underway, but the momentum is clearly on his side.
May 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?
In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?
Sunday’s election could threaten the country’s place in Europe if Russia’s dark arts and historical amnesia win the day, says Romanian-born writer Larisa Faber
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Reform voters are those they want, as opposed to the Labour voters they actually have (and despise).

This sounds like a petty point, but I think is key in understanding their strategy.
May 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.
newrepublic.com
May 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A comprehensive comms success.
May 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It's a bit like saying is the Netherlands anti EU because they elected Geert Wilders. To an extent, yes, but the framing of the election is from a very outside perspective. I don't think any but a minority of Simion voters think or believe that he is a threat to Romania's European position.
May 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Opinion | To stop Farage, both Badenoch and Starmer need to go

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To stop Farage, both Badenoch and Starmer need to go
The looming local elections could prove a death knell for either, or at least the beginning of the end
inews.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap.
​Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”
April 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.
March 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?
Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Labour's obliviousness to how Greens, LibDems, SNP and Plaid can all pull away voters that figures like McSweeney or Reeves seem to take for granted echoes Cameron's complacency towards UKIP in the late 2000s.
It is really difficult to understand what Labour's political strategy is. Steadily alienating core supporters in the hope of winning them back in a few years seems unwise.
March 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
www.advocate.com/news/germany...
Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
A German official confirmed the government’s alert to The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Meanwhile in cuckoo land(Romania) we have 6 people accused of treason. 1/?
March 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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we hate the FDP dont we folks
March 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and J. D. Vance nakedly sided with Russian aggression and berated Volodymyr Zelensky “with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods,” David Remnick writes.
Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
www.newyorker.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The CEO class be like

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ij...
March 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Completely unironically: a lot of billionaires and other financial elites are straight up just too stupid for the market economy and it's up to left-liberals like FDR to babysit these people so they don't blow themselves and everybody else up. And they're always so ungrateful about it.
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM