..Ine Eriksen Søreide is quite outspoken on the 'new EU debate' topic but I suspect this will add to the perception that she's an Oslo politician who's more comfortable hanging out with EU folks than with ordinary folk in 'the districts'

I frequently see pieces by EU folks that suggest that Norway is on the verge of joining - this belief is fuelled by politicans here who call for a 'new EU debate'. There may be good reasons for joining but I don't see much appetite for this debate. The presumed new leader of the Conservatives...

Arendt saw Italian Fascism as far too statist to belong to same category - the movement subordinated to the state. The USSR became more statist over time but it always had to navigate between state and movement. MAGA contains the same tensions but this is a different country and a different era.

The problem is that cheap solar and water shortage tend to go together www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

the practice of international politics has been concerned with political regimes in other countries because they affect the perceived legitimacy of the regime at home.

The final paragraph here points to the inconsistency between Trump's expressed indifference to the internal political regime in other countries and the actual practice of the Administration. This speaks to the broader problem of 'Realist' theory and statecraft that over the last 200 years

...labelled as terrorist.

The UK should put its emergency/national security powers in a piece of legislation that doesn't try and label everything terrorism.

The Icelandic guy who cuts my hair periodically complains that during the 2008 banking crisis Gordon Brown labelled the whole country as terrorist so he could use emergency powers to freeze bank accounts in the UK.

Public discourse would be much more sensible if fewer things were...