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Imagine if just 20% of that went to universities or the academics themselves ...

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Ooh, look! The US Army is going full 18th century and allowing rich people to buy a commission (sort of)

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As a father, this is fascinating and makes a lot of sense 👇

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“US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion—not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one…according to four people familiar with the assessment” www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

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Perhaps understandably under the circumstances, but it's worth remembering when hearing or seeing reports on the #Israel - #Iran war, reports on damage to strategic sites in Israel are censored. It's much easier to know what has been hit in Iran. Narrative is skewed in favour of Israel success

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Watched Tora!Tora!Tora! (Japanese extended cut), coached son's football team in a tournament, and now reading Alastair Reynolds

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I was worried that North Korea wasn't on the list but don't worry they are.

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It is worth paying attention when RUSI, a pillar of the UK's defence establishment, is publishing commentary this critical.

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It was a pleasure to speak to Exeter SSI and @cais-exeter.bsky.social yesterday about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations (open access: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...). Thanks to @blagdendavid.bsky.social and @profalexp.bsky.social for organizing

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Excellent cartoon in @theguardian.com

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Well put by @piercepenniless.bsky.social . Don't Labour know that there is a (information) war on? China & Russia do. They're investing $billions in their global media machines, as well as their troll farms e.g. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-chi...

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Indeed

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Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this sordid "gift" episode is that, given all the wider book burnings and cancel culture of his regime, #Trump is still keen on a library www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A little #VEDay 👋 to my late grandfather who, leading an infantry platoon as 2nd Lt Powell, was yet to start his fighting in #Burma. Joined West Yorks in May, wounded by a mortar within 24hrs, returned to fight June-August. Fought at Sittang Bend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Good piece by @lukecooper100.bsky.social on the relative economic positions of #Ukraine & #Russia, as well as the "raw colonialism" and symbolism of #Trump 's minerals deal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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My piece on the latest Israeli plan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Yes because it’s usually concrete and asbestos.

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OpenAI's "most powerful system" makes shit up more than half of the time. For its "o4-mini" model, the rate is 79 percent

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$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

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I'm assuming that, to be consistent with their wider visa policy in relation to critics of Israeli policy, the Trump regime will need to deny the former head of Shin Bet, the Israeli security service, a visa if requested www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Excellent @financialtimes.com short film on the merits of a #wealth #tax youtube.com/watch?v=kHeY...

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Hard not to agree with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social here on the utterly pro-Russian terms of the #Ukraine ceasefire proposal. Incredible level of partiality towards Moscow that further weakens the US' standing among its allies. The architects of US global hegemony must be spinning in their graves

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Good 🧵 on the multiple steps taken by the #Trump regime to withdraw from and to complicate international efforts to hold #Russia accountable for war crimes in #Ukraine

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A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

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Labour may be worried about Reform, but their voters are more likely to leave to the Greens or Lib Dems. Labour needs to decide what it is and what kind of world they want to help create

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Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

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If @teamlabouruk.bsky.social had the sense & strategic vision to take advantage of this, it might give the UK #highereducation sector a badly-needed boom. But that would be asking something from a party that won't distinguish students from other migrants in a race to the bottom with Reform

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Freedom of speech issues aside, a rational response to such threats is to simply not to use social media. Which, in turn, would hit Trump's tech bro oligarchy

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This is not what a customs union means and its not a very encouraging sign if a government which claims "growth" is its top priority is staffed with "senior aides" who think like this.

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"research activity conducted by Universities is fantastically loss-making," Vivien Stern, @universities-uk.bsky.social on BBC4 today Reckless choice of word to describe a public good, produced by public service institutions, charities and their workforce. This is what got us into this mess.

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The 500 richest people in the world added $304B to their combined net worth yesterday after Trump's tariff pause. And what did Republicans in the House do today? They passed a budget resolution that paves the way for more tax cuts for the rich. "Party of the working class."

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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At a time when international students and scholars are turning away from America, instead of seizing this opportunity, Number 10 have a steely focus on winning the Runcorn by-election to help defend their wafer-thin majority of 174 seats.

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Four months ago...

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A country removing its own brain

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Add to that list that many/most of those white collar jobs were socially-focused in that they supported or promoted the infrastructure of society. However, people still assume that these people are there when, increasingly, they are either diminishing in number or too overwhelmed to function as was

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Trump’s Ukraine policy is based on fabricated numbers ($350bn). His Russia policy is based on fabricated numbers (majority support for Russia in occupied territory). Why are we surprised that his trade policy is also based on fabricated numbers?

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I leave experts like @aslak.bsky.social & @sandertordoir.bsky.social to comment on the economic effects of Trump's tariffs, but note that the UK, which runs a trade deficit with US, gets hit with 10% tariffs (& 25%on cars); Russia, with a $2.5b surplus w US in 2024, is untariffed. Who's the enemy?

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The Economist not mincing its words. They could add geopolitical to "economic error"

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Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.

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