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I suppose they'll be a day when I pull into Baker Street and don't hear the sax solo

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PIMs Annual Research Conference: Spaces of Victimhood in Eastern Europe www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

REF 2029: splitting staff from outputs ‘distressing’ in jobs crisis. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Grab and Go; 42HV+C5G, Hlotse, Lesotho https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-28.8714347%2C28.0429434&query_place_id=ChIJgf_WT6cNjR4R2_TbzeOkTMY

So let's take a look at the hellscape that is Michael Gove's Speccy-dictator

NEW REPORT | The Dangers of a Rohingya Insurgency Armed groups in Rohingya camps have joined forces to battle the Arakan Army which has taken over much of the refugees’ home state in Myanmar, but insurgency is more likely to hurt than help their cause. www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-e...

These are the parts of Gaza the IDF has instructed civilians to evacuate since bombing and ground operations resumed last week—60 square miles, over 40 percent of the total area of the strip

Raises eyebrows Navratilova: 'I wouldn't have left home for Trump's America' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OOh no...Quel dommage

Vladimir Putin signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement with Tehran earlier this year. So, how does Russia view the escalation in the Middle East?

This is a really hefty win for British institutions in latest @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants Swept the floor on social sciences and humanities - 25 out of 80 grants went to the UK Must be a few champagne corks popping www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Europe’s air defence dilemma: can Franco-Italian system rival US Patriot? www.ft.com/content/c1b9...

Report finds £2m of surplus UK general election funds ‘essentially disappeared’

Marxist -Islamist? A lot to unpack there

Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.

Now receiving pro-3rd runway propaganda

Harry Dunn police 'could and should have arrested' diplomat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Haven't attended the opera in a while...seems different

Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Ooh cooks...cooks...must have read that far too quickly

'DMU had collaborated with United Arab Emirates-based Study World Education Holding Group, a private company, to build its Dubai branch campus, which commenced operations in September 2021.' 1/2

'The government may need to intervene to ensure a more strategic “consolidation” of research activity takes place across the UK’s higher education system, the outgoing chief executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has suggested.' 1/3

🍿 Carlson: How many people live in Iran, by the way? Cruz: I don’t know the population. Carlson: At all? Cruz: No. I don't know. Carlson: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple? Cruz: How many people live in Iran? Carlson: 92 million. How could you not know that?

LĂŠgions tchĂŠcoslovaques, 1914-1919 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...

Could strikes on Iran cause a nuclear disaster? www.ft.com/content/b717...

Ratings: EKRE moves up to second place in support news.err.ee/1609724511/r...

70,000 more Britons to lose disability benefits than originally expected. Estimates up from 370,000 to 440,000, could lose ÂŁ4,500 a year each. How many die? Govt averse to taxing corporations and the rich. Tell your MP to oppose cuts. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.