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Who will actually build all the new tanks, drones and surveillance equipment?

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“There are more than 20 new teams dealing with intelligence matters, but none of them have been added to the committee’s oversight remit.”

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Happy #WorldBookDay 📚

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Three UK-based Bulgarians found guilty of spying for Russia

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Further setbacks for Cardiff Uni bosses as University Senate votes against the cruel & unnecessary cuts citing the "lack of a clear and compelling Business Case" it says it's "not convinced on the evidence shown of the necessity for and validity" of the plans. #CUFightback

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“We’re shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot,” said a former senior intelligence official who mentors young and aspiring intelligence officers. “We’re mortgaging our future.” wapo.st/3Du3Tde

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🎙️ Thrilled to be on the #TrueSpies POD with #SPYSCAPE discussing 📖 #WatchingTheJackals! We explore: 📂 the joys & traps of conducting research in Cold War archives 🕵️‍♀️ How Prague used it spies to interact with Cold War 'jackals' ⛓️ Why it never arrested any of them. Take a listen 👉 shorturl.at/NHwia

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Yes. This is how universities must respond.

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Impulsive, unpredictable decision-making undermines carefully established (counter)intelligence efforts.

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Decline of trust in intelligence cooperation with US agencies leads German politicians to call for more funding, greater powers and wider remit of the country’s intelligence services.

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Yes. ➡️ “All four warned that future intelligence sharing with the top level of the Trump administration, once the bedrock of the relationship, was likely to become more difficult.”

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If the Trump administration are capable of doing this to get Ukraine to the table, they are capable of doing it again if Ukraine doesn't agree to whatever "peace" arrangement the US and Russia have decided on. Ukraine and its allies need to plan on that assumption. www.axios.com/2025/03/05/u...

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This is a moment for university and professional association leadership. This censorship is coming for all of us. Will anyone have scholars’ backs? And that’s before we get to the harm that this government censorship of rigorous research will do to national security and military effectiveness. 👇

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Oh man

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The former MI6 Chief, Sir John Sawers, has told LBC’s Andrew Marr that ‘we might see some border incursions into the Baltic States’ by Russia ‘just to test whether Article 5 is still there’

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Schuldenbremse: Wahr ist aber auch, dass genau um solche Fragen, Konzepte und Entscheidungen hätte im Wahlkampf gerungen werden müssen. Davor haben sich einige politische Akteure gedrückt. Die Medien haben nicht intensiv genug nachgehakt. Die Öffentlichkeit hat sich gerne einlullen lassen

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“Hochrangige Offiziere erreichen plötzlich mitunter niemanden mehr im Pentagon oder anderswo. Frühere Ansprechpartner sind weg. Es gibt einen großen Umbau, auch in den Nato-Strukturen.”

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CDU/CSU &SPD have just proposed a sea change in German fiscal policy: - defence spending above 1% of GDP exempt from debt brake - 10-year €500bn special fund for infrastructure - looser debt rules for states - further debt-brake reform in new Bundestag

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Not one single move to pressure Russia. Sustained attacks on Zelensky. And now: “The Trump administration has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine and is considering freezing weapons shipments from U.S. stockpiles.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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This is a fascinating, must read piece on what a European force in Ukraine should consist of

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A few days ago, according to research by WDR, NDR and SZ, suspicious drones were again encountered over military bases and critical infrastructure in northern Germany. Investigation with @florianflade.bsky.social @bstrunz.bsky.social and others www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

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The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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“nearly a fifth of all the police spies who were sent to infiltrate political movements”

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Yoga cat in Paris

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By Morten Morland

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Interesting. FT gets more detail on what I wrote on Feb 16: that the Trump admin had made threats to expel Canada from Five Eyes. "Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes Eyes." www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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Not a good move

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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Surveillance Book Prize is: Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston (University of Iowa Press).

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Great to see this getting national coverage. Music education at all levels is vital for skills, health, wellbeing, cultural, career and economic outcomes. It’s an absolute scandal and embarrassing for Cardiff.

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Es braucht jetzt keine „Wir bauen die Mauer wieder auf“-Witze, sondern Solidarität mit all den Menschen, die in Gegenden mit rechtsextremer Dominanz leben und trotzdem ihre Stimme erheben.

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”This is a team effort. The future of Ukraine is the future of Europe. European unity has been historic when it comes to sanctions and mobilising political support. But how can it be that eight small countries in northern Europe are leading in that support?” NB8 op-ed

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“The music school scored 95 per cent for overall teaching satisfaction in the 2024 National Student Survey and more than two-thirds of the school’s student body are from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in higher education” #cardiff

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In Görlitz hat fast jeder Zweite AfD gewählt. Das Direktmandat geht erneut an AfD-Bundesvorsitzenden Tino Chrupalla, der 13% mehr als 2021 erreicht und auf 48,9% der Erststimmen kommt.

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Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election today and is on track to take the reins of the EU’s largest economy. Here’s what a Merz-led Germany means for the EU 👇

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‘assertive’, ‘direct’, ‘awkward’, ‘bold’ … 😏

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Hart erarbeitete neun Prozent. Die Linke hat im Wahlkampf viel richtig gemacht. #BTW25

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Very very important note. The exit polls disagree regarding who is getting into the parliament. Forschungsgruppe Wahlen believe we are looking at an 8 party Bundestag. Infratest believe it is a 6 party Bundestag. That has huge implications for final seat totals and coalition possibilities.

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84% turnout. 😮 Figure thanks to @spiegel.de. Terrible result for the SPD. Big gain for AfD but under 20% for now. GroKo remains an option for now.

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Vanavond is de eerste aflevering van mijn nieuwe serie Van Moskou tot Maidan. Een documentaire-serie over een land in oorlog: Oekraïne. Om 20:20 op NPO2

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Ich hab’s Merz direkt geschrieben.

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Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

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As Germans head for the polls today, the stakes could not be higher for Germany‘s future and Europe. My in-depth analysis on Merz‘ huge mistakes, but also some hope that the centre will get its act together in light of what happened since Munich.

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Marshalling at NIAC #juniorparkrun helps distracting me from 🇩🇪 election day. Lovely to see so many kids burning energy 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️ just before the rain ☔️.

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It's official: all PhD admissions at the University of Pittsburgh have been put on hold, despite months of hard work in recruiting applicants and evaluating their files. The pause applies to all schools and departments at Pitt, including GSPIA. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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