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Really delighted to see #HMSBelfast get a mention among this stamp set. When HMS Belfast turned 80 in 2018, IWM recorded a video interview with Harrison. www.iwm.org.uk/history/hms-...

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24 April 1865 saw the opening of the GER Loughton - Ongar branch that became part of London Transport's Central line in post-WW2 years; the Epping - Ongar section is now a preserved railway. In 2015 the Underground celebrated the 150th anniversary this based on a 1947 poster. ↘️ flic.kr/p/sgVd3f

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Aus dem Archiv: 23.4.2023 Perlen des Qualitätsjournalismus Hitler sells ... immer noch. 🙄 #humor #medien #presse #journalismus

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Planning is often the 'survival of the unfittest'. But that is not directly related to the planning system per se, but how self-interested actors represent themselves as acting in the public interest when they act mainly in their own economic interest. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...

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A friend of mine who worked in national security for decades had a great line about Hegseth: "He's like a child playing a video game who wants to show off his high scores." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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Springer has just published (and now withdrawn) a book on cancer treatment written at least partly by AI. So, to those who say: AI is going to resolve the problems of the health service...how do you know that the information AI relies on is correct? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...

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It looks like the Royal African Society - publisher of African Arguments - may have gone bust.

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A sign that needs to be placed above every trading floor and Economics Department

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Ein zu oft in den Hintergrund geratendes Argument gegen Impfgegner ist deren offensive Behindertenfeindlichkeit.

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Ich wünschte mir, seine Mahnungen für eine humane Migrations- und Flüchtlingspolitik fänden bei denen Gehör, die jetzt seinen Tod betrauern. RIP

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Yesterday morning, Easter Sunday, I was listening on R4 to Catholic Aid worker George Antone of Holy Family Church, Gaza, talking about how much Pope Francis' daily phone calls meant to the community there, and my first thought is about their loss www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

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Multiple economic time bombs have been set off by the current administration. Tariffs have taken up all the oxygen in the room but the drop in tourism revenue is going to be a close second. The impact of DOGE’s costs will be a third economic ripple. Weak men create hard times.

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Academic journals are bending too. Academic societies must be ready to resist.

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C’est moi! So exciting to see the French version of #OnSavageShores in the wild.

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Ironically, the dichotomy between ideology and "natural" (great) power politics is itself a product of the Cold War. However, "power politics", "interests", the "balance of power" are all themselves contested concepts highly dependent on their (ideational) context. www.ft.com/content/031d...

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The sheer scale of the transformation currently underway in the USA is still being hugely underestimated.

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Politikideal in Deutschland, laut ZEIT (Symbolbild) [Und im Hintergrund singt Elton John].

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Zeichen gegen Öko-Wahn: Söder fordert Abschaffung von Gründonnerstag www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/grue...

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The interesting question here is whether the Trump admin as political representative of the US state can be meaningfully held in contempt.

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There's a new archive in town, and this one is well worth a follow. I've been burrowing through @thelondonarchives.bsky.social wonderful collections since coughs 1998 coughs and I'm still amazed by what I find.

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Bangladesh disappeared: Uncovering a secret jail next to an international airport www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Unnecessarily complex. The amount of private data you'll have to share with private companies on an ongoing basis to access basic utilities feels frustrating. Why not just use the tax system to fund green levies and social tariffs if that's necessary? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

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This is the dangerous stuff.

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Rising sea levels and extreme weather events increasingly threaten the US submarine force's infrastructure. They could also disrupt nuclear missions, @alliemaloney.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social writes. In @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/04/how-... #climatechange #nuclearweapons

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I agree. The US thinks, rightly or not (not, in my view), that it can benefit more from good relations with Russia than Ukrainian success; Europe knows Ukrainian defeat would be a human & security catastrophe. The problem for Europe is agreeing how to act on that knowledge.

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It's worth noting that government have ignored court decisions on deportations in Germany, too (Bavaria being especially known for this). So when it comes to defining what makes Trump's threat specific less hyperbole and more analytical precision would be helpful. E.g. taz.de/Trotz-Gerich...

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Alarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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'Khloé glossed the moment of landing with the words: “it’s literally so hard to explain right now”.' What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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