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Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

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If you studied contemporary history at Tübingen in the 1990s, the fact that 'the West' is an ideological construct of the early Cold War will not come as a surprise to you.

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Just sent the government my accomplishments

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If I stop to think about the loss of networks, colleagues and relationships, and knowledge of "how things work and what they mean" built over a career that disappeared literally overnight, things get dark, as @dandrezner.bsky.social writes. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-dark-v...

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AI is transformational. It allows you to make completely unsubstantiated claims on how the economy is going to improve, by liberally sprinkling the term AI throughout policy documents. Even though in most most contexts it is devoid of meaning

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A sense of spring

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In „Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich“ zeigt der Historiker Volker Weiß, wie die AfD und Putin Geschichte umschreiben.

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Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked. via @jackdolan.bsky.social

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Ich komme auch ohne Hölderlin über die Runden.

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Am 23.2. wird ein neuer #Bundestag gewählt. Wie herausfordernd #Wahlen in den Anfangsjahren der Bundesrepublik waren, zeigt eine Reihe von Aufsätzen in den Vierteljahrsheften für Zeitgeschichte: www.ifz-muenchen.de/vierteljahrs... #bwt25 #vfz

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Excellent piece. One thing it captures nicely is how Blue Labour, if followed to its full logic, essentially involves replacing Labour's existing electoral coalition (which, you know, was quite successful recently) with a entirely new one that is unlikely to be viable. Very tail wagging the dog

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If there ever was a case for the primacy of domestic politics it's the United States under Trump. There is no foreign policy as a distinct sphere of state action - it's a mere extension of the domestic politics of 'making America great again'.

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Second university cutting jobs today is the University of South Wales. In the medium term, the Welsh HE system is basically done with and gone unless there's a large-scale intervention. It's got no chance. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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Not sure - this is about MAGA in the way Trump sees it, without regard for any consequences. This then benefits Russia because of the chaos it causes. For Trump, copying Russian talking points is a means to MAGA, and he probably thinks it flatters the Russians.

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I am not in the Sanna Marin fanclub, but this issue is key and rather urgent. The US could withdraw support for Ukraine from one moment to the next. And then what?

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Apart from everything else, this pulls the rug out from under Rubio, who promised not 48 hours earlier that Kyiv would have a seat at the "real" negotiating table. How can anyone anyone negotiate with an administration that can't get its story straight? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This is just bad history...nevermind the very worst way to do 'Applied History'

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For all the justified anxiety, it is also possible that this ends up like Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un where a lot of loud talk followed by Trumpian chaos and incompetence ends up with outcomes that were a loud nothing

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125th Anniversary Scholarship for Black British Researchers - Fanfic in the Archive: Ephemera, Ethics, Engagement University of Birmingham - School of English, Drama and Creative Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX750/1...

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There is an issue that few people seem to discuss explicitly and openly: what happens if at some point in the not all too distant future the US cuts off all support for Ukraine? How will European governments react? Planning for this not unlikely scenario is urgent.

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'Since 1945 we have lived between latent and open civil wars whose terribleness can still be outdone by a nuclear war, as if the civil wars that rage around the world are, reversing the traditional interpretation, our ultimate savior from total destruction.' (Reinhart Koselleck, trans. Keith Tribe)

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Any Canadian government should prioritize earmarking funds for a talent recruitment program focused on bringing qualified Canadians back to live and work in Canada stat.

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I am going to go out on a limb here and say: people are not looking for disruptors, they are looking for a government that's sorting out some pretty basic issues.

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Which was kind of clear. Macron's need for some kind of show always needs to be taken into account.

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This is a key point: a tripwire force needs to trigger a larger response to deter Russia. If that response isn't credible, then one would practically be inviting Russia to attack.

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It is crucial for Europeans to realise that at the rate Musk and Trump are shredding US state capacity, by the summer the US might not be able to substantially help defend Europe even if it wants to.

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This may be controversial,but at the moment I am far more concerned about what's happening inside the US rather than its foreign policy. The two are related, of course, but not necessarily in a straightforward way.

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And please read Alan's Britain at Bay.

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I especially agree with the points made below that many people just don't know about what universities do and how they operate in the local economy of their region...

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I wish people would stop with their stupid historical analogies...Munich, 1939, now Stubb on Finland. It's poor history, which will lead to even worse foreign policy.

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Nick providing yet another opportunity for a fact that never ceases to amaze me, T Dan Smith was a member of the Redcliffe Maud Commission. Also provided the inspiration for a rather good song by Lindisfarne.

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Exactly.

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