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Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence and one of his Deputy Chiefs of Staff. For the hundredth time these people are not our allies and pretending otherwise is a hiding for nothing

submitted 9 hours ago • 33 comments

Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump is vastly worse than Chamberlain who genuinely thought peace was attainable (but was still rapidly rearming in case it wasn't). He didn't actively ally with Hitler and fought him when no alternative was left.

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

He's running.

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

3 year PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience available @psychologyuea.bsky.social Working with @timkietzmann.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social Deadline 30th April. Unfortunately only open to UK candidates. Pls retweet. #neuroskyence #VisionScience #compneurosky

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that.” Donald Tusk, Polish PM

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

The substance of what's agreed is immeasurably more important than Oval Office press Qs, but the latter probably couldn't have gone much better for the PM. Very warm Trump words ("special guy, "tremendous relationship") and what looks like a Chagos deal green light after weeks of Tory / Reform fury.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A reminder. Trump could say nothing about tariffs on the UK today and announce them tomorrow. Or vice versa. There is no logic. Thus reporting success or failure applies to a single moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The Liberal Democrats are proud to have led the call to seize frozen Russian assets. But that’s just the start, we need to go further. Establishing a new European rearmament bank will help Ukraine get the support they need.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 2 days ago • 479 comments

All this stuff beating federal workers up will simply require much higher wages to compensate for the insecurity trump is imposing or a rapid decline in the quality of service Trump doesn’t understand compensating differentials Tenure means lower salary

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

How will President Trump affect international power structures? Dr @patrickholden.bsky.social, the programme lead for our online MA International Relations course, discusses some potential risks and opportunities available to countries during the president’s second term. youtube.com/shorts/lYLFH...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

First results at around 5:00 p.m. UK time. Then we’ll know whether those who bleated into poll phones “This time I’m voting AfD!” really meant it. Everything around and above 20% would be a huge victory for the AfD and further complicate coalition building. #GermanElections

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 7 days ago • 2301 comments

Buy European stocks. We have the rule of law

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.” In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 9 days ago • 2884 comments

Genuinely on the look out for sightings of Conservatives - MPs, present or past, commentators - who are as outspoken in their solidarity with Ukraine today as they were when doing so carried no potential penalty in getting on the wrong side of Maga.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Long-held position of @humanists.uk that the UK should become a secular state where no religion or belief has special treatment in law or policy. This includes the appointment of 26 bishops to the House of Lords. Disestablishment is long overdue.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Doh - #neuroskyence

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Really looking forward to giving this preprint a proper read. A new cohort of callosotomy patients is exciting. The application of interhemispheric functional-connectivity analysis, diffusion imaging and a radically new model of hemispheric interaction is very intriguing. #neuroskyance #splitbrain

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Last week the government’s Building Digital UK agency re-opened its Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme for parts of Devon, after two years of limited availability 1/3

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Kemi Badenoch speech to the culture warriors convention today in London is extraordinary. She warns of “the poisoning of minds through higher education.” What next? Struggle sessions and degree holders being sent down to the countryside? Hardly know where to start.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Universities are: successful exports, magically avoiding trade barriers. The buyers come here and give you £! They are also spreaders of our values and way of life abroad. They are great ways of levelling up as a campus does not need to be in the South.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Is there a transcript anywhere of Badenoch's speech? I've seen the various reports, but as a glutton for punishment would like to read the whole thing...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

AI continues to be rolled out in ways that confirm it to be the greatest strategic opportunity of our age

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The poisoning of minds through Higher Education, huh? www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Gift link to Keir Starmer's Telegraph article: very important piece, worth reading:

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

I doubt the makers of the new Bridget Jones movie intended Mark Darcy to serve as poignant metaphor for the passing of rules-based international order and dissolution of world that those of us who came of age in 1990s took for granted, but it kind of works on that level.

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

“I want a slice of bread but also I will howl with rage if you start slicing the bread” - my two year old

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Centrist parties keep stepping on the same rakes over and over again. They let the right wing massively inflate a problem, then accept the premise it's an existential threat, then do milquetoast versions of right-wing solutions, then lose elections and Pikachu face.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

UK, largest Member States and EU High Representative agree joint statement on Ukraine

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Since Budapest EPC running into Notre Dame trilateral, Trump's team has been canvassing views and sense in EU was they're more open/sensible on Ukraine than prev thought (24h). US seeing Russia as the problem etc. Hegseth's remarks, the Trump/Putin call and demotion of Kellogg now upending that view

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

What does it mean to no longer be “primary guarantor”? Does it mean US doesn’t think SACEUR should be an American? Does it mean American footprint in Europe will shrink? Or just another way of restating desire for bigger & stronger Euro “pillar” within NATO?

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Just endured every excruciating minute of this. With Trump sitting there, the kid wandering around, Musk gives a crash course in his theory of democracy that would embarrass a semi-literate stoner. These are fools in charge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuT...

submitted 17 days ago • 113 comments

We’ve got our own HE funding crisis in the UK but this is an order apart - even if some great scientists move to Europe it’s a real threat to scientific/economic progress generally. American retreat in every sphere, from global networks only now realising how reliant they are on US participation

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

An important ruling not only for the specifics of this case - but also more generally, as it shows the possibility of private enforcement of the Digital Services Act. So no need to wait for the EU Commission to challenge X, which it seems unwilling to do so far.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"

submitted 22 days ago • 91 comments

"give me the man and I will find the crime" was a Stalinist thing

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments