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Germany’s potential coalition parties hope to establish two funds worth up to 900 billion euros—400 billion for defence and 400-500 billion for infrastructure, Reuters reports.

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What a marvellously inspirational and uplifting piece. www.thetimes.com/article/0bcc...

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Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

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Honestly, one thing that seems to bind senior members of the Trump administration is their weird and somewhat disturbing relationship with women. Getting dumped when you were 19 and never getting over it should not influence US security policy. Just an opinion.

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Amazing how even pond life has grown a conscience

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Loving Vermont at the moment

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quote of the day www.ft.com/content/4221...

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This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

In addition to which I feel compelled to post the late Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s contribution, who felt very strongly that a true sandwich should NOT be cut into triangles . youtu.be/SPB6LTWThH4

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Rob on magnificent form here

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open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

excited to learn Fat Thursday is this week! A Polish tradition we should definitely adopt. You eat loads of donuts. That's it, as far as I can tell. That's the tradition.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

This does rapidly minimise the space for any UK bridgebuilding exercises with the US from tomorrow. Will be interesting how this now further evolves.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

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This is diabolical. No wonder people are quitting medicine in droves.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone else experiencing problems searching for stuff on Bluesky ? Even when I search for something like trump (in quotes or hashtag) it always yields no results, which is the main reason why I’ve not really engaged on here! any advice welcome

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... Absolutely essential piece on why journalism is broken just when we need it most and what we can do to fix it. Please read - or you could click on a story about a man with three nipples. Your choice…

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments