Very good piece from @lucyfisher.ft.com It gets to the heart of both the economic and security implications of access to frontier models. This is about national dependence on unreliable ‘partners’, and why it is a huge risk for the UK. www.ft.com/content/418e...

UK examines economic hit from loss of access to frontier AI models

Urgent assessment comes after Donald Trump blocked foreign national access to Anthropic’s Fable 5

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Great game. Great performance. And really good to be there with my two boys. Come on @bradfordcity.bsky.social!

I’d like us all to get along but if I have to join the Rebel Alliance to fight for freedom…. www.ft.com/content/a44e...

Smile, you’re on camera: when the boss wants to read your mood

Patent records show how many companies are interested in trying to record how people feel

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I’d like us all to get along but if I have to join the Rebel Alliance to fight for freedom…. www.ft.com/content/a44e...

Smile, you’re on camera: when the boss wants to read your mood

Patent records show how many companies are interested in trying to record how people feel

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“Initial evidence suggests aerial drone, found near Ukrainian cargo planes at German airport, came from Russia.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe

Initial evidence suggests aerial drone, found near Ukrainian cargo planes at German airport, came from Russia

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“Initial evidence suggests aerial drone, found near Ukrainian cargo planes at German airport, came from Russia.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe

Initial evidence suggests aerial drone, found near Ukrainian cargo planes at German airport, came from Russia

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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Vladimir Putin. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.

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Wildfires, anyone?

Ukrainian monitoring channels are warning of a massive Russian shelling tonight, and Kyiv residents are already heading to the subway.

Recorded this conversation with @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social last year and just took a look back over it. I stand by pretty much every word. youtube.com/watch?v=MWTI...

Europe Doesn't Need America | Ian Kearns

YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay

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Recorded this conversation with @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social last year and just took a look back over it. I stand by pretty much every word. youtube.com/watch?v=MWTI...

Europe Doesn't Need America | Ian Kearns

YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay

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Awaiting the details, but there is no scenario in which Saudi enrichment of uranium is a good idea. And if the deal is allowing it without strict IAEA safeguards, the Trump administration is effectively abandoning commitment to the norms of the non-proliferation regime. news.sky.com/story/us-sig...

US signs nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia

The US energy department said the "peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement" would help establish "a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership".

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Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for civilian reactors, US official says https://cnn.it/4ywLBzI

Important day. Will the Europeans rise to the level if events, or show themselves incapable of knowing the difference between politics as usual and historically pivotal events? #ukraine #eusanctions #russia giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The EU needs to hold together on Russia sanctions

The EU needs to hold together on Russia sanctions

Cost of trying to protect domestic interests may be to embolden Moscow

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If you want to get close to what the war in #Ukraine is really like, worth listening to this fascinating conversation between @shashj.bsky.social and Jack Watling of @rusi.bsky.social War in Ukraine: has the tide really turned? www.economist.com/insider/insi...

War in Ukraine: has the tide really turned? | The Economist Insider

The war in Ukraine is in flux. The country's deep strikes inside Russia have drawn a lot of attention. But Ukraine is also improving recruitment while pioneering new tactics that could eventually brea...

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BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has chosen Mykhailo Drapatyi to be commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces and dismissed controversial general and close ally Oleksandr Syrsky in the biggest shake-up of the country’s military leadership since 2024. @financialtimes.com

A lot of BS talked about importance of Streeting not having military experience. We have a civilian led military, and this is a political job. Streeting is a good communicator and worker of the Whitehall machine. Some in defence don’t know what’s in their own interests. news.sky.com/story/russia...

New defence secretary Wes Streeting hits out at Russia after live-fire exercise 40 miles off UK coast

The Neustrashimy has been escorting Russian 'shadow fleet' oil tankers through the English Channel and was seen in the North Sea earlier this month. This latest drill in international waters lasted fo...

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I cannot agree with the recommendation of a European force going into #Ukraine before a ceasefire here. It would not be a serious fighting force, would become a target for Russian attack without any real capacity to fight back, and would not miraculously increase…. economist.com/by-invitatio...

Would Europeans fight, if it came to that?

Putting boots on the ground would not help Ukraine, but it might help Europe find the stomach for war, writes Nathalie Tocci

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This is obviously appalling. But the costs of imposing sanctions need to be borne equally by all members collectively. A costs lie where they fall approach will always be exposed to this. www.ft.com/content/fe52... Athens blocks new EU sanctions on Russia to shield Greek shipping company

I cannot agree with the recommendation of a European force going into #Ukraine before a ceasefire here. It would not be a serious fighting force, would become a target for Russian attack without any real capacity to fight back, and would not miraculously increase…. economist.com/by-invitatio...

Would Europeans fight, if it came to that?

Putting boots on the ground would not help Ukraine, but it might help Europe find the stomach for war, writes Nathalie Tocci

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Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick land some big, important points here. On current trajectory, Europe is in serious peril. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/e...

Top-economists warn„China and the US will eat up Europe piece by piece“

If Europe doesn't achieve technological autonomy, it will become economic prey to superpowers, Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick predict. But the decline of German industry can be stopped.

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There can’t be any serious security analyst out there who thinks what #Trump says on any given day is an indication of what he would actually do in any given situation. It’s meaningless, as is his signing off on the language in the #NATO communique. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sabre-rattling to ‘tremendous love’: erratic Trump dominates final hours of Nato summit

Alliance leaders, who had feared the worst, will hail US president’s renewed support for article 5 as key victory

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Graphic account of the atmosphere in parts of #Russia here, as the authorities engage in sweeps to put more men at the front. Noticeably fewer men on the streets….One man says he’s moving to the countryside because “Going to the office will become suicide.” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Russians are growing anxious and angry

The war has come home and is everyone’s problem

economist.com

As the effort to paper over #NATO cracks continues today, Martin Wolf reminds that the alliance exists to defend values, not just territory. Those values are in peril, threatened by leaders like Trump and Erdogan. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The battle for the future of democratic republics

The battle for the future of democratic republics

Celebrations in the US for its 250th anniversary are in part a wake

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If Trump did this, implying the closure of all those bases and airfields in Europe, what would that do to US global force projection capability? www.ft.com/content/a23f...

Trump threatens to remove all US troops from Europe

US president revives calls for his country to take over Greenland

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Such a deeply atmospheric song. It seems somehow, and beautifully, to capture the full tragedy of Munich. open.spotify.com/track/5JgERn...

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Isobel Waller-Bridge, Tara Nome Doyle · Munich - The Edge of War (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) · Song · 2022

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It has been a long, tough night for Ukraine. More Patriot missiles would help. www.ft.com/content/f859...

Russia unleashes huge missile and drone attacks on Kyiv

Bombardment follows Zelenskyy’s warning that Moscow is preparing ‘massive strike’

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Five Eyes statement here, warning that the “AI threat wave is months, not years away. “AI is not a future consideration – it is already here.” www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Story-telling is the most powerful force on earth. Which is why this piece about divorce myths built around Iran on one side and Greenland on the other matters so much. www.ft.com/content/4a9b...

Back-stabbing myths are driving the US and Europe further apart

Competing narratives of abandonment — from Iran to Greenland — could lead to Nato’s permanent unravelling

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It didn’t take long. We’re back to @fromtga.bsky.social’s question. A German Europe or a European Germany? www.ft.com/content/dc32... The new German military question

The new German military question

France and other countries in Europe fear that Berlin is planning to go it alone

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