having pleasant premonitions of the AfD taking power nationally just as Germany's vastly beefed up military and intelligence-gathering capabilities come on stream
ido
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European cybersecurity editor, Ingeniøren; before that at the BBC and New Statesman.
Really think UK urbanist discourse needs a more sophisticated lens of analysis than complaining about what was genuinely one of the grimmest areas in London becoming, ultimately, significantly more welcoming www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/...
How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken
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In August 2024 Rodri and Álvaro Morata were rightly banned for one match for singing “Gibraltar is Spain”. Now the Argentine players who celebrated with the “Falklands are Argentine” banner must be barred from the final.
Edvard Munch………. roald dahl…………… odin………….. Harald Bluetooth……….. magnus carlssen..... your boys took a hell of a beating!!!!!!!!!!
I hope the Norwegian commentators are working hard on an updated version of this commentary if they win on Saturday www.youtube.com/watch?v=urVj...
Best soccer commentary ever !!
YouTube video by Football.Fussball.Voetbal.
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Love this. As if there hadn't literally been pogroms against non-white people in NI and massive anti-immigrant protests in Ireland. But yeah, guess the 'Celtic nations' will be massively alienated [in contrast to England] by an anti-immigration UK leader. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So funny that Merz's Big Labour Market reform involves such monumental unheavals as.. allowing libraries to open on Sundays
Friday was an all-time temperature high in Germany, a record broken on Saturday, and then beaten today. This reality does feel a little discordant with the political debate, which is almost universally about just how far to retreat from net zero.
Not that I don't trust Mr Banker but I had to check this was true and.... Christ on a bike, the brass neck on this fella share.google/UGToAwIdibgp...
'Red Ed Miliband' as Chancellor would be a disaster for Britain – Kwasi Kwarteng
'Red Ed' is undoubtedly the most fearful of a frightening bunch, the former Chancellor writes
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BrokenBanker@brokenbanker.bsky.social · 3mo agothe punchline here is that this GB News opinion piece headline ... is written by Kwasi Kwarteng. utterly shameless:
I get endless cold-emails selling me something. Was wondering how many of them are human. The answer turns out to be: none. Updated my LinkedIn profile yesterday. 10 monastic messages today, of which this was the best.
It is genuinely insane that days before the SpaceX IPO Elon Musk's attention is on inciting a race war in a country he doesn't live in
It's a day ending in Y, which means it's time to for a national newspaper to print some boomer's opinions on the housing market, and today's a doozy:
Why does a random cycling quango have a veto on building decisions? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Plans for Salford tower blocks put on hold over travel concerns
Concerns are raised about the level of
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Michael O'Leary is so good at PR. Month after month gets mountains of free press. Truly the greatest to ever do it.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 5mo agoDear Mr O’Leary, don’t ban my 6am airport beer
Recently rewatched Chernobyl and came across this documentary. It's quite astonishing how closely the series tracks the archival footage www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXI...
ФИЛЬМ "ЧЕРНОБЫЛЬ. 3828"
YouTube video by Telecon documentary
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Once again thinking of this illustration for a TV report on the first McDonald's to open in the USSR
It’s a hard thing to say but it’s now obvious: Britain has an antisemitism problem. How deep, widespread and violent it is is something I am not expert enough to know. But I’ve been around here long enough to know that Britain now has an antisemitism problem that didn’t exist when I was younger.
I've never been one of those "it's getting too dangerous for Jews to live here" people but this is getting really fucking scary. Not that there's anywhere better to go.
Alona Ferber@aloner.bsky.social · 5mo agoTwo stabbed in knife attack in Golders Green
I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.
Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoZack Polanski says blanket support for everyone for fuel and energy costs, and then claw back through wealth taxes for those who don't need it This is simple, pragmatic and the least bureaucratic way of ensuring everyone who needs support gets it, in the fastest possible way 👏
Quitting these platforms has done me so much good
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 5mo agoThese platforms are now informational junk food.
to paraphrase gandhi. what do I think of social media? I think it would be a good idea
Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 5mo agoSocial media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
