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Douwe Korff

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Dutch UK-based Emeritus professor of International law. Human and digital rights activist. Data protection expert.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 13h
“The postwar status quo has been turned on its head. Then, financial markets were caged to ensure that governments could pursue domestic economic goals. Now, governments are caged and the markets are free. It is a classic case of the tail wagging the dog.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 13h
A terrifying prospect : “If the AfD is voted into power, one of the most highly advanced economies in the world could experience something similar to what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 16h
I have signed up to the formal complaint filed by @albertoaleman.bsky.social about the failure of the Commission to uphold the Schengen rules and our right to free movement. We cannot stand by idly as the EU is being slowly dismantled
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The reporting on this is idiotic! If there was any hint that these men were real terrorists they would have been kept for questioning for many days and even then not released on bail. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham
PM also defends decision to release suspects on bail and expresses ‘complete confidence’ in security services
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“British and US officials have every interest in trying to hype this incident as an Iranian “terror plot”, whatever the actual evidence suggests. Why? Because the US is waging an illegal war on Iran, and the UK is allowing it to do so from British soil.” jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come to the Dark Side, Luke. @labourlewis.bsky.social
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨🚨Quite a scoop: A #US based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from #Russia has worked on #EU-backed projects and sold its services to European #lawenforcement agencies. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Counter-terror police said they were first aware of three vehicles travelling to the base at 12.45am on Sunday, while a local farmer phoned 999 at 1.36am after the vans blocked the entrance to her drive.” A “rapid response”?? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Questions remain over Iran’s link to alleged RAF Fairford bomb plot
Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour’s Fairford narrative collapses in farce as ‘terrorists’ promptly bailed www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Labour's Fairford narrative collapses in farce as 'terrorists' promptly bailed
Fairford Five bailed. Definitely not something that happens for people arrested for actual terrorism - or sign-holding vicars, either
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Duh!! “Their release on police bail suggests that detectives believe it unlikely they were on the brink of a mass casualty attack by exploding a bomb close to the base.” Serious cock-up? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Five UK nationals arrested at RAF Fairford released on bail
Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign state
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The media cycle has largely lost interest, but the Rhine is still unprecedentedly low. At cologne, usual median low water is 1.14 metres. Previous record low: 69cm in 2018. And now? 40 cm. Catastrophic for shipping, factories, power plants and cruises www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/dutc...
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Dutch river cruise stranded as Rhine falls to new record levels - DutchNews.nl
The river Rhine dropped to a new record low level at the weekend at the Dutch-German border, with no sign of fresh rainfall in the days ahead. The river measured 6.1m at Lobith, the point where it flo...
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My guess: the UK authorities said the attack was stopped by a call from “a local farmer” and “not intelligence-led” because they did not want to reveal that they were on to the plot (to protect source?) - but Trump blew that ruse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US
Five men arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These arrests of peaceful protestors are outrageous! Watch the video to see the scale! Yet this is all the @theguardian.com writes deep down a pro-Milliband article: “Police arrested a number of demonstrators outside the conference hall on Sunday.” www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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IN PICS: hundreds arrested at Palestine protest outside Labour conference
Pensioners arrested for Palestine Action signs while al-Qaeda subsidiary HTS has been de-proscribed and whitewashed by the UK and US
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Re RAF (read: USAF) Fairford: how can the UK authorities say “this was not intelligence based” when Trump says “we have been following these people for weeks”?
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UN AWISA Art 16: 1/2: “A State which aids or assists another State in the commission of an internationally wrongful act by the latter is internationally responsible for doing so if: … share.google/hdELiMC89qUr...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US has successfully negotiated away a requirement that humans review any decisions that AI makes about who to kill in military strikes as part of a UN treaty. The real existential risk from AI is putting a fundamentally unreliable technology at the heart of critical decisions or infrastructure.
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IzTiger321 @iztiger321.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thousands of women have died from preventable diseases, lack of treatment, pregnancy and childbirth complications due to Israeli siege and crimes against healthcare in Gaza. Their deaths remain unrecorded in official tallies of the Israeli genocide's victims, one of many hidden tolls.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Suleiman al-Obeid left behind his wife and five children. He is not the only Palestinian footballer to be killed. Local officials put the death toll of players in the hundreds. Sports facilities and school playgrounds have been destroyed." - Fergal Keane
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Eamonn Noonan @duhallow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
FIFA knows all this, and still allows Israel to compete in its tournaments. #complicit
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“These crimes that you saw are ongoing. They’re ongoing because it’s what our country [Israel] is doing, and because of what your country [USA, UK, etc.] is supporting and funding.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah!! Give Ayuso’s penthouse to Maricarmen! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight
Images of Maricarmen Abascal being forcibly removed from her home sparked protests and a reckoning over the country’s soaring real estate market
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The problem isn’t too much European law. It’s too little of it actually applying uniformly. And that problem has a name: EU directives.” davekeating.substack.com/p/want-to-fi...
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Want to fix EU bureaucracy? Give more power to Brussels
13 EU countries have this week asked for a one-year pause on new EU laws. But if they really want to reduce bureaucracy, they should just ask for a ban on EU directives.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If the Irish team or indeed any players really do refuse to play this match they would be heroes on an international scale
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is important: “while both the far right and “far left” threaten the established parties, only the far right threatens liberal democracy.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Concerns about AI, AI war, or the future of humanity are subsumed into an organizational turf war. Meanwhile, secretly, everyone is eager to siphon off billions and develop secret weapons while the legislators and the bureaucrats are busy fussing with org charts.” open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
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Trump Announces New “AI Force”
Proposed AI military branch is most overlooked story this week
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Israeli law enforcement often seems to be guided purely by political considerations: hyper-present when policing Palestinian political speech, yet completely absent or ineffective when criminal networks erode the social fabric of Palestinian life.” www.972mag.com/wp-content/t...
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes: “When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust.” Disgusting! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“European nations that shunned the Board of Peace when it was announced a year ago are starting to work with it on humanitarian projects in the Gaza Strip.” DON’T! The “Board of Peace” is an Orwellian misnomer and a threat to the UN and the international legal order! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Europe grudgingly, gingerly moves toward Trump’s Board of Peace
The European Commission is working with Trump’s body in Gaza for lack of better options. But the Board of Peace’s concrete results are slim.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nasty and mean! “Someone who has just been recognised as needing protection should have the chance to build a safe and stable life - not face another major financial barrier just as they are trying to find their feet.” What is this country coming to? mailchi.mp/refugeecounc...
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The £10,000 “Refugee Tax”
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“BBW’s 2023 report, Ministry of Truth, exposed secretive government units recording, flagging, and censoring speech by MPs across parties, journalists, human rights campaigners and members of the public swept up in ‘disinformation reports’.” mailchi.mp/bigbrotherwa...
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🕵️This could repeat Covid-era censorship
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Nobody would seriously contemplate cutting what survives of the tapestry in two and displaying half in London and half in Bayeux. Yet that is exactly what happened to the Parthenon sculptures.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Both Greek and British citizens think the sculptures should be returned. What’s needed now is political will and courage, says Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prime minister of Greece
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social on @BBCNews is much too negative about the #UN Stop assisting in its undermining!
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The decision not to report the whole cause to the Inner House, while also declining to dispose of the petition in the Outer House, was plainly wrong in all of the circumstances.” Strength to your legal elbow, @craigmurrayorg.bsky.social ! www.patreon.com/CraigMurray/...
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Palestine Action Scottish Judicial Review | Craig Murray
On Friday we have our appeal against the suspension of the Palestine Action judicial review in Scotland. Our legal crowdfunder has been clos
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Totally convincing - but if the law is not enforced (or even enforceable these days with the UNSC siding with the madman?) the law is meaningless … Ibi remedium ibi ius (& sine remedium non esse ius)
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@craigmokhiber.bsky.social says it as it should be said: 1/3: “Donald Trump’s maniacal rant before the UN General Assembly today, complete with ridiculous braggadocio, narcissistic puffery, an almost unbroken line of absurd, demonstrable lies, open criminality … www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...
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'Do I Drive Them Into Hell?' Trump Again Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran in Genocidal UN Speech | Common Dreams
"Trump doesn’t know how to end the war he started with Iran," said one critic. "He’s so desperate that he’s threatening war crimes in front of the entire United Nations."
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/09/2026
The center-right European People’s Party won’t rule out voting with the far right to deliver its policy agenda, even as Social Democrats and Liberals increase calls for a centrist coalition deal, according to Finnish EPP delegation chief Mika Aaltola.
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Nothing ‘to be ashamed of:’ EU’s center-right clashes with Socialists over far-right votes
“On some issues, I think that they are relatively sane,” says top center-right Finnish lawmaker of far-right parties.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Which “statesman” or “-woman” will stand up and denounce Mad King Trump’s outrageous speech against the international legal order, IHL, the ICC, human rights and anti-genocide law etc.? Stop licking his boots!! @NL @UK @EU
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The world is hurtling toward ‘an extremely dangerous global oligarchy’ whose unprecedented concentration of wealth & political power endangers democratic institutions, the environment, & humanity’s collective future as artificial intelligence rapidly advances.” www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
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In Riverside Church Address, Sanders Warns 'Dangerous Global Oligarchy' Threatens Humanity | Common Dreams
"If there was ever a time in human history, in our country and throughout the world, that we have got to come together and create a world not based on greed but based on justice, based on decency, now...
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Saudi Arabia borders Yemen. Why do they need “air-to-air refuelling of Saudi jets to defend energy infrastructure against the Houthis” next door? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to give support to Saudi jets in attempt to counter Houthi fighters
Andy Burnham seeks stability in Middle East to bring down prices at home as first meeting with Trump looms
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Charles was [is?] a cold-hearted man who cheated from the start of his marriage on a young, beautiful, doting wife he never loved. Spencer’s claim that Charles told him that Diana would ‘soon be forgotten’ fits all too snugly with that.” jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kinderen beschadigen als beleidskeuze. Nederland zakt door de morele ondergrens. (overigens ook juridisch, want deze praktijken zijn onder EU recht onwettig). Met dank aan de @VVD (en het zwijgen van de rest) die zich steeds verder naar rechts laat opjagen. Electorale winst over de rug van kinderen.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@JessicaParker @BBCNews The German Chancellor is called Merz not Murz!
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I want to [re-]awaken the European dream, because I believe the moment calls for France, and for Europe, to take another step in the course of their history.” Hear! Hear!! davekeating.substack.com/p/gabriel-at...
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Gabriel Attal is running as France’s federalist presidential candidate
The nation-states of Europe face a choice: be voting members of a United States of Europe, or be non-voting vassals of the United States of America.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No @EdSheeran ! These children didn’t “loose” their lives as if a natural disaster- they had their lives *taken* from them by a genocidal state with soldiers that deliberately targeted them! (As confirmed by doctors and even by Israeli soldiers) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Ed Sheeran says situation in Gaza ‘unjustifiable’ in first show since tour plunged into turmoil
Pop star has faced boycott calls after rapper Macklemore was removed from tour after shouting ‘free Palestine’ at concert
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Earl Spencer has said the relationship between the press and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ‘echoes’ the way the media treated his sister Diana, Princess of Wales.” Absolutely! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Earl Spencer says media treatment of Harry and Meghan ‘echoes’ Diana’s experience
Comments come after he accused King Charles of gaslighting him in response to claims made in new memoir
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another marvellous article by my most learned friend Jaap Harskamp! One snippet: “Binnen der Stadt van Amstelredamme… zijn alle menschen vrij, ende gene Slaven (“Within the city of Amsterdam, all men are free and there are no slaves”). (1644) www.newyorkalmanack.com/2026/09/rutg...
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Rutgers, Race & The Hardenbergh Legacy - New York Almanack
The New York and New Jersey metropolitan area hosts three colleges that belong to a historic group of nine pre-Revolutionary colonial colleges.
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