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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vor drei Tagen in der FAZ, seit heute auch online: Mein Artikel zur Skandalisierung des Begriffs „Siedlerkolonialismus“ in Bezug auf Israel, die sich gerade wieder in der Kritik an der Berufung von Maha El Hissy zeigt www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hear me out... the bigger story is the doubling of votes for the Left Party in Berlin, not the entirely predictable rise of the AFD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a really fascinating data-thread for politics nerds

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Man muss auch betonen was für ein schlechtes Ergebnis das ist für die Grünen in Berlin. Möglicherweise das schlechteste Ergebnis seit 20 Jahren. Es zeigt wie stark die Grünen in progressiven Milieus Vertrauen verlieren gerade. Man verspielt die Position die man eigentlich hätte.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Private healthcare in the NHS, July 1952 - from Richard Crossman's diaries. It turns out that a friend of his arranged for his dying wife Zita to be transferred to Westminster Hospital on the understanding that Crossman would pay for private healthcare - which came as a surprise to RC.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

Saudi Arabia could face the biggest threat to its existence ever. With oil exports shuttered and no money coming in, it will be forced to sell treasuries for liquidity which the US will oppose because it will cause yields to spike. Thus, they could be pushed into a balance of payments crisis.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

A lot of people really have no idea what's coming with the energy crisis in the coming months. A lot of the crisis from the start of the war were postponed but those tricks can no longer work. We're about to see the worst energy crisis in 50 years.

Screenshot of an X post by The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) reporting breaking news about Saudi oil exports.
The post reads:
"BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled, due to the East-West pipeline being shut after last week's attacks and Yemen's Houthis taking over the entire Red Sea coast, per three sources to Reuters.
Yanbu had five to seven days of crude stocks left for export when the East-West line went down, per industry sources on Saturday, and cancelling late-September cargoes means Riyadh does not expect the line back before they run out. Europe has been taking Saudi crude through Yanbu because Hormuz has been closed since spring. On top of the pipeline, the Houthis appear to have struck the YASREF refinery at that same port this morning."
The post is dated 10:20 AM · Sep 15, 2026, with 155.9K views.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What this post really crystallised for me is the extent to which the different global conflicts are merging around key chokepoints around the Med, Red Sea, Caspian Sea and Indian Ocean. Global trade has shown remarkable resillience but it gets to the point where there are too many chokepoints.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Total chaos happening is still an underpriced scenario. My worry is: we are continuing with the same policies, yet fundamentally different packaging. That makes it more difficult to spot the problems.

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Stuart Lock @stulock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't think they know what they are announcing, which is the main reason I suspect an early election might be up - because I cannot see them doing any of this without total chaos.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The whole point of the baseline assessment in Year One is precisely to provide a baseline to actually judge 'is this school improving outcomes' versus 'does this school just have a lot of kids who were doing well at aged five and they haven't messed it up by age 11'.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Schöne Rezension und subtiler Verriss der (wohl völlig überschätzten) Ausstellung der Bayeux-St(r)ickerei im Britischen Museum. Man wünscht sich, die Regierung widmete sich mit ähnlichen Ressourcen der Geschichte des Mittelalters. zeitung.faz.net/data/949/rea...

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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A colour block social media card promoting the 2026-27 round of Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The most annoying claim is that the 'protests' about small boats are happening because politicians are 'ignoring' voters. The government has spent an enormous (and arguably disproportionate) amount of time on the issue and made a huge impact. It is the politicians who are being ignored.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am even less optimistic than you are, because I don't think the notion of "deal that fits the UK" has been communicated. In particular the services - movement link.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And in a surprise to no one, Hendrik Wüst begins to take centre stage in German politics in a style that is almost...Burnhamesque

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As with so many responses in the UK towards Farage over the years, the responses to the AfD you get on this site and on more liberal and left-coded spaces of discourse frequently generates a level of panic that engenders the kind of fatalism and paralysis that plays into the Far Right's hands

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Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As the political landscape in Turkey moves increasingly away from political representation towards elite pacts, the media landscape is simultaneously transforming into a series of pillarised platforms for manufacturing consent.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Poole is the centre of the RNLI; an organisation of those who risk their lives to go out and save others from the sea, not for pay, but for duty and civic goodness. The RNLI is one of the very best things that the UK has ever done. Targeting its centre is abominable and seen as such.

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Schatz im Sozialkaufhaus - Buch von 1594 entdeckt „Es schlummerte verborgen in einer Bücherspende für das Sozialkaufhaus in Flörsheim: Der wertvolle Druck eines Rechtsbuchs aus dem Jahr 1594, geschrieben auf Latein. Nun wurde das Buch an die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin übergeben.“

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Wertvolles Buch von 1594 in Sozialkaufhaus aufgetaucht - Rückgabe an Staatsbibliothek in Berlin

Es schlummerte verborgen in einer Bücherspende für das Sozialkaufhaus in Flörsheim: Der wertvolle Druck eines Rechtsbuchs aus dem Jahr 1594, geschrieben auf Latein. Nun wurde das Buch an die Staatsbib...

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 14/09/2025

Today I learned Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA. How did this impact the women's lib movement if one of its leaders was on the payroll of the patriarchy? uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/feminis...

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The Feminist Was a Spy

Steinem was an energetic global representative.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem, one of the leaders of second-wave feminism and a feminist thought leader for generations, has died at the age of 92.

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Gloria Steinem, who pushed for gender equality, dies at 92

Steinem was the founder of Ms. Magazine and a tireless champion for the feminist movement.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sad news - the German-American historian Konrad Jarausch has died aged 85 while swimming. RIP.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At the beach, just after a torrential rain shower. I suspect it was a saintly presence that let us off rather lightly...

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Key point in this: if estimated GDP reduction of 6-8% didn't cause UK to immediately reverse Brexit, hard to see why Canada would bow down to US over an increase in Canada’s average US tariff of 1.9% and permanent reduction of GDP of 0.2%.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Loads of bats chasing insects in the garden tonight. Amazing.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 27/08/2026

Here's an Iran War consequence I hadn't thought of, at all: Invasive species clinging to idling oil tankers.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New poll from Deltapoll: Lab 30% (+1) Reform 27% (=) Con 20% (-1) Green 8% (=) Lib Dem 8% (=) Fieldwork: 21st - 24th August 2026 Sample: 2,022 GB Adults First time Lab have been at 30% since Jan 2025.

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes, councils built 130,000 houses pa in the 70s, but they had their own construction workforce, architects, planners, lawyers etc. Thatcher destroyed all of this and it has never been replenished.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'We put a higher bar on buying alcohol than we do on money laundering via the post office.' 👀

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In general, the UK needs a complete rethink about how it handles EU ties, away from fantasy politics / "special deals" towards an acceptance that Brussels is a crucial part of cross-government delivery whatever our relationship. Of which there is so far little sign. ecipe.org/insights/new...

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What a New Prime Minister Means for UK Trade Policy – ECIPE

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If the Norwegians hadn't lost against Sumarliði's plot, this could now be Norway.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two Alsatians on the roof of The Windmill pub in Kirkby, Merseyside, 1985, photo by Magnum photographer Peter Marlow.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Mein alter Lateinlehrer Wilhelm Englert ist vor ein paar Tagen gestorben. Er war ein guter Mann. RIP.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'Without intervention, 16 of Sheffield’s cemeteries will run out of space in the next few years. There will be nowhere for Sheffield residents to be laid to rest between 2031 and 2033, and Muslim burial plots could be depleted by as early as 2027 or 2028 if no further action is taken'(Sheff Tribune)

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

An aspect of Manchester’s history that is often overlooked. The only black person to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, for his work on economic development, was Sir Arthur Lewis who for many years was a Professor at Manchester University.

The city provided a platform for the astonishing group of Black leaders who gathered for the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Chorlton, a key moment in the struggle against British imperialism. It was a political education in Manchester that helped to provide Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana with the tools for decolonisation.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

[Especially because he gave in to pressure not to do something similar when he was GM mayor]

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good. Eleven fire crews 🤦

Police have arrested two boys aged 12 and 13 after a 'large' fire at a Staffordshire beauty spot. It comes as eleven fire engines had been scrambled to Hednesford Hills yesterday afternoon (August 16).

The alarm had been raised at 1.15pm. A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: "Officers attended the scene alongside colleagues from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.

"The fire was extinguished by eleven fire crews and thankfully nobody was reported injured."

Subsequently the boys, both from Cannock, were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. A spokesperson added: "They remain in custody today."

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is something strangely pleasing about the idea of Britain's TikTok PM being duped by an online trickster...

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Kasper Junge Wester @veterandrusianer.dk · 14/08/2026

Mig meget snart, når min vaskemaskine igen lyver om, hvornår den er færdig.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is very moving to me, though I was unfamiliar with her before today. We're of the same generation of NYers but effectively grew up in different cities due to the disparities between us in socio-economic capital and opportunities. I have such profound respect for what she accomplished.

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Johanna Fernández, Historian of the Young Lords, Dies at 55 (Gift Article)

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

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