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Holger Nehring
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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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Wilton Park @wiltonpark.bsky.social · 12h
Thank you to everyone from around the world who has sent us their good wishes as we have kicked-off celebrations for our 80th anniversary. You can share your Wilton Park stories with us here:

🔗 wiltonpark.org.uk/share-your-w...

#WiltonPark80

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h
We're well into the vibe shift from "Germany is too weak because it doesn't spend enough on defence" to "Germany is too strong because it spends so much on defence"

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 1d
Didn't know that 'hostilely' could be used as a word.

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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 1d
The call for papers for the 2026 EWIS workshop on ‘Security Narratives and the Politics of Temporality in International Relations’ is now out!

eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

Please submit your paper abstract by 11 February under: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

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Wilton Park @wiltonpark.bsky.social · 1d
Wilton Park CEO, Tom Cargill, reflects on Wilton Park's history as we celebrate our 80th anniversary, and draws out the lessons from our remarkable story.

#WiltonPark80

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 1d
And in the UK the government itself has been feeding the machine. People do not live by stats, but what they experience. And experiences are often if not always framed by gossip or mass media reporting.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 1d
The problem is that experiences are spread very unevenly. On the street where we live, we had a burglary almost every single week for two months last year - plus a spike in car breakins. Stats overall show a decline in crime. So, if I weren't an academic, I'd be prone to blaming the stats.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d
The Khamenei regime can't use mass murder to bring inflation under control.

If it's unable to quiet public anger through economic prosperity then each cycle of public revolt will become more violent until Iran goes down the path Syria went in 2011.

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 1d
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
Tells you a lot.
cguyver.bsky.social Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 2d
Melvyn Bragg being interviewed about an interview he did.

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Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 2d
Melvyn Bragg being interviewed about an interview he did.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
Sheffield scoring green on condition shows that the standards must be incredibly low. But champagne corks will be popping at Amey.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
This is an excellent background to current discussions about ICE: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
In short: the Trump administration's actions rest significantly on previous practices, with links to questions of labour law/ enforcement, but also trade unions within the enforcement regime.
Enforcement Regime | Michael Macher
Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus, yet its origins lie in a longstanding bipartisan consensus.
www.phenomenalworld.org

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2d
None of this is new. As @drjennings.bsky.social has said the Center for Towns was talking about it a decade ago as was this member of the, then, shadow cabinet. Yet here we are, still refusing to learn and still going round the same issues www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who will help forgotten Britain, the towns and villages on the edge? | Jamie Reed
Jamie Reed: Outside the metropolitan bubbles, austerity is ripping at the community fabric, enabling a toxic political disconnection
www.theguardian.com

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
This
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d
Bluesky posters of a certain age will go “New Labour hadn’t prepared everything either!”, a comparison that ignores that New Labour in opposition had to navigate Shadow Cabinet elections. Starmer Labour just woke up every morning 2022 to 2024 and chose vapidity.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d
Bluesky posters of a certain age will go “New Labour hadn’t prepared everything either!”, a comparison that ignores that New Labour in opposition had to navigate Shadow Cabinet elections. Starmer Labour just woke up every morning 2022 to 2024 and chose vapidity.

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LaindonFeminist: Labour led by Keir for me @viviane49.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 3d
Well done @alanallport.bsky.social
Nice job

Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II
www.nytimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 3d
Big Oil, welcome to the resistance?
"No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country," said one private equity investor who specialises in energy.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 4d
I’m reading The Wind In The Willows to 7yo as his bedtime story. I haven’t read it for years and I had forgotten how intensely beautiful it is, like a prose poem. Rich, dense, atmospheric. A children’s book that absolutely does not talk down to its reader. What an outstanding writer Grahame was.
Cover illustration for “The Wind in the Willows,” by E. H. Shepard; Novel by Kenneth Grahame, 1908. Rat and Mole bow before the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d
A Mercosur-EU shared market is post-American Transatlanticism

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 4d
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d
Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription
www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...
www.inria.fr

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 4d
Fun fact for a pub quiz for EU nerds:

Made the calculation for today's Mercosur vote. It is not only unusual for such a major step to be adopted just above the threshold for an absolute majority. It is also the first case I could find where the old, pre 2014 weighted votes would have produced a No.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 4d
Winter has properly arrived.

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3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 5d
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d
I wonder: was it *always* a problem in British politics that the top layer of our political parties was lousy with people who visibly just think 'me being in charge would make this problem better Just Like That', and we couldn't tell because of the nature of our problems, or is this a new trend?
On Wednesday, Kemi Badenoch, Conservative leader and normally a defender of Trump, also declared that “the sovereignty of Greenland is sacrosanct”. She chided Starmer over his failure to speak to Trump in recent days, despite Downing Street’s hopes of an earlier conversation. “I also note that the prime minister has still not had a call with President Trump,” she said. “That is concerning, four days after the events in Venezuela.”