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Holger Nehring
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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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netzpolitik.org
netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 1d
Der Konzern #Palantir geht gegen das Schweizer Magazin „Republik“ vor. Das hatte in Recherchen nachgezeichnet, warum die Systeme des Unternehmens problematisch für Staaten und deren Souveränität sind. Das Magazin will sich von der Klage nicht einschüchtern lassen.

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David gegen Goliath: Überwachungskonzern Palantir verklagt die „Republik“
Der Großkonzern Palantir geht presserechtlich gegen das Schweizer Magazin
netzpolitik.org

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d
What is effective about this Burnham statement is it reads like something that he is personally invested in and is not worried about criticism for. More of this please.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 2d
if you’re prime minister, it is kind of astonishing to say your legacy will be winning the election. that’s the job interview mate

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
Says a person who is resident in Monaco.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2d
Useful from some Bundesbank researchers.

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Volker Perthes @perthes.bsky.social · 2d
Unfortunately, the likelihood of the war in Sudan ending soon is low. But there could be an opening for a temporary ceasefire.

www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/how-wa...
How the War in Sudan Could End
As the battlefield stabilizes, a window for negotiations opens.
www.foreignaffairs.com

Reposted by Holger Nehring, François Heisbourg

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 2d
‚Ukraine has begun planning presidential elections alongside a referendum on any peace deal with Russia, after the Trump administration pressed Kyiv to hold both votes by May 15 or risk losing proposed US security guarantees.‘ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Zelenskyy planning elections in Ukraine and vote on peace deal
Trump administration has pressured Ukrainian leader to hold both votes by May 15 or risk losing security guarantees
giftarticle.ft.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Holger Nehring, Jill Rutter , and 1 more

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d
If everyone apart from the person who appointed them all leaves then that will sort it.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4d
If McSweeney has provided poor political advice, Reeves has provided equally poor economic advice.

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 4d
macdonnchada.substack.com/p/what-is-to...

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 4d
The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
Cultural and Social History
Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History
www.tandfonline.com

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 4d
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 6d
Agree with the sentiment. But it's a mystery to me why people didn't see the risks. Perhaps too many still believe in magic.

The student loan system — and its danger for Keir Starmer and Labour - www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
The student loan system — and its danger for Keir Starmer and Labour
Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster
www.ft.com

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 7d
Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law.
Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.
magdalenoxford.bsky.social Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 7d
Magdalen launches Sir Guenter Treitel Scholarships.

Each year, three Sir Guenter Treitel Scholars will be provided with full funding (fees and maintenance) to study the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Magdalen College.

Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale...

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 7d
Magdalen launches Sir Guenter Treitel Scholarships.

Each year, three Sir Guenter Treitel Scholars will be provided with full funding (fees and maintenance) to study the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Magdalen College.

Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d
On the Labour side, there’s a lot of “the public are not able to face up to Hard Choices” - you never gave them the chance to! You instead presented a manifesto that was either an act of self-deception or just of regular deception!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 7d
In retrospect outsourcing a governing party's strategic thinking to the apprentices of a Dark Lord is a terrible idea

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 8d
What if the main story is not sex, but money?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8d
this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 8d
Very much so. There was never anything more to the "Starmer project" than competence and probity and he's not proved particularly competent either.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Holger Nehring

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d
The Mandelson saga is doubly bad for Starmer & co. First because it goes against their supposed brand of probity. Second because it fits their actual brand of not listening to concerns from their colleagues and majoring on ideas that only make sense in transactional terms or getting through the week
duncanrobinson.bsky.social Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 8d
What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?

Reposted by Steve Peers, Alison Phipps, Holger Nehring

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8d
Morning.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 8d
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 9d
Wasn't Sue Gray supposed to be the source of all of the PM's problems?

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 9d
Essen, Zeche Zollverein
4. Februar 2026

#UNESCO-Welterbe
www.zollverein.de

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oldtrotter.bsky.social
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9d
Gets worse and worse
A very Labour weakness When Keir Starmer first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister, appointing Peter Mandelson ambassador to Washington wasn't part of the plan. Sue Gray, Starmer's then chief of staff, had compiled a shortlist of two for that crucial diplomatic role, and Mandelson -despite media reports linking his name to the role - was not on it. "Keir doesn't even like him, and never really has," one Labour insider now insists. "He's not Keir's sort of person." True or not, the shortlist Gray had drawn up contained the existing post-holder, Karen Pierce, and an intriguing potential political appointment: David Miliband. And yet, five months later, the man Starmer apparently never liked got the job. How that happened - and what changed in the intervening months - is now a question whose answer may determine whether Starmer survives as Prime Minister...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d
Looking forward to the standard mealy mouthed response from Jacqui Smith about this.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10d
‘While much of the Western media debates 'desirable' versus ‘realistic' peace scenarios, for Ukrainians… the latter often represents a distortion of the very concept of peace.’ Our new paper by Daryna Dvornichenko and @holgernehring.bsky.social
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
스 The British Academy CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Global DisOrder international policy programme The social foundations for peace: violence, peace, and (dis)order in Ukraine Daryna Dvornichenko, University of Oxford and Holger Nehring, University of Stirling