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February 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
1/ Why Germany may be more exposed than the Baltics
Russia’s pressure on Europe is shifting. Analysts argue Germany is now a primary target for hybrid warfare: sabotage, espionage, disinformation, and political coercion aimed at the EU’s core, not its edges.
balticsentinel.eu/8404879/mosc...
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Only Part of the Great Power Struggle
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 11:03 AM
It's become fashionable on the radical right to talk up the prospects of civil war in Britain today.

This is what that looks like in practice. ⬇️
Today, on @ppfideas.bsky.social, we're exploring the Home Rule crisis of 1912-14: the closest modern Britain has come to civil war.

It's an amazing story, in which Conservatives supplied weapons to paramilitaries, built refugee camps and fomented mutiny in the army.

So here's a short intro...🧵
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 AM
January 4, 2026 at 6:25 AM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall
Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
New analysis of the major qualitative differences between natural and artificial intelligence (via LLMs).

LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...
Opinion | Trump Picked This Fight With Maduro. He Can’t Back Down.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Navy strikes against the boats so far. From Newsweek
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Be the ancestor you wish you had if you lived in 2100.
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM