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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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MK🌈 @leftypawprints.bsky.social · 9h

My undergraduate degree was in English. I had the chance to study English literature from all over the world, and it gave me so many skills and experiences that I still draw on in my teaching career.

I think Badenoch doesn’t like “Britian.”

#protectEnglish
#culture
#promosky
#britian

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 1d

Two years on from the 7 October attacks, the pain endures.

Release the hostages. Protect civilians. End the fighting. Let us deliver aid at scale.

There is a glimmer of hope for change. We must take it.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing."
Nigel Farage
"[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts."
Boris Johnson
"Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary
[surplus."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
"Milei is the template."
Kemi Badenoch
"Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer."
Richard Tice

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 2d

If you just give up on the things you believe in, if you assume your vision of disaster is inevitable, you might be right.

But this is a little irresponsible isn’t it?

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 3d

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 3d

The Russian drones operations reveal two things that Europeans seem unable to admit to themselves. The first is that they are unwilling/incapable of stopping these operations and seem helpless to keep them from multiplying. The second is that the US government doesnt care and will not help Europe.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 4d

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 4d

New book on the history of intelligence and international relations.

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L'essor du renseignement moderne. une histoire mondiale de... - Librairie Eyrolles

Recrutements d’espions à l’étranger, campagnes de désinformation sur les réseaux, exécutions extrajudiciaires, agences techniques procédant à des écoutes dans le monde entier : les déclinaisons du...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 7d

Hello All, Just released this piece on what might be happening in White House perceptions and intelligence about Russia and Ukraine. I've been talking to people who know more than I, and one senior Republican said “He (Trump) is like a spurned lover at the moment.” open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

What The White House Seems To Be Hearing About Russian Power

Plus: Does Trump Have Hurt Feelings?

open.substack.com

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 8d

The fact is that practising something over and again until when does it almost without thinking is an important ingredient ingredient in the construction of an effective jumpshot. Combining it with CLA is arguably the best of both worlds.

Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 8d

I think that one doesn’t have to agree that there is no such thing as muscle memory in order to derive huge benefits from a Constraints Led Approach (CLA). I have never understood the almost religious insistence that muscle memory does not exist.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 8d

But I have never been entirely persuaded that there is no such thing as “muscle memory”. It all comes down to how one defines muscle memory. Much of the research upon which this argument is based defines muscle memory so narrowly that becomes almost an impossibility.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 8d

This to me is one of the most interesting debates in Basketball. I have known one of the high priests of CLA, Alex Sarama, for years. I’ve learned a truly enormous amount from him.

What is ‘the CLA?’ Inside the revolutionary coaching method quietly fueling the world’s best athletes

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 12d

Oh dear lord. This is quite incredible stupidity from a national figure in Ireland.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13d

Catherine Connolly compares German arms build-up with 1930s

‘I don’t wish to depress you. There is hope,’ presidential candidate tells UCD event

www.irishtimes.com

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 16d

But then you will have to confront politics. That is the real source of potential instability in the future. Lots of aggrieved unemployed people.

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The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social · 18d

Do you work in military intelligence or a related topic? This call for papers may be right up your alley:
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Call for Papers: Third Annual Military History Consortium Conference, 2026 | H-Net

The Military History Consortium (MHC) will be holding its third annual conference on 3-5 June 2026 at Sciences Po Aix in Aix-en-Provence, France. The keynote lecture will be given by Professor Guillau...

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 18d

Such an interesting and thought provoking essay

www.ft.com/content/9b07...

A lot of learning is a dangerous thing

How university expansion split western societies

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 19d

Err … this is not true.

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 19d

Sorry what? I do not understand …

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 20d

Political Strategy 101 for our times.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27d

Counting down to Brexit advocates saying these car production figures are actually a triumph smmtweb.lon1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/u...

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 27d

A useful reminder that the often-expressed view that Tony Blair is Satan and Corbyn is a popular man of the people doesn't even hold true among 2024 Labour voters, never mind the population at large.

Corbyn only very slightly more popular than Starmer, and both a long way behind Blair and Brown.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 27d

Just 17% of Britons describe Jeremy Corbyn as having been a good or great Labour leader, though only 11% do so of Keir Starmer

Tony Blair: 33% say great or good leader (0 net)
Gordon Brown: 22% (-8)
Jeremy Corbyn: 17% (-40)
Keir Starmer: 11% (-49)
Ed Miliband: 8% (-40)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · 27d

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STV Player | Scotland Tonight Wed 10 Sep, 11.10 pm

Current affairs show tackling issues behind the headlines from a Scottish perspective

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Peter Jackson @pjdelacour.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Remembering Canadian Hockey Icon Ken Dryden

YouTube video by TSN

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