Und jetzt: die Gesetze aus den 90er Jahren (!) abschaffen, dank derer Facebook usw alle Verantwortung verneinen dürfen, für das, was auf ihren Sites - zu ihren finanziellen Gunsten - von anderen publiziert wird.

historic moment with potentially enormous ramifications: Meta and Google found liable in landmark legal case that social media platforms are designed to be addictive to children, opening up the tech giants to penalties in thousands of similar claims filed around the US www.ft.com/content/d3d8...

Irish media: Hey, look, we love this new book about #Ireland by a best -selling British historian. Straight in at #1 in the Irish Times! UK media: What book? Oh, you mean the one that’s in the UK Times top 10 even though none of us have ever mentioned it?

Der deutsche Osten hat mit dem übrigen Osten Europas nichts gemeinsam, weil er eben deutsch ist, will sagen, koloniales Gebiet, wo koloniales Denken über Jahrhunderte gewachsen ist. Otto Kampf‘s Magdeburger Bilder von 1906 zeigen, wie lebendig dieses Gefühl noch im 20. Jahrhundert war

Not for nothing is the cry of all populist rabble-rousers “First we kill all the lawyers!”

English historians seem conveniently to forget that William III‘s Dutch Blue Guards occupied London for years to ensure regime change - and that an Irish army achieved that in 1459

How Roger Casement and his hunter finally met - and we still live with the consequences

Well, there’s still nothing whatever in any of the UK papers but who cares when you get this in the @irishtimes.com

Regular GB News correspondent Lucy White.

Rewilding on a massive scale is required across Europe, including Ireland, to protect our countryside, protect communities and minimise both fire risk and fire impact.

‘Solar power is reshaping economies, industrial systems and geopolitics, largely under the radar of mainstream debate. We are living through an energy transition that, for once, feels exponential rather than incremental.’ @hannahdaly.ie www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Man when a cyclist = cyclist. Man when driver = man. Don't ever tell me the media does not dehumanise people who cycle. And it's your job not to follow press releases word-for-word, so don't bother using that as an excuse. It only took a quick email to confirm it was the driver who was arrested.

'This is a terrific book. A great follow up to James’s best-selling histories of Germany and England and perfect for someone like me who was woefully ignorant of Ireland’s story' - CHARLIE HIGSON @charliehigson.bsky.social @jameshawes.bsky.social @unseenhistories.com

Children rounded up, put on trains, and transported halfway across a continent to be murdered in specially-constructed facilities. This is unique in history. Please do not use the word #Holocaust in other contexts. There are colonisations, conquests, and massacres - but only one Holocaust.

It seems to me that some good is coming from the awful Nick Timothy’s pathetic tweet. Not only has Starmer (at last!) stood up for tolerance and diversity, but he has done so (I suspect) in the full knowledge that only the baseist of the Reform base would stand on the other side.

Please could you spread this? We are getting ZERO COVERAGE IN UK despite going straight in at #1 in the Irish Times (and indeed, #7 in The Times). In Social Media we must, it seems, trust! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

This war is going so bad Trump is gonna have to release the complete Epstein Files to distract from Iran.

As I told @holyroodsources.bsky.social in our fun debate last year, this is the way to go for the SNP: get back to what it says on the tin. Tactical anti-Reform voting is going to be huge for them. Time to catch the wave.

After a brief foray to that there London, normal service will now resume. Ah just look at that timber frame. ❤️

Well, what do you expect as a woke leftist hippie scholar working at (checks bio) the American Enterprise Institute and serving as (looks again) the Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress?

Today’s @independent.ie Do I wake or dream?!

Good morning

Seems like a bad idea to only have one branch of government and the guy in charge gets to do whatever he wants

AI, please provide an example where a nation has been defeated by air power and special forces alone.

Crikey!

We need a legal/cultural shift like the one around dog-droppings. 25 years ago, it was normal to let your dog crap anywhere. Only busybodies complained. With tough laws and changing attitudes, only sociopaths do this today. That’s the way we should look at Range Rovers etc in towns.

Time to price them off the roads everywhere, by all means possible. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Thank you for coming, and for saying you liked it

Thank you for getting it and delighted you like it. Fascinated to know what this other history is. Have taken liberty of quote-tweeting your kind words!

Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

I am very glad they didn’t

With appropriate deference to @jameshawes.bsky.social “Britishness” is an imperial identity created before Empire to legitimate colonialism. Hard to be less progressive than that. Englishness is obviously up for grabs, hence all that “ethnic” bollocks.

This has interesting parallels with the massive fights in the early 1860s Prussian parliament: liberals then wanted (and we should propose now) a short-service militia, electing its own officers, with no sign of the infamous Prussian “corpse-like obedience”.

Next time you wonder how it is that UK roads, hospitals schools, railways etc appear so utterly crap compared to France, Germany etc, yet the UK is full of idiots in SUVs throwing money at skiing holidays, remember this simple fact, as described by ChatGPT:

Verglichen mit der Bundestagswahl '25 ist es sogar leicht weniger.

„Wir sind hier in Deutschland. Ich rede gerade, bitte Maul halten.“ Hätte Cem Özdemir das als Wahlkampfslogan verwendet, hätte er bestimmt noch mehr Stimmen geholt.

Just remarkable how easy it is to build a career as a thought leader on the right if you're capable of speaking in full sentences while smirking.

In den letzten zehn Jahren (Abschied Merkel, COVID, Ukraine-Krieg, Wärmepumpe, Trump+Musk) hat die CDU in B-W volle 0,4% eingebüßt, während die AfD knapp 3,7% gepunktet hat. Ende.

Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel. And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

Natürlich gibt es AfD-Wähler auch im Westen. In keinem westlichen Staat aber hat die AfD auch die geringste Aussicht, je in die Regierung einzutreten. Das ist und bleibt der große Unterschied.

D.h., ihr Ergebnis 2021 Verglichen aber mit dem Ergebnis 2016 ist die AfD nur um 3.7 % gestiegen.

Nice of Trump to provide more material for Democratic campaign ads in Hispanic districts

I awake with a slight hangover after the Dublin launch yesterday to find…

Never mind congestion charging, the cheapest, most effective means of curbing car traffic and improving the quality of towns and cities is to remove parking.

History in the age of ai: "F*ck it, we're just gonna make it all up from now on."

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"