Even if it isn't...

Not even sure why they bothered with this post.

Nothing to see here...

Interesting story. The vetting officials come out of it well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... yes, but ... if we were market stall holders.. you said we could only sell apples for 50p. and it didn't matter how much inflation was, 50p was the price. but you also said we could sell peaches for as much as we like, because the price of apples was.. 1.

I read this last night, and thought about it on the commute. The real damage has been done over 20 years. Starmer has been hemmed in by pre-chosen financial constraints established to ward off a critique by conservative press outlets during the election: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They probably don't need this kind of help...

Readers of Striking 13 have had a year's head start on the govt's plans to use statutory instruments to secure dynamic alignment with Europe. The newsletter acts like an editorial vehicle for me to call people a cunt, but sometimes I accidentally put news in it open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Rising fuel prices weigh on UK consumers, surveys show reut.rs/4ejCnz5

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Disquieting: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Never allow an election before first deciding the result.

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4D chess. Blockade the already blockaded Straight of Hormuz. Master strategy. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It was quite curious.

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10 countries possess nuclear weapons. 3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides. A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system. A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations. 2 others often threaten war on each other

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.

The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.

Hall of fame FT correction

 www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-de... The removal of the student number cap is where the pressure began to form on many HEIs. Then as PGTi numbers also came under pressure from government hostility to mobility / migration

The avoiding WW3 memo hasn't made it to all parts of the international political community.

This will be difficult to impossible to deliver. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Last week, Farage was demanding a ban on "mass religious observances" in public spaces and described Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square as "provocative" and an attempt to "intimidate and dominate" UK society. This week, he's defending the "free speech" of a multimillionaire who celebrates Hitler.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s newest A.I. tool, “falls into the hands of bad actors, they could hack pretty much every major software system in the world,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes.

World exhales — a little — as US, Iran agree to ceasefire

Goodness.

Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

* U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO APPROVE BAHRAINI RESOLUTION ON PROTECTING SHIPPING IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ * CHINA VETOES BAHRAINI U.N. RESOLUTION ON ENCOURAGING PROTECTION OF SHIPPING IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ @reuters.com

I don't see the Iranian regime as one which blinks. To paraphrase Khrushchev, they're both pulling on the end of ropes and the knot is getting tighter...

The problem for the jnr doctors is that they've lost the public sympathy: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

And these are the people who can't communicate? The video is legitimately rage bait, as the youth would say.

Uncommunicative counterparties are a pain. But I'm not clear if he's saying they're mute. Or dead.

Fascinating article. One thing it doesn't mention: the HIIA (the Hungarian govt think tank Pappin heads) is next door to the Russian trade delegation building. When I was at an event there last year, people were waving to the Russians across the courtyard and thanking them for them listening in.

In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of: -CMU -VCU -Cornell -Northwestern -Georgetown -Texas A&M -NYU -American U -U of New Haven Very scary

I can't find a nuclear market on polymarket. Because I'd be putting money on it.

Reassuring

Quite a lot of sensible alignment on here tbh: polymarket.com/event/strait...

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I know we've all seen it already. But I honestly think this is the defining moment of our time. Past generations couldn't have believed it would happen. Future generations won't believe it could have happened. But here we are, bang in the moment. Lucky, lucky us.

WW3 is still going badly

I hope this is misplaced

That would be very casual...

I think it was fine. Escalate to de-escalate. Totally rational. Other views are potentially available. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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'The head of a Nigerian academic union has spoken out against British universities opening campuses...while Nigerians are being denied visas to study in the UK. This comes after Coventry University confirmed...it is in talks to establish a presence in Lagos.' Who could have predicted that? 1/3

Who's going to tell Mark the US already has bilateral intelligence sharing with Israel, Poland, Ukraine, UAE, Japan, ROK? Five Eyes gives the US so much more, and safeguards US lives.

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So, half the global population (women), nothing political (so everything) and nothing socio-economic (so, er, everything). Literally taken, 'quite restrictive'.

Not April fool's...