I øvrigt er Ukraine i gang med at skubbe Rusland lidt tilbage mod syd langs Dnipro-floden i Zaporizjzja-regionen. Det er bl.a. den Kreml-tro krigsblogger Jurij Podoljaka, der fortæller om det. Når han melder om russiske tilbageslag, plejer det at være rigtigt.

Great and sobering.piece on what AI might mean for universities by @rorytruex.bsky.social rorytruex.substack.com/p/will-ai-br...

Kevin O’Rourke: «No puedes llamar populista a alguien porque critique a las élites». Entrevista de Miguel Ors. theobjective.com/economia/202...

Good article by @alanbeattie.bsky.social . Part of the problem is presumably that EU leaders regard themselves as coming from very small, open, and vulnerable economies, ignoring the fact that the EU is a very large and closed economy well able to give as good as it gets. www.ft.com/content/ac10...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke urges European lawmakers not to ratify an odious trade agreement with the Trump administration.

I have something over at Project Syndicate about the forthcoming vote on the Turnberry deal: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

Glad to share this open-access article, based on the Tawney Lecture that I had the honour to deliver in 2025 Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know - The Economic History Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

@ec.europa.eu proposing to nearly double EU financial envelope for Greenland in its next budget cycle, from €225 million to €530 million ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

economics prof on the other site absolutely telling on himself oh my god people just copy citations they've not read to look credible? citations are absolutely central the to the whole purpose of scholarship, which is informed and critical conversation with others

US to cut troops in Europe to lowest level since before Ukraine invasion ft.trib.al/gC0mih4

Google becomes the New Coke of the 21st century

But the EU is not honouring its legal commitments to its other WTO partners not to discriminate against them. That was a deal and the EU is not honouring its. So much for its claim to stand for the rule of law. So much for the solidarity of middle powers. MEPs can still do the right thing in June.

The MEPs seeking to add aluminum to the sanctions list are entirely in the right and the Taoiseach's reported comments are disgraceful. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

'The analysis...suggests that the prevalence of hallucinated citations depends on the area of research. SSRN, a preprint server for social sciences research, had the highest rate of hallucinated citations at nearly 2%, almost five times higher than any other major repository.' 1/2

Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL580/d...

Let’s wait and see what the facts are, before rushing to ratify an illegal trade deal that will only hurt our standing with other more reliable trade partners, and undermine our claims to care about multilateralism and international law @bernd-lange.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Might the EU's other trade partners not legitimately expect the EU to stick with the GATT/WTO deal it struck with them -- not to discriminate against their exports, except under certain very stringently defined circumstances (which do not apply here)? #MFN #adealisadeal

Turnberry reneges on our MFN commitments to our WTO partners not to discriminate against them. It hastens the collapse of the international legal system that Trump despises, but that we claim to respect. It makes us look weak and hypocritical which is dangerous. www.ft.com/content/26d6...

J. Bradford DeLong mailto:[email protected] :: 2026-04-28 :: All Souls' College, Oxford :: The 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History **Theories of Economic History I: John Hicks :: Roughly-Edited Transcript** < braddelong.substack.com/p/theories-o... > 2026-04-28

This is a great job for someone committed to the development of economic history as a field. You'll be part of a large community of scholars based in both history and economics, with a vibrant seminar life and lots of interesting people coming through. And a fellowship in Nuffield to boot.

The University of Oxford is advertising a Professorship of Economic History, which will be held in the Department of Economics in association with Nuffield College. Closing date 25 May 2026, interviews 26 June. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru....

Oxford is appointing a Professor of Economic History my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #econhist

@sabineweyand.bsky.social is a superstar and history will remember her as such. And she is very obviously correct on this matter. And the issues at stake are really important. www.ft.com/content/a714...

"A Chinese businessman puts Trump’s blunders in perspective. 'For us, Trump’s attack on Iran is less consequential than his threat to attack Greenland. When he did that, to America’s oldest allies, I knew that Europe would not follow America’s approach to China.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

This would seem the obvious moment for a European Defence Union of EU countries (and the EU itself), Norway, Ukraine, and the UK. Others if they wanted to join. Given the Ukrainian loan is granted, the Russian spy is voted out, and Trump's threats.

Imagine that you spent a year writing a book, only to find that AI is distributing your text without your consent 🤯 In March, the European Parliament called to update copyright rules to protect creators. Today, on World Book and Copyright Day, we highlight authors' rights 📚

📢 €90 billion loan for Ukraine greenlighted The EU loan will help cover Ukraine’s most urgent budgetary and defence needs in 2026 and 2027. The EU is once again showing its unwavering support for Ukraine and its people. 🔗 link.europa.eu/HHGghM

Yet again you find yourself asking why anyone would ever give up a good job in a club where they are doing well to manage one of these “big” clubs.

Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’ ft.trib.al/F3M0Bjk

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that the bloc intends to cut funding to the Venice Biennale following a decision by the art exhibition to readmit Russian artists to its 2026 edition.

Signing up to the WTO with its associated obligations was also a deal, and if the EU goes ahead with this illegal deal it breaks the much more important WTO deal.

You have to wonder about traders who thought that the US blockading Iran without Iran retaliating was a sustainable equilibrium www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

“U.S. officials have informed some ​European counterparts that some previously contracted weapons deliveries are likely to be delayed as the Iran war ‌continues to draw on weapons stocks, five sources familiar with the matter said.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Returns from the first census undertaken by the Irish Free State are about to be made public - 100 years after they were taken on 18 April 1926 @news.rte.ie story: www.rte.ie/news/ireland... Direct access from tomorrow: nationalarchives.ie (or wait a few days in case demand overwhelms the servers)

Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.

Data centre operators successfully lobbied the European Commission to amend legislation intended to bring transparency to the continent’s booming data centre industry, a new investigation from @investigate-europe.eu and @investigates.thejournal.ie has revealed. jrnl.ie/7013368

I am not particularly comfortable with politicians quoting theology to make their points but if he wants to go there, Iran is not a just war and Ukraine’s defense of its own territory very much is. And guess which one the US does and does not support.

This is terrific, that’s next year’s visit to the confessor sorted www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The AOH is an old school Irish American Catholic organisation and it goes in hard to defend the Pope from Trump. Maximum respect www.irishecho.com/2026/4/hiber...

A very strong and clear statement from the Economic History Review on the use of AI in original articles and literature reviews. And good to see they have at last Xited. #Skystorians

There are two news items to share about the @echistsocreview.bsky.social First, we will no longer be posting on X\Twitter. Second, we have updated our notes to authors so that everyone is aware of our policy regarding AI. #econhist #scholarship

Nothing is ever inevitable because human beings have agency. Fatalism is a choice, and while it can be self-fulfilling it is usually the wrong one. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

🇭🇺🎉THREAD 1/3 The dismantling of state capture is already beginning today In his victory speech, Péter Magyar called for the resignation of – Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary – the President of the Constitutional Court – the President of Hungary’s Supreme Court (the Curia) – the Prosecutor General

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”