The nuclear physicist excuse www.thetimes.com/article/8038...

Christine Lagarde receives €140,000 from BIS despite payment ban for ECB staff - @olafstorbeck.ft.com here: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest picture hung in the Louvre www.thetimes.com/article/9cb8...

Moscow’s war funding sows seeds of long-term slump www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... @pierrebri.bsky.social

‘Buy European’ push will require delicate handling www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... @pierrebri.bsky.social

Et des moins jeunes, souvent, aussi www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Toujours utile youtu.be/MQng78lYrQU?...

Man in his sixties from Norfolk arrested on allegations of gross misconduct www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Early Lagarde exit is key to smooth ECB transition - www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... @pierrebri.bsky.social

The Hungarian election on April 12 will be an acid test for the anti-EU-within-EU coalition - Breakingviews: www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Even the hospitals aren’t safe in Iran www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

👇 open.substack.com/pub/newyorke...

Another horror story www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence follows Beijing’s playbook on dissent www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Dude who advised resigns, and dude who decided stays on? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

How Jeff Bezos (and Will Lewis) brought the Washington Post down www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Security "guarantees" for Ukraine (read in FT): If the Russians attack, let's give them a three-day headstart.

Betting markets, what's not to love? ("leading contender...") www.ft.com/content/a9ba...

It's tough to admit you've become a provincial market place www.cityam.com/lseg-axes-fi...

The battle for Kupiansk: inside Ukraine’s victory against the odds www.thetimes.com/article/1a1c...

The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Trump may have Alzheimer’s, says niece www.thetimes.com/article/56e7...

(He said brain-dead, actually, my bad...)

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau

Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working at a school in the Chelyabinsk region. The footage he filmed became "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards last month.

NATO dude here painstakingly demonstrating how right Macron was when he talked about "brainless NATO." www.ft.com/content/e2f6...

Britain wants to save its red squirrels, and The Economist is on it.

“I was a surgeon in Iran…” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-... @pierrebri.bsky.social

What Ukraine’s resilient banks could teach Zelenskiy www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

The Board of Peace farce marks the day when the whole Davos edifice should collapse under a long-deserved tsunami of ridicule. (Don't worry, it won't.)

Read Steve Scherer on his journey "from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America": stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...

Always trust irreplaceable NYTimes to dig deeper on the most important issues of the day www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

We live in the age of neo-royalist cliques - a Cambridge University paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Canadian military models response to hypothetical American invasion www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

It's time for Macron to reclaim the Louisiana Purchase. My impeccable arguments:

When Trump talks about "peace" just remember the unsurpassed Mel Brooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DC...

"Protectionist tariffs do not work. Always they are sold as short-term solutions. But inevitably, a quick-fix leads to long-term addiction..." Ronald Reagan in Davos, 1982. www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

Reading through the legal act of the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument - and its definition on "coercion" reads like it was written for Trump's action: A third country threatening to apply trade measures (here tariffs) interfering in the sovereign choices of an EU member states (Denmark on Greenland).

Where do they get these guys? Really?

In NYTimes: How We Photographed an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Germany, the country where masked perpetrators of a multi-million euros bank heist pay the parking fee for their getaway vehicle. www.ft.com/content/b94c...

US Greenland threat calls for united EU action www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @pierrebri.bsky.social

California billionaire says California billionaire tax is a really bad idea www.ft.com/content/122f...

Europeans should send troops to Greenland - @ReutersBreakingviews here: www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during German hacker conference techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...

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European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde’s full pay is more than 50 per cent higher than her disclosed salary, according to a Financial Times analysis. www.ft.com/content/c7cd...