"The Making of Modern Germany" open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...

Gave my "Making of Modern Germany" talk to Blackburn Probus Club. L, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin as a student in 1966, R, Potsdamer Platz 2025 with our daughter. [email protected]

I feel I've at last entered the modern age with an ebook version of my brief history of UK/Europe relations since 1945, which is on the reading list of several European and N American universities. vividlipi.com/product/semi...

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime" Balzac

Starmer Labour is the classic bankruptcy of centre politics faced with virulent right wing nationalist populism. I don't wish to be too alarmist, but the seeds of fascism are there for all to see.

Captain Starmer stays on the Bridge

BBC reports today that UK is failing in its promise to do the same. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8pvgw802no/

Amusing aside. Is Gordon Brown (appointed two days ago)about to became the shortest serving PM's adviser/envoy ever.

Too often, outsourcing comes at the expense of our services and the workers who keep them going. If you want public services to work for people, not just profit, sign the Record of Support for Labour’s insourcing pledge. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/of...

Of the top ten UN "happiness league" countries, five are in the EU & a sixth, Iceland, is seriously considering joining. BTW all six are "high tax" countries & have excellent social services.

Please circulate widely

I'm just waiting for some mainstream interviewer, pundit, news editor to point out that the Strait of Hormuz was open to all until Trump bombed Iran.

NB. Except one in NE France, all the poorest are not only in England & Wales but also were recipient of EU aid before Brexit. Rejoin now.

Surely the answer is for Labour and Tories to choose better ones ?

I am certainly no fan of Nixon but he did actually get the USA out of Vietnam & bring China in from the cold. In international affairs, Trump has alienated China, insulted NATO allies, started a war with Iran & made USA look foolish in the eyes of the world.

One of my cherished music memories is hearing Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald live at Hammersmith Odeon 1967

Congress "exploded" because they were reminded what it's like to have a Head of State make a coherent speech, full of sense & wisdom, subtlety and charm.

Today is International Workers Memorial Day, to commemorate those killed & injured at work & to campaign for safety at work for all. Congrats to Blackburn & District Trades Council for organising this street event. Dr Charlie Clutterbuck, pioneer of the "Hazards Magazine" (now "Hazards")

Excellent & informed exchange with students & staff of International Economics, VN Karazin Uni, Kharkiv, after my talk on "European Integration". Ukraine has much to offer Europe, not least proven military skills for the modern age & a highly educated, motivated young generation. Slava Ukriani !

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Trump and cronies thought Iran would be as easy as Venezuela. A flash show of power then Iran would hand over its oil.

That time is now. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Excellent zoom exchange with International Economics Faculty, VN Karazan Uni, Ukraine, subject "European Integration". Impressive level of knowledge and realistic understanding that patience is needed but the desired direction is EU accession. Fuller report to follow on mhindley.substack.com

Please Sir, it was Olly Robbins"

Actually it would be easier to accommodate the Ukraine into a European defence force, than into the EU.

I've stood on those platforms in the 1970s in freezing cold. The windows in the Russian & Polish carriages had ice on the inside !

The logic is that Streeting must be removed from office

BBC panders to Reform because their bosses think Reform could form a government. If they ever did, Reform would abolish the license fee and BBC would become Fox News UK

Stop calling it the "Iran War". It's the "USA War on Iran", or "Trump's War on Iran" or "Netanyahu's and Trump's War on Iran"

Pleased that BBC has caught up with what many of us saw as obvious some while ago.

A damning introduction to the Prime Minister’s role in the Mandelson scandal from Sky’s Trevor Philips

Extremely unlikely, unless Starmer is very clever & gave orders never to be told anything which later he might have to deny.

The was enough evidence that Mandelson was unsuitable for the top diplomatic post BEFORE this obvious lie that Starmer wasn't told about the security vetting.

How about an apology from commentators who praised Starmer's masterly diplomatic skills handing over the King's invite for second state visit by Trump. It was a groevlling humiliation & has now proven to be totally misjudged, it only inflated Trump's megalomania & now he treats UK with contempt.

A Requiem for the Donbas open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...

You seem to absolve the American voters who knew this.

Please can Vance come to UK for May elections to support Farage and Reform ?

Netanyahu went on to say "and I tell them what to do"

Can we please stop calling it the "Iran War" ? It's Trump's war on Iran !!!

"Well, drinking bleach cured my Covid, I'm a Doctor, trust me"

When money flows from the private health sector into the pockets of policymakers, we have to ask: who are they really representing? Transparency in our healthcare system is essential, not optional. Read the blog and full report for all the details: link in bio.

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

But in Hungary the electorate didn't turn to progressive alternatives to the extreme right. On a lesser scale the same is happening in France and Germany.

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"Of Free Trade, Fair Trade, Trump and Tariffs" open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...

We meet a Dutch Woman in Blue in Italy. open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...