I guess the idea here is that people born in 1950 who think they fought in the second world war are also likely to think they do an 8 hour shift in the ironworks even though they are actually propping up the bar at wetherspoons

Urk (NL) shows what happens when you turn an island into inland. The sea disappears, the fishing economy collapses, and a tight-knit community must adapt. The takeaway: geography changed, but identity didn’t. The town still stands apart from the rest of the nation. Source: buff.ly/JznMAlH

“Yeah so we’re actually invading Pakistan soon! Nobody is supposed to know that, pretty cool, right?” said Patel, spilling his Don Julio as the bottle girl feigned interest in his long, rambling story.

🌍️ The new global imbalances: the launch of Paris Report 4 🗓️28 April 12:30-13:30 @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, @sebastienfmjean.bsky.social, Signe Krogstrup & @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social will discuss global imbalances, launching @cepr.org & Bruegel's fourth Paris Report. #EconSky 🔗 Link: buff.ly/RB6kguM

Philip Rycroft, who ran the Dept for Exiting the EU, says the U.K. should rejoin 👏 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

"Russia is an enemy." Not a rival. Not a difficult partner. An enemy. Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin said it three times. The goal isn't a managed freeze — it's Ukrainian victory and independence. Some things shouldn't need clarification in 2026.

Breaking News: A U.S. soldier who helped capture Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information to bet on the mission on Polymarket.

💶 [ONLINE EVENT] Finance Focus: Hungary's revived euro adoption prospects 🗓️ 6 May 2026, 15:00-16:00 CEST @veron.bsky.social invites Júlia Király to discuss what are the prospects and the most significant hurdles for Hungary’s adoption of the euro. #EconSky 🔗 buff.ly/m121CpV

Could really spend months just staring at Bruegel paintings

Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one

Wow

Now available in replay mode on the same link

Puts British political scandal into perspective

That was quick

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question WARSH: I believe this body certified the election WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Asked about his inaccurate prognostications before the Global Financial Crisis about the subprime mortgage market and the stability of Wall Street, Warsh won’t admit he was wrong. Say what you will about Randy Quarles, when asked a similar question during his hearing, he offered a mea culpa.

SORKIN: There's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon, that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs. From what I understand, part of the reason is they're worried about offending you. TRUMP: I think it's brilliant. They got to know me very well. I'm honored.

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

JD Vance talks about theology with the confidence that Silicon Valley types make macro-economic forecasts

The most dangerous delusion in Washington is the belief that Russia will eventually win. ㅤ Zelensky says the talks are constructive, but that poisonous idea is still there - and Americans have been wrong about Russia before. ㅤ Ukrainians keep paying in blood for other people’s illusions.

Israel hits the same target four times to kill as many medics as possible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Exclusive: EU to stop funding EU projects with Chinese inverters, as grandstanding on Beijing gives way to quiet offensive My report on a quiet decision taken by von der Leyen and her college that suggests the work of de-risking continues apace

It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more. 75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path. One of unity over division, of peace over war.

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state. Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.

I fear this is correct We are 10 years off I think as fundamentally need more of the Farage generation to shuffle off their moral coils

🔥 Incredible footage of Ukrainian Yak-52 crews in action. Pilots of the 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” clear the skies of Russian drones.

Argentina is the IMF's biggest borrower by a longshot. Source: buff.ly/23r7f0X

EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT CBS: EMPEROR FULLY DRESSED

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

Shambolic British politics and AI bubble talk back on the FT homepage. Nature is healing.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Q: How much longer will American continue to see these high gas prices? TRUMP: Well, they're not very high Q: $4 a gallon still TRUMP: That's what ABC says, but the stock market is up. Everything is doing really well.

You come at the Pope, you best not miss….

The times we live in

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

Zelensky just out with a long comment after the latest Ramstein meeting. Optimistic and gives thanks to many partners. Not a single mention of the US helping Ukraine. The Ukrainians are not hiding the fact that the US is no longer their friend.

🌸NOW: Warwick McKibbin, Cullen Hendrix, & Jacob Funk Kirkegaard discuss economic security, trade-offs, vulnerabilities, & more. Watch live:

"Aid to Ukraine is a thing of the past." - During an attack, the Russian Federation dropped propaganda leaflets from "Gerbera" drones.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

This is good news

‼️ Russia: “Putin: Calendar and weather factors are the reasons for the decline in GDP” 🇷🇺: 😅 www.gazeta.ru/business/new...

This is going to be great television, as someone once said

Pirro's prosecutors make surprise visit to Fed hq construction site, are turned away. Doesn't look like Pirro is backing off to smooth Warsh's confirmation. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Again: we were told he was the voice of reason.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Russ Vought direct quote: "I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral." www.propublica.org/article/russ...

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

DE temporarily cuts gasoline & diesel taxes: -expensive -not really progressive -mutes oil-saving incentives -encourages other countries to do the same -resulting lack of demand response leads to higher oil prices Why are more sophisticated solutions deemed infeasible, politically/administratively?

Also, Magyar displayed physical courage

Czech politicians universally welcome election of Magyar, but offer different takes.Opposition say a decisive break with authoritarian pro-Russian politics. Populist MFA Macinka says M is eurosceptic and basically good news for conservative right. Both could be right. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/...