Job alert via @benhnoble.bsky.social: Senior Research Fellow – Russia & Eurasia careers.chathamhouse.org/jobs/7660483...

💥„Militant Muslim Millionaire“: Newly obtained #BND files show the German foreign spy service had already looked at Osama Bin Ladin in the early 1990s. BND collected intel on him in #Sudan. My report: www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... #terrorism #history #intelligence

“Where European governments once concluded that American backing was indispensable, many are now prepared to risk Washington’s anger. Dependence on the US has not disappeared, but more Europeans are acting on a once unthinkable assumption: that they must learn to navigate a post-American world”

Our next SPIN talk features Louise Pears and Anna Miller (Leeds) exploring secrecy and revelations through the compelling frame of conspiracy theories, UFOs/UAPs, US National Intelligence, and Blink 182. 📆 13 May | 15:00 (UK time) | Online

Pekings strategisches Ausbreiten im Hamburger Hafen löst wieder Sicherheitsbedenken aus.

While Germany’s military is primarily catching up at this point, the unease about the government’s commitment to increased defence spending; its hesitation to integrate further at EU/regional level; and the lack of focus on innovation and change of strategic culture remains real.

More than 1,400 British soldiers have boarded a chartered civilian passenger ferry to travel to a major military exercise in Germany, the first time the British Army has used civilian sea transport on this scale https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-army-charters-ferry-for-first-time-in-20-years/

NEW: Acting US ambassador to Ukraine Julie Davis will depart Kyiv in the coming weeks and retire, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving a key diplomatic post vacant while Russia prepares a summer offensive & peace talks stall. w/ @a-mackinnon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/33d5...

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Germany’s BKA uses salary and membership records of the Islamic State to trace ex-members of the group.

I very much enjoyed my brief appearance on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour this morning to speak about women and conscrption with Amy Hill and presenter, Nuala McGovern. I look forward to opportunities to continue this important conversation! www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Russian FSB reportedly caught a German with explosives in her backpack and claims she was directed by Ukraine to conduct a terrorist attack.

JOB ALERT: 2 PhD positions at POESIS: Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea, a new research group led by the wonderful Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, funded by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, based at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability. Deadline: 17 May 2026.

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt will das Land radikal umbauen. Stefan Etgeton hat den völkisch-aggressiven Programmentwurf für die »Blätter« analysiert: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...

Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning. www.wired.com/story/the-we...

Meanwhile universities construct students and guest speakers as threats and pay intelligence firms to spy on them www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

🇺🇦 Zelensky: We have already agreed on 10-year contracts with 3 key countries: Saudi Arabia, Emirates and Qatar. We already have requests from 11 countries - Middle East and Gulf, Caucasus. This Drone Deal will include at least 10 different contracts for one or another export of Ukrainian weapons.

Really enjoyed this one. @johnsipher.bsky.social and Jerry O'Shea know the spy world inside out. Their take on what Hollywood gets wrong about espionage, and why real stories are often better, out now on @secretsandspies.bsky.social. Links below.

A very enjoyable WNO production of The Flying Dutchman in Cardiff #WNOdutchman. The orchestra was great, and Simon Bailey & Rachel Nicholls were impressive. Tomáš Hanus will be missed as Music Director of WNO.

Another attempted arson attack at Jewish site in London, charity says reut.rs/4ewzNWF

The AfD continues to fight fiercely about conscription, and the topic won’t go away.

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below: lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...

“On April 16, Ashab al-Yamin, an Iran-linked group, claimed that it attacked the Israeli embassy in London with drones carrying "radioactive and dangerous carcinogenic materials.”” thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

In her latest investigation, @lauracmorel.bsky.social dives into the world of scams that are profiting off of Trump's immigration crackdown. Read it at the link below. ⬇️

🚨 Job Alert: AsstProf International Peace & Security in Amsterdam (VUA)🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

News I'm hearing from across universities is disastrous. The sector has been falling apart for months, but the process is now continuously speeding up. Outside a small handful of institutions, HE as we've known it has basically zero future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite that gave the Islamic republic a powerful new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war, according to a @financialtimes.com investigation. www.ft.com/content/1fdd...

UK: this is interesting. Cross-cutting government teams likely covering foreign, economic, defence, emergency management & resilience policy, working in parallel. And then, coordinating implementation down through Lead Government Departments... #nationalresilience #crisismanagement

CFP: Militärattachés als außenpolitische, binnenmilitärische und nachrichtendienstliche Akteure im Zeitalter der Weltkriege https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161773 Potsdam, 10.11.2026-11.11.2026, Dr. Magnus Pahl / Tobias Pech, ZMSBw; Prof. Dr. Michael Jonas, CHIOS, Bewerbungsschluss: …

📣CIRAF Seminar alert!📣 Join us on 29 April at 12pm for 'Brexit, the Far Right, and Racism: 10 years on' with Brendan McGeever and Natalie-Anne Hall. FREE online seminar but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-the...

German-Ukrainian drone partnership

“It is a significant intervention by Robertson, who had kept his counsel and tried to work constructively behind the scenes until now, but has run out of patience with the government’s failure to grip the problem.”

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine and Germany have coordinated their defense cooperation priorities ahead of Ramstein meeting. Both nations will focus on critically strengthening Ukrainian airspace and implementing innovative technologies on the battlefield. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/ukraine-and-...

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The CIA had run a deception campaign earlier, …planting information inside Iran that U.S. forces had already located the missing airman …But the U.S. military took additional steps, jamming electronics and bombing key roads around the location” www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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.

Eastern Libya's military leader, Khalifa Haftar, has acquired what appear to be Chinese and Turkish combat drones, Reuters reporting has found, despite a long-standing UN embargo on supplying weapons to the divided North African country reut.rs/418MNKk

US has destroyed only a third of Iran’s missiles, intelligence suggests www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Curious about whether Trump can legally withdraw from NATO? As always, the Congressional Research Service is invaluable: www.congress.gov/crs-product/... Bottom line: 🤷‍♂️

Und wieder ein (vermutlicher) Low-Level-Agent

🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26

📣 New Editors for BJPIR - Call for Expression of Interest @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social is inviting expressions of interest for the next editorial team of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations (#BJPIR). For more information: buff.ly/L1rYEJg

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“MI5 has formed a new intervention centre with police and other state agencies to work on investigations involving adolescents or suspects with mental ill health and other complex risks. The centre will work on making changes to boost the protective factors in a young person’s life”

Iran’s spies ‘recruit UK teenagers on Telegram’ Publicly accessible channels on the encrypted messaging app offer payment to carry out tasks for Iranian intelligence — with adverts in English and Hebrew www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

“Tehran invested in decentralization, dispersal, and redundancy. With a mosaic strategy, Iran built a resilient system meant to keep operating even after decapitation strikes and communications disruption. The point was not to stop the first punch, but to remain standing.”