Maybe the investigation of his affairs need to go back a decade Brexit payments, houses bought, the money trail on the girlfriends house. the payments in kind. The anger he highlights when challenged is not normal - so the question is what is hidden?

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May brings anniversaries: 8th May VE Day (or 9th), 17 May Irish National Famine Commemoration. So perhaps it is time to write an essay on the theme of anniversaries for the Forum for Modern Languages prize (£500, publication and acclaim await). Go on, do it! academic.oup.com/fmls/pages/t...

Calling all historians interested in Europe - The Iland scholarship is open for applications for projects relating to "European culture, political thought, language and literature" and including history. Deadline 20 June. www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate... Do spread the word 📣 Open to DMs for advice.

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

NHS waiting lists have fallen for six months in a row! 7,402,148 people were on the waiting list in February, down from 7,428,309 people in January. #Labour #KeirStarmer #NHS

Join our KINO course to explore the wonders of Ukrainian cinema with top experts. Student discount available! The course starts tomorrow!

Important lecture on the situation in contemporary Central Asia at Cerees @QMUL_HSS by Bhavna Dave Tomorrow 6pm, remember to register on this link. Hybrid also available projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

'Reform is a protest party led by the messiah' BBC News - Farage defends suspending MP and criticises 'infighting' www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎥 🏆 Ukrainian documentary Mission 200 wins Grand Prix at international film festival in Riga – video

“Every $1300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment.

Labour promised to deliver an extra 2 million appointments a year as a first step to fix the the NHS. And they have reached that target in just 5 months. The impact? More people getting the treatment they need and waiting lists down by 160,000 (compared to a 33,000 rise the year before).

Land for peace. Works every time ... 🙄

NHS waiting lists fell for the 4th month in a row in December, despite the usual extra pressure seen during winter and a significant increase in the number of people in hospital with flu. This is really good news and exactly what Labour promised they would do when they got into power.

Join us to discuss Ukraine, war, and the British Left 📅 Monday, 10 Feb 2025, 18:00 - 20:30 GMT 📷 Queen Mary University of London Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-britis... #CEREES

On 10.02 we have a #CEREES #QMULHSS panel discussion on 'The British Left and Ukraine' projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/.../24/ceree... One of the speakers, Richard Johnson recounts how, in April 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev got into a row with leading Labour people podcasts.apple.com/.../why-did.....

Very excited about the official launch of our joint special issue on Monday at CEREES Panel & Launch – Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (hybrid event - all welcome) projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

Fascinating overview and reflection on the state of Ukrainian studies in universities worldwide suspilne.media/culture/9291...

We are currently accepting applications for the annual Visiting International Fellowship scheme, which includes a grant of up to £5,000. Applications close on 31 March 2025. 👩‍🎓 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏛️ For more information about eligibility and how to apply, see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/visi...

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Please join us for a conversation between Claire Knight and Stefan Lacny about Dr Knight's recent book Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality (@cornellupress.bsky.social). 🗓️ 20 January at 5.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

My colleagues Lada Kolimiyets, Victoria Somoff, & Karina Madzari did pioneering work with their elementary Ukrainian students. They worked with students in Ukraine to create an "impermanent [digital] collection" of Ukrainian museums destroyed by Russia. www.library.dartmouth.edu/news/imperma...

This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.

Want to work as a translator for the EU on a permanent contract? Then enter an open competition for a chance to be recruited. 2 source languages. EU citizens only, no experience needed. Deadline 14 Jan 2025: eu-careers.europa.eu/en/translato.... See also info event Tue 17 Dec: loom.ly/03kxbag

CEREES Event, QMUL - "New Directions in Ukrainian Film History" Join us on Monday 3 February We will launch a joint special issue of 'Culture of Ukraine (Kharkov)' and 'Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema'. Registration essential projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

CEREES Event, QMUL - ‘The British Left and Ukraine’ Join us on Monday 10 February Speakers: Paul Mason (journalist - @paulmason.bsky.social); Christopher Ford (Ukrainian Solidarity); Yuliia Yurchenko (Greenwich) Registration essential: projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

📢Applications are open: bit.ly/4iuMRM2 We invite current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at SSEES to apply for the Bracewell Scholarship. The award will cover the tuition fee costs for one term, plus a living cost stipend. Deadline: 31 March 2025

This is the right demand from a truly committed French MP. This call for new and fair elections, as required by the Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili, must become the shared stance of the EU, the EU and NATO member states. Let's not #Georgia fall into the russian dark winter. Enough is enough.

Can't wait: 01.12 6pm at @qmulhss.bsky.social CEREES, roundtable and book launch: Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen - exploring how decolonial viewpoints can prompt a re-evaluation of what constitutes ‘Russian’/’Soviet’ culture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cerees-dec...

🕯️ EU commemorates victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor – photos

On Holodomor Remembrance Day, I want to highlight The Grain Store, a superb play on the topic by Natalia Vorozhbyt. It was commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre in 2009 & staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Sasha Dugdale's translation. Buy it here: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/the-grain-st...

"Жовтий Князь" була у шкільній програмі і.. я її прочитав. Досі пам'ятаю свої емоції тоді: сум, жах, злість. Один з перших проявів русофобії. Так, українська література доволі песимістична, але на те, на жаль, є достатньо причин. Шкода лише, що не чули (не чуємо 😢) цей відгук

Tonight’s important CEREES Panel: “Political Prisoners in Russian and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine”. Despite security and tube issues, we drew a good in-person and online audience. Speakers:Judith Pallot, Bill Bowring, Valentina Chubarova, and Yevgeniy Zakharov @qmul.bsky.social

Join us at the ICCEES World Congress in London next summer! The deadline for submitting paper, panel, and roundtable proposals has been extended to midnight (GMT) on November 30, 2024. Remote attendance is also possible! Visit iccees2025.org for more details.

My review of Greg Carleton on Crimean war reporting in the Times Literary Supplement. Perhaps some parallels? Let's hope so in the case of Russia... www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

'Imagining Central Asia on Film: Soviet Folklorisation of Cultural Identity.' 25.09 7pm. Kazakh scholar Assiya Issemberdiyeva (@QMUL_HSS ) on how WWII Soviet cinema portrayed Soviet Central Asia through 'folklorisation,' a pattern established for Ukraine: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

Excited and delighted to be giving a talk about Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko's masterpiece, Earth, one of the greatest silent films at the STOM! film festival in Bruges, on Saturday lumiere-brugge.be/film/101939/...