In The Guardian:

“They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about the work they and their colleagues were told to abandon”

❗️Poland is in a pre-war state, — Chief of the General Staff Wiesław Kukuła Russia has begun preparing for war — it is creating a certain environment aimed at establishing favorable conditions for potential aggression on Polish territory,

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... More evidence of Putin broadening the war against Ukraine?

I don't think the president should accept gold bars from foreign governments

About comms, a British scientist who I met on the trip here in Thailand the other day, was telling me how UK never put in the billboards the acknowledgement of EU funding when these were used to build something, this is normal practice in every country who receives money. How they got away with it?

Off to Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 🇮🇹Pisa today to celebrate the work of Prof Palombella with a handful of wonderful scholars and practitioners. Proud to represent Central European University at such a remarkable gathering alongside Prof. Sajó❗️

Steinmeier et Mattarella célèbrent l'amitié germano-italienne

This!

Had the pleasure to be on NZZ Standpunkte to discuss the security situation in Europe. Thanks a lot for the invitation @nzz.ch ! Full debate: www.srf.ch/play/tv/nzz-...

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

🇫🇮 The cancellation of the Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest is a strategic mistake by Russia, - Stubb 📞Rubio probably realized that "the Russians have not given up one iota" and therefore "there is no point in putting President Trump in a situation where he will not get a deal or anything else."

Indeed!

The breakfast of champions.

Interesting? Disgusting and self-destructive

#MySouthDowns | Beauty for all seasons | Come and visit us:

Im Großraum Chicago wurden seit September Tausende Menschen von vermummten Beamten festgenommen. Für den Gouverneur von Illinois ist US-Präsident Trump„die moderne Verkörperung der Tyrannei“. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...

Heute gab es in München wieder einen unangemeldeten Aufzug der AfD im Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten. Einzige Auflage der Polizei zuvor: den Kranz (Aufschrift: "Deutschland lebt ewig") wieder mitzunehmen. Selbst das machten die AfDler, oh Wunder, nicht. Polizeibeamt_innen waren eh keine mehr vor Ort.

Long, long time ago, but I can still remember…

This week marked a major milestone in the EU - the shattering of the cordon sanitaire against the far right in the European Parliament. Here's my summary of what happened, what it means, and what's next:

35 years later and this stuff looks over-priced even before factoring in inflation. I doubt many people currently spend more than £400 on a TV at current prices.

Of course they did.

Kairos neues Ägyptisches Museum zeigt 50.000 Artefakte. Sechs von ihnen reichen aus, um etwas über Krieg und Macht zu lernen. Und etwas über Taylor Swift.

Coalitions of the willing are Europe’s path to ever closer union

Sunday mornings are always awful on here - UK news routinely drops something on HE and refugees. But for some reason I find it especially hard to take today. Maybe it’s the extra smattering of Epstein et. al. Get outside folks.

The president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, said a ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before the end of the year, pointing to the spring as a more plausible time for progress in ending the war.

Brussels and Washington are still fully at odds when it comes to climate change and energy policy, despite the EU’s promise to buy hundred of billions of dollars of American oil and gas and ongoing work to pick apart Green Deal legislation www.euractiv.com/news/energy-...

Free seminar on Prevent and Extremism in Oxford this Thursday, with me and the excellent Julia Ebner: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/preve.... Some background to my own work on Prevent is here: www.daqc.co.uk/2025/11/16/l....

Another elegant and sharp take by Ed Lucas on Estonia’s handling of the Wagner trolling. They met Russia’s psychological provocation with ridicule, not panic. A small stratcom masterclass the allies should adopt. "National security requires many things. A sharp sense of humour is one of them."

At least EU decision-makers take precautions to not have another Russian takeover, such as in Moldova. But why treat Georgia as a cautionary tale when you can make it an impressive easy win? There’s a political & societal fabric on the ground, the only thing we need is actions.

7 things in Trump megabill: 1. Cuts $930B from Medicaid 2. 16M lose health insur 3. Slashes food asst for poor families by $186B 4. Lower incomes for bottom 40% of families 5. Increases deficit by $3.3T 6 $45B for new immigration jails 7 Billions for defense contractors bsky.app/profile/did:...

"Ordinary Republicans Hate Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Once They Know What It Does Solid support turns to strong opposition, a new Yale study shows." -- @joncooper-us.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

as GOP tears itself apart with the MTG-Trump fights, everyone gets that this OBBA bill will be the only legislative "achievement" of the GOP this Congress right? Every faction of the GOP came together for 4500 billion dollars of tax cuts to the rich and corporations & cuts to public spending. Thread

Plastic paradise: on the frontlines of the fight to clean up pollution in Bali – in pictures

Als Christin finde ich diese Bilder verstörend. Das passiert jetzt in den USA. Dieser Reverend hat friedlich protestiert. Er hat gebetet und eine Predigt gehalten. Das darf nicht sein, dass er so gewalttätig festgenommen wird.

A political shift is in the air as Germany moves to become Europe’s leading military power. While France scrambles for relevance, Poland sees a Berlin–Warsaw axis as the key to keeping Russia at bay. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/germ...

As a matter of EU law, national courts must refuse to enforce any judgment ordering a newspaper publishing house/journalists to pay damages in a situation where doing so would give rise to a manifest breach of the freedom of the press (C-633/22) verfassungsblog.de/fundamental-...

« La question des Arméniens du Haut-Karabakh n’est pas une affaire de frontières ou d’ethnie, mais d’universalité des droits humains », considèrent 23 parlementaires internationaux

L’attacco su Kyiv, la distruzione delle infrastrutture energetiche, l’accerchiamento di Pokrovsk e le dimissioni dei ministri ucraini disegnano un quadro fosco della guerra in Ucraina. Ma è sbagliato interpretare questi eventi secondo la narrativa russa. Oggi su la Stampa

"The BBC is therefore to be congratulated for dealing with this legal threat in the best way. The broadcaster has yielded where it needed to yield, but it is resolute where the claim has overreached itself. This is always the best way for dealing with such legal threats."

One year ago, I warned that Ursula von der Leyen knew that her then-new commission needed support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shun. Yet @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @reneweurope.bsky.social @greens-efa.eu supported it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The only way to deal with this regime is to fight back. Anything else is capitulation. This injunction was won by faculty and staff orgs and unions, not by any UC leader in Oakland or at a campus level. Judge blocks Trump administration push to fine UCLA $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism

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Brazil continues to lead the way in taking on rogue power. A Supreme Court panel has moved to put lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro on trial for seeking Trump's help to halt criminal proceedings against his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro.

"Kinder kosteten extra" - politisch gut vernetzte Reiche auch aus Deutschland reisten nach #Sarajevo und zahlten dafür, Menschen zu ermorden. Es ist abscheulich. Wie kann es sein, dass dagegen erst jetzt ermittelt wird? www.n-tv.de/panorama/Woc...

"Our new Red Scare, like the first, is obsessed with immigration and the potential of left-wing political violence—then, anarchists and Communists; today, the imagined, shadowy antifa. Like the second, it is coupled with unease about changing norms regarding gender and sexuality."

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100 billion would not be enough!