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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Mission Creep: The Growing Cost of the Ukraine War

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Europe switches from donating its stockpiles to direct purchases of arms and ammunition. Around half of the European aid to Ukraine comes fr...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Russia: ‘NATO Must Quit Baltic States or Ukraine War Continues’

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Deputy foreign minister wants alliance’s troops out of neighbouring countries. A senior Russian politician has warned there will be no end ...

Brussels’ Twitter Push Against Conservatives Flops, Study Suggests

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Academic research reflects the limited efforts of the EU on social media to bring down PiS in Poland. A newly published scholarly survey fla...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Proposals to End a Member State’s National Veto in the EU

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  MEP decries changes which would further centralise power in Brussels Which EU Treaty change could transform the character of the Europe...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Rum Lot

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As long as I can remember, my parents would say "blackcurrant rum" as shorthand for a time before 1969 when they had fun. Presumin...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Duffed up: Music and the Seven Year-Old Tough Guy

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My lockdown reading includes Graham Duff 's Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs . There's an early bit that reminds me of m...
Friday, February 01, 2019

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New insights into insulin production Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown process in the production of insulin. The team from...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

A perplexing performance: on reposting the Portland dog parks hoax

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There was some debate in and around my employer when our Facebook page linked to an   account   of the discovery of a   hoax   research pa...