I made this new chart showing that more and more countries decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions. (Source: ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenh…)

Let's start with basic rhetoric. Why is it always NATO that barks at the Russian door, but never Russia barking at the NATO door? Why is it us who failed to build a common European house with Russia, but not Russia who failed to build a common house with us?

.Anne Applebaum: “Trump has decided that he doesn’t want money to go to Ukraine…It's a really extraordinary moment; we have an out-of-power ex-president who is in effect, dictating American foreign policy on behalf of a foreign dictator.”

"Release him now. He's a journalist who was doing his job." Our report from Moscow about US journalist Evan Gershkovich. He was arrested in Russia one year ago this week. Producer Ben Tavener BBC News (UK)

In case the British Army's new policy on beards offends anyone, here's a picture from 1854. (Image colourised by Marina Amaral)

I am embarrassed to admit that it has taken all this time to start reading this magnificent book. His self deprecating style makes easy to discern the true learnings from this tortuous campaign. The eternal optimist despite crushing defeats, a brilliant trainer of soldiers and a

‘Will you be growing a beard, Sergeant Major?’ ‘I have been explicitly told not to, Sir.’ ‘The new policy clearly states that beards are allowed. We must lead by example. More than happy to correct whoever told you not to.’ ‘Mrs French, Sir.’ fill your boots #beards #britisharmy

In today's The New York Times, a flashback to one of my terminological additions to today's security policy discussions. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/…

What presidential immunity means.

june 4, 1989 35 years of chinese suppression of any mention: ccp’s massacre of peaceful protesters in tiananmen square

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the breakages with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver and platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object [📹 saca_kintsugi] x.com/i/status/17007…

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game. 2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England! #PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

Still spine-tingling all these years later

imagine asking him to scan a QR code to look at a menu

Send Tomahawks, not thoughts. #Ukraine

Dear WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk Is it not time we stop referring to our WWII allies as Russians? They were Soviets. Many were Russian, but nearly half came from Uzbekistan, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Kirghizstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Turkm…

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians. More bombs, more aggression, more victims. Another tragic night in Ukraine.