"Opening the Thucydides trap" out now with International Affairs! In the article, Mark Fisher & I seek to provide policymakers & academics a more comprehensive set of concepts w which to analyze the relationship bw relative power, change & war. Read more: academic.oup.com/ia

Barrage Balloons at Sea, Eric Ravilious, 1940. It dates from his early years as an Official War Artist in #WW2. The original artwork is in the collection of The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

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…and still they come and amuse.

#ItalyUK

Leave for France as your father did when you became PM.

Took the words from my head. If it was in a drama you would say it was not credible.

What Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Johnson and Farage: “I could not dig; I dared not rob: I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? Brexit

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Helen Frankenthaler work to be shown in #Firenze #Florence finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions…

Tickets are now on sale for RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 🎟️ Join us on 16 October to be part of a memorable evening celebrating the best in UK architecture. ➡️ Book your tickets: ow.ly/wQGe50SFZqj #StirlingPrize is sponsored by Autodesk

If you cleaned up or donated after violent thugs trashed your town, thank you. You are my Britain. You give me hope and you make me proud. 1/3

If you did the trashing, the hijacking of bereft families' grief, the intimidating, the burning, the thieving and the injuring, fuck off and take your 'legitimate concerns' with you. You are not worthy of our country. 2/3

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, at the very least. Humanists replace God with good!

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Social housing in Paris Beautifully crafted stone exteriors, light and airy interiors Raphael Gabrion Architect + Mecobat