Over on the other place, @shashj.bsky.social has just posted one of the best tweets yet posted about the current crisis
Sun Tzu is rolling in his grave like a rotisserie chicken.
#DIBLives Born #OTD 1839 in Glenavy, Co Antrim, John Ballance was elected prime minister of New Zealand in 1891. He strongly opposed landed interests, religious intervention in education & political life, and in 1893 introduced a bill to allow adult women to vote. www.dib.ie/biography/ba...
I’ve just got back from a week in Washington DC, where Iran War main topic of discussion. I was struck by how the weakness of the administration means that it is ill equipped to deal south a crisis of this magnitude. samf.substack.com/p/trump-runs...
OK who else is going to admit that until about 20 minutes ago they also didn’t know that Edin Džeko was still playing top level football?
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
Dictionary of Irish Biography
This is the geopolitical version of “I didn’t tell you because you would’ve said no.”
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
Ciaran Martin
Ciaran Martin
Lawrence Freedman
The 21st Century’s Silk Road will be lorry loads of crisps and I am here for this
Ciaran Martin
Very principled stance tonight by the Welsh and N&S Ireland to coordinate a boycott of the World Cup in the US
What is the public purpose of the #University in an age of #AI everywhere?
I had a go at answering this whopper of a question in the latest issue of the Journal of the British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social
#democracy #discernment
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Given the news that Iranian hacker group Handala breached FBI director Kash Patel's personal email, here's our profile from earlier this month of the group, which despite its hacktivist rhetoric is widely believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence. www.wired.com/story/handal...
