So Spain will go the way of Slovenia, and the EU will do nothing. Ireland next?
Delighted that the 1st issue of @phenomenalworld.bsky.social with phenomenal colleagues and friends is getting so much well-deserved praise. Kudos to the editors and to the authors!
The venom with which the center-right attacks the left - one would think they are the fascists and we are back in the interwar period. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
A problem and an explanation, both on the same front page.
"Empires typically do not collapse because of external aggression. They collapse because of some form of suicide. ..Trump is an extreme example of a cadre beginning to think about its own personal wealth at the expense of the big picture"
Mad levels of insight packed in this by @thunen.bsky.social
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some days it's hard to read a good book because it makes me want to write, i keep getting ideas & have to put it down. other times it's hard because everything else feels like a distraction & i hate putting it down. & sometimes it's that i wish i wrote it, so want to put it away, but can't, i can't
EU solution to its problems: let Ukrainian men fight until we re-arm and have an all-out war with Russia.