Exactly this, to which I would only add that their actions also lubricate Putin’s interests. Theirs is an alliance of opportunism.

This is a terrific opportunity for, for eg, academic lawyers. Please think about applying if you think you might fit!

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You'll need to show photo ID before voting in this Thursday's local elections

There are 22 acceptable forms of ID ⬇️

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Israel does have the right to defend itself. It does not have the right to break international humanitarian law, bomb aid workers or act so disproportionately that over 34,000 Palestinians have now been killed

So, consensus view seems to be that, while boundaries of convention (unenforceable anyway) especially hard to discern when local elections/national announcements, there's little doubt this is wild breach of protocol.

This week for World Politics Review, I take a look at the reasons why Viktor Orban's grip over Hungary is more brittle than it seems
worldpoliticsreview.com/hungary-orban-…

With 33 killed last year, this seems a sh*t idea.

Denmark & Germany set limits for TFA in drinking water. Germany is calling for TFA to be classified 'reprotoxic' - harmful to fertility & foetal development. The UK has no limit on TFA, & it's not one of the 47 PFAS water firms are required to test for.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Meanwhile, back in the real world... news.sky.com/story/poorer-p…

Genuine Q for Whitehall wonks - this, on eve of election, looks like a most egregious abandonment of 'sensitivity period' convention (formerly 'purdah') by Home Office. Is that basically not a thing anymore, or is this de facto party election broadcast ok because not new policy?

Happy 1st of May folks🌻🌤️ May there be less suffering and infinitely more song...

'Until yesterday, Republicans were the harshest critics of lack of free speech on campus. Now they want to stamp it out. Hypocrisy is too mild a word to capture such a switch'. Me on why adults, not students, are America's problem. ft.com/content/198902…

20 years after the accession of the first tranche of CEE countries to the EU, and as flawed as the EU may be - which democratic political system isn’t? - nobody is fighting like this to integrate with the Putinist part of Europe.

One trick pony does one trick pony show

Fascists marching unopposed, with no police in sight, Italy year 2024.

Also, rishi sunak, who complained that we shouldn't 'unpick history' in relation to slavery, when that is literally what historians do

More utterly dire data on homelessness from the DWP

Children in temporary accomodation up 15% to 145,800 over the past year.

Children in B&Bs up 56%
Children in B&Bs over the statutory 6 week max up 84%

gov.uk/government/sta…

Some thinking about the UK Labour Party with Matthias Matthijs in Foreign Affairs. Not paywalled. The term ‘homeopathic Bidenomics’ comes from Jonathan Hopkin. Credit where it’s due: foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom…

This kind of thing is going to teach these students more about power than four years of political science could ever do