Slovakia's government refused to join the Czech ammunition initiative for Ukraine. In 48 hours, Slovaks crowdfunded nearly €2 million, and more is coming. This is President Caputova, offering her support

I mean she's just some person who found an antisemitic quote online and perpetrated it. It's not as if she was Prime Minister or something. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

🗣️Anand Menon I find it utterly depressing that both of the major political parties, one of which will form a government after the next election, do not know the difference between free movement and a limited youth mobility scheme which involves visas.

Unconscionable

And still on fire

🗣️If my father had not been allowed to hit me, both of us would have been happier — that’s why the law has to change thetimes.co.uk/article/smacki…

Legal shield for the gun industry is starting to crack wsj.com/us-news/law/le…

This could upset those who voted for #Brexit .

The EU has proposed talks with the UK on freeing up cross-border movement for young people, including dropping tuition fees for EU students to domestic levels.

Story (by Robin Bisson) here (free to read):

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“Good evening Dragons, I’d like to give you the opportunity to invest £5,000, in exchange for 10% of my company producing alcohol for dogs”

“A book that is for whole chapters readable only in the most literal sense, like the ingredients on a crisp packet. At its worst it reads as if the publisher asked ChatGPT to imagine Keith Joseph and Richard Littlejohn reading Wikipedia to one another.”😬

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... and he urgently needs your nan to wire him £30,000 or the bad men won't give it back.

Bruckner's Symphony No 8, an introduction by Herbert Blomstedt gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

2/2 Jan de Heem's studio windows, reflected in a fallen glass.

Very 'end of the Major government' feel to this story. Ever odder sleaze stories as a government crumbles into history.

Wednesday’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ cartoon thetimes.co.uk/article/morten…

“They talked about ferrets so much that I was not even able to speak”

Another Truss classic.

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

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Moments like these make me proud to be Canadian.

The federal budget has a planned increase to the number and value of Master (now $27,000/yr), doctoral (now $40,000/yr, and postdoctoral awards (now $70,000/yr) across the tri-councils.