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Defence Studies @dsdkings.bsky.social · 5h

📜 2025 Sir Michael Howard Annual Lecture - Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

📅 03 Dec | 📍Bush House

Dr Halik Kochanski will explain how and why all across Nazi-occupied Europe some people decided to resist the Third Reich.

🎟️ RSVP: ow.ly/Bbne50X5C5l

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 3h

I think that this is a great idea. Over the last few years my medical treatment for a potentially life-threatening condition has been - while not without its hiccups - of a high quality and using the most up-to-date technology. I feel so fortunate to live in a country with a free to access NHS!

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 6h

A propos of nothing, I've often thought it would make sense for the NHS to include in its letters, be they appointments or discharge, to actually tell patients how much what they are getting or got (eg an MRI scan) costs. Might lessen the risk of 'you don't what you've got til it's gone' scenario.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 4h

Appalling!

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11h

Welcome to the system that's apparently inspired Kemi Badenoch's planned 'removals force.'

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 5h

According to the current version, agreed, but this was modified in the 19thc. (I know, it’s just a gag ;-)

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

Won’t play in UK…

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

Do you remember the model number?

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe delete the arrow-in-the-eye model nowadays?

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

It worked for Jill when Jack fell down the hill (but I guess that was only a nursery rhyme ;-).

Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

This worked for me 15 years ago (at a different institution).

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

👍🏼

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 7h

I think a lot of people dont know that armed resistance in East Europe against the USSR continued decades after the occupation started and WW2 ended. Last 🇪🇪 Forrest Brother fought until 1978 (and later cases are claimed)

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 8h

14 October 1942 marks the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, later confirmed by the resolution of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council.

From 1942 to 1960, the UPA fought Nazi and Soviet forces for an independent Ukraine - a legacy that endures amid today’s Russian aggression.

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

Looks interesting… but Thatcher, aaargh!

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 6h

Ahem, ‘Canterbury Embroidery’, methinks. 😉

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

5 million of them are about research

graph showing Timelapse of 4,949,864 posts linking to research items

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 9h

Presumably he was then incomplete…

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 9h

‘If you tolerate this then your children will be next’, as The Manics taught us a generation ago… ✊🏼

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 14h

Under Russian drones, Ukrainians wonder if Europe still cares

More than three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s capital endures constant Russian attacks while watching European solidarity fray.

www.politico.eu

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 2d

The Giga Poll shows what Britain really thinks about climate change. 🇬🇧 Find out more at gigapoll.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

I’d love higher ed policy to be made by people who actually worked in higher ed, but apparently that’s too much to ask

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 2d

Ribbit! 🐸

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch

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Jackie Nicholson @jax1712.bsky.social · 3d

#Immigrants in London 🙏

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social · 2d

No surprise if the colonisers turn out to have feet of clay. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 2d

Factory farms for salmon are filthy environments that require a constant flow of clean water and constant treatment with toxic chemicals. These places are so bad that some 30 per cent of all farmed salmon simply die from their conditions, they don’t become food for customers.

buff.ly/ct4uadE

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