Trump Has Already Blown It
Stephen Walt on foreign policy in Foreign Policy.
(tags: uspolitics )

Donald Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Phone Call With … Australia?
The new diplomacy.
(tags: uspolitics australia )

Prepare for the worst: this inequality rift will tear our society apart
Britain's future.
(tags: ukpolitics )

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Sick of politics: Ten charts that show why Donald Trump and Brexit could happen in Australia
Graphic.
(tags: politics australia )

Four myths about Brexit and financial services
A sobering message to the industry.
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

How We Identified the D.N.C. Hack’s ‘Patient Zero’
Journalism in action.
(tags: media uspolitics )

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Three Things to Know About the Brexit Court Ruling
Instant comment from me!
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

May the best wo(man) win (with images, tweets)
A Storify of our 2 November meeting.
(tags: Uspolitics )

Explainer: what is the challenge to Bob Day's Senate seat all about?
Wow. Australia, eh?
(tags: australia elections )

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The Illegitimacy of Aragorn's Claim to the Throne Fair points.
(tags: tolkien ) Disarmament is key Kazakh foreign minister wants to get rid of nukes. (Rightly.)
(tags: kazakhstan nuclear ) How the UK's housing crisis builds a case for Brexit Everything is connected.
(tags: ukpolitics eu housing ) 92-year-old woman faces deportation UK Govt cracks ( Read more... )

The tube at a standstill - why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators Clearing bottlenecks by standing still
(tags: london ) Fifty years ago today, the United States of America dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain. *gulp*
(tags: usa spain war ) A neuroscientist says there's a powerful benefit to exercise that is rarely discussed Yeah, I know ( Read more... )

• Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard reviews Game of Thrones series five
  'enjoy, carefully.'
  (tags: sf australia )
• Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, Adrienne Hill & Mike Craze 1985
  Four Hartnell companions, thirty years ago.
  (tags: doctorwho )
• All media criticism banned at the Baku Euro Games, says Azerbaijan Ministry
  Nothing like ( Read more... )

• Unlocking Emily’s World
  Autism research at Boston University
  (tags: autism )
• How To Avoid Drama In Your Relationship
  And not just in relationships, but in life in general.
  (tags: lifehacking )
• Goodwill letters to asylum seekers on Nauru returned unopened
  Utterly shameful.
  (tags: australia nauru migration )
• The Sustainable Development Goals
  Replacing ( Read more... )

• #Gamergate and the failure of ethics
  What ethics actually means, and what it is wrongly said to mean.
  (tags: internet games )
• Building an organisation to defend EU-wide rail
  A call to action from @JonWorth.
  (tags: eu travel rail )
• There’s A Bat Hospital In Australia That Takes In Abandoned Baby Bats
  Awww!!!!
  (tags: cute australia animals )
• The 20- ( Read more... )

• JSCEM Recommends Optional Preferential Voting for the Senate
  Australian proposal to help bigger political parties beat smaller ones.
  (tags: australia voting )
• First Job Dictionary
  What those ads really mean.
  (tags: work )
• Apples of Eden: Saving the Wild Ancestor of Modern Apples
  Ancient fruit.
  (tags: science )

• The EU's Silent Revolution
  What's really going on in the EU (not available in the UK press). With interesting comment also on Poland.
  (tags: eu )
• Bad writing
  "The carpet was embroiled..."
  (tags: writing )
• New York Review of Science Fiction #300
  Available to download for free!
  (tags: sf )
• 10 Reasons to vote NO to Seanad abolition
  Some of these may be ( Read more... )