Emmanuel Macron: A New Hope for Europe?
My colleague @MathildeBouvier on the new landscape.
(tags: france )

Some Recent Irish History
John Bruton has not forgotten 1997.
(tags: ireland )

New consensus in Germany - Brexit should be clean, and Britain should pay for it
@JeremyCliffe reports.
(tags: germany eu brexit )

Chasing Cures for Deadly ( Read more... )

UK denies residency to London-born children of Dutch-Spanish couple
Shameful.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit eu migration )

Conflict and Famine
The last time the UN declared a famine was in 2011. Today we are on the brink of four.
(tags: war southsudan Somalia nigeria yemen )

Democracy Is Not Dying
Thomas Carothers & @YoungsRichard at @CarnegieEndow are ( Read more... )

Hating Comic Sans is Ableist
The subtleties of fonts.
(tags: fonts disability )

What Is Incivility Costing You?
It doesn't do any harm to be nice.
(tags: psychology )

Brutal reality of lower benefit cap hits home for struggling families
Theresa May's war on the poor.
(tags: ukpolitics )

Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance
The end is nigh.
(tags: uspolitics )

To grow trade with India, UK must stop raising walls against Indian students and professionals
War on migrants has ( Read more... )

Re-tests axed for chronically ill claimants
At last, UK Govt retreating in its war on disabled.
(tags: disability ukpolitics )

What Caused Crime to Decline in the U.S.?
Many answers, none completely convincing.
(tags: uspolitics crime )

"Alexander Hamilton" in ASL
Chills down the spine...
(tags: hamilton disability )

UKIP's MP Is Arguing With Scientists About What Causes Tides And People Are Taking The Piss
And rightly so.
(tags: brexit astronomy )

Terence Crutcher's Family Seeks Criminal Charges: 'His Life Mattered'
Another one.
(tags: race uspolitics )

Police In North Carolina ( Read more... )

How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game
Wow.
(tags: disability sf )

A Pocket Guide To Northern Ireland
For WW2 US Servicemen. Hilarious!
(tags: Northernireland wwii )

Radical Futures and Conservative Sensitivities
Great deconstruction of the issues around SF today.
(tags: sf )

Exonerating Milosevic: A ( Read more... )

It's time to defend Brexit, says the Spectator
Getting worried?
(tags: ukpolitics eu )

20 Big Questions about the Future of Humanity
Q: Will sex become obsolescent?
A: No.
(tags: science )

The Hidden Danger of Big Data
In 2015, mankind produced as much information as was created in all previous years of human civilization.
(tags: internet )

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400-year-old Greenland shark is the oldest vertebrate animal
Wow.
(tags: biology )

The Decline of War
The world is getting less violent; we’re just more aware of the violence that happens.
(tags: war )

Africa’s renaissance starts on school benches
@irinabokova on education as force for change.
(tags: education development )

Trees save lives: why ( Read more... )

The Food Lab: A New Way to Cook Pasta?
Long but convincing.
(tags: cooking )

Intellectuals are freaks
Don't agree with all of this but interesting thoughts.
(tags: psychology academe politics )

‘Biased’ fit for work tests penalise poorer people
Colour me unsurprised.
(tags: disability ukpolitics )

Brexit means Brexit - but in reality it’s a long ( Read more... )