Global leaders throw political support behind polio eradication and transition
G20 backs ending polio.
(tags: polio )

Science fiction’s new golden age in China
Indeed.
(tags: China sf )

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... )

Russia’s 5th Column
Buying up the Far Right in Europe and the US.
(tags: democracy eu ukpolitics uspolitics elections russia )

Electing Europe?
My colleague @MariellevHeumen on the Dutch elections.
(tags: Netherlands elections eu )

Chizhov: Don’t ask me if Russia plans to have an ambassador in Edinburgh - EURACTIV.com
Russia has over centuries had ( Read more... )

What is vaccine-derived polio?
The last stumbling block.
(tags: health polio )

Shetland Islands toy with idea of post-Brexit independence
#TakingBackControl!!!
(tags: Scotland brexit ukpolitics eu )

Cutting down the Lords
@chrishanretty: it should be drastically reduced in size. I'd ask, why have it at all?
(tags: houseoflords ukpolitics )

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Polio then and now: the story of a crippling disease on the verge of worldwide eradication
Well told.
(tags: health polio )

The Sleeper
Walter Jon Williams, @worldcon75 GoH, on Roger Zelazny and Wild Cards.
(tags: sf )

13 things you didn’t know about Brexit
Some key numbers from the European Parliament via @POLITICOEurope.
(tags: brexit eu ( Read more... )

The European Contraception Atlas
Fascinating.
(tags: sexandgenderandsexuality eu )

Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age
Long Guardian piece on time travel in sf.
(tags: sf )

India polio-free for three years: meet the people fighting to keep it that way
Glad to be involved with global eradication.
(tags: health polio )

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Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange
Fascinating and horrible.
(tags: wikileaks )

Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare's co-writers
on all three parts of Henry VI. Makes sense to me.
(tags: shakespeare )

How Not to Do It: Liquid Nitrogen Tanks
Bang!
(tags: physics )

This Election is Positively Delightful Compared to ( Read more... )