Thanks @christopherjm.ft.com for being this week's guest speaker for the @interpolaber.bsky.social first year module Behind the Headlines and sharing your insights into reporting from #Ukraine for @financialtimes.com and answering questions from the students. 👏👏👏
Wini Davies
@winidavies.bsky.social
Emerita professor of German Aberystwyth Uni, Remainer, siarad Cymraeg, support #indyWales #annibyniaeth
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Oh no
Since the destruction of the Russian data centres there have been NO romance scammers invading my DMs. I usually get two or three a day. Is that how Russia finances its shitty work?
A) cool, B) really not sure about calling Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig "folklore"...
Did the Peasants' Revolt have anything to do with any nation of the UK except England? This article uses 'the nation' and 'British' as synonym for 'English' throughout. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
Renate Seifert und Lutz Rackow wuchsen in den militärisch aufgebauten Organisationen der Nazis auf. Er hofft heute, dass der Krieg nicht zurückkehrt, sie engagiert sich bei den »Omas gegen Rechts«.
This is an absolutely key point that so many on the winning side of the referendum seem happy to handwave away. If Russia influenced the result *at all* that matters hugely. If we don't all accept that as a principle we're in a dangerous place.
EU should 'hold a mirror to itself' on Russia sanctions before criticizing others — Latvian minister on Trump diesel deal #Ukraine
While European govts cut social + energy budgets to fund defence spending, people like this rob govts of billions of pounds of tax income www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
A quick reminder that all the deranged right-wing conspiracy theories about James Talarico are to distract from the fact that their candidate, Ken Paxton, is too much of a coward to agree to a debate.
I staffed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, shepherding the confirmations of 100+ ambassadors nominated by three presidents of both parties. ♦️Under prior presidents, any ambassador conducting Guilfoyle-level bribe-solicitation would have been fired immediately.
Cloudflare Data Explorer shows the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center.
It's this kind of behaviour from Russia that means we could soon find ourselves in a unpredictable escalation.
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
