Sandy Denny, Billy Connolly & Nick Drake backstage together. Mental.

It’s what Dev would have wanted.

It’s a long way from Dana.

It’s a bit more complicated than that.

Undersea cables and the vulnerability of American power - some important observations from ⁦Aaron Bateman⁩ here. There are a few reflections worth pondering - a quick thread: engelsbergideas.com/essays/underse…

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley would be so proud.

They’ll grow out of it.

This is quite sublime. Old school BBC.

What a magnificent performance. Extraordinary how average today’s parliamentary performers are in comparison.

Blimey.

Where Osborne and Cameron go, Orban follows.

Amazing. Read to the end to see why I’ve posted this 🙄

'In their new history of Wagner... Russian journalists Ilya Barabanov and Denis Korotkov set out to untangle the rise and fall of Prigozhin’s entire nefarious enterprise. The book is a gripping page-turner.' | Sergey Radchenko

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At this point being happily married must feel like having had the morning off from your job at the Twin Towers on 9/11.
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Green is so last season

Today clergy and church members from across the City presented our joint objection to the Bury St development which would directly harm the only synagogue in the City and restrict their freedom of worship. You can read the letter here stkatharinecree.org/post/solidarit…

Funny how much new Europe looks like old Europe

How East Germany lost the battle for technology | Katja Hoyer

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If you read one book, make it Norman Cohn’s The Pursuit of the Millennium.

'Beneath the ocean waves, over 700,000 nautical miles of undersea cables link the far reaches of the world... forming the information backbone of modern society.'

Undersea cables and the vulnerability of American power | Aaron Bateman
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