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Spot on, as usual! Europe’s humiliation over Ukraine unherd.com/2025/12/europe… via @UnHerd

Illuminating thoughts for the age of unreason. Shared with you by a Times subscriber. Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/comment/column…

The Enlightenment in history and polemics: John Robertson, Caroline Warman and Jacob Chatterjee discuss J.C.D. Clark‘s new book, with the author, at our Enlightenment Workshop on Wed. 12 February, 5pm @magdalenoxford. All welcome! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

Zima uderzyła z całą siłą, a to, co widzicie na filmie, to brutalna rzeczywistość. Gdzieś obok nas psy na łańcuchach w mrozie walczą o każdy oddech i przetrwanie. To nie jest tylko film – to dramat. Internet ma moc. Jeśli to zobaczysz i zareagujesz, możesz ocalić życie. Nie pozwól, by obojętność była wyrokiem. Proszę polub i podaj ten film dalej.

This is a fascinating discussion, and I find myself wishing that @holysmoke and A N Wilson would have a regular podcast

Fantastically good concert @BarbicanCentre tonight with @BuniatishviliKh and @ASMForchestra ! Everyone put everything into it, wow! Amazing encores as well. Thank you!

@GabrielAttal Très très très bien parlé, bravo

EN DIRECT | La censure du Gouvernement plongerait notre pays dans l'inconnu. Depuis la tribune de l'Assemblée nationale, j'exprime la position de mon groupe parlementaire.. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Emmanuel Macron est responsable de la crise dans laquelle nous nous trouvons. Mais nous ne pouvons pas entretenir l’illusion que sa démission sortirait les Français du marasme. Tenir une présidentielle anticipée, c’est prendre le risque que Marine Le Pen soit élue. Et même avec un président de gauche, nous n’aurions pas de majorité avant une nouvelle dissolution à l’été, sans moyens donc pour mener une politique de gauche. #FaceÀFace

Quelle chose joyeuse!

Priceless. Oh, for those days...

Very important reading here: British farmers have nothing left to give ft.com/content/c640f2… via @ft

One of the best Rest is Politics episodes, especially on ways of framing the mistakes we all make and how to move forward from them, most crucially (of course) in political contexts.

@HeleneBismarck Thank you, Helene, this is very interesting!

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like. Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out. The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked. I'll let you decide how you feel about that. After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way. The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?! No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!". Can you even imagine how that must feel? The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck. I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances. So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved. So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C. They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home. So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget. She had to be rushed to the hospital. By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out. They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her. Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD! God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done. If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view. It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be. If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

@Policy_Exchange @PaulGoodmanCH Thank you all for such a thought-provoking and nuanced discussion. Much looking forward to seeing how this project progresses.

🎥 Join us now as we launch our Future of the Right Project Chaired by @PaulGoodmanCH Watch now 👇 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@classicjacko @bbcproms @BBCSingers @owainpark @BerlinPhil It was SUCH an amazing concert, thank you all!!!

The end of a very special weekend @bbcproms. Thank you @BBCSingers, @owainpark, and the incomparable @BerlinPhil under Kirill Petrenko.

Happy national day to the most obsessively unhappy people in the world. May you come to learn that France is not the worst of all possible Frances and to scorn the people who tell you otherwise.

Democracy as it should always be.

Anyone who has ever taught history will absolutely ♥️ this clip of French Green candidate Marine Tondelier pulling out a whole bunch of primary sources on the 1936 Popular Front and patiently explaining them to a dumb chatshow host... She's the breakout star of 2024!

Thinking today about the parting words that Jacques Chirac, France's last respectable President, had for the French people: x.com/souri_cat/stat… "Never compromise with extremism, racism, antisemitism or the rejection of others. In our history, extremism has already almost led us to the abyss. It is a poison. It divides, it perverts, it destroys. EVERYTHING in the soul of France says no to extremism." Wherever he is, he is weeping today.