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Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission unherd.com/2025/11/shaban… via @UnHerd

Keir Starmer: last of the technocrats unherd.com/2025/11/keir-s… via @UnHerd

Who will defend Europe? ft.com/content/f26835… via @ft

Sam Moore, singer who ruled the world of Sixties soul in the duo Sam and Dave – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

It’s Arsenal FFS. What would’ve happened if he sat in the stands? Been beaten up a gang of graphic designers?

On this day in 1961, East German police and soldiers begin erecting the Berlin Wall. A potent symbol of the Cold War, it will stand for 10,315 days.

Kharkiv. A young firefighter cries at the place of explosion, where russia few minutes before killed his father, a 52-year-old rescuer. Eternal memory to Vladyslav Logienko, who died saving the lives of civilians. Ukraine needs more air defense systems, to save our people from russian terror. Such tragedies should not be repeated. 📹: Ihor Klymenko

edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynam… - Call to ban school-gate protests that forced teacher into hiding

Waking up with that winning feeling >>> #CFC | #CheNew

On this day in 1943, Franklin D Roosevelt becomes the first sitting U.S. president to travel overseas by airplane when he departs Miami for the Casablanca summit in North Africa.

Last night, #Assad-linked drug smugglers engaged in major hours-long battles with #Jordan armed forces. 9 were captured alive, along with 5 million #Captagon pills, 13,000 marijuana packets, advanced anti-tank rockets & #Iran made 107mm artillery rockets. A marked escalation.

Long but riveting critique of the NYT from James Bennet, a former senior editor economist.com/1843/2023/12/1…

A new style of revolt literally taking over the whole country. And this just the tip of the iceberg. #IranRevolution

Absolutely brilliant. Despite being arrested previously for doing this song and dance in the street, our man at the fishmonger’s is back dancing again. A massive two fingers up at the regime with a message loud and clear: we come back and we come back stronger than before. And sparking a wave of yet more ‘dance protests’. In the words of @HosseinRonaghi “Living is our greatest revenge against the enemies of life and happiness.”

RIGHT NOW in 1941, a bomb dropped from a Japanese warplane strikes the battleship USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. The explosion kills 1,177 and destroys the vessel.

The State Department is expected to announce as soon as Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on several dozen Israeli settlers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, banning them from traveling to the US. My story on @axios axios.com/2023/12/05/us-…

I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it. 🧵

A name that will be missed from the Grand Prix paddock next year! 😞 @pons_racing have been on quite the journey! 🙌 #MotoGP

On this day in 1944, Patton breaks thru Germany's Siegfried Line. "Fixed fortifications are a monument to man's stupidity."