Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Fein vice-president, sits in front of the cabinet at the King's coronation. In its own way the most amazing photo of the day.
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Great article . The rise of Poland is shifting the balance of power in Europe in ways we haven't seen in centuries
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In theory, Poland hates the idea of European strategic autonomy. In practice, by taking up the burden of defending Europe’s eastern marches through its massive rearmament programme, it’s accelerating it: unherd.com/thepost/poland
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Aside from being very cool, also a glimpse of what British-Celtic longhorn cattle would have looked like
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Now that it’s been declared treasure, I’m excited to finally share this incredible hoard that I was so lucky to help excavate. The c.1st century AD Llantrisant Fawr vessel hoard found near Usk, Monmouthshire 
We named the ox, Bovril 
#FindsFriday
southwalesargus.co.uk/news/23489170.
We named the ox, Bovril
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🟢 " In 1603, two dynasties fell.
Elizabeth 1 died childless: the Tudors lost the
Crown. And Hugh O'Neill surrendered to the English: over 1000 years of Gaelic monarchy ended.
O'Neill died in despair in 1616.
But history had not abandoned him.
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A new law comes into effect in Lithuania today that legalizes so-called pushbacks. The move has been heavily criticized, but it's not without precedent in the European Union. DW's reports:
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In theory, Poland hates the idea of European strategic autonomy. In practice, by taking up the burden of defending Europe’s eastern marches through its massive rearmament programme, it’s accelerating it: unherd.com/thepost/poland
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In theory, Poland hates the idea of European strategic autonomy. In practice, by taking up the burden of defending Europe’s eastern marches through its massive rearmament programme, it’s accelerating it:
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“Replacing the careworn grandmother embodying the post-war diminution of the British state, our new king, part Athonite mystic, part pampered dandy, remains a mystery…”
on perfect form. I too am excited for the Green Man King!
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I wrote Father Ted for , but really about Ireland in the 90s - “a strange & special time where the graph lines tracing the decline of the old and the rise of the new crossed, briefly creating the illusion we could live in both worlds simultaneously”
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Not sure how I missed this from the otherwise unmissable but yes to all of it. Embrace Charles the Weird.
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the 2010s were wild
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A decade ago, VICE looked like the future of TV news. It wasn’t: unherd.com/2023/05/my-par
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"Historians of the craft of newsgathering will record that Vice News changed the visual grammar of the medium."
Would read 4000 words on the intersection of Vice News and the Canon 5d MkII...
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"The future of news was young and online, and there was no going back ... like Isis, Vice wrongly thought it could take on the giants and win."
poignant Vice News eulogy from . BuzzFeed was also like this except my business cards said LOL
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“Like Isis, Vice was a 2010s phenomenon that wrongly thought it could take on the giants and win.” on the meteoric trajectory of Vice News
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Smart piece by on the disappearance of Vice News. Highly recommend his book Rebels, which is mostly about his adventures in war reporting and does very well at showing just how complicated the world is.
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Best elegy for Vice I have read. Hits the nail on the head, and leaves those of us who care about the news with a lot to think about.
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Really good piece by on the days when Vice News was showing the world how to report on Isis and Ukraine.
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“But news is expensive and talk is cheap…” - would add what a former editor told me “it’s cheap to be first, it’s expensive to be accurate” - this article reinforces that in-depth broadcast news done well is v expensive and rarely commercially viable. Bean counters hate news!
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A decade ago, VICE looked like the future of TV news. It wasn’t: unherd.com/2023/05/my-par
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A decade ago, VICE looked like the future of TV news. It wasn’t:
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#Beltane practices of Brythonic origin survived well into the medieval period in Cumbria and Lancashire.
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Something is stirring across the land… in London, Huw Edwards washes his robes in spring water, preparing for Saturday’s great and bloody sacrifice
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As politico put it earlier this year "Orban has won", when Ylva Johansson is speaking in euphemisms such as "assisting Tunisia in anti-smuggling operations" the game is up. I think Germany is the only government which is even vaguely pro Asylum these days.
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UK small boats discourse ignores the effective clampdown on migrant crossings carried out by EU countries, evading legal challenges by ignoring them
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It cannot go on like this! Dissolution of Mare Liberum.
After five years of operation in the Aegean, we have decided with a heavy heart to withdraw from Lesvos, end our human rights monitoring as Mare Liberum, and dissolve the association.
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The Last King of Ireland?
A descendent of Brian Boru and Dermot McMorrough, his uncle blown up in the Troubles.
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Quite funny that the British monarch uses the coronation stone said to be for the 6th century Irish King of Dál Riata, Fergus Mór, and later Scottish Kings via Cináed mac Ailpín and not the Anglo-Saxon coronation stone that stands idle in Kingston upon Thames twitter.com/lyoncourt/stat…
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The Irish language is to form part of the coronation of King Charles III.
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The only business models left for news: subscriptions, subsidies, and the kindness of billionaires.
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“Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy - The New York Times”
The New York Times thrives while Vice and Buzzfeed News are on the way out. Who saw that a decade ago?
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Labour discussing plans for new towns, freeing up the greenbelt for new housing — and giving councils the right to draw up local plans for their regions but not veto developments that meet them
Full policy to come at conference
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Ramy has helped me send journalists to the opium fields of Afghanistan and to cartel land in Sinaloa. He’s a genius at his job, he’s super cool and I have untold respect for him.
If you want your journalists to report safely anywhere in the world, he’s the man.
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Well, after over 5 years with Vice, it’s finally my turn to take a bow since I was just informed today that the Vice News layoffs are affecting my role as the Senior Production Security Manager.
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For the first time since the Reformation: the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, will give a blessing to Charles III at the end of the coronation, according to the coronation liturgy published by the Anglican Church on Saturday evening.
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Ein neues Kapitel in der britischen Königsgeschichte beginnt: Die bevorstehende #Krönung von #CharlesIII wird erstmals seit der Reformation von katholischen Bischöfen begleitet. #Royals #KingCharlesIII #Kirche katholisch.de/artikel/44824-
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Labour's Keir Starmer pledged to restore mandatory home-building targets scrapped by the Tories
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A superb essay by Grey Anderson on the origins of NATO, its ideological underpinnings, and political aims from the end of the Cold War to the present:
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Keep coming back to this great piece by — which is also further evidence of the narrative resurgence of the Nairn-Anderson thesis post-Johnson
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Conceived in June 2022 — before Johnson's ousting and Truss's widespread crisis — I take the long view — locating a tipping point for Britain and its relative and absolute decline in 1902 — if not 1702.
Thanks to @miltonwrites & @wolftivy for edits.
palladiummag.com/2023/04/27/bri
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We do not live in a world that revolves around cosmopolitan solidarity or global norms, argues
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The Coronation: Bronze Age mumbo jumbo that embarrasses a 21st C nation or connection to a distant past that can satisfy an inchoate yearning for the sacral?
Let the people decide!
Me in the Observer on next weekend’s proceedings in Westminster Abbey
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