Paulina Kewes
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Prof of English @UniofOxford & Fellow of @JesusOxford ; Leverhulme Trust MRF, 2021-24; P-I @ParlCulture ; #FRHistS #Twitterstorians . Views all mine. RT is RT.
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'Ancient Rome in English Political Culture, ca. 1570–1660', ed. Paulina Kewes, special issue of HLQ. Essays by Annabel Brett,
@FreyjaCoxJensen
,
@PKewes
, Patricia Osmond, Nicholas Popper, David Harris Sacks, Malcolm Smuts, Arthur Williamson, Blair Worden.
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This is awful. If any student would like to talk about their experience, please email me. I'm not Jewish but will be only too happy to offer support. Oxford is not meant to be like this and we, the faculty, must do everything in our power to stigmatize and root out antisemitism.
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This is a sad but fair indictment. Will be cancelling my NYT subscription.
For those who've paid attention to the Russia-Ukraine war, yes, the NYT is finished, and the major humanitarian organisations are finished. One should add the International Olympic Committee.
(IMO, the BBC faces a more systemic problem of loss of relevance for int'l news.)
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@SholaMos1
@AuschwitzMuseum
You can follow or unfollow whomever you like but what you've written above is disgraceful, and you should be ashamed of yourself. I won't say you're an embarrassment to humanity because you're not significant enough.
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@DrewPavlou
Hey, Drew, look how few there are of them. Barely half a dozen. Give Polish people some cred for NOT participating in this stunt organized by a Pal resident in the country and a handful of his mates.
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When I criticized her here a couple of months ago, I got flack. Well, I was right.
Judith Butler describing the October 7 massacre as armed resistance: “We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But [...] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance.[...] This was an uprising”
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Are you surprised? We've long known that's what would get them going against Putin. And remember how worked up they all got about the visaban. Never about genocide.
Just seen Russian protests. That’s really insane.
They are protesting against mobilization, not against the war and invasion into Ukraine with war-crimes.
They are against mobilization, saying “Let’s get Putin into trenches”.
They want war, but want someone else to die there.
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RIP Hero. Ukraine is losing her best. When will all the necessary help be provided?
Volodymyr Havrysh was a brilliant man.
He studied in US.and Germany and wanted more than anything to make Ukraine a better place. Volodymyr implemented reforms and could do so much for our country.
He stood up to defend Ukraine and gave up his life for it.
RIP, Volodymyr.
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One of the most moving, heartfelt, and utterly unpretentious monologues you'll ever hear. Do listen. It will make you a better person.
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A Polish-Jewish woman who tried to prevent the Polish MP's fire-extinguisher attack on a Menorah in PL Parliament and got sprayed and abused for her efforts speaks of this shocking experience. She says 'This is not 1939. It's Poland 2023'.
The perp is an alt-right xenophobe.
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This is ten times worse than seeing young people shout idiotic slogans on the street or campus egging each other on. Words fail me.
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Alex Dancyg - an Israeli-Polish Hamas hostage has fallen victim to Hamas death-lust.
May his memory be a blessing.
Alex spent much of his life enlightening people about the Holocaust, especially in Poland.
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Another of my DPhil students has just passed the viva with flying colours and was encouraged by the examiners to publish the fruit of their research asap!
One lives for moments like this!
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RIP Hero. This is so painful.
Liliya Shulyk, a 22 year old combat medic of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Prince Roman the Great" died while defending our lives. Some months ago her fiancé died in battle. She leaves a small child behind.
Heroine 🇺🇦.
#lviv
Лілії #Шулик
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Utterly unexpectedly, I just received a death certificate of my father's first wife, Anna Kewes, of whose fate I knew nothing. Also death certificates of her many family members. All perished at Auschwitz Sept-Oct 1944: barely months before its liberation. Feeling shaken.
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Next they'll be hosting Hamas leaders
The Russian ambassador to the UK is scheduled to return to Oxford for an event hosted by the Oxford Majlis. Originally, the event was intended to be filmed by Russia’s main state-controlled channel, Russia 1, raising safety and propaganda concerns.
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Disgusting, stupid, and criminal. Now what?
#Breaking
- Pro-Palestine protester defaces and slashes a historic 1914 painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Awful scenes to see at my alma mater.
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So very very sad to hear of the sudden death of Hamish Scott, our lovely distinguished historian colleague at Jesus. Hamish's new book is in press -- he so looked forward to its publication.
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Are there no more people who care about the women of Iran?
AtenaFarghadani, the famous
#Iran
's cartoonist &former political prisoner, arrested 13April2024 & taken to
#Evin
Prison. Let's help together so this beautiful smile does not stay behind bars.
please call for her immediate release &
#FreePoliticalPrisoners
#HumanRightsViolation
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How many know about it? Thank you for this illuminating thread.
For a long time, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was the only higher general education, comprehensive educational institution of Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the entire Orthodox world. Founded on the principles of humanism and enlightenment, the Academy not only taught young people, 2/n
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We really need to get your guys to help us with the running of trains here in the UK after the war!
the first train from kyiv is arriving to mykolayiv since 24.02.
ukraine is unbreakable
@suspilne_news
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I heard today from a very close friend in Ukraine. She says everyone is aging, faster than imaginable, and those fighting are getting ever more exhausted. She didn't say anything one didn't know. And she didn't complain. But it was profoundly sad to read. We mustn't abandon UKR.
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it's not just that he has to be explaining that genocide is bad -- it's also that so many are still failing to get it or do anything about it.
it is 2023 and a jewish leader of a european country has to explain the rest on holocaust remembrance day why allowing genocide is bad. let it sink in.
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When I started my English DPhil at Oxford there was a guy in my cohort who knew he wanted to be a banker but first he was keen to write a thesis on Nicholas Rowe -- a rather forgotten Poet Laureate. And he did. Both. Kudos to him.
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A demo in Krakow today in favour of sex equality, access to abortion, LGBTQ+, removal of Catholic church from schools, etc. Young people here face untold tragedies because of the prevailing ideology and legal restrictions. I'm in awe of them.
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I was in America when the Bucha massacre was uncovered. Shaken, I told a US academic friend. She responded: oh but the US army did horrible things in Iraq. It's the same mentality -- Western guilt.
Amazed to see how so many replying to my thread on Russian state propaganda, w 'oh, it's just the same in the UK/US/etc'
Please, stop it. Whatever flaws there are in Western media pluralism, it cannot be compared to a state that viciously stamped out free media by fear + force
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Wlasnie wstapilam do pewnej Lewicowej partii!
❤️mam po Lewej stronie!
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John Walsh, Emeritus Fellow in History
@JesusOxford
has passed away. So very sad. The kindest, most generous and learned church historian and fellow-fellow. Jesus won't be the same without him.
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RIP Hero. Forever young.
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Before WW2 my father and his first wife Anna lived at this address: Piotrowska 81, Lodzi. Today I saw the house for the first time.
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What an utterly rubbish piece which disenfranchises the Ukrainians and their immediate neighbours, and effectively calls for Putin's appeasement.
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If you're one of those backing or participating in student protests, read this and, putting aside your zeal for the cause, try to reflect on how so many Jewish students and academics and staff are feeling.
I wrote an article calling out the
@tcdsu
’s antisemitic behaviour in more depth for
@JewishChron
— including the specific speeches and statements that convinced me that writing my open letter was necessary.
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Read this. And reflect on the significance of what's said here.
A country without Jews -- a poignant reminder of what Poland is like, where we trace the memories of those no longer living there.
Here it is. Online version out tomorrow.
‘Irish people will follow the well-paved path of the citizens of so many nations before them: walking through quarters where the whisper of Jewish memory lingers, a memory that may, over time, also be erased.’
This is for my ancestors.
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Please share widely!!!
@steven_seegel
@padochka
@sasha_weirdsley
Oxford University Graduate Scholarships for Ukraine | University of Oxford
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Yessss! And see how carefully it's done! This is not some iconoclastic fury but a thoughtful, considered decision.
chernivtsi in western ukraine removed a pushkin bust from local theater’s facade. decolonization in ukraine is irreversible and unstoppable. one bust of a russian imperialist at a time
@suspilne_news
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Punting Arthur Miller, May 1995. Almost as cold and wet as this May. Instead of an al fresco lunch at Vicky Arms, we had a picnic in our student digs.
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Stunning picture from today's Gazette: 'The entrance to Oxford from the London Road, 1800s'
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BREAKING & TOTALLY UNEXPECTED!
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter
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@hearnimator
@Channel4
The important thing is we now have a v public conversation about antisemitism. It's front and centre in a way it wasn't before. And it's about anti-Jewish racism -- not about Palestine, Israel, etc etc. It's about what is happening to Jewish people in the UK. It's about them.
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when shall we finally deal with Hungary? god knows, the Polish govt is horrendous domestically but at least it's supporting Ukraine. HUN is a disgrace to EU.
NATO has gone too far in supplying weapons to Ukraine, we have never been so close to a world war, - Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijártó said after the meeting of the heads of foreign affairs of NATO.
According to the Hungarian minister, NATO countries, by providing
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@UniofOxford
's Vice-Chancellor and her team's handling of the encampment and related protests has been exemplary.
'It is clear that the actions of some of the protesters involved in the encampment have created a deeply intimidating environment for many members of our community,
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@SholaMos1
@SCynic1
Israel isn't harvesting organs of Palestinians. Saying so is a latter-day version of Antisemitic blood libel.
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Wow, this is good news!
⚡️ European Parliament backs resolution calling for suspending Hungary's EU voting rights.
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Well, I am Polish, I read Polish news, and can tell you that there is a hell of a lot ugly anti-Ukrainian rhetoric coming from the ruling party and state media. I mean very ugly. And it's all part of their electoral campaign which is also racist and xenophobic.
Let us hope that calmer heads will prevail. But the accusations against Poland - especially those uttered by Ukrainian and German politicians - are outrageous and completely unwarranted; the only one benefitting from this spat is Vladimir Putin
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I tried to reason with the four people sitting outside the Univ. of Warsaw gates. One never heard of Al Jazeera, another said this was no time for nuance and the third, a woman (not Polish) hissed 'Israel must not exist'.
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Catherine Deneuve reads a poem by Lesia Ukrainka: do watch even if you don't have French -- it is desperately beautiful and moving
Catherine Deneuve lit le poème "L'Espérance" de la poétesse ukrainienne Lessia Oukraïnka, en soutien à l'Ukraine.
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He would say that, wouldn't he?
'I asked Sinwar, is it worth 10,000 Gazans dying? He said, even 100,000 is worth it'
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My third DPhil student in under a year has just passed their viva with flying colours! Hooray!
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I and my fellow-Poles who remember only too well the antizionist drive of the communist party in 1968 which led the expulsion of thousands of Jews, incl many Holocaust survivors from Poland, this sounds beyond sinister.
I should also say that I will have something to say about Jewish representation in the civil service shortly. The data is fascinating, but does require thoughtful analysis.
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@TymoteuszKochan
warto dodac dehumanizacje Zydow i Izraelczykow przez altleftowcow i jest komplet
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Absolutely brilliant!
Hundreds of classic Polish films made available for free online
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We are failing Ukraine. We're letting her be massacred. Ukrainians are the innocent victims here.
Where is everyone?
Awful night for Kharkiv. Russia again massively attacked the city with Shahed drones. At least six killed. This is pure, blatant terrorism.
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Fantastic initiative for Ukraine from Central European University (kicked out of Hungary by Orban)
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A ray of hope that this tide of anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism might be abating? or at least that there are sensible young people at some US universities?
Let's celebrate!
In a shocking defeat for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Cornell University’s Student Assembly rejected a resolution accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza demanding school officials “divest” fm companies deemed “complicit” according to a report by The Cornell Daily Sun.
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This was the synagogue in my hometown Sopot which was burn down on Kristal Nacht
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nawet nie chce myslec jak sie teraz czuja studenci & wladze UAM, ktorzy jeszcze dzis rano publicznie potepiali strajkujacych w Jowicie...
Minister nauki
@wieczorekdarek
obiecał studentom w Poznaniu, którzy okupują od sześciu dni akademik Jowita, że budynek zostanie wyremontowany i nadal będzie akademikiem. Niebawem więcej informacji 👉
@theus_julia
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Vilnius has renamed the road of the Russian embassy in the Lithuanian capital to “Ukrainian Heroes’ Street” in protest of Russia’s invasion.
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Respect. The Russian shld not be there in the first place.
Polish chess grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda refusing to shake the hand of Russian Denis Khismatullin, who has expressed support for Putin's war in Ukraine, at the World Rapid Chess Championship
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Who knew that when I rented an apt in SoCal from a lady with an obv Jewish-sounding name, she'd turn out to be Polish from what is now Ukraine (her husband was Jewish), and that she'd become like a loving mother I never had. Here we are at Mission San Gabriel, after a concert.
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My college,
@JesusOxford
, used to have a Celtic chair; there were UG courses and the Celtic MPhil. Then the Mod Lang decided it wasn't one of their 'strategic priorities' and dispensed with it. All the fellows were appalled; we fund-raised & badgered & the Celtic Chair is back!
Ah,
#CelticStudies
and
#Gaelic
at Oilthigh Obar-dheathain... good times!
But this tweet hasn't aged well, has it? Haven't you (insanely, embarrassingly) decided to cut languages from your offered courses? 🤦♀️
#SaveUoALanguages
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Meet the new chair of the Parliamentary Club of the Polish Left.
Symbolic that a Polish Jewish woman has been elected on a day when the Menorah was desecrated by a rabid fascist alt-right MP.
📣
@AM_Zukowska
została wybrana nową Przewodniczącą Klubu Parlamentarnego Lewicy!
Gratulujemy i jednocześnie dziękujemy za dotychczasową pracę
@KGawkowski
, który już jutro obejmie funkcję Wicepremiera Rządu RP.
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A MUST-READ in today's Guardian: one Polish man's fight to preserve the thousands of shoes belonging to some of the 65,000 victims murdered at the Stutthof Concentration Camp (of whom 28,000 were Jews).
Thank you - and respect
@Grzegor54109874
.
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For the first time in Poland's history more women voted than men!
Polish women delivered!!!
Te wybory, to i tak ogromna wygrana dla
@wschod_
❤️ pierwszy raz w historii kobiety mają wyższą frekwencję wyborczą (73,7 procent) od mężczyzn
Osób głosujących w wieku 18-29 było więcej niż 60+
Napewno jeszcze dużo pracy przed nami, ale demokracja wygrała! 🥹
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Absolutely delighted that the eminent scholar of early modern European history Luc Duerloo, Professor of History (and Dean) at the University of Antwerp, will be joining
@JesusOxford
as a Visiting Fellow next academic year: in-person scholarly interactions set to resume!
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The man is beyond exhausted: he's a stalwart and a hero of our times
The battles are fierce, but we are moving forward, and this is very important. The enemy's losses are exactly what we need. Although the weather is unfavorable these days – the rains make our task more difficult – the strength of our warriors still yields results, and I thank
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There's a parallel competition -- who's the worst spanner in the works. Germany seems to be winning that one.
Plus, and I think we might be missing the big picture here, it means the EU, U.K., USA and Canada are all building a larger political interest in Ukraine winning. That’s a really good thing.
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@m7_cole
@Leda197917
@simon_schama
Tweeting from the behind the screen of your trollish anonymity, you're both impolite and vacuous.
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Special issue of HLQ edited by yours truly, and dedicated to the memory of the much-missed Justin Champion.
Project MUSE - Huntington Library Quarterly: Volume 83, Number 3, Autumn 2020
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So Ukraine is ahead of Poland on that and gay rights and I imagine access to abortion...
Huge news for Ukraine. Bad news for
#Ukrainian
corrupt judges.
Lawyer/Civic activist Roman Maselko has been elected by the parliament as head of the Supreme Council of Justice. I.e. of
#Ukraine
's only body entitled to fire judges.
Congrats, Roman! Clean house!
#StandWithUkraine
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All Ukraine lovers and scholars -- and decent people around the world -- will be appalled to hear that Prof.
@TimothyDSnyder
has just been interrupted by protesters. If Yale can't stop such outrage, there's little hope for the US academe.
This is a shocking example of a heckler’s veto: Professors should not be subjected to shout downs by outside groups. Yale must take every precaution to protect Prof.
@TimothyDSnyder
’s class from further disruption.
We’ll keep you updated as we learn more
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What might have been.
My father Borys Kewes and his first wife Anna, whom my Polish Catholic mother said he'd divorced. Not so. He and one of his brothers escape to the Soviet Union. She is forced to leave their home for the Lodz Ghetto on 5.1.40; perishes at Auschwitz 30.9.44
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Yes, have been saying this for weeks. It's as if there were a price tag in Ukrainian blood
There will eventually be a European wide embargo on the purchase of Russian fuels (Hungary excepted?). The only question is how many atrocities the Russian Army has to openly commit before it happens.
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Cldn't agree more. In my English classroom in no 3 High School in Gdynia in commie Poland, there was the following line: 'The House of Lords is proof that there's life after death'. It'sstayed with me.
Another persuasive argument to get rid of the House of Lords. Do we really need U.K. unelected faux-aristocrats who have taken Putin’s money, lecturing democratic Finland on its responsibilities?
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@BriannaWu
Frankly, one shouldn't need contacts to report this and expect it to be taken seriously.
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Oxford Classicists, you may have missed this abt one of you
@ArmandDAngour
@llewelyn_morgan
@GeorgyKantor
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Yes, yes, and yes
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Wonderful news: my third DPhil in under two years has just sailed through their viva!
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RIP Hero. Gone so very young.
Oleksandr Onyshchenko, master of sport in boxing, champion of Ukraine among juniors was killed in action in the russian war. So many athletes and sportsmen took up arms to defend our nation's right to exist. Rest in glory
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when will Obama's conscience awake?
Budapest memorandum should teach the world a lesson:
- not helping Ukraine to win is the worst case for any future non-proliferation efforts;
- succumbing to russian nuclear blackmail would only speed up proliferation;
- altogether this would welcome, not deter the nuclear war
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