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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 13:03
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 11:21

A decade ago, I stood up in Parliament and urged Conservative ministers to save the Redcar steelworks — our blast furnace, our world-class coke ovens. I warned then that abandoning these strategic assets would have generational consequences, and I wasn’t alone in saying so. My Labour colleagues in the neighbouring constituencies (Redcar and Middlesbrough South […]

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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 10:53
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 28 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 7 summer schools, 5 job openings, 4 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting positions, and a research grant in […]
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Mon, 21/04/2025 - 07:08

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their “black sites.” For those too young to remember (or who have quite understandably chosen to forget), “black sites” was the name given to clandestine CIA detention centers around the world, where that agency held incommunicado and tortured men captured in what was then known as the Global War on Terror. The black site in this case was the notorious Salt Pit in Afghanistan. There el-Masri was, among other things, beaten, anally raped, and threatened with a gun held to his head. After four months he was dumped on... Read more

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