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Depoliticisation of TV and journalism means cutting state privileges and restrictions. This is the opposite of that.
🇷🇸 #Serbia – La Lista Studentesca, vincitrice delle ultime elezioni, ha pubblicato dettagli sulla propria politica sui media. Oltre alla "depoliticizzazione della TV di Stato e del giornalismo", la Lista ha annunciato forti restrizioni ai Reality Show: massimo 45 minuti al giorno, trasmissione solo dopo le 23 e divieto di dirette sulle frequenze nazionali. Prevista inoltre una quota minima del 30% della programmazione televisiva per contenuti educativi, scientifici, culturali e per bambini.
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Michael Carrick sacked by MUFC.
Top lad, got the team in the Champions League against expectations. Gave it his all, night and day. Protected others, never threw anyone under a bus. Worked in difficult circumstances. Leaves with head held high. I wish him and his staff the very best.
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Anti-homosexuality laws in Trinidad and Tobago overturned bbc.in/3WBDSSD
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One of the greatest honours of any ambassador: the solemn duty of representing one’s country on #RemembranceDay.
Today, we laid wreaths in honour of the fallen at the Serbian, French and Commonwealth cemeteries in #Belgrade.
Lest we forget.
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On #ArmisticeDay, we remember the service and sacrifice of all those who have lost their lives in conflict.
ALT World War I soldiers in a trench advance towards the front, with the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae overlaid on the image. The coat of arms of the United Kingdom appears in the upper right corner.
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Данас, са дубоким поштовањем и поносом, одајемо почаст херојима који су својом храброшћу, жртвом и непоколебљивом вером у слободу исписали славне странице српске историје.
Њихова жртва је вечна, а наша дужност је да је никада не заборавимо.
Живела победа и вечна захвалност свим јунацима!
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Why the Hegseth impeachment is likely far from over: reason.com/volokh/2026/11/10…
Today marks Remembrance Day across the Allied nations of the First World War.
That includes Serbia, where the conflict began in July 1914. It lost almost 1/4 of its entire population from 1914 to 1918, a higher proportion than even the USSR during the Second World War.
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Whatever you make of this specific impeachment, using the process to enforce the War Powers Resolution is not only a valid and good move for the House, but (along with the approps process) also exactly what detractors say Congress *should* do when they try judicial means .
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Every single person who was intensely upset after the 2016 election is completely vindicated. We said he’d start a war, we said he’d act like a tyrant, we said he’d engage in corruption never seen before in US history, we said he was compromised by foreign powers. We were right.
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Delighted @K_Niemietz has joined @CatoInstitute. He has worked on supply-side affordability approaches, the appeal of socialism, and other topics now prominent in American politics for decades. He's also a funny and original writer, and a pleasure to work (and drink) with.
That's a wrap! I'm joining the Cato Institute, remotely, from London, starting in January.
I've been in their outer orbit for 20 years, and in lots of ways, it's an obvious choice.
Our AI overlords agree. I've asked Gemini "Would Kristian Niemietz be a good fit for the Cato Institute?", and it said:
"Niemietz [...] would be an exceptionally strong fit for the Cato Institute. [...] His systematic critique of central planning, collectivism, and political romanticism directly mirrors Cato's core mission to counter interventionist economic narratives. [...] Like Cato scholars, Niemietz bridges academic rigor with accessible commentary for public discourse, appearing frequently in mainstream media, writing books, and engaging in public debates."
Nothing to add, really. Except: I'll very much remain part of the extended Tufton Swamp!
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That's a wrap! I'm joining the Cato Institute, remotely, from London, starting in January.
I've been in their outer orbit for 20 years, and in lots of ways, it's an obvious choice.
Our AI overlords agree. I've asked Gemini "Would Kristian Niemietz be a good fit for the Cato Institute?", and it said:
"Niemietz [...] would be an exceptionally strong fit for the Cato Institute. [...] His systematic critique of central planning, collectivism, and political romanticism directly mirrors Cato's core mission to counter interventionist economic narratives. [...] Like Cato scholars, Niemietz bridges academic rigor with accessible commentary for public discourse, appearing frequently in mainstream media, writing books, and engaging in public debates."
Nothing to add, really. Except: I'll very much remain part of the extended Tufton Swamp!
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In this post, I outline case for impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for his role in perpetrating over 200 murders, and starting an unconstitutional war. I have my issues with Rep. Thomas Massie. But he's absolutely right here: reason.com/volokh/2026/11/08…
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A strong pro-Ukraine post election wind at our back, we must push right away to impose sanctions waived by Trump, stop his despicable diesel deal, provide military aid, particularly air defense—& other measures to show support necessary to bring Putin to serious peace talks. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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The Royal Family, the Prime Minister and other senior MPs and peers have laid wreaths on the Cenotaph as part of Remembrance Sunday commemorations.
Watch live on Sky News 🔗 trib.al/x8rLQv4
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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A packed room at our first panel of the day at Ukrainian Renaissance Chernivtsi this morning.
We are speaking about Eastern Europe's Struggle with Authoritarian Populism.
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The least bad version of socialism that ever existed.
Still a bit rubbish.
Josip Broz Tito built Yugoslavia's socialist economy on a supposedly clever premise: worker self-management. Factories would be run by elected workers' councils rather than central planners in Belgrade. Western intellectuals practically wept with admiration. Here, finally, was socialism with a human face.
But the math never worked.
Worker-managed firms systematically chose higher wages over capital reinvestment, because workers capturing today's income had no personal stake in machinery that would outlast their tenure. The incentive to maintain and expand productive capital simply vanished.
Yugoslav firms borrowed heavily from state banks to cover the gap, and those banks lent freely because the political cost of bankruptcy was too high for any official to absorb. Inflation ran at 30% annually through most of the 1980s, eventually hitting 2,665% in 1989. You didn't need to theorize about the collapse; you could read it on the price tags.
Tito papered over the structural rot with Western loans. Yugoslavia accumulated $20 billion in foreign debt by his death in 1980. That borrowing bought political legitimacy, but not productive capacity. When global interest rates spiked under Volcker's Fed, the debt service alone crushed the economy.
The decentralization of Tito's model also contained a fatal political logic. Each of Yugoslavia's six republics developed its own economic fiefdom, protecting regional industries from competition with other regions. Six separate planning bureaucracies fought over the same shrinking pie. Slovenia and Croatia, the most productive republics, grew resentful of transfers flowing south and west.
Property rights remained collectivized throughout. No worker actually owned his share of the firm, which meant he couldn't sell it, pledge it, or use it to signal genuine economic preferences. Prices carried noise instead of information. Capital flowed toward political favor rather than toward producers with better ideas.
Socialism doesn't work, whether it's centralized or decentralized.
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The pipeline is real. From anti Corbyn Labour to centrist to GC to anti woke to hard anti woke to Restore/far-right. Regardless of one’s own sympathies, it’s worth acknowledging the pipeline is real. Usually happens to weak minds and narcissists but it’s real.
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Cummings is so over-rated, so inconsistent, so vengeance-filled: everything he writes is "I have a brain bigger than the planet so I don't have to write coherently".
Totally memory holed including by the most pathological force in British politics for a century, the Tory Party.
Moronic NPC Kemi-kasi described the Single Market as 'a free trade area' showing how her laziness and extreme uselessness means the entire Brexit debate for a decade passed her by in entirety. She was programmed by pre-2016 EU software and never got the NPC update patch.
She was a clown minister who Sir Humphry easily tricked on everything they cared about - a perfect representative of the Tories for 30 years.
She says the Boriswave happened because she and other Tory ministers "didn't notice" the numbers - DIRECT QUOTE!!
No wonder 'morale has never been higher' in rancid Tory world and the Idiocracy tells you she's a serious character you shd trust.
And if tempted to think Farage can turn things round... Remember, most voters have NO IDEA HOW MANY MILLIONS THE BORISWAVE WAS.
SW1 has persuaded itself the public OVERestimate immigration but they massively UNDER estimate it. SW1 lives in a parallel world as always (and this is getting worse as the information ecosystem fragments, if you depend on Bluesky you wouldnt know 3rd generation migrants are torching France, youd think 'the real story' is white racism and it's 'smart politics for Burnham to rejoin without a referendum' etc).
I described this in February and said - one simple goal for 'the right' is to communicate the numbers on the Boriswave, if you do this politics will change a lot.
But 'the right' is such a farce the entire ecosystem has failed to do this ONE crucial thing. And you think they could deal with Sir Humphrey???!
For 30 years, 'the right' has been total losers on campaigning and FOCUS. The Right is exactly like MPs generally: 100% inability to FOCUS on anything, 100% toddler attention span on whatever is leading 'the news'.
Farage had one job. He failed.
Escaping our nightmare requires new political leadership + new team + new campaign machine + new story facing the reality of our world and the reality of the electoral dynamics, info ecosystem etc. It is laughable to think Kemi-kasi or Farage could do this, they will both just bounce from studio to studio as pure NPCs...
New blog explains, link below