People find this surprising about me, but it just so happens that I was a huge Star Trek fan as a teenager. RIP Captain Picard.

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Last call: join @ecfr.eu tomorrow, 9am CET, as Anatolii Timenko, Yuriy Vaskov and Vessela Tcherneva examine how Russian attacks on Odesa’s ports have left Ukraine’s economy in heightened precarity and strained EU export routes. Chaired by @jkobzova.bsky.social. ecfr.eu/event/storm-...

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Ohhh - Alan and Kevin discussed this? Quite ready from the get-go and without even knowing what they said that they are right and I am wrong or at the very leat their discussion will be so much more entertaining than my comments.

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🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada and 8 other countries, including Ukraine, will sign founding agreement in Luxembourg on November 30, to establish Defence, Security and Resilience Bank. DSRB will attract public and private capital to finance defence procurement, expand arms production and develop critical supply chains.

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It does make me think back to this episode of the Last Word about classicist Pat Easterling. When asked what was the point of classics, @wmarybeard.bsky.social recounts that Pat answered ‘it teaches you to read difficult things’. Maybe we need to lean into that more? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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