James Pattinson

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

EXCLUSIVE: France is pushing back against the European Commission’s bid to fast-track trade deals with Indonesia and India by using English-language texts before they are fully translated, four people familiar with the matter have told POLITICO. https://t.co/J6r2mT0nOZ

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@sueveneer I’ve been moulting all night.

[Crisis Group @CrisisGroup]

NEW VISUAL EXPLAINER | How Critical Minerals Link Myanmar’s Civil War to the World

Electric vehicles, data centres, missiles and luxury goods rely on resources from Myanmar. We show how four key resources are intertwined with the civil war.

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[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

The Mecca Pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan is best understood as an experiment in regional self-reliance — rather than a joint defence or war-fighting alliance.
https://t.co/HuTS33AUQ3

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Two years ago, Mario Draghi warned that Europe faced an “existential” threat from economic decline.

We break down how much of the former Italian PM’s competitiveness plan the EU has actually delivered since then 👇

🔗 https://t.co/NPcEp1IlKV

[Richard Gowan @RichardGowan1]

"As the International Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan likes to point out, the UN Charter even allows for the creation of a UN air-force."
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[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman Empire in the West, the Britons who had thought themselves the inheritors of Rome were overcome by Germanic incomers, a story of migration and insularity that echoes today.

The end of Romanitas and the coming of the English | @MathewJLyons

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[James Pattinson @H2Pattinson]

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[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Austria's Islamic headscarf ban in force as under-14s go back to school https://t.co/yZu4VZRGXa

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The United Nations yesterday largely endorsed a resolution to promote maps that reflect the true scale of continents after an African-led campaign to move away from the ubiquitous 16th-century Mercator projection.

https://t.co/gjIzyFKsUU

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

French presidential contender Marine Le Pen’s bid to broaden her appeal beyond the far right is running into a familiar challenge:

The promises that energize her core voters are precisely the ones that worry fiscal conservatives.
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[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Ursula von der Leyen has three years left to cement her legacy.

But it’ll be far from easy.

Here are six potential headaches likely to define her remaining time in office 👇
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[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Terrorism is no longer a central paradigm for U.S. foreign policy, but the memory of the war on terror still impacts Washington’s decision-making today. https://t.co/oEAbiqLPIV

[E-International Relations @E_IR]

Henry Kissinger’s Opening to China Was More than a ‘China Card’ https://t.co/5ClCOHwUyW

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Francis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis. https://t.co/tgYdYGKjWU

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Volkswagen said it is cutting about 50,000 jobs in the face of surging Chinese competition, energy prices and the costly transition to electric vehicles. https://t.co/rWXmy2ZNd7

[James Pattinson @H2Pattinson]

@lei_kani @JaniceDean You don't have many individual pics. Btw black bikini absolutely suits you!!!! Are you on Instagram?