Richard Tol

President Putin is said to have been personally "impressed" by the ability of Nathan Gill, the disgraced former Reform UK politician, to persuade a string of British MEPs to appear on a pro-Kremlin television channel. This praise was alluded to in WhatsApp exchanges between Gill and Oleg Voloshyn an alleged Russian agent, who paid the former leader of Reform in Wales up to £40,000 in bribes Gill was jailed for more than ten years on Friday after admitting that he accepted the money to promote the Kremlin's agenda in the European parliament

It's not going away

Oh dear, God, Hannan said something sensible.

I see the Labour circular firing squad continues unchecked.

It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are

The Trump admin keeps making things worse as they try to lie their way out of the crisis around the so-called Ukraine “peace plan.” We break it all down, and dissect all the weekend’s news, in today’s bulletin. We’ve made this one 100% paywall free: www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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"Hauge" can mean "hill" or "mound" in Old Norse, leading to it being a Norwegian surname for someone who lived near one, or a Danish/Norwegian place name. "The Hague," the Dutch city, has a similar origin from the Dutch word for "enclosure".

Gavi, Unicef sign deal to cut malaria vaccine price Global vaccine alliance Gavi and its partner Unicef will pay 25% less for a new malaria vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India within roughly a year's time, allowing them to reach more children despite cuts in international aid.

Gavi, Unicef sign deal to cut malaria vaccine price reut.rs/4r8OZNA

Tired: Logical positivism
Wired: Positivism mit Schlagobers

well duh

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump + The War between Russia and Ukraine is a violent and terrible one that, with strong and proper U.S. and Ukrainian LEADERSHIP, would have NEVER HAPPENED. It began long before I took office for a Second Term, during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, and has only gotten worse. If the 2020 Presidential Election was not RIGGED & STOLEN, the only thing the Radical Left Democrats are good at doing, there would be no Ukraine/Russia War, as there wasn't, not even a mention, during my first Term in Office. Putin would never have attacked! It was only when he saw Sleepy Joe in action that he said, "Now is my chance!" The rest is history, and so it continues. I INHERITED A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, A WAR THAT IS A LOSER FOR EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE SO NEEDLESSLY DIED. UKRAINE "LEADERSHIP" HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA. THE USA CONTINUES TO SELL MASSIVE $AMOUNTS OF WEAPONS TO NATO, FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UKRAINE (CROOKED JOE GAVE EVERYTHING, FREE, FREE, FREE, INCLUDING "BIG" MONEY!). GOD BLESS ALL THE LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE HUMAN CATASTROPHE! President DJT 824 ReTruths 2.86k Likes Nov 23, 2025, 9:14 AM

Trump meltdown because Ukraine refuses to surrender to Russia, which may trigger Russia to release the possibly Epstein linked blackmail they have on Trump.

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

In 1993, Carraro and Siniscalco predicted that the COPs would fail. They've been proven right 30 times.

This is wonderful for science, but maybe it's time to end the experiment.

Gaming the metrics: bibliometric anomalies in global university rankings and the research integrity risk index (RI2) - Scientometrics The expansion of university rankings has intensified competition among institutions and reshaped research priorities worldwide. Bibliometric indicators underpin many of these rankings, and their growi...

Gaming the metrics: bibliometric anomalies in global university rankings and the research integrity risk index (RI2)👇Published in the
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oplosexuals, not ammo-

OTD in 2004 German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called me a "flawless democrat"

A statement that has stood the test of both time & special military operation.

Wait till you find out what I am in Senegal.

Richard Tol

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The COPs are a triumph.

Introductory-level game theory predicts they will fail.

In one of the longest and most expensive series of experiments, with hundreds of thousands of participant-days, actual decision-makers rather than stand-in students, the theory has been proven correct time and again.

He went to Jared*

*who doesn’t currently hold any position in the govt??

In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy

While others concluded COP30:
-This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States... Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

EPA falls behind schedule for repealing endangerment finding The rule to end most climate regulations is not expected until January, slipping from a planned December deadline.

EPA now aiming for January to finalize Endangerment Finding repeal. Looking forward to seeing how they deal with the scientific underpinnings of the repeal failing to satisfy Information Quality Act requirements.

Something extremely strange is going on.

US officials appear to be both confirming and denying that the 28 point Peace (Ukraine capitulation) Plan is a US plan.

I smell back-pedalling from a monumental fuck-up, or just a monumental fuck-up.

The first thing AI eats will be the global, large scale, unfamiliar with local details, and unwilling to spend the time to learn them consulting industry. 😁 @joelwwood.bsky.social

Eindhoven airport closed after drone sightings, defence minister says Air traffic at Eindhoven airport in the south of the Netherlands was suspended on Saturday evening due to multiple drone sightings, Dutch defence minister Ruben Brekelmans said in a post on X.

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Can anyone explain what Mr del Toro's Frankenstein adds?

👀 Literally 4 or 5 different things could topple the Iranian government in the next year: ecological, fiscal, cultural. And it wouldn’t be a peaceful transfer of government. Brings a new meaning to polycrisis.

Dutch military uses weapons against drones over air force base The Dutch military used weapons against drones that were spotted above an air force base in the southeast of the Netherlands on Friday night, the country's defence ministry said on Saturday.

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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

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