I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.
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🇪🇺 EU diplomats in Asia say they see tons of positive visions that propel people forward in places like 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 & the Gulf, while Europeans are low-energy party poopers (visible on Rausina panels, „Things will only get worse“).
Futures work is key to turning that around. Let’s do more of it together?
From my fieldwork, a thread 🧵on the joys of the first day of school at Faith Elementary School in Central Tehran (just above Palestine Square), Fall 2008. Descriptions listed alongside each picture.
I would say that 2 and 3 both hold.
3. The nuclear facilities were damaged in last June's bombings.
2. I would guess that a satellite is tasked to monitor Isfahan continuously.
I have long argued that the danger of "terrorists" is far less than people make it out to be.
On the one hand, it would be professional malpractice if the US and Israel had not discussed how to secure Iran's HEU.
On the other hand, it's professional malpractice to give the Iranian regime a big heads-up that the US and Israel are planning to secure Iran's HEU.
“Tritium is the seemingly inconsequential item upon which everything else depends. Without it, there can be no modern nuclear weapons, and thus no nuclear deterrence”
Commentary from a senior NNSA official.
Good high-level overview, even if my work isn’t linked here.
"We still don't know happened with Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium. That could be buried under the rubble of the nuclear sites, or it could be at a secure location."
@mgmessmer.bsky.social on the US-Israeli strikes against Iran and the risks around Iran's nuclear programme.
📢 Upcoming events
The MENA Programme’s coverage of the ongoing US–Israel war on Iran continues.
In our upcoming webinars, experts unpack the conflict’s implications for Iran and Iraq. 🧵
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
For years, Donald Trump railed against his predecessors for their misadventures in the Middle East. Now with Iran, Trump appears to have acquired a taste for regime change. https://bit.ly/46CXOGU
I think war is serious business, real life-and-death stuff, and should be taken seriously by people who initiate and prosecute it.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
"We still don't know happened with Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium. That could be buried under the rubble of the nuclear sites, or it could be at a secure location."
@mgmessmer.bsky.social on the US-Israeli strikes against Iran and the risks around Iran's nuclear programme.
When I write a report for a court, 90% of my work is compiling, filing, ordering, correctly citing source material. It’s tedious but I do all my thinking while doing so. The remaining 10% is the actual writing which I, without the preparation, I could never achieve. There’s no way to outsource this.
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Pres. Macron says France will increase its nuclear arsenal. Not the first things that comes to mind amid all the tragedy and destruction, but it’s hard to see a successful NPT RevCon this year www.reuters.com/world/europe...
showing up to my first NPT revcon like
Thanks to @theeln.bsky.social for giving Ireland the opportunity to contribute to this series. I gave some perspective on our commitment to the #NPT and nuclear disarmament in this piece.
europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/e...
"Seize the immigration narrative from Reform" is simultaneously the saddest, dumbest and funniest political strategy I've ever heard
Me this morning
Keynote address | A new Westphalia to avoid western failure
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola (@president.europarl.europa.eu) delivers the keynote address at our 2026 Security and Defence conference.
Watch the livestream ⤵️
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
I have just ordered a few of your UK editions - looking forward to reading :) I hope 2026 is going to turn out to be a better year for you and your family.
A lot of this incoming, basically:
www.politico.eu/article/wash...
Work in arms control, have heard literally no one claim this www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...
Ukraine regained more territory than it has since 2023, largely because of Musk’s belated decision to deny Russian forces the use of Starlink. Which shows in turn how Musk has empowered Russian forces for the last two years.
There have been a few European developments recently that are good both for security and for the environment. I've been wanting to write a longer piece about this for a while now - this could become a interesting part of the European security offer.
