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Posts by Mike Braddick

It’ll do you good to go north. It’s so far not even the Northern Line goes there

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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.

iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu Not the main thing wrong with the war, of course, but pretty amazing to see.

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After extensive googling I found out that there are at least 29 million residential addresses in the UK and around 800,000 named streets.

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I agree. Would be an interesting story how 'Open Access' came to mean this, and the the power of commercial publishers relative to the Universities in the negotiation of what it would look like. I'd like to understand how it happened, anyway.

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Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

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Where would Jesus stand on Bruce Springsteen?

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Yes, it's both a paper tiger and completely funded by US in his opinion.

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The advantage now is that is not 'remoaning', but a clearly sensible response to US foreign policy shift? He can take us for granted, those of us who always thought this, but this approach will now bring sensible others on board? Reform and Tories are at sea on this

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I am hopeful this is a re-set. It seems common sense, surely, and not 'remoaning'. Trump wants satellites not allies. Europe an alternative to great power politics of Trump, Putin and Xi

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I posted some thoughts about Trump's current enthusiasm for self-memorialisation here substack.com/@mikebraddic...

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Memorialising Trump Making Donald Great Hereafter

Some thoughts on Trump, memorials and posterity
open.substack.com/pub/jlefsgho...

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Are podcasters the people best equipped to talk about introversion?

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Guest Post: Trump thinks he's Don Corleone but he's now discovering the limit of his power Beating everyone at arm wrestling one by one - through tariffs or military threats - does not make you the boss of them all.

My guest post on Ian Dunt's substack: iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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Thanks Rosalind!

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History Matters - Our Island Story Michael Braddick | 7 June 2021 ◇ British History | Politics | Sheffield Books

Here is something else I wrote about how Britain can act in the world, tied to my book A useful history of Britain (Oxford University Press). historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

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My friend Ian Dunt posted something I had written today, and it led people to look at this page, so I am trying to up my game.

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You two seem very judgy about people who don't like long hair

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Slightly hurt by this drive-by on academics

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