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13/09/2026

https://www.knelstrom.com/ukraine-war-significant-events-report-august/

Image by: Алесь Усцінаў / Pexels. Ukraine War -Significant Events Report - 1–31 August 2026 By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: KYIV /…

16/08/2026

🇮🇪 What Ireland gets right about recycling, by putting cash in the bin

We returned our Dublin bottles and got €2.10. Then I watched a homeless man collecting bottles others discarded. Ireland has grasped something simple. Give rubbish value and behaviour changes.

https://knelstrom.com/irelands-bottle-deposit-scheme-when-rubbish-becomes-worth-money/

Sometimes the cleverest public policy doesn't require a minister behind a lectern, a glossy leaflet featuring suspiciously cheerful families, or a…

14/08/2026

🇬🇧 FARAGE HOLDS CLACTON.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage won 63.34% of the vote in a by-election boycotted by every major opposition party, beating Count Binface in a record 34-candidate contest.

https://knelstrom.com/3540-2/

ENGLAND, Clacton. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage retained his parliamentary seat in the Clacton by-election, with the result declared on 14 August 2026…

09/07/2026

The world's most peaceful battering ram clears its throat

If NATO is purely defensive, its post-Cold War history deserves a rather longer footnote. A Dispatch on intervention, expansion, institutional survival and the awkward persistence of historical memory.

23/01/2026

🇺🇸 TRUMP-LED BOARD OF PEACE CHARTER RAISES QUESTIONS OVER POWER, PAYMENTS AND GLOBAL ROLE

A new charter outlines a peace body centred on the Chairman's control and voluntary funding, drawing cautious reactions from allies.