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"European Parliament's Development and Budget Committee both adopted an opinion calling on Parliament to reject the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement."

What being on the TSA watches is like.

@bbcmarkd on the new SDLP leader.

400m wide rock coming closer than the Moon.

"Many commentators, wondering aloud where all the strong female voices are, close their eyes to how normal this sort of threat has become."

Elisabeth Sladen's daughter on the new posthumous autobiography.

Tom Shakespeare on the nonsense poet and landscape artist who also had epilepsy.

Aged 32, she joined in 2009 and fought first election this year.

Decorate your wedding cake with d20s!

Re the proposed 1945 US land invasion of Japan: "The Military was so certain things were about to go very badly for U.S. soldiers that 500,000 Purple Hearts were made in preparation, a number so large that the medals have been used to supply every single war since, including Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I and Iraq II, with about 100,000 still left over."

The World Economic Forum's take.

The World Bank's take.

Hugh Pope reviews "We Meant Well: how I helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people".

Nate Silver answers with a definite (and detailed) "maybe".

- especially democratisation.

Shocking, but essential reading.

Innovative planning "to build a banking system with democratic management, more direct relationships between borrowers and investors and products affordable and attractive to the rich and poor".

Jo returns to a brilliant book.

Heather on the craziness of not talking to the other side.

Ken MacLeod on Jura and Orwell's political legacy.

European politicians have preferred to integrate by stealth rather than public debate. But they cannot do that any more.

Dubravka Ugrešić on Austro-Hungarian literature.

Can you delay gratification?

Grim reading.

Start with physical self-care; Get some help; Practise patience; Surf your energy.

"In 2010, compared with the previous Westminster election in 2005, making allowance for boundary changes, the UUP vote was down almost 5% in South Belfast and almost 10% in East Belfast, and your own result in North Down was 32.5% below that of the UUP in the previous election. I think it is not unfair to look at those results and say that the lin…

"We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories... What I learned from my brother’s death was that character is essential: What he was, was how he died."

President Silanyo: "Behind stock images of a region trapped in chaos, economies are growing and governance is improving."