Like most people I've fought depression - thankfully many years ago now.
Also like most people I've tried magic mushrooms - even further back as a student.
So I was fascinated to learn that the latter is now being used here to treat the former.
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Magic mushrooms are still illegal in the Czech Republic.
But doctors can now use psilocybin to treat severe depression.
I spoke to the clinical psychiatrists behind the country's quiet psychedelic revolution.
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Def worth a visit!
Thanks Peter
"I love Bratislava. Not in the way Hitler loved Bratislava. I have no desire to annex its streets and subjugate its people. I love Bratislava because it’s the quintessential Central European city."
Read my love letter to Slovakia's oft-maligned capital.
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Thanks, I really enjoyed this. Years ago I got an old photo book of Bratislava. Has some great photos of the city that are now long gone. Your post reminded me to flip through it again. Especially the aerial photo of the old synagogue. Here’s a closer look I’d forgotten about.
It is magnificent. Was there in June. Excellent time.
Wow I did not know this. Thanks.
What's your quintessential Central European city? For me it's always been this one ⬇️
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I've written a love letter to one of my favourite cities.
So much complex history. So many identities. So many ghosts.
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Eight years ago today Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová were murdered in their home.
The assassin, the getaway driver and the intermediary have all been convicted.
But those who ordered the killing still await justice.
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Trench candles were first invented during the First World War.
More than a century later they're keeping Ukrainian soldiers and civilians warm in a harsh winter.
Meet the Czech volunteers who've made 85,000 of them.
Link to full video (3 mins):
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Several times a week volunteers gather across the Czech Republic to make 'trench candles' for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.
Watch the 3-min video here:
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Some say Czech support for Ukraine is eroding.
Don't listen to them.
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“The culture of the Slovak people should be Slovak. Slovak and no other” - Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová.
Two years on, the Slovak National Gallery has lost artists, visitors & international partners.
It couldn't happen here in CZ.
Could it?
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It's the arrogance that's so breathtaking. Don't know if you've watched the videos but you don't need to speak Slovak to get a measure of it.
And I didn't even have time to get into her key adviser at the ministry, who says he's not 100% convinced the earth is round because he hasn't been to space.
I've written about the capture of Slovakia's national art gallery by far-right populists, and why it might serve as a warning for other countries ... including the Czech Republic.
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Still thinking about Prague’s phantom swan thief.
Absurd, real, unresolved - and oddly revealing.
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The big lesson for the media and political classes from Mandelson is to stop putting these banal characters on a pedestal.
And here we are, with Cummings, saying nothing more interesting or insightful than the average X alt-right shit-poster. On a pedestal.
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This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
150 swans have gone missing in Prague in the last 12 months.
Swan poachers have been caught on camera.
One of them has been identified as an ornithologist.
But the crime is low priority because ... how do you put a price on a swan?
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This is an excellent question. Still trying to find the answer.
All revealed in the Substack!
Who is the phantom swan thief of Prague?
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They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
Eight years.
Their house has been demolished.
Their makeshift shine is now a memorial.
Those who were running Slovakia are back in power.
I've written about the murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée as a court hears the case for the third time.
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Miroslav Lajčák has resigned as advisor to Slovak PM Robert Fico after new messages emerged from Epstein files.
Screenshots show Lajčák (former ForMin & ex-president of UN General Assembly) discussing girls with Epstein.
Lajčák categorically denies claims.
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New judges. Full retrial. No quick verdict.
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