A cat waiting for his order in Istanbul 😂
10.03.2026 18:08
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A cat waiting for his order in Istanbul 😂
“.. Nearly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones .. The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians ..”
@axios.com
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That’s shockingly bad, even for Ryanair.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
What is happening to British ‘conservativism’? This is a far-Right conspiracy theory found in the manifestos of mass murders. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Same. We only give out mobile numbers now, and don't answer calls from numbers not in contacts. If it's important they can leave a message.
Patience! It will be worth the wait!
It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:
Farage used private jet for Chagos stunt paid for Thailand-based crypto businessman: time for the UK government to hurry up and ban foreign donations to British political parties
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Yes! I’m reading El Ultimo Sueño at the moment.
Fascinating Pedro Almodóvar interview by @alex-vicente.bsky.social in @elpais.com ahead of his new film Amarga Navidad (A Bitter Christmas), out in Spain on March 20.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is showing on BBC2 this afternoon.
When will it get a full 4K release? one of the most gorgeous Technicolor films of the 20th century and one of the greatest British films ever made
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Sánchez's defiance over the Iran conflict reflects a calculation that the geopolitical risks are manageable for Spain, the potential electoral rewards significant, and that the broad alignment with Trump’s militarism will not hold.
It’s not time he8s lacking, it’s adequate brain cells.
In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
I don’t like Dickens either, but I can recognise he was a talented writer, just not my cup of tea. Sally Rooney’s writing is staggeringly bland and dull.
I actually read the whole of Normal People in an attempt to understand what the fuss was about. It was terrible. But we're not her target market.
See: Sally Rooney. Mystified by her.
It sounded right up my street, but I didn’t get on with it at all. Gave up after about 100 pages.
I for one did not know that!
How it started / how it's going
The Open University was created by a Labour government to give a chance at university education to those without A-levels! And it was tremendously successful until it was starved of funds.
Zelensky has done everything he possibly can to satisfy this admin while he fights a war of survival for his people. And the Trump admin has done nothing but repeatedly treat him with disrespect, scorn & ridicule. 2 days ago, Trump called him “PT Barnum.” This is how Z responds.
McSweeney's 'genius' was being in post when the Tories had Johnson, Truss, and Sunak leading them.
He took Labour from 32% at the 2019 election to 33% at the 2024 election, and they are at 16% in the latest poll.
The fact that Starmer thinks McSweeney was so good just underlines how clueless he is.
And there you have it.
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
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Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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