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May 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Here’s the full clip of CBS Mornings Anthony Mason’s interview with @michaelstipe.bsky.social about Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe 25.

www.cbsnews.com/video/r-e-m-...
R.E.M. helps federally funded Radio Free Europe after Trump administration freeze
R.E.M. has given its first single "Radio Free Europe" a new remix. The song was named after the service that provides crucial, uncensored information in places with limited press freedom. Now, Radio F...
www.cbsnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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In the hour of darkness and peril and fear, let’s all channel a little Paul Revere.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
#paulrevere #boston250
April 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography
April 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Wolf Hall couldn’t afford to pay the actors or film scenes outdoors.

Meanwhile Severance spent $20000000 on each episode of their office based drama.

This article casts around for reasons for the funding crisis, but it’s right there.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
British TV industry is in crisis, says Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky
Peter Kosminsky says they had to cut most of the outdoor scenes to make the historical drama.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.

Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.

What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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NEW: My piece for the Observer on how I was so deep into my investigation into Cambridge Analytica that I failed to realise that Hannah - my ex's daughter - was facing a human version of it: a stalker who was harvesting her data and weaponising it against her.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse came to derail one woman’s life
A new BBC podcast recounts the ordeal endured by Hannah Mossman Moore, whose phone was bombarded by fake accounts and her personal data weaponised against her
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:
Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A shame Terriors is no more but London still has a wealth of wine options...
Five bars that show off London’s status as ‘wine capital of the world’
A taster of bars in the city ranked above even Paris for the number of restaurants serving top-250 wines and champagnes
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Sleeping Bee...

#petershamnurseries
March 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.
March 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
Washington’s shift on the Ukraine war marks a major break with European allies and comes as the Trump administration aims to repair relations with Russia.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The Causeway, Wiltshire Downs, Eric Ravilious, 1937. The original artwork is in the collection of V&A. #Wiltshire
November 14, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star.

Putin’s Poodle
February 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The fibre phenomenon: 30 easy ways to get your fill of this life-changing nutrient
The fibre phenomenon: 30 easy ways to get your fill of this life-changing nutrient
It reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and colon cancer – while boosting the health of our gut microbiome and brain. Yet we all eat far too little fibre. Here is the no-fuss guide to getting your 30g a day What is the leading risk…
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Paul Lambert: ‘Zinedine Zidane just looked at me and said “bloody hell”’
Paul Lambert: ‘Zinedine Zidane just looked at me and said “bloody hell”’
Broke and out of contract at Motherwell, the Scot took a risk in seeking a trial at Dortmund only to become an European Cup winner within 12 months This is a story in three parts. The unlikely tale of how Paul Lambert signed for Borussia Dortmund in…
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Some things never change. This is today’s actual front page of English ‘newspaper’* the Daily Mail. I’ve double-checked & it really is. The Daily Mail is infamous for supporting Hitler & his politics in the 1930s & continues its far right extremism today.
January 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Where to go next for wine titillation - although if you're a regular visitor to JancisRobinson.com, you may know all this already....

https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/and-coming-wine-regions-worth-checking-out
January 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The (unloved) Brexit consensus across the Westminster parties is wobbling. Why Ed Davey's speech calling for a UK/EU customs union is a big moment.

Me on Substack

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The Brexit consensus is wobbling
Ed Davey makes an interesting move (no, stay with me here)
open.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Great tasting as always put on by the team at Howard Ripley of the 2023 vintage in Burgundy

#burgundy #howardripley #fourrier #fontaine-gagnard #benjaminleroux #mugneret-gibourg #grivot #barraud #clavelier #hudelot-baillet #mugnier #geantet-pansiot
January 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM