Margaret Ward
@mgtmuzes.bsky.social
MCIfA, MA (Univ of Cambridge) educated as a classicist and trained as an archaeologist: UK samian specialist, Chester-based North-easterner, mountain-lover, peace-seeker and Truth-lover, hoping on Bluesky to find rest from megalomaniacs...
Io Saturnalia! I always associate that as a @girtoncollege.bsky.social undergraduate seeing this wonderful little mosaic in Naples, thanks to a Cambridge travel prize @cam.ac.uk My aim had been the Alexander Mosaic, but its attendants were on strike. This, instead, was memorable. Io Saturnalia!
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Io Saturnalia! I always associate that as a @girtoncollege.bsky.social undergraduate seeing this wonderful little mosaic in Naples, thanks to a Cambridge travel prize @cam.ac.uk My aim had been the Alexander Mosaic, but its attendants were on strike. This, instead, was memorable. Io Saturnalia!
Glad to see some US papers holding onto their integrity under a backlash from evocatively* autocratic pressures. Should the Monitor watch its back or continue to follow its 1908 foundational axiom, “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind”? Here's trusting. *See: bsky.app/profile/bbcs...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Glad to see some US papers holding onto their integrity under a backlash from evocatively* autocratic pressures. Should the Monitor watch its back or continue to follow its 1908 foundational axiom, “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind”? Here's trusting. *See: bsky.app/profile/bbcs...
Some US papers are trying to hold onto their integrity under a backlash from (evocatively) autocratic pressures. As I said elsewhere, should the Monitor watch its back or continue following its 1908 foundational axiom, “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind”…
www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
Trump’s new national security strategy treats longtime allies as threats
Donald Trump’s new national security strategy turns history on its head, dismissing a Europe it says faces “civilizational erasure” and praising far-right parties that Moscow supports.
www.csmonitor.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some US papers are trying to hold onto their integrity under a backlash from (evocatively) autocratic pressures. As I said elsewhere, should the Monitor watch its back or continue following its 1908 foundational axiom, “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind”…
www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
Reposted by Margaret Ward
