Why are the entire cast of #Strictly incapable of pronouncing 'La Voix'? How difficult is it to say 'la', not 'le'?

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)

Let's have Alan Carr and Alison Hammond as the next #Strictly hosts please!

Je souhaite bonne chance à Sarkozy-Dantès dans ses projets d'évasion.

Could we please put an immediate and universal ban on the phrase 'Back in my day'.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

History repeats.

perfect

The world we live in.

A very useful word.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx

'You just can't underestimate the magnitude of this achievement.' Sorry?

Spot on.

Happy 24th birthday to the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, formed on this day in 2001 in Dublin, and thriving almost a quarter of a century later. En avant! @uksdn.bsky.social

A Cartoon from The New Yorker buff.ly/CPA8BSH

Sting slams Brexit as an ‘act of folly’ during French TV appearance 'We're only just beginning to understand how stupid it was” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/sting-t...

'If you want to control a people, create an imaginary enemy that appears more dangerous than you, then present yourself as their saviour.' Nobody says it better than Chomsky.

The good old days.

Perfect!

Here’s a poem about the time I went online to buy an Easter egg and spent an absolute fortune.

Frightening.

@uksdn.bsky.social Here’s wishing a wonderful couple of days to all delegates at the SDN annual conference.

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Westminster MPs debated a petition to rejoin the EU, with many backing closer ties. Labour’s red lines remain, but momentum for change is growing. 🙌

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

'He was clearly as villainous a viper as had ever slithered from the underbrush of Eden.' (Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow)

La Fontaine, Le Loup et l'agneau. Words that fit the moment. oxfordsong.org/song/le-loup...

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Delighted to pick up copies of the newly redesigned French Studies this weekend. Thank you to colleagues at @livunipress.bsky.social for the smooth transition and for seeing through the redesign and printing with high production values. @frenchstudies.bsky.social

This is very good

This

Jimmy Carter's word-perfect advice to a young person.

Perfect.

Word.

Joyeux Noël à toutes et à tous !

Today’s poem is called ‘On Searching for a Book of Stamps’.

The Beckett Advent calendar by the inimitable @tomgauld.bsky.social

The sun sets once more over the Indian Ocean.