“When I first directed ‘Peaky Blinders’ over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive,” Harper said." @jamielove.bsky.social

Different vintages of the century. @upenn.edu

Hurts to Smitty - The Dagger - Super Bowl LIX.

The latest PABS text (Onscreen version as at 15:30 CET on Friday, 7 November 2025) has 2 references to "licences", 3 references to "licensing" and 10 references to "licenses". @who.int

Dr. Manica Balasegaram in the FT: "Russia’s war in Ukraine may have triggered a new arms race in drone warfare, but it has another enduring and deadly legacy as well: its impact on drug-resistant infections." @gardp.bsky.social

WTO AGREEMENTS & PUBLIC HEALTH, A joint study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat (2002). "One such initiative is the Global Fund proposed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dedicated to the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases." www.wto.org/english/res_... @wto.org @who.int

A Turning Point That Left Millions Behind By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 28, 2000 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte... Plus ça change @who.int @bartongellman.bsky.social

Go Eagles!

Monday Night Football.

On the subject of tabletop simulations, I would recall the words of Otto Hightower: "We must play the board before us." Team 4 fresquers @unitaid.bsky.social Access Fresque June 2024.

Politico: Pandemic response, the Trump way - Is the U.S. about to torpedo the World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement from afar? pro.politico.eu/news/pandemic-response-the-trump-way @who.int

The UK ambassador's residence in Paris (bought by Wellington from Napoleon's sister in 1815) is the house where Churchill's parents married, where Churchill sang in bath while France was being invaded, where a British servant stopped Nazis in 1941 etc. My tour with the ambassador on.ft.com/495OYDF

Kall Penn on how Zohran Mamdani (when he was 14) convinced Mira Nair to cast him in The Namesake.

#IGC52 Glossary of Key Terms Related to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions @wipo.int Published on 5 November 2025. @arianna-s.bsky.social @keiwashdc.bsky.social www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/... @grahamdutfield.bsky.social

The dates for @wipo.int #IGC52 are March 4 to March 13, 2026. @jamielove.bsky.social @arianna-s.bsky.social

"The first noted use of "serendipity" was by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a painting of Bianca Cappello, which he recently received from Mann as a gift."

Gallan Goodiyaan at Sonam Kapoor's wedding.

Sloan: "The phrase ‘civilized nations’ (also known as ‘civilized peoples’, ‘civilized countries’, or, collectively, as the ‘civilized world’) has long served to distinguish European Christian States from States not thought to possess similar legal systems or values."

I asked Gemini to render the Meghnad Badh Kavya in Old English in the style of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle but it went Beowulf on me. Still, I had fun.

@nytimes.com reportage from November 21, 1993: "Through two and a half quarters today, Pennyslvania's undefeated and untied season, along with the outright Ivy League championship, appeared destined to be shattered by lowly Cornell."

"No. 9 Harvard (eight), Cornell (four) and Yale (four) each extended their win streaks, while Dartmouth bounced back to improve to 6-2 overall with a strong performance in Week 8 of the Ivy League football season."

Nine years ago in @politico.eu Health experts: Global programs 'at risk' under Trump -- By Helen Collis 11/9/16, 3:11 PM CET @hcollis.bsky.social @who.int @gavi.org

Bloomberg: "The US State Department has prepared templates for new bilateral health agreements that would give Washington expanded oversight of disease surveillance, outbreak reporting and data sharing in partner countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News."

Catching up on Big Ev's peregrinations on the pitch and the Italian peninsula. @roneilll.bsky.social

Reuters: "The Trump administration wants countries that receive U.S. health aid to share data with Washington about pathogens that could spark epidemics as a condition of the funding, according to a draft document seen by Reuters." @emmafarge.bsky.social

#IGWG3 @who.int

@wipo.int #SCP37 Future work @jamielove.bsky.social @innovarte-ong.bsky.social @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the @who.int addressing the closure of #IGWG3 from Belém. #cop30

#IGWG3 - Paragraph 4 on the participation of relevant stakeholders. @who.int

#SCP37 The United States of America: "The United States is unable to agree to the language precluding substantive patent law harmonization discussions in this Chair’s summary."

American Barter: Aid In Exchange for Information on Pathogens [Breaking News] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/american-b...

Defence ministers went to the Arctic this week to war game what would happen if Russia seeds disorder on their doorstep. “Russia is living in the Arctic. We need to step up on the European side to learn to live in the ice-covered polar sea.” My piece from Bodø: www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Imagine what a monkey looks like without its tail.

Adding a talking monkey to the Lankan collection.