#godjul #merrychristmas #kristmaskibadhai to all our friends and family all over the world from our little Indo-Brit-Nordmann-Svenskar Kapoor-Dalhoff clan from up where Santa lives #NordicLife 🎄🎅🥳

Is it just me or do #Christmas celebrations start earlier and earlier every year? #NordicLife

When the two year old plans our next holiday in #India

Winter has come ... and the fireplace is crackling ... and being the curious minded scientifically literate person that I am ... we have put salts of Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Strontium, Copper, Calcium, Barium and Boron in the flames to make this gorgeous #RainbowFlame #NordicLife #ScienceAsArt

Welcoming the first Snow of the season 😊 can’t wait for the #skiing to begin #NordicLife

Your mum just trashed my entire wardrobe

Scared about kill switches in buses Norway bought from China? How about trains in Poland with something similar but even more malevolent 👇 jonworth.eu/newags-digit... Ah no, not China, so doesn't generate the same fuss 🤷‍♂️

"Trump administration officials warned of additional trade tariffs and made personal threats against negotiators from other countries to block a historic climate deal for shipping" www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

Just reminded of how lucky I got in life both for having had the best parents anyone could have hoped for, and for having spent quality time with them right up to the end. I got to see them several time a year and speak to them more or less everyday of my adult life despite living a continent away!

Yesterday, we woke up to a gorgeous blue sky and a rare full #rainbow over our #pinkhouse in #Oslo ... Not superstitious generally, but can't help but feel that tis good tidings ... cheer up everyone and have a great week :-)

#HappyDiwali to all our friends and family all over the world from our little corner of the world in #Oslo #Norway

Chuck Prince, hold Scott’s beer

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I went to the #USTreasury website 4 research & 😂 "The radical left has chosen to shut down the United States government in the name of reckless spending and obstructionism. As a result, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s websites will only be sporadically updated until this shutdown concludes."

Please welcome @zannymb.economist.com to #Bluesky with a follow folks. An old friend, an amazing journalist and a wonderful human being all rolled into one ☝️

The kids and i saw a spectacular #DoubleRainbow over #Oslo late last evening 😊

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The best summary of all my experiences with #ChatGPT #AI

#PeakHappiness - when your 2,5 & 8 year olds plan and execute a #BirthdaySurprise for you & having sneaked out of bed, walk back in singing with a cake and card they made for you all without you having any inkling of what they had been up to!!! I am the #WorldsLuckiestDad #BonWeekend everyone ❤️

One can be against violent behaviour, abhor #killing and be opposed to political violence of any kind without your gut instinct being to "normalise" what was in fact abhorrent, despicable and bigoted nonsense well outside any normal civilised political discourse in a functioning democracy!

I can't imagine how #PeterMandelson can stay on as the British Ambassador to the United States after this ... Which would mean that he has had to resign, or been fired from more or less every single major government role he has ever held ... always in disgrace ... and yet, they keep calling him back

“I think the world of you & I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened,” Peter Mandelson wrote, in an email obtained by Bloomberg News. “I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain.” #Mandelson to #Epstein on his conviction! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I will soon join #VickyPryce in her capacity as Chair of the Fellows network @radixuk.bsky.social to discuss reconciling #ClimateAction with #Growth despite #Geopolitics Do tune in www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/clima... & also find pods with @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social

🌍 Join @sonykapoor.bsky.social and Vicky Pryce for an interactive 'Meet the Leaders' #webinar on Climate Change 🌱 📅 Mon 8th Sept | 🕕 6:00pm BST 💬 Be part of the dialogue - submit your own questions! 🔗 Register now: www.radixbigtent.org.uk/events/clima... #ClimateChange

So, today I asked #ChatGPT5 to please remove the background for me? After several iterations and reprompting that included it giving up the ghost and disappearing me entirely, this is the BEST it could do ... Thinking of running with it as the bio photo for a #Keynote I am doing on the limits of #AI

These Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse bearing gifts of Measels, Mumps, Rubela, Tuberculosis, Covid, Whooping Cough and other such irresistible presents was NOT on my 2025 bingo card ...

Gonna have to do it again i am afraid 🙄! Here is my full #rainbow over #London from that same day not an «almost full» one 😊! As @katie0martin.ft.com also knows I am also a stow lad having lived there for a decade with very Fond memories of the marshes for which You do get extra points! Even Stevens

Match my July 1st 2016 #rainbpw over #London Photo taken from the top of the new @tatemodern.bsky.social #TateModern building if you can @pauljdavies.bsky.social 😊

Everyone wants to host a #climateweek but no one wants to do what needs to be done on tackling #ClimateChange

#Latergram - had an amazing time with the kids at the spectacular #PangongLake at the boundary of #Ladakh and #Tibet at 4225 meters earlier this summer. Do visit if you ever get the chance! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangong...

Alright, here are some #facts on #Russian #FossilFuel exports & imports relevant to the #Trump & #EU narrative on #SecondarySanctions on #India It is #China (coal & crude) #Turkey (oil products) & the #EU (LNG and pipeline gas) that remain the biggest #importers of fuels from Russia, NOT #India ..

Delighted to have done a wide-ranging, 2 hour deep-dive into the big #geoeconomic, #geopolitical and #geostrategic trends of our times that have triggered the #GreatRebalancing in global #finance & the global #economy at a scale unprecedented in modern human history hiddenforces.io/podcasts/gre...

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How exciting .. the first day of school after a long summer holiday spent in #Ladakh between the #Himalayas and the #Karakoram and in #Delhi mid-monsoon ... My big little boy starts the 3rd grade and the whole family turned up to see him off :-)

Picnic on a Micro-Island in the Norwegian Forest! #BonWeekend

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Stuff one can’t make up… NIH grants using “trans” for disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies cancelled as the US admin does not like “trans” 😂

Happy #Midsummer folks!

Why #AI will not take over the world …

I am delighted to join the @thelancet.com Commission on Global Governance for Health as a Commissioner. If you have relevant inputs and ideas, especially on financing, intellectual property, taxation, relevant mega-trends and geopolitical developments and climate and health, please send them my way!

I’m so chuffed i know the guy who wrote the weekend essay in the FT that I’ll also probably mention it again ☺️

#GratulererMedDagen #17mai #oslove #SnartNorskStatsborger #Norge #HappyConstitutionDay #Norway #17May So nice to celebrate with the rest of #Oslo #NordicLife for our #IndoSwedishAngloNorwegian family

I just love the daily morning school / kindergarten drop-off on our family bus here in #Oslo #NordicLife

Friends, I am starting a new Substack next week "Geostrategy for these tumultuous times" that will bring an interdisciplinary approach to tackling the #macroeconomic, #demographic, #financial, #fiscal, #security, #environmental, #trade, #technological and #governance challenges the world is facing!

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