Same in Paris. www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

🇬🇧🇺🇦 British actor Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Artur Dron, “First to the Corinthians,” on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion.

So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!

Zelenskyy urges Trump to visit Ukraine in speech marking invasion anniversary

22 January 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Vera Matteman, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Tetramorph. Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla litteralis in Biblia, Paris 14th century. BnF, Latin 461 fol. 135r. #medieval #medievalart

Dr. Simpson nails the issue. RFK Jr's demand that all vaccines be tested against placebos reflects a complete disregard for medical ethics. Following the horrors of "Untreated Syphilis Study" at Tuskegee, researches NEVER deny care to study participants. It is immoral to do so, or to suggest it.

Toddlers in mascara? Dance teachers and parents rethink stage makeup

Gisèle Pelicot and the language of rape culture. In her memoir, Pelicot examines the vocabulary of sex and violence in the bedroom, the chatroom and the courtroom. She insists that the way men talk about women matters. ✍️ Anna Leszkiewicz https://bit.ly/4kIYGPW

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Brexit. The gift that keeps on taking. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

My hobby is linoprinting. It's a great way of emptying the head of grim news for a short while. Here, three different prints of Saint Sophia in Kyiv. Not selling anything, just showing off! Slava Ukraini!

Every day, sometimes several times a day, more evidence that women (and children) simply do not matter.

My hobby is linoprinting. It's a great way of emptying the head of grim news for a short while. Here, three different prints of Saint Sophia in Kyiv. Not selling anything, just showing off! Slava Ukraini!

How a town in France became the birthplace of the Iranian revolution. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

‘It’s not very French to change stuff’: how Claire Tabouret’s stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light

Gutter racism

Notre Dame's new windows created by French contemporary artist Claire Tabouret currently having a major retrospective at the Museum Voorlinden near The Hague and an exhibition of the window designs at the Grand Palais in Paris. Recommend all. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Blimey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The weirdest conspiracy theory of all is that 15 minute city thing. Why would anyone not want 15 minute cities? I mean you can still live in the countryside if you want but all villages, towns and cities should have amenities within 15 mins.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Lord Mandelson, Donald Trump and Bill Gates are all mentioned in the latest tranche of three million documents

Jeffrey Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband after prison release, emails reveal

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Fewer people are taking their children for the much-needed jabs and experts warn that even more dangerous illnesses could lurking be around the corner

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

Arresting journalists. We’re at that stage.

Divergence is costly. As an example, National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said British oats used in cereals, snack bars, meatballs & veggie burgers could be rendered unsellable in the EU, because British farmers for the past five years have been allowed to use certain fungicides not yet approved by the EU

Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns

Another day, another crime against the Constitution that should end a presidency. Trump II is about many things, but a constant throughline is finding ever more blatant and inventive way to strip-mine the public resources of the United States to line the pockets of his presidents and friends.

President Trump warned the UK and Canada against striking fresh business deals with China, after their leaders visited Beijing this month in an effort to deepen ties with the world’s second-largest economy

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Plus ça change... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Ice begins buying ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across US www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Donald Trump has said Vladimir Putin has agreed not to fire on Kyiv for a week after the US president personally asked his Russian counterpart to halt attacks due to frigid temperatures there. ft.trib.al/A6gtnFU

Assisted dying backers accused of bullying over threat to bypass Lords

The question is no longer whether autonomy is desirable, but whether Europe – and the European Union – can acquire sufficient capacity, coherence, and scale to preserve its freedom of action.

“I borrowed in total £55,000…” “How much do you owe now?" “£72,000” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Dr Arthur Joustra, a trainee paediatrician, about how his student loan debt has risen since he graduated in 2022 - despite making payments. #Newsnight

The Pahlavi plan to save Iran My father Reza Pahlavi, the shah’s heir, has put forward a framework that Iranian republicans and monarchists alike are getting behind By Noor Pahlavi

EU's Kallas: We expect to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation reut.rs/3M16CiK

Iran accused of ‘campaign of revenge’ as doctors arrested for treating protesters

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

New podcast episode! 🇫🇷 The French train controversy, and how family-friendly is France? 🇫🇷 What to expect from this spring's local elections and what (if anything) they can tell us about 2027 🇫🇷 Plus crêpes, crazy French festivals and the French football team that sings about a sausage . . .

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

So, it went from this - a post on the literary merits of childrens' books Worst Witch and Harry Potter - to "you're a transphobe" in around five posts.