St Pancras Eurostar midday, I've never got through border control so quickly ! Calm before the storm ?

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Well spotted, Felicity. She might be the ground breaking Archbishop of Canterbury, but good of Sky to remind her of her place.

More than 100 charities have sent a letter to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, calling for an end to the “scapegoating of migrants”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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RIP Claudia Cardinale. Is there a more poignant, graceful scene is cinema than her waltz with Burt Lancaster in "The Leopard" directed by Visconti ?

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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Indeed, and didn't the real Von Trapp receive asylum in the USA and lived in Vermont.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

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He's right

My fellow Brits show we still have self-respect and don't, like our craven government, kowtow to a monster.

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Trump was a draft dodger, wasn't he ? Called John McCain a loser - that doesn't sound like Marine Corps spirit.

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Here's a teaser for Labour Constitutional experts. Must the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party be an MP ? Only MPs can nominate but can they nominate someone from outside the Commons ? Andy Burnham or Sadiq Khan, for example ?

Cute and oh so accurate

"A point that needs making time and time again" via @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

Quite right. All should be considered asylum seekers until proven otherwise.

This is absolute truth. Add in I've read the Book of Mormon & done a little bit of Jehovah Witness readings. I'm not being arrogant when I tell Bible thumpers that I probably know their book BETTER than them..I'm WARNING THEM to not TEST ME🤷‍♀️

Penguin "More bloody boat people"

Time to repost, again

Towneley Hall, Burnley has been beautifully restored & contains many treasures, including this world famous "The Tower of Babel" by Flemish master, van Valckenborsch

A great Baltic lecture tour with my Making of Modern Europe series ends with a diversion to The Hague to see the treasures of the Mauritshuis' magnificant collection of Dutch masters.

Farewell Denmark ! With the aroma of the herring smokers in my nostrils. substack@mhindley

Denmark, never spectacular, but a calm, pleasant beauty. Nyborg.

Gdansk has a Shakespeare Theatre designed to honour the Globe (though it's a rectangle). Its creator & first director was Prof Limon, former colleague of my wife. Prince (now King) is a patron.

The Solidarity Museum, Gdansk, imaginatively designed, inside & outside, to replicated a ship under construction. To celebrate a workers' protest which changed Poland & Europe

Happy to return to Riga to enjoy its display of art deco by Mikhail Eisenstein

The inspirational Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki (The church inside the rock) A beautiful space to think in contrast to churches where I feel I am being told what to think.

Baltic anomalies. Aland, autonomous, Swedish speaking island of Finland

Wonderful. You may now laugh.

One of the last refuges of investigatory journalism plus biting satire

Off to eastern Baltic on my "Making of Modern Europe" lecture tour & to promote the reprint of my "The Semi-Detached European". And to further my current & growing interest in the "little Balts"; Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. (photo is Riga)

Safe abortion is women's health

Manipal Universal Press (India) has reprinted my book on the UK's relations with Europe (EU) since 1945. I can be ordered through indy & progressive bookshops & public lending libraries ISBN 978-81-952797-5-3. I also give talks based in the book. [email protected]

Galicia is relatively recent discovery for me & nothing more characteristic than its albarino, though the grape came with French monks. It's popularity seems to have spread rapidly in recent times. Deservedly.

Much clearer, more comprehensive statement than Starmer

Bagpipes drown-out a windbag. I love the Scots! Glorious!

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But is UK unique ? Its Labour government refuses to recognize Palestine, though it is Labour Party policy to do so.