If NATO cannot deter the US from invading the Kingdom of Denmark then do we think it will be able to deter Putin from invading the Baltic? If the answer is no then NATO (and the EU) simply has to deter the US from invading the territory of one of its member states.

Ukrainian players are creating a universe in Minecraft where they recreate Ukrainian cities using memory, satellite images,&Google Street View Valerii,one of the creators,rebuilt his destroyed home in Mariupol in meticulous detail: the grapevine, flowers, a fir tree nearby, and even a cat and a dog

Glencoe massacre morals

This is Rufus. He cleverly escaped the shelter to run home after being picked up by animal control as a presumed stray. 14/10 a hound Houdini (IG: huntington_cw_animalshelter)

@eliothiggins.bsky.social do you want to "un-repost" the APNews items about the DOJ seeing no cause for a criminal civil rights case. They have pictured one of the Minneapolis good guys who has resigned, and not, as the caption suggests, a top DOJ official.

Dear friends, I am finalising my book and will be focusing on it for the next few months, which will inevitably mean cutting down on media engagements and public events. Please bear with me as I will be slow to respond to messages and requests. Thank you for your understanding and positive vibes 🙂

Друзья, я заканчиваю работу над книгой и в ближайшие месяцы буду уделять ей основное внимание, что неизбежно сократит общение со СМИ и участие в публичных мероприятиях. Заранее прошу прощения, что медленно отвечаю на сообщения и реагирую на запросы. Спасибо за ваше понимание и позитивную энергию 🙂

Lourd on my hert as winter lies The state that Scotland’s in the day. Spring to the North has aye come slow But noo dour winter’s like to stay For guid, And no’ for guid! —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert” SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993) #BookWormSat #poem www.ndbooks.com/book/selecte...

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

The World Cup should not be held in the United States.

It is "off my own bat", not "off my own back".

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Carrbridge, Scotland #photography

Chess 2.0 proposed to make the game better bit.ly/49m8z0O but 960 different boards will make comparing much harder

Happy New Year! Winter at Garenin, Isle of #Lewis  [photo: Stephen Branley]

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Someone has quietly separated this guy from all actual levers of power, right? Dummy nuclear codes, plastic toy phones on the Resolute desk, that sort of thing?

I'm afraid my first thought was, och well, Greenland and Canada are probably safe for another week.

No. 3 is a total hoot.

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally... christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

Faux Gaelic is a similar level of abomination. How to do it? Insert an 'h' randomly after a vowel and, sorry to tell you, you haven't made yourself a genuine Gaelic name for your product. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is full of joy and a Christmas reminder that good people far outnumber bad ❤️

Shocking to look up and down my/our street and see nothing but white or yellow lights, self-coloured, and to conclude that millions of coloured lights will have been consigned to the dump in the last decade, and for why?

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

Would that prayer actually worked.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Dear Wikipedia, You have no Contact Us, so: You keep asking me for donations, and in the past I often chipped in £2, but I find now that I have been banned for 2 years from editing. Reason = "disruptive editing in the Portuguese ethno-religious sphere."

Shivers down the spine when he starts with: Privyet. Eto... (ya).

'Questions pile up at Celtic but only some are for Nancy'

42 for 3. How am I supposed to get off to sleep? Now a review on Root. Ach. #TheAshes

Hear, hear for non-fiction. I like reading about the myriad of ways of being human that actually happened.

This is Rose. She's paralyzed in both her back legs from being hit by a car as a stray. But when she sees her wheelchair harness come out, she knows it's time to walk and roll. 14/10 (IG: twopawrose)

“I got,” he said, tapping his knuckles on the floor to emphasise the immensity of what he was going to say, “a moral intelligence.” My first proper read of Flannery O’Connor and man is she funny and brutal and chilling.

Feeling festive yet? Many of you will know "Carol of the Bells" was a Ukrainian song. Today is the birthday of composer Mykola Leontovych, born in Vinnytsia and murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921, aged 44 - some things don't change. "Shchedryk" sung by Ukraine choir 'Homin' in Austria's parliament

A superb thread of threads on Russian voenkors' early insights into embellished reports of the Russian army's capture of Kupyansk, and the motivations behind the embellishments.

Wish this had Churchill in his siren suit.

"The President is extremely frustrated with both sides of this war" Sorry that Ukraine rudely got invaded, and now rudely are refusing to capitulate to all the invader's demands. 30 hours of talks sounds like such hardship for you.

Just seen an article on BBC Sport suggesting that Trump's FIFA peace prize award may have been in someway corrupt. And I am shocked to my core.

⚡️ @UEFA fined Ukraine for a “Russia is a terrorist state” banner while still sending millions in solidarity funds to Russian clubs. 🧵 1/5 ⬇️

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

Get this odious spectacle over with. I'd take "disaster for Scotland" and "oh, what a stramash" over this Trumplicking pish any day. If we can't trust Fifa how can we trust the referees not to tug their forelocks too. Let's just not go but still hold a national holiday. #worldcupdraw #scotland

Not sure the Shetlanders will love reading about their Orcadian waters. Nor should anyone rely on the Daily Mail's siting of Lerwick half way between Aberdeen and Bergen.

@atrupar.com In case this helps, I once had it from friends resident in Afghanistan that Afghans are people and Afghanis are coins

Does he even own a suit?

@heraldsport.bsky.social Calling in to report approx 15 bad typos in Matthew Lindsay's piece in my print edition (Pressreader). One can hardly blame him in his rush, but do you not do any sub-editing or proof-reading in the office? Truncated sentences, badly wrong words spoiled the reading.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the second-biggest test of his presidency — and it may prove even trickier than leading the country's resistance against Russia.

📢"There’s definitely work for us to do. But they showed us some things that hopefully we can exploit." Steve Clarke watched Belarus cause Denmark problems in Copenhagen on Saturday - now he wants Scotland to emulate them. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇 www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256303...