Eurostar is asking me to be at the station 3 hours before my train. No chance of that.

Is is the saddest Xmas tree for sale?

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Watching slightly horrified at a guy at the next table hold his chopsticks like a shovel and using them like a forklift.

A good first day of the ceramics sale at the Lucernaire. Thanks to all who came and those who retweeted. :)

Ceramics sale today :) drop by if you are in Paris.

@jim.londoncentric.media the snail story hits France www.instagram.com/reel/DRVTNf7...

Hundreds if not a thousand santas riding out on their motorbikes on the streets of Paris tonight.

For those in Paris I’m selling some of my ceramics in Montparnasse this weekend. Insta handle is @soidisantepotiére.

That’s my boy. #lfc

A sunny winter day is a real mood lifter.

It didn’t have to end like this…😢

RIP Martin Parr, the English rock star of photography.

Something is badly wrong in the state of Anfield 😢

I hate canal+. As usual impossible to cancel without huge amount of hidden charges etc. I hate this kind of capitalism with a vengeance.

Have lost faith in the gaffer. A team of this calibre playing so poorly for so long…

Phew. Wirtz deserves it.

Oh no 😞

We lack conviction in the last third of the pitch

One for the actuaries- If the probability of getting a double yolker is 1/1000 what are the odds of getting two double yolkers?

Not one but two double yolkers today

I’m not sure that a long article about a politician using a racial slur augmented by lots of experts on how that slur has been used and makes people feel, without mentioning what that slur is, is a good idea.

Ennui

It’s so nice to be appreciated by your students.

Morning

Ah rip Tom Stoppard.

Tribe called quest

Oh cool they’ve installed a Kilter board in an RER station in Paris : la gare RER d’Auber transformée en salle d’escalade

Is anyone talking about why American university students participate so little in class?

Limping towards Xmas to be reborn.

Boulangerie cat

It’s snowing 🌨️

Sadness…

A promise is a promise

I Have Killed All The Flies.

Rer on a Friday at peak hour

Paris spoils you in that it sets the tolerance level for getting anywhere at 30mins either by public transport or bike.

Can someone who’s more a connoisseur of panettone explain to me the difference between a 15e panettone and a 55e one?

These people don’t learn

Fluctuat nec mergitur.

This is a lovely story www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Interesting Attal proposal for a universal retirement trust fund.

Currently teaching on these concepts in photojournalism. I try not to let my analytical philosopher self take over but this time a good dose of it would help.

After last season I’ve forgotten how hard it can be to be a Reds supporter sometimes.

Sigh.

F R O

Gorgeously done Virgil!

Yesss

Not a pen

Good job!