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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Hope the Pope recovers and sending thoughts and prayers to my Catholic brothers and sisters in this moment of uncertainty.

I also redid the mix for Wait, improving the clarity in the bridges and a little better balance overall: youtu.be/cnoygVMVwjI?...

And now, the isolated stereo vocals for Drive My Car. youtu.be/2Bldiw3isys?...

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

Message on the dashboard of the Tesla parked behind me this morning:

Latest illo for the excellent @newhumanist.bsky.social, for an article on Narcissism

The world churns Mary Gilmore, ‘These?’

It's summer in the southern hemisphere, and solar is surging... Chile remains in front, with 29% of its electricity from solar panels in January👏

SIGN THE PETITION: bit.ly/rfc-petition I’m glad that supporters groups Sell Before We Dai and the Supporters Trust at Reading have joined me in calling for a parliamentary inquiry into Reading FC’s absent owner, Dai Yongge. (1/4)

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

'In the polling we did with @ecfr.eu we found countries like China are quite comfortable with this world of transactional great powers. Russia & China were already there & now the US are joining this world' @fromtga.bsky.social answers if we are in a time of epochal change for our Lunch Hour 👇

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

Winston Churchill was right: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Too many Americans have fought and died defending democracy. We must stand with our European allies against the authoritarianism of Putin and Trump.

The Israeli Right doesn't want Gaza, and hasn't wanted it for 30 years. Much more fundamental to its aspirations is the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank followed by its full annexation.

This is from 2017. If you are surprised, you weren’t paying attention.

Comparative bonus awards at Barclays a nice indicator of how the economy works and in whose interests: For every £1,556 paid to investment bankers, an ordinary employee such as a bank cashier, call centre operative or administrative worker got a quid!

The timeless poetry of GDR football team names. If you start chanting the Cottbus team name at the beginning of a match, you might just about finish it after 90 minutes (+ injury time).

Do see the surprising & wonderful exhibition ‘Lives Less Ordinary’ at Two Temple Place - includes two lovely works by Eric Tucker. A celebration of life- much joy to be found. Free! twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...

Lessons from Syria…

Can we just pause to reflect on this.

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.”

Column: In the Musk Revolution lessons from 20th Century history will be deleted www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million. Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?

this Times headline is very misleading as the following pars - in the same article - explains more fair to say “a handful of packed state schools have no room for private pupils says 2022/23 data”

Go Volk, Go Broke.