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I think Denmark should appoint a Maine envoy
Denmark furious as Trump appoints ‘totally unacceptable’ Greenland envoy
www.thetimes.com/article/f987...
Denmark furious as Trump appoints ‘totally unacceptable’ Greenland envoy
www.thetimes.com/article/f987...
Denmark furious as Trump appoints ‘totally unacceptable’ Greenland envoy
Jeff Landry, the Louisiana governor, will take up the voluntary role in the latest escalation of US attempts to acquire the Arctic island
www.thetimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I think Denmark should appoint a Maine envoy
Denmark furious as Trump appoints ‘totally unacceptable’ Greenland envoy
www.thetimes.com/article/f987...
Denmark furious as Trump appoints ‘totally unacceptable’ Greenland envoy
www.thetimes.com/article/f987...
Andrew-Epstein, side by side on the BBC News app with a manufactured royal story. So much momentum behind this scandal I’m not sure the Buckingham Palace PR machine will win this time. Sandringham? Balmoral? Over so many years? How can the rest of the family hierarchy plausibly deny knowledge?
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Andrew-Epstein, side by side on the BBC News app with a manufactured royal story. So much momentum behind this scandal I’m not sure the Buckingham Palace PR machine will win this time. Sandringham? Balmoral? Over so many years? How can the rest of the family hierarchy plausibly deny knowledge?
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The BBC offers UK people a Royal Watch news service - but I don’t see any way we can do the opposite, and turn it all off
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December 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The BBC offers UK people a Royal Watch news service - but I don’t see any way we can do the opposite, and turn it all off
www.bbc.co.uk/newsletters/...
www.bbc.co.uk/newsletters/...
I’m reading about the Edwardian era in the excellent Little Englanders by @alwynturner.bsky.social. The Parliament act of 1911: “It is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a second chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis.” We’re still waiting…
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I’m reading about the Edwardian era in the excellent Little Englanders by @alwynturner.bsky.social. The Parliament act of 1911: “It is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a second chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis.” We’re still waiting…
@empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social A big chunk of the British Empire & Commonwealth collection has been stolen from the Bristol Museum archive, including East India Company artefacts. Thought you’d like to know www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds of items taken in high-value Bristol Museum archive raid
More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection are taken.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social A big chunk of the British Empire & Commonwealth collection has been stolen from the Bristol Museum archive, including East India Company artefacts. Thought you’d like to know www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You know how some children (and adults tbf) have a problem with maths logic? I just read the deets on today’s World Cup draw, and it would make a great entry point in a classroom lesson…
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup draw 2026: Format, start time, seeding, pots & dates
Pots, quadrants, confederation constraints, group position grids ... the World Cup draw is not going to be straightforward.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
You know how some children (and adults tbf) have a problem with maths logic? I just read the deets on today’s World Cup draw, and it would make a great entry point in a classroom lesson…
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
Happy St Andrew’s Day, everyone. Scotland: the only home nation to have its saint’s day at this time of year. “We don’t p*ss around with springtime, pal.” 🏴
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Happy St Andrew’s Day, everyone. Scotland: the only home nation to have its saint’s day at this time of year. “We don’t p*ss around with springtime, pal.” 🏴
Listening to Thatcher Part 1 on @ppfideas.bsky.social. Re the U-turn speech, I heard once she didn’t get the joke: she had to be persuaded not to say “you can turn if you want to” 😉
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Listening to Thatcher Part 1 on @ppfideas.bsky.social. Re the U-turn speech, I heard once she didn’t get the joke: she had to be persuaded not to say “you can turn if you want to” 😉
Just finished today’s episode of @ppfideas.bsky.social: The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens Part 2. Oh my goodness: the species is doomed to decline, but what a wild ride. Worth subscribing to PPF+ for this episode alone - but there are so many other gems here…
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just finished today’s episode of @ppfideas.bsky.social: The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens Part 2. Oh my goodness: the species is doomed to decline, but what a wild ride. Worth subscribing to PPF+ for this episode alone - but there are so many other gems here…
Just opened the photos of atrocities in the Belgian Congo in today’s newsletter from @empirepoduk.bsky.social and there’s one there (9 of 12) that I can’t unsee. Just awful
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Just opened the photos of atrocities in the Belgian Congo in today’s newsletter from @empirepoduk.bsky.social and there’s one there (9 of 12) that I can’t unsee. Just awful
Let’s imagine Russia invaded the USA from the NW and after 2-3 yrs China said it had brokered a deal: Russia would pull out of Oregon, N California, and W Montana, and in exchange the US would let them keep Alaska. What would any US President say to that? And why should Ukraine be any different?
US military officials in Kyiv as Europe warns against reported Russia peace plan
It comes after reports the US and Russia have prepared a 28-point peace plan, allegedly with major concessions for Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Let’s imagine Russia invaded the USA from the NW and after 2-3 yrs China said it had brokered a deal: Russia would pull out of Oregon, N California, and W Montana, and in exchange the US would let them keep Alaska. What would any US President say to that? And why should Ukraine be any different?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
I hear @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social is in the running to succeed Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time. I can’t think of a safer pair of hands.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I hear @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social is in the running to succeed Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time. I can’t think of a safer pair of hands.
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
What’s infuriating about the departures of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness is that the Telegraph and the Mail etc will crow over them. The BBC resigns over things for which they wouldn’t even apologise.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
What’s infuriating about the departures of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness is that the Telegraph and the Mail etc will crow over them. The BBC resigns over things for which they wouldn’t even apologise.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and dozens of emails each day announcing Black Friday deals
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and dozens of emails each day announcing Black Friday deals
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a GIF
a man in a cowboy outfit is holding balloons in his hands
Alt: Steve Martin in Parenthood. “I like to make balloon animals.”
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a GIF
Hello @agcallard.bsky.social - I am reading Open Socrates and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. On p336 you talk of the world you shared with Steve being simultaneously there and not there, and it reminded me of Song of the Peach Tree Spring, an 8thC poem by Wang Wei. I thought you might like it.
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello @agcallard.bsky.social - I am reading Open Socrates and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. On p336 you talk of the world you shared with Steve being simultaneously there and not there, and it reminded me of Song of the Peach Tree Spring, an 8thC poem by Wang Wei. I thought you might like it.
@empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social Thought you would like to know that Ronald Hyam, Emeritus Professor in British Imperial History at Cambridge, died yesterday. He was 89.
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social Thought you would like to know that Ronald Hyam, Emeritus Professor in British Imperial History at Cambridge, died yesterday. He was 89.
Hello @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social - thought this might be worth mentioning in a bonus edition: www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
www.hrp.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hello @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social - thought this might be worth mentioning in a bonus edition: www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
'Far from “prevent[ing] challengers from forcing a leadership election”, the new rule makes it easier.'
Revealed: the rule change that puts Starmer at risk
A decision that passed unnoticed at last year’s Labour conference spells danger for the prime minister
kellnerp.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM