Forever European. Author of The Black Madonna of Derby and Sweetest Enemy - novels about second generation Polish immigrants. I moved from London to Vienna in 2019. #poland#history#books#vienna
@RememberUsAlways@palestine@israel The ICC does not claim equivalence, merely that both have cases to answer. Isreal could start their own internal inquiry instead.
Q: ..posts abt Trump’s calls to MBS, Kushner calls to Bibi. How concerned r u Trump's conducting shadow govt interfer in MidEast that works directly against Biden policy & war efforts in region?
Angry:
I’m pretty concerned abt it..also par for course w Trump-He started doing it b4 he was elected the first time, & he’s doing it now. It completely shreds precedent but I do worry that he’s trying to enflame tensions to make things worse for Biden
"Why Kate's shocking fake photo should terrify🚨you about the 2024 election:
Feels like the big moment that experts have been warning about for years, when the 21C gusher of disinfo. grows so insidious & toxic -masses don't know what, or who, they can believe anymore. A decade ago: “fake news” was coined to describe teens in a Macedonian base..."
Now, the computer-gen. fake calls are coming from inside the palace. Or inside the Senate.
Last week, we met in London at The National Archives, UK, to open five packages and two hundred letters that had been sealed and forgotten for centuries.
These unique items came from the Danish ship Anne Marie that was captured by the British Navy 1807 while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark.
It was a very special event that we shared with colleagues from the Faroe Islands and Sweden.
Saddle up for a u-turn everyone. Why are policies - especially ones as desperately important as this - always evaluated in terms of what they cost, and not how much they benefit (which usually has a financial element to it)?🙄 😡
@fkamiah17 Exactly. When the country was in terrible shape just after the second world war, I'm sure people said it would be ridiculous to bring in a national health service. Some things are too important to delay.
I feel like even the people who I considered to be rational voices on Twitter have gone off the deep end when it comes to lapping up misinformation and it's just really depressing.
There are at least two clear reasons why #Vienna is so often voted one of the most liveable cities in the world:
the defining logic of the city is: 'is this good for children' in stead of 'is this good for property developers'?
When awarding planning permission Vienna's planners requires 50% 'affordable housing' in all new urban developments, not the much lower ratios elsewhere.
@ChrisMayLA6 We live in a private rented flat in central Vienna. The rent is controlled so not outrageous, we have total security as they can't evict us (unless we don't pay the rent etc) and they can't put up the rent by more than inflation.
@jon Our sleeper train from Brussels to Vienna today cancelled because of the dreadful Deutschebahn. However, I want to mention how wonderful #OBB Austrian railways are - they are brilliant.
!["The Count" from Sesame Street. Top text: "When you realize that the last day of 2023 will be 123123." Bottom text: "Ah ah aaaaahhh!"](https://misanthropolis.xyz/photo/e4416904-5c85-42b7-875a-e5d9e74960c1-2.jpg ""The Count" from Sesame Street. Top text: "When you realize that the last day of 2023 will be 123123." Bottom text: "Ah ah aaaaahhh!"")
"Does he paint? he fain would write a poem—
Does he write? he fain would paint a picture."
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Robert Browning English poet of the Victorian age died #OTD in 1889. His most popular poems include Porphyria's Lover, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, the diptych Meeting at Night, the patriotic Home Thoughts from Abroad, and the children's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin. via @wikipedia
“It is high time for everyone in Kyiv and Washington to understand: it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield,” says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
@Free_Press Russia was defeated by Japan 1904, Poland 1920, Finland 1939 and Afghanistan 1980. Russia can be defeated when they attack another country.
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