Alix Mortimer

, drive [for?] [_____]. Go to Jerusalem on 30th.” Then the last three lines mention Jerusalem again and either “consent” or a “convent” but finding them much harder.

I’ve got “9.3.12 Damascus. Many thanks for [?] 3 which I got in 9th arrived from B[___]. We start tomorrow for Palmyra at 6. Shall be camping out till 21st when we return. [?] to [_____] 23rd, Nazareth 25th, Tabor 26th, Nazareth (?) 27th, on 28th ride to Jenin, 29th to [___] camping for 2 nights

Important point.

During Brexit some commentators treated international relations as a morality play, insisting the EU would punish Johnson et al for their hubris and wickedness.

In fact, the EU position was predictably driven by its internal dynamics and interests, not punitive vengeance.

Does FIFA do a prize for economics

I sometimes wonder whether there are people who have never experienced the web as a place with URLs and pages and have only experienced Web pages within apps or using social media as if it were a search engine for Web pages. If there are, that'd explain a lot about AI use for researching stuff

Excellent fact and who can blame the others

That’s interesting because I’ve always thought of Denmark as what we could/should have been were it not for all the empire nonsense, exceptionalism, Brexit etc. Just a nice place for people to live on the NW fringe of Europe, good at dairy and beer.

Please enjoy these dogs made, for no obvious reason, entirely out of welly boots (i’m in France, if that explains anything)

"The Bitter wind is high to-night
It lifts the white locks of the sea
In such wild winter storm no fright
Of savage viking trouble me"
The word taken from ninth century manuscript now in the St Gall

V pleased to have passed on this joy

I never realised until it was mentioned in connection with the war that it was from a Ukrainian studio! Right there in the name doh.

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

the Boring Company is maybe the purest example of the Elon Bullshit

his other companies are all wildly overvalued but they do make actual money, the Boring Company would have collapsed many years ago if his name wasn’t attached

Coping intensifies bsky.app/profile/otto...

Can’t park there mate

If I were Boris Johnson I would simply not allow the phrase “piffling irrelevance” to appear anywhere near my name

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

move slow and repair things

My God.

Bronze statue (Ashmolean Museum)

A bronze statuette of a Hindu saint, acquired by the Ashmolean in 1967, has been returned to a temple in Tamil Nadu. The Ashmolean had been alerted to doubts around its provenance in 2019 and voluntarily approached Indian authorities for an investigation.

www.ashmolean.org/press/return...

Far down the list of important questions derived from this war is after Trump *inevitably* bows out (no stomach for a ground invasion, no proxy forces willing to fight, no revolution in Iran on the horizon), how do its UK cheerleaders process its failure? Do they blame our lack of involvement?

And (this is waaay too reflective for them obviously) how would they have processed and presented it *if we’d been involved* and he’d still have inevitably bowed out.

Me, crying, asking once again: who *are* the Greens/Lib Dems who…

Zelensky highlighting the moral and strategic poverty of the USA under Trump. In the last year Trump has ended all military aid for Ukraine, has undermined Ukrainian air defense, has tried to bully Ukraine in handing over territory, and has rolled out the red carpet for Putin.

God that’s pitiful, it’s not even gamechanging like you can retire on it. Imagine drawing this kind of opprobrium just to get half an extension built, or five nice holidays.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

“Sir unfortunately early reports indicate that they are shooting back”

Yes good grief you couldn’t force that admission out of me

I used to work in tax many moons ago for a wise partner who would advise people “don’t change your life and do things you don’t want to to avoid tax”, because he knew it can get what we now call gamified. But he meant like, continuing to live in a house you don’t like to extend your taper relief.