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Where I went walking on my one dry day on Mallorca this January, and what I saw and felt. Includes demons patrickgjackson.com/travel-piece-m…
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Patrick Jackson 🤳
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Patrick Jackson 🤳
@patrickgjackson
BBC journo, 🇷🇺 🇫🇷. Posts/reposts usually deleted after a few days
England, United Kingdom Joined Mart 2009
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100 experts on international law sign open letter of concern at “serious violations of international law” by the US, Israel and Iran.
They cite rhetoric from Trump & Hegseth as “profoundly alarming and dangerously short-sighted”
Me & @imogenjames reporting
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It seems like some people still need reminding why actual nuclear powers like Nato and Russia must never go to war with each other. This old BBC radio drama has all the answers bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…
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Сделана в Ирландии в 1972: девушка, стреляющая из оружия своего жениха, кт был ранен в бою против британской армии.
Взявши в руки оружие, она обеспечивала прикрытие эвакуации своего любимого до того момента, пока её не убили.
Когда командир батальона английских десантников узнал,
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@Hudson26Stephen I do still post, thanks, but delete soon after. Too much bother to scrub the old stuff, some of which was used in news stories too 🙂
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@joehas I loved Galicia the one time I visited it (in September) but it was so wet and so green it felt just like Ireland, unlike the south of Spain
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If the Irish knew about Galicia, no one would ever go to the South of Spain.
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@IvorCrotty Will look those up, thanks. Only heard so many
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@patrickgjackson Also his treatment of the Irish issues: famine, revolution (& Joyce/Beckett). For some reason the Volga Vikings show was my fave. An absolute treasure of a man - bristling with talent.
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I'm off to the hospital for brain surgery (technically skull surgery, involving a little bit of brain) and will stay for some days for monitoring. Don't get too excited yet, it doesn't involve the part of my brain that makes the thoughts I post here. See you after anesthesia!
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@patrickgjackson You locked him in? Poor kitten. You monster.
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@jac_siuhaj Thanks, Jac. All good now. Hope you’re keeping well
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@JoeBangles11 In the parallel world of Eastern Europe, where instead of scones they eat small fat pancakes, I have always seen cream first, then jam
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An argument that has been the cause of several wars but it's always jam then cream, surely?!
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@RobertCorp No not weird at at all! I dug out two pieces of wood today and just got it off. Seems to get more stubborn every time
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@TimandraHarknes Well, kinda me too but… as I just tweeted, Russian kids with red hair get bullied too and I doubt that has anything to do with, er, us!
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@patrickgjackson I have wondered whether jokey anti-ginger prejudice is an indirect anti-Irish thing?
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@GerardAraud @rochowanski “Méfiez-vous du premier mouvement, il est toujours généreux.” C’est bon, merci
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Ce qui est excessif est insignifiant.
Mateusz Morawiecki@MorawieckiM
The Evil Empire has been reborn in the East. Russian barbarians threaten not only Ukraine. They threaten all of Europe and the whole free world. This is no mere incident, no coincidence, no maniac’s impulse. Putin has been building his Evil Empire for 23 years, in preparation for this conflict. New Europe understands this. It is time that Old Europe understood it too.
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@dwnews Actually nothing really changed: he won just under 28% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election last year
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French President Emmanuel Macron's approval rating has slumped amid protests over his pension reforms. A mere 28% of the French still have a positive opinion of him, according to a recent survey. trib.al/BceGttC
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@ConorjBoyce I feared being asked to stop laughing as I watched it again on my train
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@DrNWillburger Fair enough. This is as likely as a confrontation with an alien at any other point in history
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