Tim Jones

Vicky makes a serious difference in all her work - Gulrukhsor, now a UK charity - is a huge achievement

@JamesLeonard85 The front gate always remained on Ferdowsi Avenue, the entrance at the back used to be for the Visa Section.

In Tehran, Iran 🇮🇷 the British Embassy entrance is on a street called Bobby Sands Street. The Iranians renamed the street so that every letter ever written and delivered to the British diplomats and ambassadors would have Bobby Sands 🇮🇪 name on it 😂 #gaza #Iran

Vicky Fletcher MBE speaking on BBC West Berkshire at 10:00am GMT 15 January (15:00 Tajik time). #Tajikistan #GBV @UKinTajikistan lnkd.in/dnUqMYfC gulrukhsor.org

@jamiesont My mother (88 this year) is vey proud of knowing her #NHS Number off by heart, precisely because it was her wartime ID card number

Nick Robinson just now on Today saying digital ID cards hard for older people living in villages with memories of films about the war 'MEMORIES OF FILMS ABOUT THE WAR' No satire I write today will top that

@klaasm67 gruene-gruenberg.de/Downloads/afgh…

On this day in 1842 Dr William Brydon a surgeon in the British East India Company Army reached Jalalabad as the sole survivor of a force of 4,500 soldiers & 12,000 camp followers after the retreat from Kabul in the First Anglo Afghan War. Others countries would later learn Afghanistan can not be subdued.

@LawrPaulson In my local authority area (East Sussex 1970s) it was used in the “11+” examinations to decide whether you were suitable for an “academic” education. I know from personal experience that this wasn’t very predictive…

In 40 years at Cambridge, previously at Stanford and Caltech, nobody *ever* mentioned IQ. I've not seen it in schools either. We care about academic attainment in specific subjects. And Cambridge does not allow students to be assessed by any sort of multiple-choice exam.

@GrammarTable @azforeman A scene from the household of Clement Attlee, who took in a Kindertransport refugee who used Latin to communicate bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

@azforeman This absolutely 100% needs to be a scene in a movie.

I once was sitting in O’Hare airport reading a book of Latin poetry when a guy looking like a monk walks up to me looking utterly lost and asks “Loquerisne Latine”? (Do you speak Latin?) To which I answer “Ita, possumne te adiuvare?” (Yes, can I help you?.)

@charlesmurray I read an article once that argued that mathematicians who go into politics tend to be extremists precisely because the concept of “mathematical elegance” promotes drawing the broadest possible conclusions from the minimum of reasoning.

In a sufficiently advanced college math class, lots of the 130 IQ kids have to drop out because they just can't learn the material whereas almost all the 140 kids can. In a history or literature class it's more subjective. My experience is that the 130 range, though really smart, is accompanied by more class contributions that indicate they don't quite get it, whereas that seldom happens with 140 kids. In a class on contemporary politics, a fair number of the 140 kids will take monumentally stupid positions that would never occur to the 130 kids.

@JasonLoch @legalstyleblog From March 2003 the 1st Sec (Legal) in the British Embassy in The Hague was @DominicRaab7

I find it baffling that HM Ambassador to The Hague thought that Comic Sans was the best choice here (PREM 49/3049). I'm certain @legalstyleblog would not approve!

@pinstripedline How my RN grandfather ended the war - lived for over a year on what landed on the deck and couldn’t eat fish thereafter as it was never as fresh….

"For you Fritz the mine clearing war is not over!" Fantastic image from the IWM archives of Royal Navy officers directing their former Kriegsmarine foes on mine clearance duties off Germany in the aftermath of WW2.

@RudiGeerts Worth remembering that “Save the Children” was founded to save children in Central Europe after WWI savethechildren.org/us/about-us/wh…

11/11 who refused to sign a loyalty oath to the Nazis. Later in life, Gies traveled widely, sharing Anne’s story with students and other members of the public.

Miep Gies (Februari 15, 1909 – Januari 11, 2010) 1/n Miep was born in 1909, in Vienna. During World War One, when she was very young, she didn’t have enough food and as a result, Miep often became ill. In 1920 a Dutch family offered to look after her and help her get better.

@yetoshi24 It’s a depiction of the Persian delegation meeting Napoleon. The Persians wanted help against Russian expansion in the Caucasus, so the deal fell apart when Napoleon made a deal with Russia after Friedland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of…

@TimJonesFCDO What's the name of this painting?

Another hilarious event documented about Napoleons campaign in Egypt is when he was asked, "What he had found fascinating in the Qur'an" Napoleon said that his reading of the Qur'an has led him to believe that 'the will of Mohammed' was for Egyptians to join the French against

«To be a really good mathematician, you have to be lazy» [📹 oxford.mathematics]

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” R.L. Stevenson Good morning everyone🙏

Hail the Oxford comma

@thomasknox Apparently so and not in all published versions - it does seem to break the flow

@TimJonesFCDO Is that another missing stanza? I can see why people leave it out. It's clunkier than the others

Your annual reminder that the author of the words to “Abide With Me” was a Protestant clergyman called Henry Lyte. Regarded as a cold rigid and prickly man, he showed absolutely no poetic talent - at all - until September 1847, when he was dying of tuberculosis and in great pain Then, suddenly he sat down and wrote these words, in one burst. He died seven weeks later ****** Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. Come not in terrors, as the King of kings; But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings; Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea; Come, Friend of sinners, thus abide with me. I need Thy presence every passing hour; What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power? Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me. I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. Where is death’s sting? where, grave, thy victory? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies; Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me

@thomasknox youtu.be/TU9rL2GNDY8?si…

@Almd1233 @thomasknox His first clerical job was in Co. Wexford

@thomasknox Church of Scotland I believe. Was he not at the Church of Scotland in Nice? If you go the right way, you walk past it en route for the Orrhodox Cathedral.