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Brilliant series this. Give them a watch. #OTD 1951 #CambridgeFive

'De Gaulle: Résistance’ Review: Antonin Baudry’s Large-Scale Epic is a Conventional yet Consistently Engaging Wartime Biopic variety.com/2026/film/revi…

Why is Peking Duck not now called Beijing Duck?

@poperespecter1 Did it occur to you that he's possibly being framed, having been exiled for lack of enthusiasm for the Ukraine war?

Breaking: Russian Orthodox Metropolitan previously accused of having gay sex with a deacon has now reportedly been busted for drugs.

It always blows my mind that the German architect Walter Gropius who co-designed the (then) PanAm Building in New York was born in 1883. He was 20 when the Wright brothers did their first flight, 25 when Model T was first produced... And somehow drew this.

"Doonesbury" has been chronicling American society and politics since 1970—and Garry Trudeau, now 77, is still at it. A new biography explores the cartoonist's life, influences, and famously nice personality in revelatory detail. airmail.news/sh/7Xh7zv?utm_…

Very disappointed that the new papal encyclical doesn’t mention my niche interests.

Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband, admitted stealing £400,000 from the SNP over a 12-year period. From box sets to bath soaps, cars to coffee machines, Peter Murrell plundered SNP donations to fund a luxury lifestyle. The Telegraph compiled a list of the most unusual and most expensive items 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

the first commercial bank in the world, The Medici Bank, opened in this building in 1397 there's a zara store now

Riga State Electrotechnical Factory, Latvian SSR, 1970s.

🇯🇴 Chief hairdresser A.G. Scott does Peter O’Toole’s hair during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia

Arguably the best Soviet & German General of WW2 were both Polish nobles. Erich Von Manstien’s birth name was Lewinski. His family served the Prussians back to Frederick the Great. Konstantin Rokossovsky came from a Polish nobile family who served the Tsar.

This is an extraordinarily good interview. #History #Weimar

Terrorism and spy cases tried by the top magistrate in the country are to be televised for the first time Allowing cameras in chief magistrate’s court will ‘boost transparency and diversity’ 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…

What does your Oxford college say about you? tatlermagazine.visitlink.me/BwJMOT

On May 27, 2025, His Majesty King Charles III opened the 45th Parliament and delivered the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber. Relive some of the most memorable moments! #SenCA #KingCharlesIII

As Memorial Day arrives, Herman Wouk’s ‘War and Remembrance’ remains a powerful reminder that history survives only when we can still imagine the people trapped inside it, writes Aaron MacLean. thefp.com/p/war-memory-a…

Reverend Richard Coles admits to breaking the law by burying people with pets’ ashes trib.al/NqPlMMd

@Tawadros15 I'll try to keep an open mind, but this does look like a set up to me. I'm well aware, though, that the Russian Orthodox hierarchs have a reputation for living the high life away from the cameras in post-Soviet style, and very expensive watches and holidays are not unknown.

@ActionnaireRe No it's more likely that like the rest of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy he is deeply corrupt and dissolute. A millionaire oligarch pretending to be a bishop.

Surprise surprise the same Russian bishop who was into gay sex with 18 year olds and lived a millionaire lifestyle off church funds was also bumping coke. I hope the Czechs lock his ass up for a long time.

El Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, General de Ejército Pedro Varela S., realiza saludo protocolar a la presidenta del Senado, senadora Paulina Núñez U. #EjércitoDeChile