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My column on disgraced French film star Corinne Luchaire, whose tragic life is the subject of a new film, Les Rayons et les Ombres. open.substack.com/pub/matthewfra…

Greece launches animal airlift to evacuate pets and their owners from the Middle East trib.al/BXkb2Ri

🗳️ Intentions de vote à Paris - @IfopOpinion • E. Grégoire (PS-LÉ-PCF) - 46% • R. Dati (LR-MoDem-UDI-RE) - 44% • S. Chikirou (LFI) - 10% #Municipales2026

Norway should reapply to become a member of the European Union in light of their shared security challenges — namely Russia — the leader of the country's conservative opposition party told POLITICO today. politico.eu/article/norway…

The war has created a crisis for luxury brands in Dubai, whose mall is usually a busy playground where the wealthy can purchase Rolex watches, Hermès handbags and Ferragamo shoes. They can even spend $80,000 on a Fabergé egg. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/bus…

Ils crient « Mort à l’Amérique » en public… Mais en privé, ils envoient leurs enfants étudier et vivre aux États-Unis. Ali Larijani qui traitait les États-Unis comme « le grand Satan », pendant que sa fille étudie la médecine à Ohio State University. Voilà le vrai visage de l’hypocrisie du régime iranien.

#ThoughtForTheDay Pigeons get called sky rats. But birds like these once carried messages through gunfire when every radio failed. And the part most people miss is this. For thousands of years humans relied on pigeons to move information faster than any technology available at the time. Their homing instinct is so precise that a trained bird released hundreds of miles away can still navigate straight back to its loft. That simple biological skill made them invaluable in war. During World War I and World War II, armies deployed hundreds of thousands of pigeons. When telephone wires were cut and radio signals failed, commanders often had only one reliable way to send a message through chaos. In 1918 a Pigeon named Cher Ami carried a desperate note from trapped American troops in the Argonne Forest. The bird was shot through the chest and lost part of a leg during the flight but still delivered the message, helping stop friendly artillery fire and saving nearly two hundred soldiers. Today their descendants wander city sidewalks, pecking quietly for crumbs. Most people see a nuisance. History once saw a lifeline with wings.

What a monstrous regime x.com/visegrad24/sta…

What a diplomat. A real class act.

Harvard used to have a cap on Jews. It appears the university has fewer Jewish students now than it did then.

BREAKING: Iran hit Israel's Haifa refinery.

@AschRonald It may be in part an anti-Muslim vote, but it's also class and property. In the 16th arrondissement, it's the grande bourgeoisie hostile to taxation. Sarah Knafo promised to cut property taxes in half.

Look at the far-right vote in Paris: concentrated in the wealthy west end, especially the 16th arrondissement.

Now this is the kind of news I want in my feed

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4lA7lEQ

Greece is the first country to arrange a repatriation flight from the UAE specifically for pets and their owners

“ungrateful allies in Europe”

2/2 « Certains diplomates et militaires français espèrent que l’Iran mette en échec les USA. Par antiaméricanisme. Par tradition politique.» L’explication de l’ambassadrice @SylvieBermann sur les complexités du moment, où l’histoire du Proche Orient pèse de tout son poids.

@DurhamWASP @EmmaPeel_Knight Waugh was in a relatively good mood with Elizabeth Jane Howard, in contrast to his frosty demeanor during the famous BBC interview with John Freeman.

Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].

Propriété de Bolloré, le groupe Hachette a piqué l'écrivain Boualem Sansal à Gallimard. Le transfert est présenté comme un sauvetage de l'auteur et de sa liberté de création. C'est surtout une belle opération commerciale... f.mtr.cool/xcdzsqbnex

@BeneRousseau Better to be a horse in Qatar than a pet dog in Dubai.

@frasermatthew Priorities…

Qatar evacuating 147 horses, first via truck to Saudi Arabia, then on cargo flights to Belgium.