Mark Almond @mpalmond
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Ought to add, that #Danes did fight #Russia/#USSR though not in #1812. Any visit to north-east #Estonia should include the lavishly-restored [with #EU funds] trench system "Blue Heights" from 1944. #Danes, #Swedes, #Norwegians & #Belgians fought together in Waffen #SS v. Red Army
For how many people was Lloyd George their grandfather?
For how many people was Lloyd George their grandfather?
#Proxywar takes on a new meaning when the #USNavy & its #NATO allies are protecting #Russia's oil cargoes sailing south & #China's exports to #Europe heading north through the #RedSea while their own shipping is deterred by the #Houthis and has to use expensive round #CAPE route!
Exam question: Name one lie or even all the many lies told by the #Tories since 2014 which cost as many lives as @campbellclaret's lies. You have 45 minutes to make up a dishonest case. Include a picture of yourself posing as a man of integrity with #RobertMaxwell or #TonyBlair.
Exam question: Name one lie or even all the many lies told by the #Tories since 2014 which cost as many lives as @campbellclaret's lies. You have 45 minutes to make up a dishonest case. Include a picture of yourself posing as a man of integrity with #RobertMaxwell or #TonyBlair.
Once in platzkart between Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk, I was next to an old man, and the only language we had in common was a smattering of half remembered Latin. We ended up singing Gaudeamus, to the surprise of our fellow travellers
Once in platzkart between Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk, I was next to an old man, and the only language we had in common was a smattering of half remembered Latin. We ended up singing Gaudeamus, to the surprise of our fellow travellers
A strange take for a realist. The #USA has repeatedly intervened in #ICC matters. Just remember how in 2011 it actively promoted the indictment of #Gaddafi though #Libya was no more a signatory than #WashingtonDC. Power decides who faces "justice" at the Hague even for guilty.
A strange take for a realist. The #USA has repeatedly intervened in #ICC matters. Just remember how in 2011 it actively promoted the indictment of #Gaddafi though #Libya was no more a signatory than #WashingtonDC. Power decides who faces "justice" at the Hague even for guilty.
#Globalist modernists insist they want One World but with double standards. As a traditionalist I am not surprised by the vitality of hypocrisy. Adding two-faced international justice to diplomacy's many faces seems par for the course.
#Globalist modernists insist they want One World but with double standards. As a traditionalist I am not surprised by the vitality of hypocrisy. Adding two-faced international justice to diplomacy's many faces seems par for the course.
#Belgrade well worth a visit. Magnificent position at the junction of #Danube and #Sava, and at the risk of causing offence the Habsburg and Ottoman worlds as well as Slavic both Christian, & Muslim. Accident happened at #Kalemegdan, fortress with a view - and a trigger warning.
#Belgrade well worth a visit. Magnificent position at the junction of #Danube and #Sava, and at the risk of causing offence the Habsburg and Ottoman worlds as well as Slavic both Christian, & Muslim. Accident happened at #Kalemegdan, fortress with a view - and a trigger warning.
It wasn't a prescription but a descriptive account of my accident & then how the #Serbian doctor treated it. #Oxford's #JR doctor understood the anatomical terms but not Latin. To be fair, I could translate what had been done but couldn't place the anatomical terms inside my leg!
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The leaders of the #Celtic fringe are on a roll at the moment - and its all downhill. Given #Gethin's complicated relationship as overseer of a generous grant recipient-turned- generous-donor is 2024 to be the Year of the Three Exemplary Minority First Minister Resignations?
Both in his discussions with #Ribbentrop in Berlin in late 1940 and then in spring 1945 with the Turkish foreign minister, Selim Sarper, #Molotov raised #Soviet demands for bases on the Straits leading to the Mediterranean and for the return of #Kars to #USSR. Rebuffed each time.
Both in his discussions with #Ribbentrop in Berlin in late 1940 and then in spring 1945 with the Turkish foreign minister, Selim Sarper, #Molotov raised #Soviet demands for bases on the Straits leading to the Mediterranean and for the return of #Kars to #USSR. Rebuffed each time.
Weather forecast out? "#UK to get ‘frightening’ hot summer in #April... warns senior meteorologist... a “frightening” hot summer in April as result of climate change... Jim Dale claims: “We will see hot weather start to bake in during the course of April" independent.co.uk/tv/news/weathe…
Breaking the mould? @Keir_Starmer not so NOT #Oxbridge after all: "When I arrived at St Edmund Hall [#Oxford]... I was still not clear what path I should take next. My time at St Edmund Hall... confirmed [my choice]... From then on, I did not look back!" seh.ox.ac.uk/people/keir-st…
Breaking the mould? @Keir_Starmer not so NOT #Oxbridge after all: "When I arrived at St Edmund Hall [#Oxford]... I was still not clear what path I should take next. My time at St Edmund Hall... confirmed [my choice]... From then on, I did not look back!" seh.ox.ac.uk/people/keir-st…
In 2000, I broke my ankle in #Belgrade. The #Serbian doctor who put it in plaster, "My English not so good, so I write your report in #Latin. Your doctor in #Oxford will understand"! Might as well have been in #Mayan hieroglyphic in the #JR. Needless to say hospital lost the file
A good reminder of how simplistic rigid ideological interpretations of why people took - still take - sides often miss the human aspect.
A good reminder of how simplistic rigid ideological interpretations of why people took - still take - sides often miss the human aspect.
It is odd, or perhaps not so strange, that the #SNP's advance to power marched to the tune of "#Scotland the Brave" but its pipers are now playing the retreat to the tune of #Scotland the Grift" [black notes only, of course].
#FP's Cohen & Gentile were not wrong. #Ukraine's counter-offensive last summer was like #Normany 1944 - except it wasn't #Patton's charge around the #Wehrmacht they were re-enacting but #Hitler's doomed push west from #Falaise into a suicidal salient costing 50,000 German dead.
Eerily anticipatory of how the late Roman Emperor #Valentinian III was bamboozled into murdering #Aetius who had defeated #Attila and the #Huns in 451AD - only to realize "I have cut off my right arm with the left" - opening the way for the #Vandals to sack #Rome in 455AD.
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A mostly intact Turkic cemetery (Karapapakhs) in Armenia. Stones seen here are mid-20th century but down hill are ones in Arabic characters that are obviously older. Sacred space caught in a political limbo which is difficult to navigate.
Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili warns against Washington using NGOs to convert Georgia into another frontline state and "cannon fodder" against Russia: - "Let me remind you that these people – Saakashvili, Bokeria, Merabishvili, Adeishvili, Gvaramia,…
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⭕ Leaked footage from within a military hospital in the UAE, shows wounded RSF militiamen receiving treatment. The UAE operates secret flights via Chad to bring in wounded RSF militiamen for specialist care. #UAEKillsSudanesePeople #الامارات_تقتل_السودانيين
There is a real moment of reckoning coming over whether and how Western governments confront the UAE over their continued support to the RSF. UAE reportedly spent the weekend trying to strong arm Security Council members to cancel now close this meeting. middleeasteye.net/news/uae-cance…
Saint Sebastian doing a little dance as he is shot full of arrows. Predella of the Pala Ottoni by Carlo Crivelli, whose day is today.
Saint George, about to deliver final fatal cut to already well-pierced dragon. Horse not liking any of this at all. Painted in 1470 by Carlo Crivelli, whose day is today.
Not just over Sudan. Libya, Egypt, Chad, Mali, Ethiopia, Yemen and quite a few flashpoints where Emirati involvement has contrived to make already disastrous situations even worse.
There is a real moment of reckoning coming over whether and how Western governments confront the UAE over their continued support to the RSF. UAE reportedly spent the weekend trying to strong arm Security Council members to cancel now close this meeting. middleeasteye.net/news/uae-cance…
The spectacular Pala Ottoni, painted for the church of S. Francesco dei Zoccolanti, Matelica, by the amazing Carlo Crivelli in 1492. Every bit is just wonderful.
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: the marvelous Carlo Crivelli. Here, his great Altarpiece of St. Dominic in Ascoli, 1476. A work of endless, even overpowering fascination.
Packed full of glorious detail, Carlo Crivelli's Annunciation w/ Saint Emidius, 1486. I could look at this all day, but especially on Carlo Crivelli's day.
Artist of the day: the marvelous Carlo Crivelli. Who does not love him & his zany use of fruits & veggies, as in this A+ Madonna of 1473? Lots of visual intensity here.
Camerino Triptych, 1482. I fell in love with this long ago at the Brera, as who wouldn't? So many amazing details! By Carlo Crivelli, whose day is today.
Today's UNSC meeting was an important step in building an international coalition to stop the war in #Sudan. And singling out UAE for their role is critical. But their continued denial, coupled with images of Russia's deputy minister in Port Sudan today, suggest to me that…
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Please do not strip Georgians, pro- or anti- current government from their agency. Politics in Georgia is highly competitive and very complex. The "Russia axis" is one axis, but reducing Georgian politics to that of Russian inference is absurd. For sure, Kremlin has had a…
Mature phase Neo-Romanian style air vent, 1920s - Cherkez Hall, Cotroceni Royal Palace, Bucharest. The vent surround is inspired from 17th c Ottoman keel arch windows, bordered by a Wallachian style three treaded (Trinity) rope (the Cosmos), while 1/2
The first rule of the Rules-Based International Order is that the rules are whatever the current US administration says they are. The second rule is that they apply only to the people they say that they do.
The White House claim that the ICC court has no jurisdiction in the Israeli conflict completely delegitimizes its verdict in regards to Putin and totally destroys pro-🇺🇦 propaganda pigs parroting this narrative.