Hugo Brady Brown

"He was trying to impress me with some fiddle-faddle," she said. "Me!"

VDL convenes Security College on Monday amid Iran war European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Saturday that she will convene a

The President of Europe, Dr Ursula von der Leyen, announced yesterday that she will convene a special security college after the weekend. It will draft a communiqué.

If Netanyahu and Trump had attacked Iran during the month of August, the college would not have met until September.

"Has it hastened the arrival of The Rapture?"

"In movie theaters this fall."

I remember keenly being silenced in 2016 by some angry left-wing online people in the States who said they were voting for the other candidate because Hillary Clinton was a warmonger who would set the Middle East ablaze.

"What do you know, ignorant islander?" was the experts' tone and attitude.

"It's not so much history as a relentless undiscriminating chronological trudge through what was at hand in the public library or happened to be in the newspaper file, without theory, analysis, comparison or even narrative style."

In all good bookshops. Under history.

"The most reliable way of ensuring your book gets ecstatically good reviews in the newspaper is to work for it."

"In what sense?"

Going about now at the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, turning over the page in each of the monthly calendars in the house as, I imagine, Walter Shandy did too long ago.

Never to look at them again till 1 April, I feel certain.

She sounded really knowledgeable and generous in her reviews. I'd like to hear that Victoria Requiem she's directing in the Scots' Church.

I had to ask someone in the trade today what 'A publisher has preëmpted a book' means. I had seen the statement in two different broadsheet newspapers within a week. And, what's worse, it was in the 'culture' pages.

Trade jargon shouldn't appear in print baldly and meaninglessly like that. Avoid.

"It's an excellent restaurant. They still have a sweet trolley. And they always chambré the cheese. And they have an early bird."

I was surprised to get it today: it was due on Tuesday. I hope for more and more of this music (and of Mexican baroque too). The Lisbon earthquake deprived us of so much of what was there, they said today, but diligence in archives and libraries might unearth more wonderful music.

How will US, Israeli strikes on Iran affect oil markets? The US and Israeli strikes against Iran could severely disrupt the global supply of crude oil and send prices soaring to levels not seen in years.

Apparently there's American oil underneath Iran. It was wanton carelessness to lose it there.

Blanchardstown one might understand, what with Old Castleknock; Finglas is the hard case.

Luís Toscano and Cupertinos (Cappella Musical Cupertino de Miranda).

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Luís Toscano directs Cupertinos (Cappella Musical Cupertino de Miranda).
www.cupertino.pt/en/music/cup...

I never thought to look: I have been in two of their branches this month, looking in vain for chestnut flour. Thank you: I'll look there here (as it were).

Calbee - Wikipedia

They're new to me, Mike, but I see online that they're now owned by that excellent maker of addictive salty snacks, Calbee.

(I'm looking out for beetroot & parsnip crisps, without success.)

Cupertinos Lus Toscano Garro: Missa O quam pulchra es & Cantate Domino

Andrew was correct today (as was his guest Suzi Digby): it's not just beautiful and 'important' music very well performed, but the recording quality itself is exceptionally good.

Cupertinos Lus Toscano singing Francisco Garro.
Missa O quam pulchra es & Cantate Domino.
Portuguese sacred music

Regina Doherty MEP cracking jokes.

The big draw was Regina Doherty MEP, who had them rolling in the aisles in Old Wesley RFC.

"She's nearly as good at the jokes as Phil Hogan," said a man close to No 51.

مجمع تشخیص مصلحت نظام - ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد

The Expediency Discernment Council is a remarkable name-in-translation, given how wary we are in English of using the word 'expedient'.

‘Greens can win everywhere’: Success in UK can inspire byelection victories here, O’Gorman says Roderic O’Gorman tells Green Party national convention that party can win upcoming byelections

I like O'Gorman's glasses.

Is that two heads of state removed now? They say second terms are when they devote themselves to shaping their historical reputation.

I skimp and cut corners inside the door, but I venture forth in the full spectrum of M&S beige to wheaten to fawn in my comfort waists and in my quarter-zip wool-rich jumpers.

I think I'll going to have to go upmarket in my choice of loungewear. I may have to go as high as Uniqlo, following the torture of these Amazon Essentials.

Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan (L) and US Ambassador to Ireland Edward Walsh

Early American printing history.

John Dunlap printed the first copies of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia July 4th, 1776.

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #C18th

Good Lord! It was a period of a few years when I watched no TV at all, so I don't think I ever saw the funeral.

It's just as well for them that North Korea isn't threatening the peace.

He would be a particularly snug fit.

It can repay one to look closely at the general view photographs taken at elegant events like last night's glittering fundraising dinner for Neale Richmond in Old Wesley RFC.

The most unexpected people mature into Blueshirts, as their investments mature.

Hopes are rising in the free world that Khamenei's successor will be a social democrat. This would mean the surgical operation was a complete success as planned.

"And at what time of the day would you like to do it?" the doctor asked yesterday.

"I'm in your hands about that," I said. "I'll do it whenever you tell me."

They like that, I find. Apparent compliance. I suppose everyone likes the semblance of power. She was beaming.

I'll suit myself, of course.