One thing I did not get to mention in this piece is that Rob Jetten is extremely physically fit. If he becomes Prime Minister he will probably be the most physically fit European leader apart from maybe Alexander Stubb
30.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 3
Peru: looks like at last the Congress is going to impeach Dina Boluarte, the most incompetent president the country has had in a very long time. The question is whether anyone better will replace her.
09.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?
Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites
This is sad to hear. Here in Madrid at the moment, swifts are in full flight, cruising, diving, constantly in movement, a delight to watch in the evening warmth
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
17.06.2025 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sly and the Family Stone at the Isle of Wight Festival (AUDIO)
Farewell, Sly Stone, you and your family were great at the Isle of Wight 1970 where I was amongst the hundreds of thousands
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQl...
09.06.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just seen this and shocked and saddened. Duncan was a true gentleman as well as a great journalist. RIP
19.05.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Adiós Mario Vargas Llosa, a great Peruvian man of letters. He will be remembered above all for half a dozen great novels, especially "Conversación en la Catedral". Whatever one thought of his political commitments, he became a kind of super-ego for Latin America. He will be missed. RIP.
14.04.2025 08:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hope you enjoy!
11.04.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gracias, no, como periodista estoy acostumbrado a escribir en forma concisa!
05.04.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Perfect, from Private Eye
03.04.2025 08:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When a school xeroxes a book to "train" its pupils, it pays the author a license fee. When Meta uses books to "train" its AI models, it just steals them. We need a class action suit against Meta and other book thieves
03.04.2025 09:12 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Domodossola is where Jorge Chávez, a young Peruvian aviator died when his plane crashed after he made the first aerial crossing of the Alps
01.04.2025 22:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tariffs Will Destroy the Best Cure for the Trade Deficit
US exports not only reduce deficits, they also bring higher-paying jobs and greater innovation. A tariff-driven trade war will hold back their growth.
Trump’s upcoming tariff barrage will hold back U.S.-based exporters and the growth they can bring. In my latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com, I argue that the U.S. should shift its focus from cutting imports to the other side of the trade equation and boost exports.
28.03.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Transport sec accuses Nigel Farage and Richard Tice of “peddling myths” about the cause of Heathrow's shutdown
Farage claimed the truth “is being withheld” on Sunday, after Tice blamed the closure on Heathrow moving to a biomass generator backup
No Reform MP was present for Alexander's statement
24.03.2025 17:34 — 👍 103 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 1
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