XKCD meaning of auroras cartoon, showing "normal" at poles, "cool and exciting" in temperate zone, "someone should go check on our satellites" in subtropics, and "A bunch of open questions in Solar-Terrestrial physics are about to be answered" at the tropics
Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
12.11.2025 02:08 β π 1777 π 376 π¬ 25 π 23
Trump pardoned them. Now the Jan 6 Prison Choir is making a comeback
Group records collection of songs to mark fifth anniversary of march on US Capitol
"Trump pardoned them. Now the Jan 6 Prison Choir is making a comeback
Group records collection of songs to mark fifth anniversary of march on US Capitol"
@robcrilly.bsky.social for The Telegraph
12.11.2025 12:59 β π 13 π 10 π¬ 0 π 3
Two former frontrunners did not apply:
Sir Richard Moore: Told friends he wanted a break after leading MI6
Lord Mark Sedwill: Privately said he would not apply but would take the job if offered. Don't rule him out just yet BUT he has problematic Trump comments in his past
08.11.2025 22:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Chandra and Turner are the heavyweights.
Chandra knows Trump World BUT lacks foreign policy experience
Turner is career diplomat BUT his style thought to go over badly in Trump's Washington
08.11.2025 22:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
NEW I can reveal 5 serious contenders applied to be next UK ambassador to USA:
Varun Chandra, business adviser to PM
Christian Turner, permanent representative at UN
Jonathan Black, deputy national security adviser
Simon Manley, former perm rep to WTO/UN Geneva
Sir Martin Connell, frmr 2nd Sea Lord
08.11.2025 22:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Rob's Saloon #15
Exclusive look inside Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir and Jeffrey Epstein's warped "moral code"
NEW Virginia Roberts Giuffre's powerful memoir describes Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre, warped moral code that he used to justify abusing young girls
Rob's Saloon #15 open.substack.com/pub/robssalo...
20.10.2025 11:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My five days on the road with Trump revealed a man in complete control
Rob Crilly describes what itβs really like to spend time with a president who never stops making headlines
My five days with Donald Trump: Six flights, six events turned into press conferences, 162 minutes of questions, 54 holes, too many bagpipes and 13 knackered journalists
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/a5db441...
31.07.2025 21:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Essay | How Hunter Biden Helped Derail His Fatherβs Re-Election
Joe Bidenβs debate against Donald Trump was supposed to prove the aging presidentβs stamina. But in the weeks leading up to it he was devastatedβand distractedβby his sonβs legal travails.
Hunter found out the Democratic National Committee was paying President Bidenβs legal fees arising from an investigation into his handling of classified documents, taken over by a special counsel, Robert Hur. Hunter asked why the DNC could not pay his too.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
03.07.2025 12:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#7: Dinner with Mark Rutte
Or how I ate at the best Indonesian restaurant in the Hague
Dinner with Mark Rutte - it's easy to see why Trump likes him so much #NATO
Rob's Saloon #7
robssaloon.substack.com/p/7-dinner-w...
28.06.2025 00:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Canada Gazette, Part 2, Volume 159, Number 6:Β Canadaβs 2025 G7 Presidency Privileges and Immunities Order
March 12, 2025, Part 2, Volume 159, Number 6, Canada Gazette
In Feb, Canada issued an order putting a loophole in its tough visa requirements. It exempts leaders and officials coming for the G7 from "immigration restrictions" that might bar, say, a convicted felon. Trump arrives tonight
gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/202...
15.06.2025 15:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oprah Shamed Him. Heβs Back Anyway.
Not entirely surprised to learn that James Frey is a colossal prick. But that's OK. I quite like writers who are colossal pricks
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
10.06.2025 16:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Musk-Trump breakup wasn't just about the bill - insiders tell me rifts went much deeper, reflecting differences in philosophy and Musk's behaviour
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ea9c76c...
06.06.2025 00:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Big for Trump, who needed some good news
Big for Brit ambassador Peter Mandelson - I was hearing whispers that he had irritated colleagues by talking up prospects for deal, only for it to be taking longer than expected 2/x
08.05.2025 02:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
CONFIRMED: Trump will announce trade agreement with UK in Oval Office tomorrow (unclear if full deal or framework/roadmap for further talks), per source familiar. 1/x
08.05.2025 02:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
JD Vance on state of Russia talks re Ukraine. "I wouldn't say that the Russians are uninterested in bringing this thing to a resolution. What I would say is, right now ... we think they're asking for too much."
07.05.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Why Canadaβs youth wonβt vote for Mark Carney
Young people have moved to the Conservative Party in search of help with the soaring cost of living
I'm in Canada for Monday's election. And strange things are going on: Young people are moving towards the Conservative Party as they look for help with cost of living crisis
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...
24.04.2025 20:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Oval Office press conference is here to stay.
"The old East Room press conference is a bit more stuffy and staged,β Karoline Leavitt, the White House press Secretary, told me, βand thatβs not how Donald Trump rolls.β
18.04.2025 20:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Ten birds and six wires. Birds and wires are rendered in very dark blue and not hard-edged with hints of a red under-painting showing through along those soft edges. Against a pure pale blue painterly sky - run five parallel wires, sloping down sharply from the top left to the middle of the bottom edge. On the top wire perch 6 birds with 3 close together near the top, a gap to another, then another gap to two more near the bottom of the painting. On the second highest wire is a single bird up near the top edge, and on the wire immediately below perches another single bird even closer to the top left corner. Another single wire splits the blue sky in the right half of the painting, running from the centre of the top down to the right edge close to the bottom right corner. On it perch two birds far apart. The painting is not signed.
Been a while since I shared a #painting from my long running Birds, Wires series. This is the 13th in the series, controversially titled "Birds, Wires 13". The day the electric folk cut down the 5 parallel wires outside my home and consolidated into one fat wires, was a sad day. #SpeirGorm #JanuArty
31.01.2025 22:45 β π 96 π 8 π¬ 2 π 1
Punk band UK Subs say they were deported over anti-Trump views
Alvin Gibbs says border agents claimed he did not have the correct visa for entry
βIf that wasnβt enough, United Airlines policy dictated that I was not allowed a single alcoholic drink on the flight, given the circumstances of my deportation.β
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
22.03.2025 12:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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04.02.2025 16:25 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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