Timothy Phillips

Everyone remembers Misha, but there was a second mascot at the 1980 Olympics. Meet Vigri, the Seal Pup for the sailing competitions in Tallinn!

10.04.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone remembers Misha, but there was a second mascot at the 1980 Olympics. Meet Vigri, the Seal Pup for the sailing competitions in Tallinn!

10.04.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely!!!

08.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump sees Panama like Putin saw Crimea, a possession his country gifted away in error, and a strategic maritime necessity.

Sadly we mustn’t assume he won’t invade.

25.01.2025 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for saying that! Really glad you enjoyed it.

23.01.2025 22:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of ‘The Curtain and the Walk’ with a stylised map showing the route of the iron curtain

Last paragraph of ‘The Curtain and the Walk’ reminding readers to care for individual rights and side with the weak. Ending “To connect with others, to feel our shared humanity, is the greatest gift life gives.”

Just finished this by @tsjphillips.bsky.social - a wonderful and informative read, full of Cold War stories and their legacies that I knew nothing of. A true education, with a closing paragraph that could not be more apposite.

21.01.2025 20:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

2025 will be a big year for my next book — interviews, travel, archival research.

If you have memories of Moscow 1980 or LA 1984, or the boycotts that affected both, drop me a line.

15.01.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0