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A new dawn. So this was what a French kiss from Persephone does. tres belle, bellissimo. bellissima land. bellissimi/bellissime fully human. “Words of love, which are always the same, take on the taste of the lips from which they come.”
Seifert was the pace setter, Allen was the one with the record, fastest 100 in 20over World Cup history
Black caps entrée done
Now the All Blacks come for Springboks as the main meal (3 internationals in the Rainbow Nation & then the 4th of the series in the Baltimore (black) Ravens stadium.
Preparing South Africa for the All Blacks rugby tour later this year. 30 years after the 1996 tour (1958 France)(1974 Lions).
The Black Caps eliminating South Africa from the World Cup cricket 20 over competition by dominating the semi-final.
This is just the most incredible chart...
if the UK government implements current policies on taxes and benefits, public debt is stable (contrary to what the OBR always mistakenly tells us)
My column as.ft.com/r/e69f1407-e...
The West has its own issues in that regard. Both within the EU and also NATO.
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Hegemony over Sunni Arab Moslems, Persian imperialism, legitmized by being the champion of resistance to Israel & the West
The Arab League should gather & ask for all Iranian armed groups in their areas to be disarmed
Unity is strength, not an aberrant unilateralism.
The conflation of political leadership of the Ayatollah with Revolutionary governance was a tactic used in the overthrow of the Shah
To continue with it afterwards, was to risk perpetuating dynasty
Worse, confusing Islam with Persian empire restoration, Gulf & ME hegemony in place of the West.
Hegemony over Sunni Arab Moslems, Persian imperialism, legitmized by being the champion of resistance to Israel & the West.
The Arab League should gather and ask for all Iranian armed groups in their areas to be disarmed.
Unity is strength, not an aberrant unilateralism.
The weakness of the Shia Moslem cult has always been its cult of the leader, a man, not God
Thus the fallen martyr, each time they lose a battle/war
The Sunni Moslem refer to the Koran & those of the faith & organise governance otherwise. Thus do not confuse faith in God with worldly matters.
How punch drunk is the Iranian IRGC, if they are seriously considering the son of the dead Ayatollah as his replacement?
From Shah's to the era of Assad's to the era of the Khamenei's?
Khomeini to president Khamenei (only a mid-level cleric) itself inferred an establishment nature to succession
To Hegseth
(noun & adj)
To be a Trumpeteer, a thought spoken out loud braggard
What a drunk does, when not under the influence of alcohol
Merciless Joe punching the "defenceless" on the ropes
To lack perspective in the ways in wars can be fought, because of the crowd one has hung around with
The Rennie born in Stranraer Galloway would have been an interloper, the name is from the Renfrew & Angus-Fife areas.
It derives from Renfrew, or the Gaelic Raghnall (ruler) or the French name Raynaud.
Jenkins was one of the more Whig members of Labour. He supported electoral reform in 1998 before becoming a European MP
Edmund Burke was an Irish Anglican (and thus a Whig MP)
Long the hero of Conservatives, they also did not understand him. He was more comfortable holding their system to account
He expressed himself in favour of "the old tolerant and generous practice of free entry and asylum to which this country has so long adhered and from which it has so greatly gained"
He sat with the Whigs until 1924.
He was regarded as more Whig than Tory, one of their last "great' historians.
In 1904 Churchill opposed the government's Alien's Bill as it would "appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, & to labour prejudice against competition".
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Shall I compare Starmer to a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In the 1920's, War Secretary Churchill managed the Iraq mandate by bombing.
He withdrew troops from Suez in 1954.
The Lebanese government has banned Hezbollah's military activities and demanded the group hand over its weapons to the state. Salam said Hezbollah's attacks on Israel showed disregard for the "will of the majority of Lebanese".
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It's over.
David Rennie is the new All Blacks coach.
The first with ancestry from the Cook Islands (also Galloway) and first to have been the Australian coach.
"One of the most memorable moments of the night came when Donald Trump announced that Vice President JD Vance will be heading up a new anti-fraud initiative. Vance stood for applause and was met with chants of 'JD! JD! JD!'" @aselrod.bsky.social argues Vance has been underestimated as a successor
03.03.2026 15:48 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 3What Europe can learn from the first days of war in the Middle East
03.03.2026 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0The chancellor vowed to "break down trade barriers" between the UK and EU.
03.03.2026 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The US president said he was "very disappointed" the PM initially refused to let America use British military bases.
03.03.2026 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Opinion | A historian critiques the former Columbia president Lee Bollinger's vision for the university. https://chroni.cl/4r3bFxt
03.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0He would only say Britain "played no part" in the military action.
03.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Jeremy Bowen said the claim they were "pre-emptive" strikes does not add up.
03.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Vice President JD Vance caught heat on Monday night after defending the Trump administration's "objectives" in Iran following the strikes over the weekend.
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