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Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors. Move slowly and make things.
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Well amazingly the ‘Board of Peace’ turns out to be more dodgy than the fairground dodgems at Dodge City run as a wholly owned concern by dodgy impresario Dodgy J Trump. Thread:
I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
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Replying to @nadinebh.bsky.social
Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to. bsky.app/profile/nadi...
International rules based order collapsing and its Macron giving a speech like this - inexplicably wearing sunglasses - that has truly sent me over the edge
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Nobel Prize Derangement Syndrome
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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I know it’s silly but in the midst of all this catastrophe I just love that it’s called the ‘trade bazooka’. Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail — ‘bring up the holy hand grenade!’
Germany backs France on its so-called trade “bazooka” - be ready to strike back at Washington if Trump presses ahead with his threats of increased tariffs against EU countries. www.politico.eu/article/germ...
I wonder if Steve Bullock / @guitarmoog.bsky.social was on the planning committee that drew up the parameters of the Trade Bazooka? Or it least on its naming committee? 😀
It’s a nice idea and we should do it. But I visited the Soviet Union in the early 1980s when 66 countries had recently boycotted the Moscow Olympics over their invasion of Afghanistan (yes indeed) and, honestly, that boycott made not the dammdest bit of difference. We need much stronger measures.
It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
By today’s standards this thread counts as comic relief. Does she still have some capacity to do material harm? I don’t know; I hope not.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss tweets that Robert Jenrick is a "trojan horse" who is "getting his orders" from some unidentified shadowy force of global conspirators
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When we were kids we’d come to London to visit my dad and he’d take us to the *original* Hard Rock Cafe back when, briefly, rock glitterati actually went there and he’d say, ‘look, there’s Jimmy Page, there’s Ronnie Wood,’ and we had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
The Berni Inn in Shrewsbury. When I was very little, I just had chips and peas, and when I was a bit older I was allowed a rump steak. Then an ice-cream sundae with an umbrella and a cherry.
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A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
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Presumably they are publicly admitting to this enormous number to terrify the population into submission. ‘If you oppose us you will die’, seems to be a way some governments speak frankly to their people at the moment.
During a speech in Tehran today, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that "several thousand people were killed" during the recent protests by those he described as "seditionists", confirming for the first time that the death toll from the protests is in the thousands.
The exquisite thing about this is that in an act of the most excruciating self-debasement she gave him her prize, he readily took it — and nonetheless did not make her president of Venezuela. That tells you so much about trying to do business with Trump.
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
Hi @truedoriangrey.bsky.social , thank you as so often for your reposts, bless your heart 🙂 I don’t know if podcasts are your thing? William Dalrymple & Anita Anand did one of their Empire mini-series about westerners in China in the 19th century. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
It is wince-inducingly shameful for all concerned, and most intriguing. From memory, I think the third episode of the mini-series, ep. 249, is the one about western envoys cringingly kowtowing and getting nowt for it. Good clean entertainment: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
The exquisite thing about this is that in an act of the most excruciating self-debasement she gave him her prize, he readily took it — and nonetheless did not make her president of Venezuela. That tells you so much about trying to do business with Trump.
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
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This is the foreign policy version of “Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?”
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…