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Why does everyone, including the BBC, have to play along with this nonsense?

England captain Harry Kane wins Ballon d’Or ft.trib.al/Dnuu3af

🇵🇱 Polish range of answers to "How are you?" ("Fine, thanks, how are you?" is not an option) - somehow it's flying (jakoś leci) - dickish but stable (chujowo ale stabilnie) - old poverty (stara bieda) - could be worse (mogło być gorzej, peak expression of Polish happiness)

@britishmuseum.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social is the British Museum actually interested in genuine feedback which could help improve visitor experience, or is this after visit survey just there to massage results. It says 'share your thoughts', but there is nowhere to truly do so...

Oh no, not Berchtesgaden. Anyway, nevermind... www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Oh no. Nevermind. Anyway... www.reuters.com/world/europe...

At least you get all the time in the world to study the beer tapestry over the road

Bayeux Tapestry: 11/10 The British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry Experience 2/10 Do they even want you to bother to look at the thing?

2027 Tour de France starts and finales revealed

Wonder whether all participants could face watching. I hope most never live it down.

Winter of the Crow - AKA the return of the Eastern European grey/brown camera filter.

The Opus Caroli, in which the Franks attacked the Byzantine theology of icons. In the margin, erased but visible under UV light, 'optime' - excellent point! The voice, perhaps, of Charlemagne.

New Shakespeare play just dropped! And it’s actually an early collab with Marlowe www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Oldie but a goodie. Polish state energy company undergoes rebrand to better represent the cause of oil price rises.

President Macron promised tonight “full transparency” on the failure of the French state to anticipate and check widespread violence and looting by “seditious ultra-left” groups and “delinquents” on the margins of demonstrations and the high cost of living on Sat. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/societe/live...

I wonder what all those who see Visegrád24 as a legitimate news outlet think about this.

Is 'BBC Europe Editor' Katya Adler really bundling protests in Albania, France, Belgium, Italy, & Spain into a 'Europe is divided' piece!? Really demonstrates an in depth understanding of the specificities of local causes.

📅 On this day in 1066 - 960 years ago: At Hastings, William's cavalry and arrows broke the English shield wall - King Harold fell, and England's throne, language and future changed in one day.

Has anyone asked Reform's voters what they think yet? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A lot has been said about Netflix's adaptation of The Doll. Forget it & just go see the new film version in the cinema. It's superior by every conceivable measure & boasts a cast of a who's who of Polish acting royalty. The best Polish film since Cold War.

Following its release in 1988,Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'A Short Film About Killing' was widely credited with leading directly to a moratorium on the death penalty in the same year & playing a significant role in the abolition of the death penalty in Poland a few years later.

This money-back guarantee for people who buy the "Free" Trump knife is one of the best illustrations we've ever seen for just how gullible the MAGA crowd actually are.

Hitler is a Socialist.

Next holiday plans sorted.

What I'm hearing from Holborn and St Pancras is that it’s a stupid name for a constituency that should be called Camden Town and Bloomsbury.

Apropos of nothing, but ethnic Russians constitute around 25% of Latvia's population.

UPDATE UK police said Thursday they had arrested two Latvians inside a military base in southeast England housing US and NATO intelligence hubs after the perimeter fence was breached. u.afp.com/SC3A

How did he translate everything, with Google? Teddy Young: Royal Navy sailor in court accused of preparing to spy for Russia - BBC News share.google/9zSN7zJWBQ6T...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Once again I have to ask, how something like this even gets to this stage!?

I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Jan Rüger’s erudite study makes a compelling case for seeing the bond between Britain and Germany as a driving force in European history. Britain and Germany: Europe’s original special relationship | Brendan Simms engelsbergideas.com/reviews/brit...

The new Renoir show at the National Gallery is really something Self-knowingly idealistic, ethereal, capturing ephemeral everyday moments for eternity Sure, when he was off, he was off, but the highs are so high as to be otherworldly As for Bal du moulin de la Galette, I could gaze at it forever

Great success

Ironically, if everyone takes an audio tour they might actually have time to see the thing.

A Polish painting looted by Nazi Germany during World War Two, and which once hung in an SS officers’ club, has been returned by its owner, who donated it to the National Museum in Warsaw.

This is objectively hilarious, particularly given how far over their skis the far right have gone already: www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

This seems like a completely mad thing for the BBC to do. Children generally do not get into history because of the worthy, noble, or inspiring stories. Hearing about blood & guts really does not set them up for problems in later life.

No she’s not.

By my old undergrad dissertation advisor, so I just have to give this a read.

Several ninth-century Arabic silver coins have been found in northern Poland. Experts believe they may have belonged to merchants travelling to and from the Viking Age port of Truso, which was situated nearby.

This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased.

Long shot, but I don't suppose anyone on here knows about makers' marks/hallmarks who can help identify this for me, please?

Right, I'm off to bed.

A lot already said about Neflix's version of The Doll (Lalka) not being faithful to the original novel, but the English subtitles aren't even faithful to the Polish dialogue. Jaja is most certainly not 'stones'.

With Bayeux Tapestry mania mounting, I thought it worth pointing out that my book about the Norman Conquest begins with a description of the famous embroidery and explains why it's uniquely important. You can read it for free here: shorturl.at/vjjay