15 Apr 1979: Musing on the Bernini marbles in the Villa Borghese [Rome] … When I come to power after the general election I shall pull down Basil Spence's absurd and disgusting British Embassy in the Via XX Settembre.

3. Nobody pushed Ukrainians to resist. It was Ukraine’s resistance that pushed the West to review their Russia policies and support us.
4. The only way forward is to keep supporting Ukraine’s Armed Forces, build stronger bonds and keep working to victory.
5. Russia will fall.

Seeing how this post is getting viral in pro-Russian circles, I want to clarify that:
1. Yes, there’s a growing (and understandable) sense of abandonment among Ukrainians.
2. No, obviously nobody blames the West for the war. Russia is the aggressor and the only side murdering us.

14 Apr 1980: #GretaGarbo once said of Cecil Beaton: 'He was the only man I ever allowed to touch my vertebrae.' I once touched them without her consent when I was posing as a vascular dermatologist. Greta Garbo's secret is that she is really a female iguana.

In 2022 Stonewall told the world that 'research' suggests two year olds can be trans. It advocated for nurseries - NURSERIES - to start teaching kids that there are more genders than boy and girl. 2/3

Feng Yujun, one of the China's leading Russianists and a professor at Peking University: Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine – The Economist

Four reasons why Russian Federation will lose to Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun:

🔹 The first is the level of resistance and national…

13 Apr 1980: As WH Auden once said, 'Gossip is creative. All art is based on observing and telling. Gossip is the art form of the street'.   [ #WHAuden ]

The new Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. Elected by the students. Quoting Bobby Sands and Che Guevara. Like a juvenile student politician. Best not to say too much. But Sands is not immortal. He’s dead. And if children are able to laugh in Belfast today it’s because…

12 Apr 1979: There was a time when it might have been considered a beautiful and unusual thing for the Pope to wash the feet of the poor. Nowadays the poor refuse to have them washed by anyone under the rank of Air Vice Marshall or suffragan bishop.

'I am like an ant. You know, a bear comes smashes everything for them, and the next day, they build everything again.' - Mr. Mykola lives in a village very close to the frontlines.

He used to have up to 18 bee families. Russia destroyed that.

📹: DW

Princess Anne going for the big one 😄

J.K. Rowling For an organisation that “doesn’t give medical advice” they seem to have a lot of “views” about the use of puberty blockers.

This is still on your website, today. What is this, if not medical advice? You're knowingly pushing the use of puberty blockers, even after the recent Mayo Clinic report that said they can cause 'mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy' - ie, withering testicles - fertility problems and…

Absolute, total, shameless lies. Your ex-CEO referred children to the Tavistock gender clinic. Mermaids has repeatedly claimed puberty blockers are reversible, sent out breast binders to girls as young as thirteen and insisted publicly that unless children are affirmed in their…

11 Apr 1979: In Rome to seek Pope Ringo's blessing on my candidature [for the upcoming General Election] in North Devon. He offers to put England under Interdict if Thorpe wins.

Stupid, stupid, stupid allies bombing oil refineries during World War II to strip the Axis of fuel and lubricants and degrade its war machine; they had no idea that's not really a way to win wars.

“Russian spies don’t bother suborning French spooks because the French spies are mostly hopeless, don’t know very much and probably tell the Russians everything anyway.”

Very insightful points from General Cavoli's statement today:
- Ukraine cannot sustain this fight alone. The United States, our allies, and partners must continue to provide Ukraine with munitions, weapons, and materiel. 1/14

Me: “What’s your address?”

Protest group which targeted Starmer’s house: “I can hardly disclose that on the radio.”

Me: “Why not, someone might want to come round and protest outside your house.”

Ffs

10 Apr 1982: At the Foreign Correspondents Club I deliver an address on the 70th anniversary of W.T. Stead being drowned in the Titanic. In those sensible days they first of all sent this odious prig to prison, then they put him on the Titanic and sank it.