Tell me, in the spring of 1940, were Nazis invited to explain to uninvaded Europeans Germany's reasons for invading Poland?

With all due respect, this trounces computer animation.

4 year anniversary of this masterpiece. Thank you Sarah Cooper

Second that, Yukari-San. Rail travel in Japan, and especially with the Shinkansen, is such a joy 🚅🇯🇵

Happy St George's Day

It was a good thing for Germans and Japanese (and their neighbors) that Germany and Japan were defeated in WW2. It would also be a good thing for Russians and their neighbors if Russia was defeated in Ukraine.

The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday, and with it Putin's dream of quickly occupying Ukraine. Now the US and Europe need to seize the moment to win, and end, the war

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is exactly what poetry is for. Melodrama!

Knife by Salman Rushdie is a true miracle. Yes, it describes in painful detail the horror of what happened, but it’s also a mediation on happiness and love. Surviving the attack took strength, but this kind of writing takes wisdom.

View of the North Atlantic Ocean, just down the road from my parents’ house. Next stop (I think) due west: Florida 🇪🇸🇺🇸

Let’s face it, every day is #NationalTeaDay 🫖 many thanks Fiona Beckett for sharing this post on tea pairings, one of the first I did for Fiona way back in 2007. I still stand by all these suggestions 💁‍♀️🍵

Grateful to see blue sky every morning on my walk, Lanzarote has really delivered on the fine weather this past week 🩵

Ooooh...this is a major escalation. Whenever authorities start punishing family members of mob bosses & autocrats, then 💩 is getting real. The inner circle has been breached. Seizing the wealth of Putin's ex-wife is second only to seizing Putin's own assets. Makes him look weak.

Ditto. Paging Sathnam Sanghera 🎶

Take a minute & listen to the water at the Durrell’s White House in Corfu. Albania across the bay.

Latest piece out in The Atlantic . Its about how US policy towards Ukraine and the Middle East is encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons. Basically, if you are non-nuclear like Ukraine you are punished and made to suffer. This lesson will be learnt. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In 1967 Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo convinced the UN General Assembly to reject the arguments of deep-sea mining companies, and declare the high seas to be the 'Common Heritage of Mankind'. We need this now to stop AI companies misappropriating our shared intellectual heritage.

A clip from Dr. Snyder’s illuminating testimony about China’s (and Russia’s) political warfare.

Here he summarizes the 6 propaganda themes about the invasion of Ukraine that have been constructed by Russia, then picked up and echoed by China (and some in the U.S). Please listen.

Shameless. This man is a credibly accused rapist under criminal investigation.

Salman Rushdie describing his attacker as 'the man who failed to kill an unarmed 75- year-old writer' is so characteristically badass.