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From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand. Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism. He/Him

Ni Ni, Why to No Avail? Lyric in English: "There have been many past events"
Rory Stewart and partner with Rory dressed in privy council uniform.
SCOOP — Tribune Act: Jones is considering assembling a new faction of Labour MPs, Playbook PM hears. It sounds very much like a right-leaning version of Louise Haigh’s Tribune … but would be aimed at flying the flag for economic competence. Keep an eye out for that when the Commons returns in September. And if accounts of Starmer’s p*ss-up in a public house last night aren’t too blurred then it would seem there is still some residual support for the fallen PM.
Why Prince George is the best prepared teenage heir in history, Telegraph
Even so, Konovnitsyn was above all a calm man, who in moments of stress puffed away at his pipe, invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary and seldom lost his temper. He controlled wayward subordinates more by irony than by anger
Even so, Konovnitsyn was above all a calm man, who in moments of stress puffed away at his pipe, invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary and seldom lost his temper. He controlled wayward subordinates more by irony than by anger
Song Qingling and Sun Yat Sen in 1924, Britannica.
Jiang Qing in 1976.
Mao with Zhang Yufeng and his train in 1964.
Rachel Reeves laughing with her vaping aides. The Sun.
ALP maintains election-winning lead; L-NP Coalition overtake One Nation on primary vote. Roy Morgan
Australian politician screams at dog on live TV Former deputy prime minister breaks off mid-way through fiery interview to berate dog
On his estate in Kaluga province Tolstoy lived with a pet bear decked out in fantastic dress. Russia against Napoleon, Dominic Lieven.
A man in a suit and tie talking outside the Palace of Westminster while someone stands behind him with a sign reading "Jesus Christ rose from the dead believe".
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March. "The war is a sin, too," he said aloud. But the priest did not hear him. And Francis Joseph felt surprised again.
Zhao Zulin in dress uniform.
LIVE: Channel 4 News special Burnham becomes PM
MDL pages for Claudia Wang
Judge Dee and Cao An.
Judge Dee's Mystery characters poster.
A second supporter of Mahmood, also speaking in late 2025, argued that she starts from the position that voters are angry and 90 percent of the time, they are right to be so. She believes her job as a politician is to be a kind of “engineer,” this person said — to “look at where they’re right to be angry about what’s not working inside an institution.”
Iran accuses US of 'barbaric attack' near children's cancer hospital Iran has accused the US of launching a “barbaric attack” near a children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz south-west of the country. The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the hospital was forced to evacuate, causing “severe suffering and anxiety” for the children being treated there. In a post on X, he said: Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children’s cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz, was evacuated last night after the US attacked a nearby location. This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel’s atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalised children, and forced the emergency evacuation of 211 patients undergoing chemotherapy. This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings – children who are bravely fighting for their lives"
Fun with committees: The Canary reported that the group’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) backed a no-confidence motion in chair Jenn Forbes, secretary Dawn Aspinall and membership officer Cassi Bellingham at the weekend, over their decision to suspend three CEC members for attending a socialist conference. Details, details: The vote did not quite hit the two-thirds threshold needed to remove the Jeremy Corbyn-backing leadership group, but the CEC is now asking the group (plus Corbyn) to respect the result anyway. Your Party central office said the vote was symbolic as it was not an official meeting of the CEC, and there has been “no change in Your Party’s governance arrangements.” Clear? Good. But but but: The move to censure its own leadership may be one factional war too many for Your Party. Weary insiders claim the latest row has left the movement effectively dead.
Ms J looking super beautiful as always
Ms J looking good!
Red Rock Deli Trio of Cheeses chips
Dr Who, series 14 The Face of Evil ep 1. A bald man with a beard in a tribal setting proclaims "The great god Xoanon demands that she be cast out."
Screen shot - The Claws of Axos Episode 1.
Tubi app search page for horror.
Harald V, King of Norway.
The Cardinal on some sort of throne wearing a cappa magna and a red biretta.
The chairman of the London-based Latin Mass Society, Dr Joseph Shaw, branded the SSPX’s move unjustified, but also urged bishops to make better arrangements for traditionalists who remained loyal to the Pope. In a statement on Monday, the SSPX accused Rome of “acting inconsistently” towards dissenting groups, referring to its relations with “Orthodox schismatics” and the recognition of bishops approved by the Chinese Communist Party. The Pope, it complained, had “rolled out his red carpet” for the Archbishop of Canterbury in April (News, 1 May), when Catholic doctrine did not “recognise the validity of Anglican consecrations or the ordination of women”.
The dish
Pork dumplings and soy sauce
Badenoch confirms Tories won’t stand in Clacton
Davey calls for by-election boycott Ed Davey has called on all parties to boycott the by-election in Clacton. The Liberal Democrat leader said: “If this by-election does go ahead now, we are calling on all parties to stand aside and refuse to give oxygen to Farage’s vanity project.” But Davey added that the government should block the election until after the parliamentary standard’s commissioner has finished his investigation. “The people of Clacton should have all the facts before they cast their votes,” he said.
Rupert Lowe X feed saying they will stand
Stay sober and alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, solid in your faith.
Magritte painting
Red flowering tree by the side of the road
Al Carns: I can’t back Andy Burnham until I see his plan The former armed forces minister says he is loyal to the country and will join the cabinet if he agrees with the PM in waiting’s ‘vision’
Quote of the day “I just wanna go, get completely drunk, forget about tennis, and try to get in a better shape.” Women’s tennis world number one Aryna Sabalenka speaking to the media after losing to Naomi Osaka (6-2, 7-6) in the round of 16 at Wimbledon. It was the first time Osaka had beaten Sabalenka in eight years, and took the Japanese player to her first Wimbledon quarter-final.
Total War Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei vs Cao Cao
Li Si decided to hide the emperor's death: the only members of the entourage to be informed were a younger son, Ying Huhai, the eunuch Zhao Gao, and five or six favourite eunuchs.[12] Li Si ordered carts of rotten fish to be carried before and behind the wagon of the Emperor, to cover the foul smell of his body decomposing in the summer heat.[12] Pretending he was alive behind the wagon's shade, they changed his clothes daily, brought food, and pretended to carry messages to and from him.[12]
But Francis wasn’t Pius IX. He wasn’t going to allow reactionary lobbies to turn the Church into a fortress. “In some people,” Francis observed, “we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the liturgy, for doctrine and for the Church’s prestige, but without any concern that the Gospel have a real impact on God’s faithful people and the concrete needs of the present time.” This, he wrote, is “a tremendous corruption disguised as a good.”
Andy Burnham’s hobbity utopia will spoil faster than Liz Truss lettuce
Darrell Lea Whipp Peppermint Dark Chocolate.
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires looks up at Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, at a ceremony in Argentina, November 2007
Toast and omelette
An elite group of people have a secret plan to introduce a totalitarian government.
https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/
"She gave her braid one hard tug" - The Dragon Reborn (Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne have just arrived in Tear)
The second potential rival to Burnham is former Royal Marines officer Carns, who is making up his mind whether to launch a leadership campaign. He suggested on ITV’s Peston he was considering what to do before nominations for the Labour leadership open on 9 July . “I’m not ready to make a decision on this in any way, shape or form,” he said. “What I would say is we need to move from the politics which talk through the tactics and actually think about the strategy, and what I’m really looking for are big objective outcomes that we want to get to in 2029 and 2034-35”. He said: “we need to have a clear and concise discussion about what this country wants to be at the next general election and the general election after that”.
Jeremy Thorpe in his trademark trilby and wearing a big rosette raises his arms in front of a thatched cottage.
Lamington Breaka flavoured milk
Bracelet and bouquet of red roses
Fried eggs, toast and tomato