Posters, Barbès #Paris

Politics on Trial: The Moscow Show Trials

"In both 1936 and 1939 the number of recorded NKVD executions is below 2,000. The figure in between is over 300,000 in each of the intervening years."
@ppfideas.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3lo8...

We're doomed, part 385

Camembert #Wednesday #lambing

Sunset near Caen #channelcrossing

You don't need to strip search & detain & deport too many white European tourists to crush the tourist industry.

Sailing past the Prince of Wales, Portsmouth... I'm heading to Normandy to do a couple of days helping out with the lambing on my partner's cousin's farm. My first time.

Thames

"Nobody in Europe has spent the past week looking at their stock portfolio, wondering if they could still afford to send their kids to university. Europeans have no idea what 'medical bankruptcy' is."
The @economist.com on Europe v Trump's America.

Thames #Saturday

This interview with @davidfrum.bsky.social is full of bad news but ends on a sort of optimistic note: he thinks America is going to learn the hard way that isolationism & contempt for rule of law are bad for everyone. The stuff on tiny screws in iPhones is sharp too.
open.spotify.com/episode/6wKZdh…

Great British export. Coming up on @artefr.bsky.social... #Baftas

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Last year I spent three days in North Carolina with fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops member Justin Robinson to record 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow,' an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music, which is now coming out April 18 on @nonesuch.com.

Waiting for Elektra, Duke of York's

Broadway ticket prices are completely out of control — Denzel Washington’s show is charging $900 for just Row M This is not a victory for classics. It’s a war on your wallet.

"Othello is one of several celebrity-fueled plays this spring that are charging obscene prices...
Tickets costing the same as an apartment rental in Kansas City is especially rich coming from an industry that prides itself as a warrior against inequality."
nypost.com/2025/03/08/e...

Regent's Canal.

Thames #Sunday

Regent's Canal #Monday

❤️ By @mortenmorland.bsky.social @thetimes.com

Waiting for Patti LuPone, London Coliseum

Policing Perceptions: Crime Stats and Beyond (with Peter Moskos) YouTube video by The Liberal Patriot

"Speaking as a Democrat, why would my party attack the third most-trusted institution in America?" Fine analysis of an own-goal. #crime
youtu.be/CU9xIX7OOiY?...

Waiting for Richard II, @bridgetheatre.bsky.social

Regent's Canal #Friday

Unicorn review — Crude banter and desire, but anguish is too polite Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty exchange a mix of crude banter and profundities on the implications of a threesome, without any eroticism

The sex talk goes on and on and on. ★★ for Unicorn
www.thetimes.com/article/3530...

Passing by... #Thames

❤️❤️ By Kaamran Hafeez, @newyorker.com

Churchill in Moscow review — Roger Allam makes an enthralling wartime leader Howard Brenton’s script about Churchill’s 1942 meeting with Stalin loses momentum in the second half, but an opportunity to see Allam should never be passed up

When Winston met Uncle Joe: Roger Allam is a terrific PM in Churchill in Moscow.
www.thetimes.com/article/b003...

Regent's Canal #Sunday