Good morning, here is your @ftweekend.com highlights thread. There's too much good stuff so I do recommend you pop out for a paper, but here for early birds are some 300x freebies.
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One of my all time favourite films being introduced by the top class documentary film maker @asifkapadia.bsky.social....Count me in!!! 😃 #TheGodfatherPart2 #Booked
Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.”
I'm happy to announce that the final book I'll write about Francis of Assisi will publish next January, from Monkfish Publishing, in time for the 800th anniversary of the saint's death. Here's the cover!
Zelenskyy said Ukraine is closer than ever to ending the war but warned: “Russia does not end its wars on its own.” No more “Budapest paper,” no “Minsk trap” — only real security. “My signature will be under a strong agreement.”
euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/01/u...
Some celebrate the Feast of All Saints on November 1. Others every day.
Another masterpiece publication from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
#ArtOfTravel #Italy Following In The Footsteps Of The Great Artists by #NickTrend A beautifully produced book, with excellent text....👏👏👏
We'll be covering all the latest developments from France today on thelocal.fr - parliamentary session due to start at 3pm, vote expected around 7pm - but in the meantime, here's a look at what it actually means when a government falls in France (guillotine = very unlikely, I just liked the photo)
Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
Back for another week in France . . .
🇫🇷 With more and more September strikes and the PM apparently doomed, is France now ungovernable?
💰 France's €1 homes (yes, there is a catch. Several in fact)
🧀 France's smelliest cheeses, ranked
Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for a screening of #Rope, followed by @ppfideas.bsky.social live podcast recording with #DavidRunciman and @niccifrench.bsky.social 👏
🇺🇦SPECIAL BONUS 🇺🇦 In Ukraine’s most crucial week, Kyiv’s former foreign minister @dmytrokuleba.bsky.social discusses the talks, the war and the future with @ozkaterji.bsky.social
🇺🇦 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod
Vance pretends to be ignorant about basic history ("all wars end in negotiation") and lies about things we all witnessed a week ago ("Ru made serious concessions") to promote Ukr surrender. One can hold his political position for wtv utilitarian reasons but pushing it w such lies is moral turpitude.
🎬Meet French director Emmanuel Mouret at the screening of Three Friends on 3 June at Ciné Lumière
A tangled, tender romcom of love, friendship & secrets, starring Camille Cottin and Vincent Macaigne.
🗓️ Exclusive release from 3 June at Ciné Lumière
🎟️ www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/three...
Very much looking forward to this tomorrow @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social with @peterfrankopan.bsky.social and #PatrickBoucheron....Am then staying on for new French film #TheMarchingBand...
#FrenchDoubleHeader
"Warm and sure-footed, the film has the feel of a richly satisfying meal in an excellent neighbourhood bistro" @financialtimes.com
📅 Watch The Marching Band at Ciné Lumière
🎟️ www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-m...
www.ft.com/content/c9f7...
🗣️2 leading historians @peterfrankopan.bsky.social & Patrick Boucheron (@collegedefrance.bsky.social) come together to challenge the past and shape the future of history.
Talk on 27 May @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social
🎟️ www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend...
My copy of Jessica Wärnberg, "City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People"
Also appropriate today for different reasons, Jessica Wärnberg's lively account of the history of Rome & the Vatican through the ages: bookshop.org/p/books/city... (Worth noting I first read both this book & On Savage Shores from my local public library before deciding I also needed my own copy.)
Magnifique from @ubbrugby.bsky.social.....!!! #Chapeau 👏👏👏
Loving the Radio 4 Sunday coverage you are providing, and smart move to get on @colleendulle.com from #America magazine this morning....I don't have the same Catholic lens as #EdwardPentin, but the College of Cardinals website is a great resource!
Photo from 2005 of riots in the Paris suburbs, in this artistic composition one young man is on the roof of a low building holding the French flag
In France protest is also art, and often references Delacroix's famous 'Liberty leading the people' painting
This film is excellent and lovely, definitely see it if you get the chance. You'll learn some rural French drinking songs . . .
Absolutely loved this episode on historic restaurants! @carolynboyd.bsky.social covering Paris, #RichardCorrigan on Bentley's, #JeremyKing explaining why London does not have that many historic restaurants comparatively, but why they are important, #Veeraswamy impending closure, plus so much more.
Startling, beautiful, transformational - never seen a show like this before! Siena at National Gallery. GO ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Well done Cardinal Re....A homily that was so truly right and just! 🙏👏
Full text of Cardinal Re’s homily at Pope Francis’s Funeral Mass. press.vatican.va/content/sala...
Thank you, Pope Francis. The world is less bright without you, Thank you for your witness and inspiration.❤️
