Christ these tourist ride cars are shite. And not old at all, of course.

Jiří Pavel Kafka, the last surviving WWII RAF aviator in 🇨🇿, turned a remarkable 100 years old today.

Come for the Jiří Lehečka volley 🤩

Stay for the Daniil Medvedev reaction 😂

#MMOPEN | #MMOPEN

Orangutan born in Prague — it really is all happening at the zoo!

EXCITING NEWS !

We have launched a Kickstarter campaign for our next book, 'Winterberg's Last Journey' by Jaroslav Rudiš

Advance copies of the book, limited edition bonus titles and many other goodies are available to backers starting today.

#bahnzeit

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Saturday 4 May: Czech Shoes and Mucking Flats - the Thames at East Tilbury

Another walk along the Thames organised by Footprints of London, this time with focus on the Bauhaus-inspired Bata shoe factory built in the 1930s with a surrounding village for workers.
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The Czech ANO party launched its EU election campaign on Wednesday, with the fight against the EU Green Deal and the migration pact being among its top priorities, further distancing itself from its European partners in the liberal Renew Europe group.
euractiv.com/section/politi…

The proportion of employees in the Czech Republic who are members of trade unions has fallen from 32% to 13% over the last ten years, according to the results of a survey by the Research Institute for Social and Labour Affairs (RILSA) presented this week.
brnodaily.com/2024/05/02/new…

I condemn all violence against the protesters in Georgia. The law on transparency of foreign influence is not in line with Georgia's European aspirations. The right to peaceful assembly is a fundamental human right that Georgian authorities must respect.

#KVIFF58 will honor Francine Maisler, one of the world’s most respected casting directors.
She has worked with such directors as Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Arrival), Terrence Malick (Tree of Life), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman).
👉kviff.com/en/news/4671-h…

Prague’s Letná Plain, looking rather different in this period

Still the best Prague May Day story?

The Deportation of the King of May: Allen Ginsberg and the State Security, by Petr Blažek, translated by me:
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Czechia's inventors and freedom fighters have shaped Europe's history.

Today, you're shaping Europe's more competitive, peaceful and secure future.

Europe has made Czechia stronger.

But you have made Europe so much stronger, too ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

So the area where Czechs are strong in the EU is… carp? 😂