This is THE story of the UK, 2010-2024

Happy publication day to Caroline Eden, whose brilliant memoir COLD KIITCHEN: A YEAR OF CULINARY JOURNEYS starts in Uzbekistan and ends in Ukraine. So looking forward to raising a glass at Caroline’s launch later 🥂 💁‍♀️

Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world – and for its own sake.
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Classic British understatement here 🙃

Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons many times, but it's always a bluff. He has nothing to gain from nuclear war, he has everything to lose. When his empty threats make us back down, he escalates anyway. Every time. That's the reality of de-escalation. BBC HARDtalk

God, this is wonderful.

Making chocolate chip cookie dough with browned butter and toasted pecans. The smell in this kitchen! Half to be baked tomorrow, other half frozen for Emergency Chipwiches™️

The parallels between Russia's war against Ukraine and Nazi imperialism during WWII are as obvious as they are unsettling. Watch Timothy Snyder in a short video created by Ukrainian Institute London and Ukrainian Institute as part of our 2021 series '10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine'.

Actual brainworms eating their brains sure would explain a lot about the anti-vax/pro-Putin/anti-NATO/Yay authoritarians! crowd 🧠🪱☠️

Only Elon Musk or AI could come up with such a crummy ad denigrating creativity, and glorying in the act of wanton destruction 🤯

Ah, Apple providing the perfect metaphor for what’s happening to the creative arts & humanities, and then mistakenly thinking it’s a good look for an advert

In the unlikely event this reaches anyone on here, does anyone have a contact they could share at The Lightroom in King’s Cross? Or the production companies behind the space? Many thanks 🙌

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🧵on Russia’s newest American hostage: US soldier Gordon Black, a Trump fan who —shocker—fell for a trashy Russian honeypot. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Two more syllables.

That's all it takes to turn 'War in Ukraine' into 'Russia's War in Ukraine'.

In that one breath, journalists and politicians perform a public service by reminding publics of the state actor responsible for death and destruction in Europe. Is it so hard?

💯 this kind of derangement has to stop, it’s grotesque

Autocracies Are Winning the Information War...
And the American craving for drama is helping them. From Tom Nichols theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Bravo, Japan! #Japanesefood

Writing about Rothko this morning and this explains it all:
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene … that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.”

The indomitable spirit of Salman Rushdie