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A Melville

@alphamelville

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“This morning I’ve been at Madina Mosque and joined in prayers with everyone for Eid,” says Green MP Hannah Spencer. Liberal white women are now actively promoting the most patriarchal, regressive, anti-feminist religion in history. Astonishing, really. 🤯

Taija (@travelingflying) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We

Thomas Sowell Quotes (@thomassowell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Christopher Hitchens on Islam: “They really mean to abolish everything you care about, and they want to take away everything you love and destroy everything you have, replacing it with a Stone Age ideology.”

C.P. Cavafy (@ccavafy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For #WorldPoetryDay “To have come this far is no small achievement.” – C.P. Cavafy, “The First Step”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

For #WorldPoetryDay 

“To have come this far is no small achievement.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “The First Step”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
Stephen Gibbons (@gibboanxious) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Akira Kurosawa would have turned 116 today, so here's a beautiful letter he wrote to Ingmar Bergman: "Let us hold out together for the sake of movies."

Akira Kurosawa would have turned 116 today, so here's a beautiful letter he wrote to Ingmar Bergman: "Let us hold out together for the sake of movies."
Toby Young (@toadmeister) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ever wondered who's quietly pushing open borders in the UK? Charlotte Gill exposes the funders, charities, gatekeepers and propagandists behind the "open-border industrial complex". dailysceptic.org/2026/03/23/wha…

Rob Hallam (@robj3d3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I just moved to Cyprus 🇨🇾 My first impressions and why I moved: > it's safe (unlike rest of Europe) > friendly people (unlike rest of Europe) > quiet > clean air > fast WiFi > tax friendly > great coffee > amazing food > very walkable > incredible weather > affordable (€2 for

I just moved to Cyprus 🇨🇾

My first impressions and why I moved:

> it's safe (unlike rest of Europe)
> friendly people (unlike rest of Europe)
> quiet 
> clean air
> fast WiFi
> tax friendly
> great coffee
> amazing food
> very walkable
> incredible weather
> affordable (€2 for
C.P. Cavafy (@ccavafy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“I was sitting one evening with friends after dinner at the San Stefano Casino at Ramleh. Since none of us was very rich, the conversation turned naturally enough to money.” – C.P. Cavafy, “In Broad Daylight”.

“I was sitting one evening with friends after dinner at the San Stefano Casino at Ramleh. Since none of us was very rich, the conversation turned naturally enough to money.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “In Broad Daylight”.
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The Greeks have played this crisis perfectly - even closer to the US, close to the Israelis, close to the Arabs ... one expects the internal Greek planning nomenklatura to be called Project Themistocles or Operation SALAMIS

Ofer Binshtok - Kafir - עופר בינשטוק (@ofer_binshtok) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Part of the EU is under occupation by Turkish Muslims in Northern Cyprus, and the Union is acting like a bunch of cowards, doing absolutely nothing about it. The EU is a rotten, worthless entity that brings negative value to its member states. They don’t even consider threatening

Part of the EU is under occupation by Turkish Muslims in Northern Cyprus, and the Union is acting like a bunch of cowards, doing absolutely nothing about it. The EU is a rotten, worthless entity that brings negative value to its member states. They don’t even consider threatening
John Cleese (@johncleese) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The British cultural heritage is based on Christ's teaching And Christ's teaching is NOT about acquiring power. Read the Beatitudes ! The Koran's teaching is ALL about acquiring power, killing 'infidels' and imposing Islam on everyone That why the British tradition is vastly

William Clouston SDP (@williamclouston) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘… in the era of Islamic terrorism there is nothing that our creative communities want to shy away from more than the main security threat of the day’ writes Douglas Murray spectator.com/article/how-to…

Ioannes de Fabbri - Chountis (@ichountis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lord Byron’s Greek naturalisation decree was exhibited for the first time last night at the residence of the Greek Ambassador in London.

Lord Byron’s Greek naturalisation decree was exhibited for the first time last night at the residence of the Greek Ambassador in London.
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A Roman mosaic depicting the harbor at Alexandria featuring the Great Lighthouse. Capitoline Museum. εὐδαίμων μὲν ὃς ἐκ θαλάσσας ἔφυγε χεῖμα, λιμένα δ’ ἔκιχεν· - fortunate is he who escaped a storm on the sea and reached a harbor Euripides, Bacchae 902-3

A Roman mosaic depicting the harbor at Alexandria featuring the Great Lighthouse. Capitoline Museum.

εὐδαίμων μὲν ὃς ἐκ θαλάσσας
ἔφυγε χεῖμα, λιμένα δ’ ἔκιχεν·
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fortunate is he who escaped a storm
on the sea and reached a harbor
Euripides, Bacchae 902-3
C.P. Cavafy (@ccavafy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

During his stay in Constantinople (1882-1885), the young Cavafy composed a series of poems that represent some of his earliest poetic creations. “Leaving Therapia” (1882). Cavafy Archive.

During his stay in Constantinople (1882-1885), the young Cavafy composed a series of poems that represent some of his earliest poetic creations. “Leaving Therapia” (1882). Cavafy Archive.
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After midnight in Damascus, they are still there— holding the Cross, chanting for faith, for dignity, for life. Christians refusing to be silenced. Refusing the terror campaign against Suqaylabiyah. The night is long… but they are still standing.

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On the eve of Palm Sunday and Holy Week, in the ancient Christian town of Suqaylabiyah, Syria, groups of armed Islamists are attacking Christian shops, homes, and churches. The Al-Qaeda/ISIS-aligned Syrian government is encouraging these attacks and has been a catastrophic

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“But most incomparable / of all, Antioch boasts that she’s a city / that’s been Greek since ancient times.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Greek Since Ancient Times”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

“But most incomparable / of all, Antioch boasts that she’s a city / that’s been Greek since ancient times.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Greek Since Ancient Times”, translated by <a href="/DAMendelsohnNYC/">Daniel Mendelsohn</a>