The Russian Embassy in Warsaw is staging an exhibit about Mariupol's destruction by Kyiv and "return to peaceful life...from the ruins" under Moscow's rule. The destruction and spectacle of Mariupol's "regeneration" is a prime example of Russian fascism ⬇️

Ruzzia erased the history of Crimea so “well” that even people in Europe forgot about the existence of the Crimean Tatars Every time I talk about Crimea, I have to start by explaining who we are It should’ve changed after 2014. But it didn’t

I think I can empathise with the man at The Oval in 1882 who bit his way through his umbrella handle. Nerve shredding! #ENGvIND

What are you doing? Bham City Council

1925 Slovak school at the scansen at Stara Lubovna.

In the High Tatras today, the symbolic cemetery of those who died in the mountains including the Polish composer Mieczysław Karłowicz and the view towards Rysy from Popradske Pleso

He was team manager on the 1989 Ashes tour. His interview with The Guardian at the start of the tour was one of the most interesting and educational I have ever seen. Not just a fine player but a deep thinker about our game who will be much missed. RIP

Seen today in Tatranska Lomnica, a 1926 Tatra (in a glass box - why us it not on the road?). The steering wheel on the right hand side is a reminder that Czechoslovakia drove on the left until 1938 (as did Austria until 1936)

I'm in Marek Kondrat's wine bar in Kraków Very nice it is too!

New beer to try at #Kolanko in Kraków.

Polish cars of different vintages at the Museum of Engineering and Technology in Kraków

I first saw ‘double tap’ attacks during the siege of Sarajevo. A shell or missile hits a building, then as the rescuers arrive, a second one hits. Much used by Russia in Ukraine. Western leaders are demanding to know if the IDF gave orders to do this at the Nasser Hospital.

Friday will be 18 months since the 115yr old Electric Cinema was shut by Glenbrook Property. They want to demolish it for a tower 🤦🏼‍♂️ Birmingham! Email Glenbrook. Tell 'em we want our Electric back! [email protected]; [email protected]

My column this week: Is this cricket's Overton Window? Playing on an Ashes tour should be the defining moment of a cricketer's career. The news summed up an August bereft of Test cricket | The Cricketer thecricketer.com/Topics/premium…

"The future of one of the oldest and most successful political parties in the world could be in the hands of Robert Jenrick. Which is about as demeaning a predicament as one can imagine." Good piece on the Tories by Sam Freedman open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/las…

Sarkozy has got 5 years. Must say I wasn't expecting that.

New on my Substack a piece about an East German sports car (and it was as fast as many western sports cars of the time) open.substack.com/pub/alicebatem…

Let me guess........

New on my Substack, grassroots football and language in a Silesian village open.substack.com/pub/alicebatem…

Words fail me. tvpworld.com/89582881/polis…