My The Times and The Sunday Times biz column on 'bossware'. And why it's pointless: thetimes.com/business-money…

“Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.” - Pope Leo XIII

October, 1941 | A Jewish prisoner working in agriculture at Posen, German-occupied Poland. #AuschwitzExhibition #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

In 19th-century Korea, over 10,000 Christians, including St. Andrew Kim Taegon and St. Paul Chong Hasang, were martyred during waves of persecution. They were condemned by authorities choosing death rather than renouncing their faith in Christ.

20 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Jacob Pinto, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. He was murdered after arrival selection together with his sister Sientje. --- A video about the first two gas chambers created near

20.09.1942|The Germans arrested Halina Cetnarowicz in Zakopane. She was sent to the Pawiak prison in Warsaw & then deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. As prisoner no. 4553 she worked as a nurse in infirmary. In April 1944 she was transferred to #Auschwitz. Halina survived.

September 20, 1942 | 1002 Jewish people, including boys and girls, arrive at #Auschwitz deported from Westerbork (the occupied Netherlands). 590 of them are immediately killed in the gas chamber. #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

My Sunday Times piece: Weak productivity, poor resilience and self inflicted damage mean UK GDP per capita, properly measured, is falling behind US. We’ve closed the gap before, can we again? America is leaving the UK economy behind. How can we catch up? thetimes.com/article/54cd32…

"This year, I am writing my card ... in the hope that this will be a good year for all the Jews in the Netherlands & beyond" Rudolph-Reuven de Roos, aged 12, created this #RoshHashanah card shortly before he & his family were sent to Westerbork. More: ow.ly/InvI50G3xSn

There are now more HR workers than lawyers or doctors in the UK. How did a job – once a back-office function – become so central to the UK workplace? I’ve investigated in today’s Sunday Times Magazine…🧵

Then 🇪🇺to🇬🇧"You can return migrants to us" 🇬🇧"We're voting to STOP that !" now 🇬🇧"Why doesn't the awful EU let us return migrants ? It's a hug pull factor to come here !" UK media & politicians never want to offend Brexit-voters by pointing this out so👏when one, rarely, does👇

The 🇪🇺EU stands for a world where peace🕊️ is protected, partnerships are genuine & the principles of the 🇺🇳UN Charter are upheld. Strengthening the UN peace & security architecture will be a top EU priority for #UNGA80. #PeaceDay

21 September 1932 | French Jewish girl, Florette Dawidowicz, was born in Paris. She was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz on 24 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her younger brother Simon. --- Video about the first two gas chambers

The Barbarossa operation was accompanied by an intense propaganda campaign coordinated by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Reich. One of the most notorious pamphlets was Der Untermensch ("The sub-human"), published in 1942 by the SS & displayed in Auschwitz Exhibition

22 September 1932 | Czech Jewish girl, Vera Taglicht was born. As a refugee she went to Norway. She was deported to #Auschwitz with his brother Tibor in March 1943. Tibor was selected as able to work. He asked to stay with his sister. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.

What’s this about a “Boriswave” of extra migrants after Brexit ? It was surely a “Farageflood” - it was his fault almost as much as Boris theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

The 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, formed #OTD in 1941 by Gen. Sosabowski, fought heroically in the Battle of Arnhem — the key part of Operation Market Garden. Their courage is remembered every year on 23 September, their official day.

We pray for Grosvenor Rd & Hawthorne House, for Ukraine & the Holy Land, asking the prayers of Our Lady of Walsingham. School Mass St Gabriels School , 5.30 pm Choral Evensong with Pimlico Musical Foundation , 7 pm Compline & Social.

This from 1989 was the best speech a leader has given on climate change at the UN General Assembly. Conservatives care about what we leave behind to our children and grandchildren.

In the Ponary forest near Vilnius, Poland and Lithuania honoured the memory of 80,000 victims murdered there by the Germans in one of WWII’s most harrowing massacres. The ceremony gathered officials, survivors’ families, veterans and schoolchildren [*] britishpoles.uk/lithuanian-and…