Thank you UK Mission Geneva 🇬🇧 for speaking up

Michael McFaul “It's hard to win arguments with people not constrained by facts” Some substitute emotions for facts. It just feels right. Even if it’s wrong. Nobody is fully immune. Manipulators of all stripes, selfish politicians in their lust for power build their careers around it.

Arthur Miller on New York summers before the advent of air conditioners. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/XWUIiM9

Sam Greene It has always been better to be a foreigner (from Europe) in Russia than it was to be Russian. This says a lot.

“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016. nyer.cm/0ZBrElr

Maybe the greatest sentence ever written by human hands (Jefferson with edits from Franklin and Adams): We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life,

This train sequence was tricky, but the outcome made it all worth it. I can't wait for everyone to see it come to life!

Don’t miss the summer’s biggest adventure on the big screen! See the #1 movie in the world, #IndianaJones and the Dial of Destiny now playing only in theaters. Get tickets: fandango.com/indianajones

"Don't underestimate the Biden administration's priority to keep Americans out of harm's way … "In my humble opinion, the CIA fails to understand the nature of the Ukrainian state and the reckless factions that exist there," says the Polish official" newsweek.com/2023/07/21/exc…

HawaiiDelilah™ 🥥🌴🌊 Not as good as some think.

A special message from Harrison Ford. #IndianaJones

The United States has successfully completed destruction of our chemical weapons stockpile, marking a major step forward under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

«500 дней идёт вoйна. 500 дней гибнут мирные люди, уничтожаются города, бегут беженцы, разрушаются семьи, дети живут и растут под бoмбами и рaкетами.Это вoенная aгрессия, для которой не было никакой другой причины, кроме жестокой бесчеловечной патологии в одной конкретной голове»

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil. . .preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” --Adlai Stevenson in last speech, five days before he died, 1965

Denmark pays students $1,000 a month to go to universities, with no tuition fees

In the Netherlands, a quarter of all journeys are made by bicycles. This is a new 11,000 bicycle parking underwater facility in Amsterdam 🚲

One of the proudest achievements of my presidency was the signing and ratifying of the Chemical Weapons Convention. As I said then, we could give our children something our parents and grandparents never had -- broad protection against the threat of chemical attack. I’m gratified

Women's rights are human rights. They are not negotiable. Women & girls everywhere deserve a life of dignity & respect. UN Women works to promote gender equality & women's empowerment around the world. unwomen.org/en

Oliver Carroll The longer the brutal bloodshed goes, the worse ideas & individuals get prominence that otherwise would have lingered in obscurity. Such as Prigozhin, whom few would have heard about, had peace deal been reached in March 2022 or even Autumn 2022. WWI was the champion in this.

Hopefully all of our followers will make time to watch the obligatory Christmas film, It's A Wonderful Life. In 1973, James Stewart spoke to Michael Parkinson about why it was his favourite.