Happy 40th birthday, Channel 4. I don’t think I ever properly thanked you for all you gave me in the 90s (only a tiny selection shown).
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Forty years ago today, in the news diary I kept as a kid, I noted down a moment of British broadcasting history: the birth of Channel 4. Just a few days later there was big news from Russia…

Dmitrii Medvedev has flirted with lifting Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty this morning, while ventriloquising Soviet rhetoric and storylines about foreign saboteurs and “freaks” attacking Russia from within. (Source: Meduza.)

This is a victory for Turkey, which said it would put itself in harm’s way to keep Ukraine’s grain moving in the Black Sea. Putin wanted to sink the deal but, evidently, didn’t dare risk hitting a Turkish—i.e. NATO—ship. Empowers those in NATO who want to send more arms to Kyiv.

This is a victory for Turkey, which said it would put itself in harm’s way to keep Ukraine’s grain moving in the Black Sea. Putin wanted to sink the deal but, evidently, didn’t dare risk hitting a Turkish—i.e. NATO—ship. Empowers those in NATO who want to send more arms to Kyiv.

Dmitrii Medvedev has flirted with lifting Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty this morning, while ventriloquising Soviet rhetoric and storylines about foreign saboteurs and “freaks” attacking Russia from within. (Source: Meduza.)

There is something so pure and human about Werner Herzog’s films. The Fire Within (2022) is no different. It’s simply astounding.
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Russian state media: Finns are dying of cold due to cutting ties with Russia.

Finns:

Words of the year 2022, courtesy of Collins (via BBC News (UK)). It’s hard not to think the “vibe shift” is a dark one. No wonder some people are “splooting”.

To translate:

🚨BREAKING: Russia has added British overseas territories including Pitcairn and South Georgia to its list of “unfriendly countries”.

Where next? Camelot and Hogwarts?

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A traditional Swedish bakery on the island of Gotland, early morning, May 2019, on my journey along
the Iron Curtain. granta.com/products/the-c…

Tomislav Marković in the The Guardian on the grave dangers of dominant Serb identity, another European and Slavic culture that refuses to acknowledge its role in past violence and suffering, and that – even now – finds Putin inspiring. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A trip under ground at Euston today to see the old corridors that linked the Northern Line Bank and Charing X branches until the 1960s. So many 60s posters and other fantastic stuff locked away behind, above and below today’s platforms. A great tour from London Transport Museum Hidden London.