Fransglobal
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Cherry blossom in CKS Memorial Park, Taipei 🇹🇼
February 7, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Cherry blossom in CKS Memorial Park, Taipei 🇹🇼
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New on FT website:
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
New on FT website:
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
When will Irish, other European and Taiwanese politicians and others do the same decent thing?
Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz:
I have left X. That network is a place of hate.
We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.
I have left X. That network is a place of hate.
We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
When will Irish, other European and Taiwanese politicians and others do the same decent thing?
China warns US arms sales to Taiwan could threaten Trump visit in April - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
China warns US arms sales to Taiwan could threaten Trump visit in April
Washington is poised to authorise sale of Patriots and other weapons systems to Taipei
giftarticle.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
China warns US arms sales to Taiwan could threaten Trump visit in April - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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"What you did was racist."
"Well ... you're fat."
Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.
"Well ... you're fat."
Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"What you did was racist."
"Well ... you're fat."
Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.
"Well ... you're fat."
Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.
Good Morning Taipei! 🇹🇼
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Good Morning Taipei! 🇹🇼
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Good lord! Air pollution was linked to 182,000 deaths in the EU in 2023. This explains why the EU wants to cut air pollution. I knew that air quality in the Italian Po Valley and in part of Poland were particularly bad but wouldn't have expected such high numbers. Source: buff.ly/s62aXST
February 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Good lord! Air pollution was linked to 182,000 deaths in the EU in 2023. This explains why the EU wants to cut air pollution. I knew that air quality in the Italian Po Valley and in part of Poland were particularly bad but wouldn't have expected such high numbers. Source: buff.ly/s62aXST
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As @davewalker.bsky.social puts it...
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
As @davewalker.bsky.social puts it...
Maybe Taipei needs a female mayor
What do Paris, Montreal, Barcelona and Brussels have in common?
“If you look at the cities doing the most to reclaim public streets from the automobile and give it to people, they often have one thing in common, and that's strong female leadership.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social
LISTEN: bit.ly/3MdP82L
“If you look at the cities doing the most to reclaim public streets from the automobile and give it to people, they often have one thing in common, and that's strong female leadership.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social
LISTEN: bit.ly/3MdP82L
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Maybe Taipei needs a female mayor
I wonder how many people in US or even UK know who the Black and Tans were
ICE and CBP ended up hiring many GWOT vets who couldn't get jobs in more challenging and prestigious law enforcement institutions.
America's imperial boomerang is a kind of Black and Tan effect where ICE/CBP absorb all the worst elements of the GWOT era military with none of its discipline
America's imperial boomerang is a kind of Black and Tan effect where ICE/CBP absorb all the worst elements of the GWOT era military with none of its discipline
Which is to say, I do think there’s something to the imperial boomerang here, but in a more “the shittiest vets join the feds to live out their thwarted fantasies by helping to reinforce the latter’s cargo cult militarization”.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I wonder how many people in US or even UK know who the Black and Tans were
Again, the problem is not just Trump
It is that the US does not oust him from office
It is that the US does not oust him from office
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Again, the problem is not just Trump
It is that the US does not oust him from office
It is that the US does not oust him from office
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Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’.
February 6, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’.
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People have been advised to work from home by the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in areas experiencing heavy rain and the threat of flooding.
'Work from home if possible', urges emergency group
People have been advised to work from home by the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in areas experiencing heavy rain and the threat of flooding.
www.rte.ie
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
People have been advised to work from home by the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in areas experiencing heavy rain and the threat of flooding.
Good Morning Taipei! 🇹🇼
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Good Morning Taipei! 🇹🇼
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This great animated map shows how daylight hours vary across the globe throughout the year. Source:
February 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This great animated map shows how daylight hours vary across the globe throughout the year. Source:
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I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Could a ‘shock’ Pyongyang visit cement Japan PM Takaichi’s snap election bid?
www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...
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Could a ‘shock’ Pyongyang visit cement Japan PM Takaichi’s snap election bid?
Despite scepticism, a leading campaigner claims Pyongyang is ready to return surviving abductees for ‘immediate, large-scale’ aid.
www.scmp.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Could a ‘shock’ Pyongyang visit cement Japan PM Takaichi’s snap election bid?
www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...
www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...
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This would be big...
Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese"
“I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"
Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese"
“I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"
Lithuanian PM says Vilnius ‘jumped in front of a train’ with Taiwanese office
Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Tuesday that Lithuania made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese re...
www.lrt.lt
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
This would be big...
Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese"
“I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"
Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese"
“I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"
The Queen's Head
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 AM
The Queen's Head
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Yehliu Geopark 🇹🇼
Yehliu Fishing Harbour 🇹🇼
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Yehliu Fishing Harbour 🇹🇼