Nick Short 🇺🇦
@nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.
The background picture is part of a painting I am lucky to own called 'The Isles of Sinodun' by the talented artist @annadillon.bsky.social.
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I feel like forgetting the world and just staring at this wonderful image all day. The Valley of the Rocks in north Devon. Possibly my favourite cricket ground.
Softly the evening came with the sunset ...
June 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Softly the evening came with the sunset ...
It's a dreadful world in many places and for many reasons. And sometimes, I'll be honest, I come close to losing hope. Then I look at this peaceful view and it calms me. Or anaesthetises me. I certainly feel better for it, if only for a while. Night, all.
June 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's a dreadful world in many places and for many reasons. And sometimes, I'll be honest, I come close to losing hope. Then I look at this peaceful view and it calms me. Or anaesthetises me. I certainly feel better for it, if only for a while. Night, all.
I found historian Roger Morehouse in a pub in Piccadilly this evening. Honestly, you can't go anywhere for a quiet drink these days.
June 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I found historian Roger Morehouse in a pub in Piccadilly this evening. Honestly, you can't go anywhere for a quiet drink these days.
Goodnight from me and the girls.
June 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Goodnight from me and the girls.
My father died in the sea in Sardinia #OTD in 1974. I was with him and just survived the undercurrent. He was 58, I was 16. I've missed him every day since. I miss the conversations we never had. The moments we never shared. And I will remember him until the day I too die.
May 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My father died in the sea in Sardinia #OTD in 1974. I was with him and just survived the undercurrent. He was 58, I was 16. I've missed him every day since. I miss the conversations we never had. The moments we never shared. And I will remember him until the day I too die.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair than the high cloudlets in the sky.
May 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair than the high cloudlets in the sky.
May 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've been astride Tommy again for an hour and a half.
May 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I've been astride Tommy again for an hour and a half.
A wonderful painting of #Southwold by a good - and very talented - friend of mine.
May 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A wonderful painting of #Southwold by a good - and very talented - friend of mine.
Interior of #Lavenham parish church today, with the US flag and memorial to the brave boys of the USAAF who served locally in #WW2 on display.
#MemorialDay
#MemorialDay
May 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Interior of #Lavenham parish church today, with the US flag and memorial to the brave boys of the USAAF who served locally in #WW2 on display.
#MemorialDay
#MemorialDay
A further wake-up call.
May 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A further wake-up call.
May 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Gosh. You live and learn.
This portrait by Edvard Munch, of his friend Thor Lütken, appears pretty conventional, until you take a closer look at his left shirt cuff...
May 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Gosh. You live and learn.
Rosie sends her regards ...
May 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Rosie sends her regards ...
So when for me life’s latest hour soft passes to its end, may glory, born of earth and heaven, the earth and heaven blend. Flooded with light the spirits float, with silent rapture glow, till where earth ends and heaven begins the soul shall scarcely know.
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So when for me life’s latest hour soft passes to its end, may glory, born of earth and heaven, the earth and heaven blend. Flooded with light the spirits float, with silent rapture glow, till where earth ends and heaven begins the soul shall scarcely know.
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The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.
What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s ‘Victory Day’
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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May 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.
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My latest for New Statesman: how Putin and the Patriarch's religion of war hails violence as the path to spiritual salvation. Putin's Russia may not be a Christian nation, but it is a religious one.
The religious fever of Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day
In today’s Russia, state, Church, and War have become inseparable.
www.newstatesman.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My latest for New Statesman: how Putin and the Patriarch's religion of war hails violence as the path to spiritual salvation. Putin's Russia may not be a Christian nation, but it is a religious one.
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Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns www.politico.eu/article/chin...
Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns
Top intel director tells POLITICO that Moscow’s new military buildup is concerning — and Donald Trump’s election has been a wake-up call for European spies.
www.politico.eu
May 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns www.politico.eu/article/chin...
Field of dreams.
May 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Field of dreams.
