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“The reporting has revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels in Washington. Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices.“

Warum hast du’s nicht selbst gemacht?

I hope you enjoyed that look at the McKinley Tariffs and the impact on Canada.

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Churchill visiting the WH in 1942, during wartime, not wearing a suit

We should run coach trips to Greater Manchester, without wanting to run down the efforts of councils there to turn stuff round they have a bigger hill to climb than say Erfurt or Leipzig

I can’t do what my dad did - which was to move back to the east and set up a small technical manufacturing firm.
(Practical reasons - I’m married to a Brit who won’t learn German) so I’m stuck just voting and hoping. It’s hard though E Germans don’t appreciate how much better life is in Germany!

It’s not just economics though. There’s a lot of nostalgia and misremembering. My mum has a good friend who simultaneously does not (intellectually) disbelieve that my dad was imprisoned and beaten up by the Stasi many times but cannot reconcile it with her memory of the DDR.

Is the fudge in the spelling mistake?

Thank goodness @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social is on Bluesky … we lost touch for a while but we can reconnect here

I’ve been on one near Maury in the Pyrenees Orientales. Amazing and great way between villages for tourism and people living locally.