Absolutely delicious Ukrainian meal at Onuky in Riga tonight, including dumplings, chanterelles, stuffed peppers, chocolate cake, and a lovely Ukrainian Merlot. Slava Ukraini!
#slavaukraini #ukrainianfood

It would take a heart of stone…
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

I will never be able to hear the words HS2 and not think of this incredible illustration from French TV news trying to understand why high-speed train projects are a failure in the UK
(LGV: high-speed train line)

And for for those who say there was no personal financial advantage: 'the perpetrators, accomplices and concealers of public fund embezzlement, who contributed to the enrichment of the FN, caused a breach of equality, thereby favoring their candidates and political party at the expense of others'

Perhaps the Guardian may want to do some actual reporting instead of peddling far-right whingeing against the rule of law?

And she is! 5 year ban from elected office with immediate effect, 4 years prison sentence (2 suspended) for embezzlement

The Kremlin deplored democratic backsliding in France! Nice of them to remind everyone who their friends are in France

Le Pen, 11 MEPs and 12 parliamentary assistants found guilty of embezzlement. Some MEPs seem to have been found not guilty.
Big questions: will she be able to stand as candidate in the next presidential election? Sentencing happening now

All my favourite yarn shops in GB (all small businesses) are sending emails saying they won’t be able to sell products to the EU and Northern Ireland after the 5th December. I’m ’this close’ to joining the TUV to protest against NI being cut off from the GB market

Great to see this book ‘in the paper’. A great resource with chapters about parties in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Most of you will read it on a screen, as the ebook is on open access! academic.oup.com/book/58013?l...

PHRYYYYGE! Look at what I’ve found in my pigeon hole, courtesy of the magnificent @vgravey.bsky.social