Tony Freeth
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Kernow (Cornishman). A Cousin Jack at large in Scotland. Both ways a European.
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[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati
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January 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
To cite some examples:
- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence
ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Bergen - International Grieg Society Conference. Delighted to have completed my first committee work for the Styre (Board) of the Society. International Cultural Cooperation is more important than ever in these times. #classicalmusic
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Bergen - International Grieg Society Conference. Delighted to have completed my first committee work for the Styre (Board) of the Society. International Cultural Cooperation is more important than ever in these times. #classicalmusic
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Good to be back on the platform of Aberdeen's wonderful Cowdray Hall, and great to assist the brilliant Bubblyjock Collective with my pre-concert talk on opera singer and 'granite city' quine extraordinaire, Mary Garden.
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Good to be back on the platform of Aberdeen's wonderful Cowdray Hall, and great to assist the brilliant Bubblyjock Collective with my pre-concert talk on opera singer and 'granite city' quine extraordinaire, Mary Garden.
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Samuel Lamorna Birch's work has been treated by art galleries with enormous condescension; a forgotten figure alongside his contemporaries, including Laura Knight. He responds here to the depth of the Lamorna valley in Cornwall to create a superb composition in about 1930.
September 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Samuel Lamorna Birch's work has been treated by art galleries with enormous condescension; a forgotten figure alongside his contemporaries, including Laura Knight. He responds here to the depth of the Lamorna valley in Cornwall to create a superb composition in about 1930.
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Arbuthnott Church was an inspiration for the setting of SUNSET SONG. The novel’s author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is buried in its graveyard. Now the building is being put up for sale to plug a gap in the Church of Scotland’s finances, & locals are determined to save it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunset Song: We will save the church that inspired Grassic Gibbon
Arbuthnott Church inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and locals aim to take it over.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Arbuthnott Church was an inspiration for the setting of SUNSET SONG. The novel’s author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is buried in its graveyard. Now the building is being put up for sale to plug a gap in the Church of Scotland’s finances, & locals are determined to save it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I have often wondered why my mother, a pre-NHS registered Scottish nurse, was so keen her family should be musical. Just look at this piano right in the heart of the ward! No distressing electronic beeps and alarms, just music for the solace of the soul...
#InternationalNursesDay
#InternationalNursesDay
This #InternationalNursesDay, we celebrate the dedication, compassion, and resilience of nurses past and present.
Pictured here: Three nurses on duty at Inverness District Asylum, c.1903, courtesy of the Highland Archive Centre.
Pictured here: Three nurses on duty at Inverness District Asylum, c.1903, courtesy of the Highland Archive Centre.
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I have often wondered why my mother, a pre-NHS registered Scottish nurse, was so keen her family should be musical. Just look at this piano right in the heart of the ward! No distressing electronic beeps and alarms, just music for the solace of the soul...
#InternationalNursesDay
#InternationalNursesDay
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Scots song is full of poignant farewells and partings. Facing my own farewell to a landscape I love, I turned to Scots composer Helen Hopekirk whose arrangement of one of our old airs 'Adieu Dundee' best expressed my feelings.
Adieu Dundee - Sally Garden sings Helen Hopekirk in sad farewell
YouTube video by Mons Graupius
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May 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Scots song is full of poignant farewells and partings. Facing my own farewell to a landscape I love, I turned to Scots composer Helen Hopekirk whose arrangement of one of our old airs 'Adieu Dundee' best expressed my feelings.
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Glad to see this. John Buchan was richly complex, and deserves someone of Pittock’s authority to tackle his seeming contradictions.
2025 marks the 150th year of John Buchan's birth & I will be giving the Buchan 150 lecture at
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on 11 March. Yesterday's article:
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Registration via the link here:
johnbuchansociety.co.uk/events/augus...
@UofGlasgow
on 11 March. Yesterday's article:
pressreader.com/uk/the-sunda...
Registration via the link here:
johnbuchansociety.co.uk/events/augus...
December 30, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Glad to see this. John Buchan was richly complex, and deserves someone of Pittock’s authority to tackle his seeming contradictions.
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The much-loved Cornish MP David Penhaligon was killed in a car accident on this day in 1986. A skilful, common sense politician, many thought he might-well have become leader of the Liberal Party 〓〓
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, David Penhaligon
Michael Parkinson's castaway is MP David Penhaligon
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December 22, 2024 at 6:54 AM
The much-loved Cornish MP David Penhaligon was killed in a car accident on this day in 1986. A skilful, common sense politician, many thought he might-well have become leader of the Liberal Party 〓〓
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Taking care of another scholar's legacy - a New York musicologist who died before completing her PhD on Scots-born opera phenomenon Mary Garden. This, the much compressed result of what was sent me over the Atlantic many years ago, and still it's overwhelming. I'm so tired.
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Taking care of another scholar's legacy - a New York musicologist who died before completing her PhD on Scots-born opera phenomenon Mary Garden. This, the much compressed result of what was sent me over the Atlantic many years ago, and still it's overwhelming. I'm so tired.
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Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS!
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS!
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙