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My latest for Glug Magazine is about #Grillo, the native Italian variety you've probably never heard of. Widely used in #Sicilian winemaking. #Wine #Italy

It is a truly unbeatable combination. The greatness within these two ancient nations. 🇬🇧🏹🇫🇷

Pro tip: Every book is just 26 letters rearranged. If you’ve read the alphabet, you’ve technically read every book ever written - just not in the right order.

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Putin is making it very clear that any truce in Ukraine will come only when he is defeated. We talk, he kills Ukrainians. We talk some more, he kills more Ukrainians. He has openly said he wants to destroy Ukraine and that is his war aim. A combined Ukrainian-US-European effort

Wealth tax. No country has introduced a tax like this. Actual real life wealth taxes either raise little or hit the middle class more than the mega-wealthy. See prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

Campaign against climate change by refusing to pay for low-carbon public transport.

New Ipsos in the UK polling shows sharp drop in support for junior doctors strikes

“Poland 🇵🇱 ranks only behind South Korea as the great economic miracle of modern times. In 1990 it was a dysfunctional post-communist economy that was significantly poorer than Russia; now, the IMF expects it to soon overtake Japan, Spain, and Israel in per capita GDP. Poland is

My 12yo son is begging me for a phone, but he got so bored this summer that he went to the bookshelf and pulled off a copy of the Iliad, asked me if it was any good, and has been reading it for the last three days. Not helping his case.

huge moment for Sarah

Edmond-Henri Cross's ultimate aim in painting was to have: 'technique cede its place to sensation.' This picture from 1892 depicts the islands of Hyères in the South of France.

'Little Restaurant.' (1943) Steven Spurrier was an illustrator working for magazines including The Graphic and Illustrated London News. A number of his paintings recall the compositions of Degas and Vuillard.

Another guy with the same name as Astronomer’s CEO updated his Linkedin to make sure people knew he wasn’t Astronomer’s CEO lol

Discover more of the buildings by Sir Frederick Gibberd. ⬇️ heritagecalling.com/2017/11/30/pio…

Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect last night, Proton VPN signups originating in the UK surged by more than 1,400%. Unlike previous surges, this one is sustained, and is significantly higher than when France lost access to adult content.

“You owe the public nothing… It was all you.” What an extraordinary attitude.

Yes but I’m sure he also did some bad things

The tower became Durrell’s writing place and it was here that he wrote Prospero's Cell, his book about his happy days in Corfu before the war, and here too that he began writing what would become The Alexandria Quartet. — Michael Haag Villa Ambron, Alexandria (Hogarth)

An old photo of the Theodosian Walls in a slightly ruined but still quite tremendous state.