@joelucbarnes@eandtbooks Finished loved it. Five stars on Amazon and Goodreads. Have been to five of them but not brave enough to do the others although hopefully will get to Kyiv sometime. Also liked the Tolkien references .
@GLA_Airport it has just taken me 39 minutes to get through your so-called “priority” security partly because at least 30 (I stopped counting) members of staff pushed to the front of the queue. Pathetic service for your premium passengers.
@devlin_jp At Glasgow Central the other day I automatically stood on the right on the escalator (programmed by living in London for 25+ years) and then noticed that the sign says "stand on the left". I didn't move.
We should all stand with Greenland…
1- it’s the right thing to do… we can’t go back to the era of empires and colonies
2- it’s Greenland today, it could be your country tomorrow
#IStandWithGreenland
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order:
"But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades"
"In my opinion, we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe"
"Both disrespect and erosion are well advanced. I believe that, and I want to emphasise it a little"
"Today, the aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want"
"Where regions and entire countries are treated as property rather than major powers"
"Where even medium-sized states, such as ours, are being pushed to the margins of history, and where smaller and weaker states are left completely unprotected"
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.