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I love this poem for the New Year. The cycles of time and the seasons, described so beautifully here, have been my great comfort over the past few difficult years. It's midwinter and hard to hope, but 'the wind blows up the dawn / With spring behind it...'
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Auld Lang Syne, the Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788, was set to a much older Scottish/Irish melody and is now sung all over the world to welcome the new year. Happy New Year from the west of Ireland!
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The Life of Stories
I was on a small motorcycle in New Mexico when a passing pickup slowed in front of me, an enormous arm emerged and waved me down. We stopped. An enormous man emerged "You Scottish? Saw your flag!" I explained who I was & what I was doing 1/11
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So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely begun. Don't be on the wrong side of history. #NoToEthnicCleansing – at Sri Lanka
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Avi Shlaim is one of the most high integrity Jewish intellectuals of his generation. This piece is a required read by all of us so torn by the events since October 7th prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam
Singing a cappella in the chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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Kleef, 20 december 1679. Johan Maurits bijgenaamd ‘de Braziliaan’ en bouwheer van museum Mauritshuis overlijdt. Johan Maurits is een kleinzoon van Jan VI ‘de Oude’ van Nassau, broer van Willem de Zwijger. Vorig jaar is het 200-jarig bestaan van het museum uitgebreid gevierd.
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My column on plague profiteers Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This is the haunting voice of the daughter of one of my cousins in the Church.
Tanks still outside. Down to almost no provisions.
I’ve been told food and water was delivered by the IDF but no sign of it yet.
When will this nightmare end?
Transcripts below:
Andrew Walker retweeted
An MP’s relatives have been trapped alongside hundreds of other civilians in a Catholic church in Gaza City since almost the start of the conflict, and the situation has only grown more dire in recent days.
theguardian.com/world/2023/d…
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Can any of Israel’s loyal defenders on this website explain why Israel is besieging and attacking a church in Gaza, and killing Christian women inside? Is the position now that Christian churchgoers are also Hamas?
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How a Dutch tragedy made people take loneliness seriously bbc.in/3RKIhxy
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It’s been a horrible few days. My family in the Catholic Church in Gaza city are reporting white phosphorous and gunfire into their compound. The bin collector and the janitor have been shot and their bodies are laying outside and remain uncollected. 1/2
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11 years ago this morning, 20 sets of parents kissed their first graders goodbye as they dropped them off for school. It was the last time they would see their children alive.
I beg you - commit yourself to the cause of creating a nation where this never ever happens again.
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12 December 1892 | John Fletcher was born in Dundee in Scotland. In 1921 he became a French citizen and changed his name to Jean.
In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 45544
He perished in the camp on 29 July 1942.
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A rousing performance of 'Fairytale of New York' was given by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The performance was greeted by cheers inside and outside the church | rte.ie/b/1420857
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Scotland is more than a place, it's a feeling 💙
To celebrate St Andrew's Day, people near and far answered the question: 'What makes you feel connected to Scotland?'
This illustration was born out of the answers 😍🏴
#ScotlandIsNow #StAndrewsDay23
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ALT Scotland, more than a place. Painting of different aspects of Scotland - people drinking whisky, a castle, people doing sports, someone studying.
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The moment a Thai man, released from Hamas captivity, was reunited with his dad at Suvarnabhumi Airport (pix from @AP)