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With South Korea apparently embarking on one of its intermittent conniption fits, might I also commend my brilliantly received but moderately-selling book about East Asian tensions, historic and present: amazon.co.uk/Three-Tigers...
I prescribe Ralph Vaughan Williams on repeat, and a cup of tea. Look at the leaves. The world turns. And buy Bitcoin, obviously.
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Spain's Carlos Alcaraz said on Monday that the record prize money on offer at the Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia earlier this month was a motivation for playing in the tournament. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024…
Danish TV's new Vinterberg series is amazing, but can't help feeling would be even better as a comedy: Denmark unviable due to sea rise; hapless dad supports ever-growing extended family. Gay couple see Reading as nirvana. David Dencik as furious goblin. Lovestruck teenagers.
1) To talk more quietly in restaurants. 2) Don't wear shorts in restaurants. 3) Remove your baseball caps when you sit down to eat. 4) Yes, that is the portion size. 5) No, you're not allergic, just picky. 6) Condiments? Mustard. 7) Yes, that's the drink size. 8) Dogs allowed.
8 things Americans need to know before moving to France dlvr.it/TFpGfx
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The Menu: We meet @FraiseSauvage of @HappyEndingsLDN. Plus: @themichaelbooth visits Butcheria in Copenhagen and @Ma_vans heads to a new exhibition at @japanhouseldn dedicated to Japan’s food-replica culture.
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Unique among Camille Pissarro’s views of the Square du Vert-Galant in Paris, this work depicts a stream of pedestrians one morning in 1902. Figures in worker’s garb rub shoulders with top hatted flâneurs; near the centre is a man in a blue artist’s smock, a stand-in for Pissarro himself.
Probably only because they are indicating in the correct manner on roundabouts, it's just that the Danes don't understand.
Foreign motorists make up a quarter of Denmark’s reckless driving charges dlvr.it/TFSsDY
Greatest album of the decade. I'll fight you.
What a way to celebrate #NationalAlbumDay and 30 years of @suedehq's Dog Man Star.
@ClassicAlbumSun took over the Elgar Room at the @RoyalAlbertHall, where founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy led a Q&A with Brett Anderson and @matosman, followed by a full album playback.
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Why so many couples in Germany go to Denmark to get married dlvr.it/TFF8J7
This is beautifully written.
Six decades after the first bullet train left Tokyo Station, Leo Lewis celebrates an icon of speed, style and national identity: on.ft.com/3Y7KkiF
I do love this new ‘low information’ euphemism.
.@charlesbethea speaks with low-information voters—people who pay little attention to political news—about their perspective on the political race and why many of them favor Donald Trump. nyer.cm/eMhjoqT
This is the most amazing car-related thing I have ever seen. classicdriver.com/en/article…
