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Ah finally two countries (excluding the US) decide to capitalise on the biggest military blunder in history and charge a toll on a shipping where there had been a free international route only a few mths before. Let’s all stand and applaud Donny and Hegseth. Dicks www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Middle East crisis live: Iran and Oman agree on coordinates of route through strait of Hormuz, says Iranian foreign ministry

Joint announcement for geographic coordinates being finalised, says spokesperson, adding that it would not guarantee security in waterway

theguardian.com

I do read some old shit, although I read Plutarch’s Greek Lives before this so in comparison it’s a racy modern novel. Bloody cracking story though, as swashbuckling as his Ivanhoe. And I’ve just realised the cover is from a painting held at the Ashmolean museum in my home town of Oxford. Will visit

Walter Scott - Waverley (Arguably the first romantic historical novel) Portrait of Flora Macdonald 1749 by Allan Ramsay

I really fell in love with Porches yesterday. I love old cobbled towns where even the most fucked of buildings seem to offer more charm than anything newly built. If they had spanking broadband I could easily work from here as there is no time difference to London!