Nick Short 🇺🇦
@nickfshort
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Cricket, classic cars, history, travel, photography & art. Quondam spare part at the Minimax Fire Extinguisher Company. Blocked by @mfa_russia. #славаУкраїні!
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Joined December 2010
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in.
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Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge Se promènent dans la rue deux par deux Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge Savent bien ce que c'est qu'être heureux ...
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This was only in October. Seems a lifetime ago. But Google Photos is always there to remind me. Great road trip. And this was only half of it!
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Putin Meets With Witkoff and Kushner for Nearly Five Hours and the two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Let me translate for you what this means. There was
"So far, no compromise option has been found, but some American developments look more or less acceptable, but they need to be discussed. Some of the wording that was offered to us does not suit us." Russia pushes back on American peace proposal for #Ukraine.
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Protect the right to trial by jury in the UK — Support this movement! https://t.co/2pcxiGlNj6 via @UKChange
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A remarkable career. Sir David Ratford, diplomat who investigated a Cold War spy scandal in Moscow https://t.co/sJzhOxBHCG
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He was thrust into the headlines when a British expat in Moscow rang him in a panic – then two hours later fell from a 12th-floor window
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We've all been there. Raccoon found passed out in liquor store after ransacking shelves overnight https://t.co/OTXjclpRmN
telegraph.co.uk
‘Masked bandit’ returned to the wild unharmed ‘other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices’
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There's no end to the tasteful Christmas gifts on Facebook.
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The Russians started the war, and there is no other way to put it. The whole world is a witness. They came with aggression to destroy us. We stopped them. Europe helped, America helped. Russia failed to occupy Ukraine first and foremost because of the strength of the Ukrainian
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On the second day of #HutVent2025 Taff tells the story of the Military Cross and the tale of one particular recipient... https://t.co/kYOWK6tQln
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Absolutely right.
So now, instead of people asking me how the war is going, I keep getting questions about how the “peace process” is going. I want to clarify once again: this is not a peace process. It is a fake. A real peace initiative begins with one basic requirement: Russia must demonstrate
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Some rather exquisite work here. Cc. @TJGodden
https://t.co/jZshuah41Y
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The world will demand “painful concessions” from Ukraine, possibly through a referendum, the German Foreign Minister said. Johann Wadephul stated that reaching an agreement between Ukraine and Russia will inevitably require significant concessions from Kyiv. If it comes to
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I really love this artistic format. And @TJGodden is a first-rate master of this wonderful tradition.
Gentle progress on a new linocut today. All things being equal this should be ready for this weekend’s Connect and Create Festival in Barnstaple, and available on my website shortly afterwards. #linocut #printmaking #art
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Для тебя, @PaiviTen!
Это Карл Густав Маннергейм, 86 лет назад защитивший мирную Финляндию от совкового нашествия. Так выглядит человек, который заложил будущее успешной, процветающей и очень красивой страны, дав как следует просраться «второй армии мира» в зимних лесах.
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Lame Lammy forgot something important this morning. The presumption of innocence. And the importance to most of us of not being convicted of a crime we did not commit. If I were falsely accused of stealing an iPhone from Curry's this afternoon, with my whole life and career
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From #NATO, #JEF, #DroneCoalition and #UNSC, the UK and Latvia stand united defending our shared values 🇬🇧🤝🇱🇻 #StandWithUkraine️ 🇺🇦
A good meeting with UK’s🇬🇧 Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP on: • Support for 🇺🇦 self-defence, and constraining Russia • Strengthening bilateral security and economic ties • Deepening NATO cooperation and advancing 🇪🇺–🇬🇧 relations • 🇺🇳 UN Security Council priorities.
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‘the Navy has lost none of the shipboard spirit, the sense of service and the personal courage that have been its sinews and its hallmark for so long’.
"Going home and not having someone three feet away is going to be weird"🗣️ We've asked the personnel of @HMS_Richmond what they will miss, and what they won't miss about CSG deployment🐟🤣 Find out more about CSG25 ➡️ https://t.co/J9G6i5r56A
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