Miranda
@hereismiranda.bsky.social
Brit in France, freelance translator, #FBPE.
Studied Economics and EU studies back in the day, moved to Paris 2004. Woke, atheist, increasingly horrified by humanity. I cook, walk, garden and do crosswords to take my mind off it all
Studied Economics and EU studies back in the day, moved to Paris 2004. Woke, atheist, increasingly horrified by humanity. I cook, walk, garden and do crosswords to take my mind off it all
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Sad to have missed phone-in the other day on attitude to school meals and differences between countries. Haven't sent you one of these in ages so here are school menus from Paris suburb! 
Always same pattern: starter, main, side, dairy and pud, must incl fruit &veg
Sad to have missed phone-in the other day on attitude to school meals and differences between countries. Haven't sent you one of these in ages so here are school menus from Paris suburb! 
Always same pattern: starter, main, side, dairy and pud, must incl fruit &veg
September 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Sad to have missed phone-in the other day on attitude to school meals and differences between countries. Haven't sent you one of these in ages so here are school menus from Paris suburb! 
Always same pattern: starter, main, side, dairy and pud, must incl fruit &veg
Sad to have missed phone-in the other day on attitude to school meals and differences between countries. Haven't sent you one of these in ages so here are school menus from Paris suburb! 
Always same pattern: starter, main, side, dairy and pud, must incl fruit &veg
To illustrate Top Patriot Farage's response to Trump saying that UK was not near the front line @mrjamesob.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 11:27 AM
To illustrate Top Patriot Farage's response to Trump saying that UK was not near the front line @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Hey @mrjamesob.bsky.social I found this an enlightening and realistic analysis. Forget the Epstein files, Greenland is to distract from Cuba. Lawrence usually knows what he'a talking about.
youtu.be/4wtq071g4o4?...
youtu.be/4wtq071g4o4?...
Lawrence: Trump & Rubio’s remarks about Venezuela raise the question, ‘Is Cuba next?’
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Hey @mrjamesob.bsky.social I found this an enlightening and realistic analysis. Forget the Epstein files, Greenland is to distract from Cuba. Lawrence usually knows what he'a talking about.
youtu.be/4wtq071g4o4?...
youtu.be/4wtq071g4o4?...
Crikey @mrjamesob.bsky.social the chap being interviewed on #r4today sounds just like you! Executive director of something digital finance so probably not you but quite uncanny!
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Crikey @mrjamesob.bsky.social the chap being interviewed on #r4today sounds just like you! Executive director of something digital finance so probably not you but quite uncanny!
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22 year old incel kid with zero experience of anything is in charge of preparing a vast country of 320 million people for attacks by another country that his incontinent, low-IQ president just arbitrarily bombed.
Truly America's golden age...
Truly America's golden age...
June 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
22 year old incel kid with zero experience of anything is in charge of preparing a vast country of 320 million people for attacks by another country that his incontinent, low-IQ president just arbitrarily bombed.
Truly America's golden age...
Truly America's golden age...
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We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit.
Do join us…
Do join us…
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit.
Do join us…
Do join us…
Unlike the Mr Bates Post Office drama I never saw, the Grenfell documentary is on Netflix. Absolutely harrowing and very well done; really drove home how preventable it was but... nobody is responsible. So many people should be in prison like the Pickles creature. heartbreaking for the victims 💔💔
June 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Unlike the Mr Bates Post Office drama I never saw, the Grenfell documentary is on Netflix. Absolutely harrowing and very well done; really drove home how preventable it was but... nobody is responsible. So many people should be in prison like the Pickles creature. heartbreaking for the victims 💔💔
So... not just your Mum and Dad then
June 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So... not just your Mum and Dad then
If the Tories are going to talk about surrender, they should use it properly. You surrendered Eu membership, access to the richest market, ability to be a rule maker, screwed the economy because surrendered to populist racist economic illiteracy #radio4
May 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
If the Tories are going to talk about surrender, they should use it properly. You surrendered Eu membership, access to the richest market, ability to be a rule maker, screwed the economy because surrendered to populist racist economic illiteracy #radio4
My Dad’s obit in today’s Guardian
May 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My Dad’s obit in today’s Guardian
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“This is the nature of nationalist populism, whether it wears a red cap in Michigan or a turquoise rosette in Runcorn. It is expert at turning grievance, division and nostalgia into votes. But when it comes to governing, it will always fail.” Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern | Jonathan Freedland
Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promises, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“This is the nature of nationalist populism, whether it wears a red cap in Michigan or a turquoise rosette in Runcorn. It is expert at turning grievance, division and nostalgia into votes. But when it comes to governing, it will always fail.” Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When I die, I would want the description under “Amour de Deutz” engraved on my gravestone, please.
May 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
When I die, I would want the description under “Amour de Deutz” engraved on my gravestone, please.
The snakes are venomous, we don’t know if they’re poisonous.
Venomous: it bites you, you die.
Poisonous: you bite it, you die.
Officially turned into my mother, shouting at the radio #r4today
Venomous: it bites you, you die.
Poisonous: you bite it, you die.
Officially turned into my mother, shouting at the radio #r4today
May 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The snakes are venomous, we don’t know if they’re poisonous.
Venomous: it bites you, you die.
Poisonous: you bite it, you die.
Officially turned into my mother, shouting at the radio #r4today
Venomous: it bites you, you die.
Poisonous: you bite it, you die.
Officially turned into my mother, shouting at the radio #r4today
Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social I know you plan the topics days in advance 🤭 But listening to the news and dense-as-Leadsom winning in Lincolnshire… Phone in on what reform voters actually want and expect versus protest vote would be so interesting. Esp as Brexit reaaally delivered… bonne journée!
May 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social I know you plan the topics days in advance 🤭 But listening to the news and dense-as-Leadsom winning in Lincolnshire… Phone in on what reform voters actually want and expect versus protest vote would be so interesting. Esp as Brexit reaaally delivered… bonne journée!
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Maybe for all these years the emphasis should not have been “you’d be speaking German if it weren’t for USA!” but rather “without courageous interventionism in the name of freedom and universality you’d be under fascist rule”.
Maybe the political system was more important than the language…
Maybe the political system was more important than the language…
April 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Maybe for all these years the emphasis should not have been “you’d be speaking German if it weren’t for USA!” but rather “without courageous interventionism in the name of freedom and universality you’d be under fascist rule”.
Maybe the political system was more important than the language…
Maybe the political system was more important than the language…
I have more admiration for the people who feel they don’t have a choice when it comes to FIGHTING fascism rather than appease like the young résistants who were shot in ww2 like Guy Moquet. They are on the right side of history, Starmer is wet and favouring Ming vase over civilisation @lbc.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I have more admiration for the people who feel they don’t have a choice when it comes to FIGHTING fascism rather than appease like the young résistants who were shot in ww2 like Guy Moquet. They are on the right side of history, Starmer is wet and favouring Ming vase over civilisation @lbc.co.uk
“We don’t want the rumour mill (…) to get out of control” states Amol Rajan as he and the guest speculate about the type of cancer KC3 might have and his state of health #r4today
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“We don’t want the rumour mill (…) to get out of control” states Amol Rajan as he and the guest speculate about the type of cancer KC3 might have and his state of health #r4today
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social #lbc
EU seen as all powerful, it even determines shape of bananas.
The (wrong)concern was people would be drafted and sent to war:
“Why should my kid be forced to fight with the Germans (Krauts!!) to protect (some shithole i’ve never heard of)??”
Army=ultimate sovereignty
EU seen as all powerful, it even determines shape of bananas.
The (wrong)concern was people would be drafted and sent to war:
“Why should my kid be forced to fight with the Germans (Krauts!!) to protect (some shithole i’ve never heard of)??”
Army=ultimate sovereignty
March 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social #lbc
EU seen as all powerful, it even determines shape of bananas.
The (wrong)concern was people would be drafted and sent to war:
“Why should my kid be forced to fight with the Germans (Krauts!!) to protect (some shithole i’ve never heard of)??”
Army=ultimate sovereignty
EU seen as all powerful, it even determines shape of bananas.
The (wrong)concern was people would be drafted and sent to war:
“Why should my kid be forced to fight with the Germans (Krauts!!) to protect (some shithole i’ve never heard of)??”
Army=ultimate sovereignty
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social. It’s been a while since the “Paris suburb school meal” conversation but you might find this interesting (after translation software). Double page in local paper about new, better, lower-waste & higher quality school lunches. They’re going from 5 courses to 4 !
March 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social. It’s been a while since the “Paris suburb school meal” conversation but you might find this interesting (after translation software). Double page in local paper about new, better, lower-waste & higher quality school lunches. They’re going from 5 courses to 4 !
William Boyd‘s A Good Man in Africa was the first grown-up book I read, aged about 13, on holiday because that’s all there was. Have read it dozens of times since, still makes me laugh and cry and cringe. To hear Boyd wrote it in seven weeks at age 28 is mind blowing. #radio4
March 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
William Boyd‘s A Good Man in Africa was the first grown-up book I read, aged about 13, on holiday because that’s all there was. Have read it dozens of times since, still makes me laugh and cry and cringe. To hear Boyd wrote it in seven weeks at age 28 is mind blowing. #radio4
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The sheer power of some political cartoons is incredible.
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The sheer power of some political cartoons is incredible.