Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead… Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
- Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful Jesuit!
Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbour mouth of Kingstown.
Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea
(Yes I know wrong colour…)
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls
Mr Bloom raised a cake to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax... He strolled out of the shop, the newspaper baton under his armpit, the coolwrappered soap in his left hand
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World chemical weapons watchdog (OPCW) holds five-yearly meeting in The Hague. Starts with warning from senior UN official Izumi Nakamitsu that recent use in Syria, Russia, UK and Malaysia ‘threatens to unravel hard-won gains’ since 1997 CW convention
Nakamitsu also dismisses claims by Russia, Syria, Iran, China and others that the OPCW has become politicised, backing its 'objectivity and independence' in investigating chemical weapons use
Russian minister accuses West of using OPCW to target states that are 'not useful to euroatlantic allies'. (These presumably include Syria, Moscow's ally, found by OPCW to have used CW; and Russia, accused by West of attacks that OPCW said involved Soviet-developed Novichok)
Annual meeting of world chemical weapons body OPCW in The Hague gets off to a typically divided start, with proceedings held up by a row over whether Russia should get a vice-chair spot given what Ukraine's allies call Moscow's 'war of aggression' c.connectedviews.com/01/SitePlayer/…
OPCW chief Fernando Arias warns that 'the situation in Ukraine has again increased the real threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons'
Syria meanwhile remains in 'serious failure to comply', says Arias. Gives details of Syrian stalling including agreeing to a meeting in Beirut after it refused visa to inspector - then set conditions including that OPCW cover travel, accommodation and daily expenses costs
BREAKING - Dutch intelligence services say they prevented a Russian spy from accessing the International Criminal Court in the Hague as an intern. The man was working under a Brazilian identity but actually belonged to the GRU - @AFP
Bonkers story. Dutch AIVD names the GRU agent as Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, 36, who had claimed to be a 33-year-old Brazilian citizen named Viktor Muller Ferreira. He was refused entry to the Netherlands in April as a threat to national security
The Dutch say that had he succeeded in accessing the ICC, which is probing war crimes in Ukraine, he would have been able to gather intelligence or recruit sources, access the court's digital systems and 'might also have been able to influence criminal proceedings of the ICC.'
Breaking from @AFP in Washington - Trump authorizes sanctions against ICC officials who prosecute US troops. Comes after judges ruled in March that a probe into war crimes in Afghanistan must go ahead
Pompeo during presser outlining these sanctions describes ICC as ‘some prosecutor in the Netherlands’
And a ‘kangaroo court’. Goes on to express concern over ICC for investigating Israeli actions in Palestinian Territories