#SUEZ

[bisquid]

[laurapetrie]

LORETTA YOUNG as EMPRESS EUGENIE "I think she lived in a kind of fairy tale, fascinated by her extraordinary destiny." - Augustin Filon on Eugenie

[dedalvs]

Coincidence?

Oh, absolutely not. It is one of the many conlang decisions I've made primarily to entertain the various denizens of Tumblr.

[transit-fag]

A boat crashed in the Suez again, let's use a mode share that's actually reliable, like rail to move both people and goods again. Nationalize the railways.

[mirhannnn]

[kishpancho]

SUEZ Common Thread Collection

[es-r-aa7]

💛🐣🎀🙆🏻‍♀️

يومياتي وانا بانجو من غير بانجو مع العصابة 🫶

[postcard-from-the-past]

Ships on the Suez Canal, Egypt

French vintage postcard, mailed to Cahors, France

[supplyside]

The Suez Canal

[rwpohl]

loretta young: china, john farrow 1943

[dougielombax]

It has now been three years since the Ever Given Incident which led to the Suez Canal being blocked.

This is what we call a Oopsie/Uh-Oh.

Yeah.

Got stuck there for six days!

Hilarious!

No giant crab this time though.

[rumade]

My husband telling me I shouldn't cheer for rebels fucking with the Suez canal because when we go back to Japan all our stuff will be shipped through there

And I'm just laughing because we don't need any of this shit like oh no Yemeni rebels might hijack our shipping container and take my pikachu cushion and 20 years of fabric hoarding

Children are dying yo

[shikiswife]

I get stupidly happy seeing any Suez news ever since the Evergiven, but this is even better - it's targeted \o/

[georgefairbrother]

On May 17th, 1955, during what was described as a generally lacklustre and even boring general election campaign, ‘the lull before the lull’, Prime Minister Anthony Eden did something dramatic and revolutionary…He went on the telly.

The BBC reported;

"…The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, has hosted a ground-breaking half-hour television election programme for the Conservative Party, pitting government ministers against newspaper editors in the first broadcast of its kind. Sir Anthony was flanked by four ministers; the Chancellor, Rab Butler, the Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, the Health Minister, Iain Macleod, and the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton. Facing them were the editors of 10 major national newspapers, armed with questions said to reflect the concerns of the country…"

In a stark indication of how the tone of political debate has since changed, the BBC reported on a ‘challenging’ line of questioning from the editor of The Daily Mirror, Hugh Cudlipp;

"…At one point, he asked the Prime Minister to respond to what he called the common impression that Sir Anthony was ‘less well versed in home than in foreign affairs’. Sir Anthony, with a smile, admitted that it was 'a perfectly fair criticism’, but reminded Mr Cudlipp that his post as Foreign Secretary had led him to sit in Cabinet for 20 years - and the Cabinet, he said, dealt with domestic as well as foreign affairs. Indeed, he added, he had contributed 'more than somewhat’ on domestic affairs…"

Following the televised campaign in 1955, which reached one third of the population, the Conservatives increased their majority from 17 in 1951, to 60, with their manifesto slogan, 'United for Peace and Progress’.

In another indication that politics was slightly different in those days, Eden said this in the House of Commons;

"...The Rt Hon Gentleman, the Leader of the Opposition, and others have been kind in their welcome to me...I can only say to the Rt Hon Gentleman and to the Father of the House, too, that I have been deeply touched by what has been said this afternoon and that, for my part, I will do all I can to serve our country..."

But as much as television might have boosted Eden’s political fortunes in 1955, it helped to drive his demise less than two years later.

"…By the time of the Suez crisis, in 1956, a new line of confrontational questioning by television interviewers such as Robin Day meant Sir Anthony no longer had the freedom of the airwaves to say what he wished unchallenged. As the crisis turned against him, he withdrew from the cameras, appearing just twice in four months. After his resignation in 1957, he said he was convinced that television had contributed to his downfall…"

[kagansune]

Sometimes i forget about the boat that got stuck in the suez.

Then i remember.

And life is better again.

Anyway happy ides of march hommies.

[mirhannnn]