Reposted by Peter LloydChris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com · 04/10/2026Trouble in India’s ‘City of Dawn’. Founded as a utopian experiment in the 1960s, Auroville is now engulfed in a bitter political struggle over its future. My latest for the @ftweekend.com magazine | as.ft.com/r/92b7590e-5...as.ft.comTrouble in Auroville, India’s ‘City of Dawn’Founded as a utopian experiment in the 1960s, the township is now engulfed in a bitter political struggle over its future 0226
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yes, if you mean HK Island ceded in perpetuity + Kowloon upto Boundary st. but hard to imagine any other solution.. 000
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026and was planned 13 years before it happened, due to the lease running out on a specific date.. 121
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026in the last years, DB has reminded me of UK trains, especially the ICEs, the local ones seem more on time 160
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026missed the deadline by a day, sent the money anyway. It ended up £120 later.. 010
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026yes, there are so many of us, it would be good to have a few MPs for the diaspora too. 011
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Terry Pratchett all in the last few years. does John le carre reach 20? 020
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026your father's excellent books were prescient about this collapse.. 140
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026not sure if Murdoch is equivilent of the Springer family.. the US and eu versions seem ok to me.. there could be far worse these days, especially in the US 010
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026wondering about the implications... will the Libs become more moderate? doesn't seem that likely.. will the nats be affected? 000
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I found Terry Pratchett late in life, and would laugh out loud at his clever humour and readability. Very British, specifcally for me at least west country, but should be universal. LOTR of course. 020
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I'm still absorbing his message, was very happy when i read native logging was stopped.. 000
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025As a recent arriver in Aus, and having spent my life studying UK politics i'm struck by how small the Aus parliament is, and have an instinctive sense that a bigger parliament would fit with a growing country.. 120
Peter Lloyd @ptlloyd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025and i believe the Lonely Planet guides were a mishearing of 'lovely planet' by the founders the Wheelers.. 010
Reposted by Peter LloydThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." 2431651036
