2680. Commonwealth Day 2025. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

  Commonwealth Day this year occurs today on Monday 10 March. Each year, a theme is adopted and this year’s is ‘Together We Thrive’ and this assertion of mutual support may prove more necessary than the official who came up with the catchphrase might have expected if the dangerously preposterous Trump acts to make Canada the 51st state of the United States, which he has vowed to do. Canada’s neighbour’s unpredictably loopy leader has thrown Ukraine to the Russian wolves, is drooling at the prospect of taking over Greenland, a self-governing part of sovereign Denmark, and wants to turn Gaza into a cross between Las Vegas and the French Riviera under American control and therefore this year’s expression of the aspiration that Commonwealth territories should be ‘together’ to ‘thrive’ might be more demanding than the leaders of the fifty six Commonwealth countries expect, especially in the case of Canada. 

  Trump’s imperialist actions or future actions, if he carries them through, are likely to be devastating for the free world and we may well see its effects in future stamp issues. The subjects featured on ongoing new stamp issues continue to provide an ever lengthening tapestry of modern world history and although the medium-term future of new issue releases looks more and more doubtful, for the moment at least, events, the actions of arrogant men full of hubris such as Trump and Putin, and the changes in the fate of nations will continue to be detailed on postage stamps which makes stamp collecting a more significant hobby than most people in this modern age would credit for..

  Meanwhile Canadian stamps remind us that the Americans attempted to invade Canada during the War of 1812 and were roundly defeated. It might be a good time for Canada Post to issue more stamps to commemorate Canada’s successful expulsion and remind Trump of what he would be up against (and that’s the War where the British burned down the White House!). See Blog 220.

  Meanwhile Charles III remains King of Canada by the consent of the people of Canada.Together we thrive.

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

4 April 2025 - Domestic cats, second issue - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Micallef and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Total face value €3.56. Illustrations awaited.

🇮🇳 India Post -

March 2025 - 25th anniversary of the National Innovation Foundation, My Stamp, personalised stamp with attached label sold by India Post in sheets of 12 at a premium price.