Overseas pensions and US taxes

I'm living in France, and have been since 2018. I received US Social Security directly into my French bank account.
I file US and French taxes.
I have just discovered that I am eligible to receive a UK State Pension from when I lived in the UK in the 70s. When I do start receiving it, it will be paid directly into my French account, with no notification to the IRS. France does not tax pension income. What I'm wondering is whether the IRS will be informed about payments that the UK government makes to a US citizen living abroad.

My US accountant is not sure at this point, and I have yet to find relevant tax code references.

We all need this song - Isn't This World Enough?

Irish educational priorities.....

An Irishman goes to a building site in London and asks the foreman if he can have a job. “Are you Irish?”, said the foreman.

“Well sor, that I am”, replied the Irishman.

“Well”, said the foreman,”I don’t want any more Irish on this site, because they don’t know nuffink. Last week we have one here who didn’t even know the difference between a girder and a joist. Can you tell me the difference between girder and joist?”

The Irishman thought for a little while, and then replied, “Well sor, I tink that Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust.”

"In the Shadow of the Holocaust" by Masha Gessen - New Yorker 9 December

A thought provoking piece from the excellent Masha Gessen.

Anybody else polishing their tap shoes today?

What with Kissinger being unalive and all.

Asking for a friend.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity and what we're up against.

Trump Claims Buyer Beware Clause' Makes Fraud - Satire/Parody

From my friend John DiDomenico - The best Drumpf impersonator out there -

Neil Innes wrote a song for Magats -

5 years in France

Last night, 4 sept 2018, at 5:55 EDT we left Boston Logan Airport on TAP 218 bound for Lisbon and then on to Marseille Airport. Earlier, we had arrived on a Jet Blue flight from Philadelphia.

Before boarding, we fortified ourselves with gin Martini’s and Legal Seafood’s clam chowder.

A couple of nights before we had been stuck in an elevator in Center City, Philadelphia, and waited for the firefighters to get us out. At that time, we worried that something else would delay or derail our plans, But, boarding the Air Portugal plane and winging away across Massachusetts Bay, we knew we were finally on our way.

We left behind a 5X5 storage unit and our Philadelphia friends. It was bittersweet, but after a summer of farewell dinners, living out of suitcases, a recalcitrant teen, scary rabbits, and various doctor’s appointments, we were relieved to be on our way to our new life in France.
Today, is our fifth anniversary of arriving and living full time in France. We have Carte Vitale’s, French driving licences, and, probably most importantly, a cat.

We’re grateful and fortunate to be here, and will remain here.
Of course there have been adjustments to our lives, but we know we made the absolute right choice in coming to France.

Off on the summer cruise - Kingston-on-Thames, mid 1970s

Praktica LTL - Pentacon 50mm 1.2, Ilford B&W