Dismayed to hear of more huge cuts at BBC. It’s a great institution that had its legs cut at the knee by Tories while being punched round the head by US media giants. Will Labour fumble this too or will they sort funding and give Beeb a chance to resuscitate?

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What a bloody mess. Are we really going to get another UKPM - that would be 8 in less than 9 years?

Elon’s LLM can’t stop mouthing gibberish. Someone make the lad a patch code and give him a reboot

snoop dogg and Martha Stewart in horse riding attire on a golf cart

Just two BFFs chilling equestrianly at the olympics

My sister was killed at Epsom College. These are my letters to her In February the head teacher Emma Pattison and her seven-year-old daughter, Lettie, were killed by her husband. The next day her sister, Deborah Kirk, seeking solace, began to write. Here she shares s...

Brilliant but devastating writing from the sister of murdered head teacher Emma Pattinson. Tissues essential.
My sister was killed at Epsom College. These are my letters to her

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The Tories are still banging on about Rwanda & immigration on the news. It’s such a switch off. I just don’t care about it in the same way I care about greening up the economy & sorting out NHS.

Toad of Toad Hall merrily driving like a lunatic in a smoky vintage motorcar

Johnson after his very humble performance at the Covid Inquiry

Now is not the right time for an inquiry. Now is not the right time. Now is not the time. It was a while ago, I can’t remember. I don’t recall.

Hugh Grant is an Oompa Loompa with orange face, white eyebrows and green curly bob. Funny but definitely not hot!

Hi! Yah! It’s me.

Rishi Sunak’s approval rating hits new low with Tory members Conservative Home rankings also show James Cleverly has fallen out of favour as home secretary

Seems Conservative activists (who are almost exclusively Boomers) don’t like Conservatives. They want far-right fantasists and grifters who will lead their party into electoral oblivion 🤷🏼‍♀️ Rishi Sunak’s approval rating hits new low with Tory members

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7621...

I've done fact-checking during several conflicts. Never have I seen one where so much disinformation is posted with the direct intent of dehumanising real victims of war on both sides.

Dead or injured women and children, civilians, hostages, prisoners; no-one is being spared.

A Library of Things: a brilliant simple idea for community sharing

A coded message in Royal Tie is the apotheosis of understated British elegance natch

Elgin Marbles row: Sunak accuses Greek PM of reneging on deal Meeting between leaders cancelled after Kyriakos Mitsotakis ‘breached agreement not to make public comments’ about dispute

Sunak looking smaller with every move. This Elgin Marbles row is petulant & petty

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Stories coming out from released hostages are heartbreaking. Many kids coming out not knowing their parents were killed on Oct 7, reports of violence from captors towards some teenagers. Still so many families hoping for good news

#YOYOY is Jacob Rees Mogg

Beware political clowns with weird hair

The decline in quantity and quality of work offered to Laurence Fox is tremendously heartening.

Saddest news. Every parent of a teen driver will know the fear. All thoughts with their families

It’s quite sad to see 10/10 content on twitter despite it being crap now

My guess is there will be no ceasefire until all hostages are released and/or Netanyahu is done. He is weaker now, so could be soon. And then what? What would deliver longterm peace and fairness for both sides… TBD

Do you mean you don’t believe in two-state-solution? Don’t think it’s possible/desirable/workable? I see people talking about one-state-solution but I can’t see that working.

Netanyahu & his allies need to go. Not sure how that will happen but Israeli public are against him so there’s a chance

I understand your point but I remember when it seemed impossible to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland. It comes when both sides have fought to a standstill. Willingness to compromise is highest after disaster. Those who want peace must shout loudest

Violence just begets more violence, spiralling to hell. The current disaster will hopefully create a crack through which peace-loving Gazans & Israelis can reach & build a movement for longterm peace 🙏🏼

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 ‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN boss says after temperature records obliterated in 2023

Hard not to freak out. Actually we should be freaking out. We should be screaming through the streets www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The longer the Covid inquiry goes on, the more amazing that 100s of 1000s more didn’t die. The longer this Govt clings to power, the more of us might wish we had died

North Wales Police finds car in search for missing teenagers - BBC News Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris have been missing since Sunday morning.

Four young kids on a great adventure, but something’s gone wrong. So hope this story has a happy ending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk...

Broken Record Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) UN environment programme 。

this is a bloody great name for a climate report

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World’s richest 1% pollute more than the poorest two-thirds, Oxfam says The report calls for a new wave of taxes on the uber-rich, whose lavish lifestyles and investments have an outsize impact on global emissions.

The report paints a grave portrait as climate experts and activists scramble to curtail global warming that is devastating vulnerable and often poor communities in Southeast Asia, East Africa and elsewhere.