***Important public health initiative*** Will try to get my north London council to adopt

I mean, tbf, we've all done it, haven't we? bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Coming up on Newshour BBC World Service - we have an interview with Борис Надеждин - just barred from the #Russia presidential election. "We had 211,000 signatures". The war in Ukraine is a "fatal mistake". I am not afraid - I hope to be in politics for 20 years more. At 14gmt

🗣️ "HE WENT FOR IT AND HE SCORED!" Check out this near 70-yard screamer from Stranraer's Finn Ecrepont 😲👏 📽️ Courtesy of Stranraer FC #BBCFootball

Don't ask. Just listen to Newshour -- about 2140bst. bbc.co.uk/northernirelan…

Trying to work out what this ad algorithm says about my internet browsing history. The New York Times #cowfull

Move to London in June

Whether you think President Donald J. Trump should stay in the race or drop out -- this is a magnificent pay-off from the Lexington column in The Economist

Auden, paraphrasing Valéry: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

More than ten years ago, I interviewed Fethullah Gülen. It was one of those interviews was a very big deal at the time.........but where the top line remained elusive. Maybe that was the point. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

I'm not sure I've ever hearted a tweet if that's what we still call it. Anyway, HEART Trafalgar Square Tree And I'm not -- as people who know me will testify -- a big xmas tree person

Heartbreaking & hopeful reporting on Syria 🇸🇾 including interviews with former political prisoner Omar Alshogre | عمر الشغري & composer Malek Jandali | مالك جندلي, by Tim Franks & the NewsHour team at BBC World Service. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Much of Syrian composer Malek Jandali | مالك جندلي's music is inspired by the protest chants of the 2011 uprising. Today, he hopes the fall of Assad can create a "symphony of peace" A real privilege to produce this interview with Tim Franks. Listen here from 39:30 shorturl.at/PyAMS

And bonus ingredient of me "crashing the post" like an absolute idiot......

Typical style and swish not so much from Peter Mandelson but the brilliant George Parker FT Weekend Magazine

REVEALED: MI6 ran a molehunt in the 1990s after a CIA lead that the Russians had recruited an MI6 officer. Fears were of 'another Philby'. The hunt went on for years and was ultimately labelled 'inconclusive'. More details in the "The Spy in the Archive" - out in the UK next week