“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?” “Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?” Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered. #RefugeesWelcome

My 98 year old great grandmother Lily Ebert, an Auschwitz survivor, has just become a great-grandma for the 35th time! “I never expected to survive Auschwitz and start a family. Babies are the best revenge against the Nazis.” (📸 Me and Lily in 2003) Credit: Dov Forman

Suella Braverman keeps repeating that the Rwanda scheme etc is the “will of the British people” If, like me, you’re British, & this is not your “will” let her know by retweeting this please. We deserve to be heard #RwandaNotInMyName Suella Braverman MP

Good morning . Meet Kush , he is a 32 year old NHS doctor and last week he was arrested for wearing a t shirt . That is where we are at . His t shirt said Just Stop Oil . What will yours say when you are arrested . . . because if you seriously think this will stop at environment

📍Foyle picket #NUJBBCStrike #SaveBBCRadioFoyle

Church of England now running utilities, God help us

Some important questions were asked this week to Director General of the BBC on the shocking cuts to BBC Local Radio. This first being ‘Where is the equality impact assessment on the proposed changes to the listeners with protected characteristics and can you publish it please?’

We're "sorry" we've given £72,000,000,000 of your money to our shareholders but that means we've now got none left so we think you should give us some more. Let's call it another £10,000,000,000 as a bit of a down payment shall we? Bloody hell!

It's world bee day. Here's a handy guide to some of the UK's 270+ bee species. And here's the very cool pro-bee track by The Damned as a bonus. ➡️youtu.be/LR2W8ZoU8EU

Thank you #Millom Striders for great Run The Edge race this morning. 1:05:53 since you ask

This cannot happen Landal UK

Good grief! How much availing does he need? Still weak.

You nugget… they are on average taking a £22k pay cut because you’ve dismantled a payment scheme that supported them, and not yet developed a new one that works Oh and you sold them down the river in trade deals - saying supportive warm words doesn’t count for much

Fact of the Day: The F35 is one of the most caring bombers in the world. On the 31st Feb 1926 this F35 landed on a cargo boat to protect a young VW Campervan that was being attacked by baddie Migs, this led to the phrase "taken under the wing" Photographed from a Canberra

You're looking at 45,000+ galaxies. This image was taken as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) — a massive science program that’s revolutionizing what we know about galaxies in the early universe: go.nasa.gov/3CdLq0s Here are the highlights ⬇️

Kay Burley May I correct some inaccuracies? It is not illegal to seek asylum, however you arrive in a country. There are no "illegal routes" for asylum seekers (Refugee Convention 1951, which we signed) (1/4)

Some people seem to think that the offence of parking on a double yellow line is mitigated by also parking on a cycle lane and pavement #nameandshame #BMWdrivers

5 people, paying 250k to travel in an unsafe vessel to a dangerous place. 500 people, in an unsafe vessel, trying desperately to get to a safe place. Why do some people feel such a connection with the first group, but not the second?

I’d like to clarify the difference between Conservatives and New Conservatives. While all Conservatives are bastards, the New Conservatives are utter fucking bastards. I hope that helps.