BREAKING: Biden is ordering his Department of Justice to end private prison contracts. This is huge.

All we need now is Priti Patel saying she’s sorry if 100,000 people think they are dead.

“Sometimes I feel like, when is it really going to end?” What’s like growing up in a UK lockdown? @minniestephc4 finds out how kids are coping in this new world - and how the pandemic is forcing them to grow up fast.

When David Hockney's mother Laura first visited him in Beverly Hills, after two or three days out on the patio, she delivered her verdict on his lifestyle: “It’s strange – all this lovely weather and yet you never see any washing out.”

Annual orange tree shake in Valencia..

Today is my wedding anniversary. How romantic I hear you cry! Not really... it was 20% off if you got married on a weekday in Jan or Feb. Can’t say fairer than £90.

Official UKTV in association with comedy50:50 is funding 10 treatments by female writers for new half hour comedies for Dave or Gold At least 3 will go to script stage, at least 1 will go to series Apply via email to [email protected] by 26th Feb. See our website for full details

Campaign Against Arms Trade and Mwatana for Human Rights have been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize! Check out Campaign Against Arms Trade's take on what that means for their efforts to challenge the power and influence of the arms trade here caat.org.uk/news/what-a-no…

If someone asks if you are ‘woke’, ask them what they understand the word to mean. Corrupting it is just the latest in a long line of right-wing attempts to denigrate the language of decency. See also: virtue, doing good, social justice... You can have this for free, politicians.

Don’t know who did this but 👏🏼👏🏼😂🦍

There’s a reason the government doesn’t want masks worn by students in classrooms, and it’s nothing to do with teaching and learning. It’s to do with messaging. They cannot on the one hand say “schools are safe” and on the other say “everyone must wear masks at all times”.

Today 10 y ago, a group of children spent thier night in a security branch in #Daraa 4 writing "YOUR TURN, DOCTOR" Peaceful protests broke out & became widespread in all #Syria. #Assad regime responded by arresting, killing, displacing millions of #syrians. #theSyrianRevolution

***BREAKING NEWS*** ⚖️ We're taking the Home Office to court on May 25th-26th over their unlawful refugee family reunion policy. ⚖️ This policy leads to the Home Office frequently making the wrong decision, putting vulnerable children’s lives at risk. safepassage.org.uk/news/2021/3/3/…

The government is paying an undisclosed sum to Sir Philip Rutnam, who quit as the Home Office's permanent secretary accusing Home Secretary Priti Patel of a "vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign" against him. How much did this cost the taxpayer? Shouldn't we be told?

I used to have multi lingual dreams in mad locations. Just woke up furious that I couldn’t park at a travel lodge in Southampton.

If you left Syria, the assumption is you opposed Assad. Returning young men will be found, whacked in the army and used as cannon fodder. That or prison. But women and older people are hardly safe either. This needs to be stopped before Patel gets ideas. theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…

If I was on me deathbed and one of my grandkids started taking pictures of my hand for social media as I’m fading away I’d get one more little surge of energy to stand up and bait the bollox out of them

Great new charity starting up in Manchester! Friends are matched by age and interests by people not algorithms. Do something different for 2022!

Watched The Fence Film last night with my 78 year old dad… we’re still talking about it this morning! Great to see a Bristol-based UK indie film 🍿