The oft-repeated phrase "incredible scenes" springs to mind! Well done #Scotland!!!

Absolutely gutted!! Such an amazing bassist and real top bloke. Spent a good while chatting to him after The Stone Roses gig in Tokyo and said hello at the football more recently. #RIPMani bbc.com/news/articles/…

Every single word of this fantastic column by Peggy Noonan ‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: “I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people." UK population 2020: 67.1 million UK population 2024: 69.3 million Source: UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Manchester United prides itself on being an inclusive and welcoming club. We will continue to represent our people, our city and our fans with purpose and pride.

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

People mark the start of Year of the Horse by praying for good fortune and making paper offerings at the Man Mo temple in #HongKong’s Sheung Wan district shortly after midnight. #CNY2026

Rest in power! bbc.co.uk/news/live/c394…

Great timing, Bezos: Reminder that WashPost sacked all of its Middle East staff correspondents less than a month ago.

Struggling to think of a US military mission where the rationale was so poorly explained, incoherent and inconsistent, where planning for the next day was so shambolic, and where the ultimate aim was so ill-thought out. Shows failings of US diplomacy. historyneverended.substack.com/p/war-and-the-…

Having one’s front door smashed in at 6.20am is not the best way to start any day - nor is the arrival of an eight-strong team from the counter-terrorism division of the Metropolitan Police as part of an investigation into spying for China✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1gzN

“We don’t need people that join wars late.” USA: 1917, 1941.

In New York Times Opinion “President Trump went to war against Iran without explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears that he may not have had much of a strategy at all,” writes the editorial board. nyti.ms/3P67J1V

Magnificent article & investigation by Alan Rusbridger on how the utterly useless Ofcom allowed one of its regulated TV channels, GBNews, to be taken over by a political party.

It really is John Cleese out of Fawlty Towers: “don’t mention the war. I did, but I think I got away with it….”

"I've never seen an American president, not just in our lifetime, in the last two centuries of American history, be that critical of a British prime minister." Nicholas Burns tells me "a fundamental mistake is: disparage your allies, make life difficult for them at home, you

For the first time since Hong Kong’s deadly fire, Keung Mak will step into his home again Monday. The ceiling of the apartment where he and his wife lived for over 40 years was burned so badly that steel rebar was visible. “My heart is heavy,“ he said. apnews.com/article/fire-v…

John Major speaks so much sense in this Newsnight interview. He had huge difficulties in his six and a half years as PM, but almost thirty years on from leaving office he's become the wisest of our nine living prime ministers.

Strap in: Follow one of our paratroopers from 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team jumping in to Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to deliver vital medical support 🪂