Making of #empireoflight #SamMendes #margate

7:44 am in #Ukraine Sirens are crying. Enemy is closer. 8 missies at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military training base in Lviv Oblast. It’s Western Ukraine. Having my morning war coffee. Mom is going to the market. Soldiers are fighting.

4:13 pm in #Ukraine Need to put the drawing in #warcoffee diary. It was made by the ninth-grader from Odesa. Spectacular. My son went to do some outdoor training. Said that he needs to be strong to fight.

Hard hitting film about how #Brexit has left many English fishermen and their families worse off youtu.be/gUKywFazdDo #fishing #fisheries #BrexitReality HT chris williams ITF

NEW Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader today

This is brilliant.

The best places to eat & drink in #Margate including ⁦⁦@angelas_margate⁩ ⁦⁦Bottega Caruso⁩ ⁦Buoy and Oyster⁩ ⁦Little Swift⁩ ⁦Peter's Fish Factory #dorys #ralphspizza #margateoldtown ⁩ | Hot Dinners recommends | Hot Dinners hot-dinners.com/Features/Hot-D…

I have a joke about trickle down economics. 99% of you won’t ever get it.

There are no good private dining rooms. If they were good they would be part of the restaurant.

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help. I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

Great to see #ShellGrotto featured in TIMES TRAVEL LTD list of Top 7 Tiny UK Museums. ‘Was it a place of worship, a folly or the work of a bored teenager?’ Why not come along and decide for yourself? We’re open today from 11 - 4 🐚 shellgrotto.co.uk/visit

The destruction of Thanet continues apace...

I am hearing more & more horror stories from the hospitality industry. Established, highly successful businesses buckling under the weight of energy costs. Providers of jobs, community hubs & revenue dropping like flies.

The big idea: why we need a new definition of junk food theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

What better way to start the half term holidays / bank holiday weekend than a sewage dump onto the neatest beach Step forward Southern Water, impeccable timing "Herne Bay beach issued with ‘no bathing warning’ after a sewage release by Southern Water." kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news…

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's

Restaurants with rooms 2023 | Where To Eat | The Good Food Guide thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/where-to-eat/r…

Is there a future for farming in Kent? My special report for KMTV airs at 5:45 today. I've spent much of December working on this project. I've spoken to, one of the oldest and youngest fruit growers in the county. Plus a company hoping to change the way we source food.

On the day of Le Gavroche’s final service, we bid farewell to a true icon of British gastronomy. Many restaurants have been a success, some can even claim to have been influential, but very few can say they shaped an industry like Le Gavroche. London won’t be the same without it