BREAKING: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress and they won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands protest outside over 500 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance. They’re saying “not in our names,

The flooding pictures are coming in from our property teams. It’s extraordinary that critics say the National Trust shouldn’t campaign on climate change and we should stick to our ‘true purpose’. Caring for places like this is what we do; fire and floods destroy them.

Quick reminder that Edgeways Productions acclaimed production of Chris Salt #fell is returning to London and will be at Arcola Theatre on Sunday at 3.30pm & 7pm It's a small show with a huge heart and really worth seeing. Tickets & info arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/fell/

Robert Peston The recent revelations from ex No10 Comms Director Lee Cain about the government's initial stance on Marcus Rashford's campaign for free school meals underscore a broader issue about representation and understanding in governance. When decisions are made, especially those that

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson decide to go on a camping trip. After dinner and a bottle of wine, they lay down for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replied, "I

Phrases like ‘wheelchair-bound’ in BBC News (UK) this lunchtime are disrespectful and ultimately discriminatory. Please educate your editors

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Number of people David Cameron’s Coalition Gvt took out of paying income tax: 3.2m (Treasury, 2015) Number of people the current Gvt brought back into paying income tax: 4 million (OBR, today) 🙃 Via Marc Williams

Today is the birthday of philosopher Friedrich Engels and this is the reading room where he and Karl Marx worked together in 1845 👇 The desk and alcove you can see on the right remain unaltered and the books which the men studied are still cared for here at Chetham's Library.

28 November 1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the first female member of the House of Commons.

Welcome to chaos: Manchester United pay for their startling incompetence theguardian.com/football/blog/…

The best job in rare books is here at Chetham's Library! 📚 If you've got what it takes to run the Library and its designated collection of #RareBooks and MSS, apply now. 👉library.chethams.com/about/job-vaca… #Jobs #JobAlert #AcademicJobs #Academia

🚨BREAKING 🚨 BrewDog have written to their workers telling them that they will no longer be paid the *real* living wage from April with the rate being removed for new starts with immediate effect. We wonder whether this will feature in the new film about the company?

What an incredible opportunity! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👍

👀 It’s happening.. pre-orders available from the usual places including 🔽 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/broken… waterstones.com/book/broken-th… amzn.eu/d/bE0HExF

Breaking my inadvertent hiatus here to say that I'm so excited and mildly nervous to be talking briefly about something Interesting at Interesting24! It's at Conway Hall on 15th May and you should get a ticket if you want to come eventbrite.com/e/interesting-…

Today I have written to the Prime Minister about the conduct of one of his members of parliament, ex-PM Liz Truss.

Jesus. But also: of course!

‘I’m sick of it!’ The diabolical reality of being one of the few working-class people in TV theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

It is absolutely ridiculous to throw out the slur that Labour want to keep children in poverty simply because they didn't lift the 2-child benefit cap within their first 18 days in office after 5,174 days in opposition. One does not imply the other - that's a lazy, lazy