Tony Benn’s 5 critical questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”

When the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was asked in an interview about the barrage of insults being directed at him and other German leaders by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, his reply was: “Don’t feed the troll.”

One of many moving moments in the BBC’s excellent series ‘The London Bombings’ is this recollection by Julie Nicolson of the reaction of a London cabbie when he learned her daughter Jenny was a victim.

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🧵 Strong words from England and Wales Cricket Board ‘The ECB strongly condemns the treatment of women & girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime and would strongly encourage the ICC to intervene & show global leadership at the earliest opportunity’ theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan… #ChampionsTrophy

I just love how happy such a simple thing makes him! 😊😊😊

TV Zone I really can't believe ITV . What is wrong with them ITV Press Centre . I'm gutted. #McDonaldandDodds was a delight and so interactive. Such a good cast with Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia . It's bad enough losing #Vera but not this too. All our feature length detectives have gone

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

The Independent is asking people if Brexit was worth it. But I will do an actual independent poll. Like if it wasn't worth it. RT if we need to get rid of it immediately.

Would you love to build your own lifeboat? 🧱 The Shannon class lifeboat has been submitted to LEGO® IDEAS. If it reaches 10,000 votes the design will go to expert review, and be in with a chance of becoming an irl Lego set! Vote here ➡️ rnli.social/40zqvAJ #RNLI #Lego

It is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so let’s celebrate the woman whose mastery of several scientific disciplines was so great that she couldn’t be described as a Man of Science. A reviewer of her second book coined the word “scientist” for her. Mary Somerville.

Another epic quote from Zelensky!

Calligraphy with sand

Protest outside Lords where our men’s team are playing Afghanistan. Protestors include feminists and Afghan people. #BoycottAfghanCricket #TaliBanThem #DearAfghanWomen

Amol Rajan, "Britain today is stuck, isn't it?" Alan Sugar, "It's stagnant" Amol Rajan, "Declining?" Alan Sugar, "It's got a lot to do with Brexit" "Brexit is the biggest disaster I have experienced in my whole lifetime, business career" "Brexit was a total absolute

Elbows up, Canada.

Now that the warmer weather is (hopefully) coming, it would be really brilliant if as many people as possible could put a shallow dish of water (not milk please!) out for hedgehogs in your garden. Even if you don’t think you have these lovely visitors you never know!! By doing

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