My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

The world is watching #SharifehMohammadi

Say what you like about Macron but he can still give an impassioned speech, this one in defence of multilateralism “The United Nations is all of us We have no right to cynicism We have no right to fatigue We have no right to the spirit of defeat”

Fantastic orator 🥰

Tony Harrison 1937-2025 Born the year after my dad. 'The disconnected number I still call'

Husband is reading a political biog which contains this fantastic anecdote about George Brown, the boozy Labour Deputy of Harold Wilson’s cabinet:

I’d have saved the money and stayed at home with my book!

So very sad that the wonderful Stan Collins has left us - he will be so much missed. Stan’s glorious posts were my last reason for staying on Twitter.

Monster 🤦‍♀️

Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt, you are a pitiful little creature, sitting atop a noble one.

Kirstie Allsop, daughter of the 6th Baron of Hindlip (not a real job) is coming after Michael Rosen's bus pass. Her bloodlust will not stop there. Next she will demand Dame Judi Dench repay all the half price cuppas she's had from garden centres. Let Michael use his bus pass.

Herne Bay on the English Channel? Has the sea risen that much already? #TheWarBetween

"If you don't let us torture and murder foxes, we'll kill all our dogs." - Wonderful argument.

Who, living with a cat, doesn’t know this already? 🥰

Which begs the very obvious question: Why did you throw away the burger?? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Folk say Shakespeare is hard to understand, but it isn’t when it is delivered like this by Ian McKellen. Amazing how the language flows and stops to flow again, immediately comprehensible even to the modern ear. Both of them geniuses in their own way.

Rest in peace HMS Seahorse. 💔 Sadly another horse has lost their life at Cheltenham Festival. Today he became another casualty of a sport that continues to put entertainment and profit before animal rights. #ITVRacing #YouBetTheyDie