This interview with Sean Bean about #Marriage is wonderful. So modest, almost naïf, implying his own craft was generalised and workaday next to the detailed vision of Stefan Golaszewski’s. In fact, as anyone who’s seen it will know, Bean’s performance is absolutely stupendous.

Little is known about Conservative Party members - who include foreign nationals and underage voters - or the security checks in place. In an open letter, after taking legal advice, we ask for more information under common law and ECHR Article 10. (1/2) torto.se/3PwHDQ3

"We’ve had it up to here with a government that says we can go on treating people like shit." Labour's Barry Gardiner MP breaks down over the cost of living crisis Enough is Enough

#LastLeg tonight suggesting people in need of a #legup (food, clothes etc etc) and those able generously to offer a #legup to others, should talk to each other here on Twitter has been wonderful. Do check out the hashtag to be inspired. #lastleg

I love this thread - and the incisive power of Nick Bryant’s peerless work.

When she says “facts”, I think she means Tory-toothsome, baked in aspic, porky pies.

The waiting lines in Arrowpark Hospital are a real disgrace. I really admire this lady for standing for us all and telling the Government like it is. ⁦Angela Eagle DBE⁩ ⁦

Kinda like the Hunger Games? Play for a chance to survive… 🏆

For Patrick Minford’s nonsense in greater excruciating detail do read more here: x.com/ebwilford/stat…

Boris Johnson blames the last Labour government for lack of new nuclear power stations. But Gordon Brown gave the go-ahead for new sites in 2009. Under the Conservatives none have yet got up and running. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi…

Claiming you’re *from* Yorkshire when you merely spent a few childhood years in Leeds is enough to alienate an entire county of champion bullshit-detectors.

Bloody hell. It will, of course, come as no surprise to people in the UK that the latest Coronavirus variant causing anxiety is called: BJ.1

“Come along, Prime Minister. Let’s see what your government has been doing for my kingdom…”

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I'd missed Douglas Murray arguing with the Number 10 cat - and losing

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, India imported 1% of its oil from Russia. Now it’s 40%, 2nd largest buyer of Russian crude at 1.64m barrels/day, at below world prices. India refines this crude. What it doesn’t use itself it exports to Europe and US as Indian product. Russia thus

Crikey.

Here is the poem Michael Morpurgo kindly requested for Poetry Please. BBC R4

It's incredibly revealing. It's also a feature of the new far right, everywhere. Not even "our people first" but "our people only". It is absolutely appeasement and alien to Western diplomatic ethics since WW2. And don't imagine it would have been any different IN WW2, either.