🧐 Parliament's expenses watchdog is investigating the Tory Northern Research Group after our research into how it uses public cash. It's part of a bigger system you've probably not heard about. Did you know that you're funding the NRG? And the European Research Group? [THREAD]

The trouble with people like you Pippa is you’re interested in facts and details…..

If things go well in Uxbridge and South Ruislip this evening, I give you the next PM of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🙇🏻‍♂️

#BothSides, #BeKind #NoDebate

Reminder: Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in the past year than England, thanks to Rishi Sunak’s ban. The Conservatives are a threat to our national energy security. theguardian.com/environment/20…

My enhanced DBS certificate came in the post this morning. 22 yrs later and I’m still left with a criminal record. At 15 yrs I committed a criminal offence which has been proven to be because of exploitation. Thousands around the UK are left with criminal records.#Sammyslaw

She’s everything. He’s just Kenneth

Do musicians who play private concerts for dictators and tour countries where homosexuality is illegal have a “nasty stain” on their albums? Or just the ones whose concerns about medicalising children are in line with NHS policy? Asking for me

increasingly convinced jeremy vine is willing to die in defence of the highway code. it’s not even that he’s wrong, it’s that he refuses to yield his right of way on principle, at enormous personal risk to himself. the larry david of cycling

A sad little hello to women in their thirties having an evening of shit Proustian flashbacks to the mid 2000s

All of us in the UK who are not Jewish - an immense, an overwhelming majority - have a responsibility in these troubled times to make our Jewish fellow-citizens feel valued & safe. A responsibility that clearly right now we are failing to meet. It shames the country.

OK, this is very weird

Orange and Almond for breakfast - amazing

Hamas made the ultimate revenge porn on October 7 so why the silence and doubt about their rape of Israeli women? My ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ column. thetimes.co.uk/article/whys-t…

"Life, death and eternity. These are Emily's great themes." 175 years ago #onthisday novelist Emily Brontë, the author of Wuthering Heights, died. In 1961, self-confessed graveyard fan and writer Muriel Spark explored the cemetery at Emily Brontë's home in Haworth.

I listened to this interview with artist Grayson Perry today. Found his answer to this question - about the discomfort some people feel seeing a man in a dress - rather revealing…

I cannot tell enough people to watch Rob Rinder and R Y L A N on their grand tour. Absolutely beautiful. I hope they follow Byron to Greece, Turkey, Albania, anywhere club-footed, sister-shagging, bear-collecting poets where big:

Things can only get wetter!