Some things we do so well in this country. Whilst it's a bit niche, country house opera is one of those things. Yesterday my wife and I were fortunate to attend the most marvelous performance of The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne Superb cast; brilliant staging; excellent music.

What's that saying about 'friends like these...' This Trump intro is a hoot. It needs the widest possible audience to appreciate it. @KamalaHQ

If you are looking for something lovely to do this week, visit #PittenweemArtsFestival I spent a fabulous last Saturday and Sunday visiting all the venues. Do go.

And if people want to know the significance of these sentences and why they moved me so, they've just got to buy and read your book! Ben Macintyre

It beggars belief. Utterly. Scratch the underbelly and this is what prevails Kate isn't really here any more nails it:

Whilst a The Labour Party supporter & voter, I've not routinely agreed with Diane Abbott However, without reservation, I feel that given what #FrankHester said about Ms Abbott, she should have been better supported, including allowing her to have spoken in #PMQ when she was the topic

In advance of spending next week in Liverpool at The Labour Party party conference, I'm spending this week in Prague. Art, Architecture, Culture, Kafka and tonight...supper in the famous C15th beer hall, U Fleku. Pork, duck confit, and of course, the most terrific selection of beers!

I can't believe it's the third week of Sept. The weather here in Prague is better today than the whole of the British summer!

This evening I met one of my all time political heroes at the The Labour Party party conference in #Liverpool - Hilary Benn , Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. For the past 20+ years I have admired Hilary for his integrity, passion & honesty. I am dead chuffed! Lee Barron

"My olives, my olives" Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers. Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

One for @KMiddleton60 !

What we don't like about "country sports" is the infliction of pain and misery on animals, it is utterly pointless.

Please listen to Tim Walz. How anyone can think otherwise beggars belief.

Good Morning from the East Neuk in the Kingdom of Fife. View from our terrace at 0930 Sunday.

Good morning from the Kingdom of Fife.

Reporter: "Should the Defense Secretary.." Marjorie Taylor Greene: what country are you from? Reporter: From the UK MTG: “OK we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country” MTG is a national disgrace

⚡️BREAKING: The Israeli occupation forces shot dead today morning the Palestinian international athlete Allam Abdullah Al-Amour near the notorious U.S.-run aid center, described by Palestinians as death traps, in southern Khan Younis, Gaza.

⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: West Bank Israeli settler-influencer Rivka Lafair has openly praised and celebrated the premeditated murder of 21 Palestinians including health workers and journalists in the attack on Nasser Hospital. "I saw that Bibi Netanyahu apologized. So I want to say thank

Can someone explain to me how an MP and a member of the shadow cabinet can moonlight as the attorney for a Russian oligarch who is trying to wiggle out of a £2.5 billion deal to aid victims of the war in Ukraine that he made with the UK government? Back in the day that was called

What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a