Is the Rwanda policy driving migrants to Ireland? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

It’s time to hand in my body armour after 30+ years covering conflict for the BBC. How have our ways of surviving on the battlefield evolved? Here’s a bumper 🧵

553 years ago today one of the greatest artists in history was born: Albrecht Dürer. He could turn something as simple as a pair of hands into a masterpiece. But Dürer was also shockingly arrogant, and he even painted a portrait of himself as Jesus...

On the anniversary of Roger Moore’s death, let’s remember this lovely story about what a class act he was

Labour is claiming the Conservatives have left the typical household worse off by £5,883 since 2019. Does this figure add up? Short 🧵...

#OnThisDay 1908: James Bond author Ian Fleming was born. Geoffrey Boothroyd was a gun aficionado who wrote to Fleming asking him to change Bond's signature gun – a Beretta – to one more powerful. In this clip, Boothroyd shows why he thought Bond needed a gun with more oomph.

Meeting Dennis was one of the great pleasures of this life in journalism. A wicked wit, but also, as seen here, a man of deep emotion

Absolutely insane that Lord Lovat exercised his right as Chief of Clan Fraser to have a personal piper accompany him in the vanguard of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach (pipers were by then no longer allowed at the frontline in the British Army)

#OnThisDay 1944: Actor Richard Todd took part in Operation Tonga on what is now known as D-Day. 60 years on in 2004, he revisited his landing site in Normandy, returned to Pegasus Bridge and reflected on his experience of war.

In the 1960s, the Land Rover Owners Club held annual games in Birmingham, England, where members showcased their driving skills and the strength of their vehicles.

👀💧 Pickford’s water bottle for the shootout… ‘Akanji, dive left’.

Donald Trump has claimed the cost of his proposed new tariffs would be borne by foreign countries, not by Americans. Here's what the evidence says 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Quite the chart. An even bigger political backlash than after 2008/09. People really really really hate inflation. on.ft.com/3AkW6ND

How many farms will likely be affected by the changes to inheritance tax in the Budget? Our Verify analysis 📺👇

How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to fuel wave of misinformation bbc.in/4fSoZPV

Gdańsk in the morning mist looks utterly ethereal.

Reykjavík, Iceland 🇮🇸

And 1, the very greatest, as recounted by director John Boorman. The one that ends with a CHP officer asking "Do you know you have Lee Marvin on your roof?"

Skateboarding in Medellín with a great night view [📹 hojan.alzate / danielcgiraldo]

🚨 The Chinese owners of British Steel say they are now considering shutting their blast furnaces and end steelmaking at Scunthorpe in early June - only a few months away. It would mean an end of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it during the industrial revolution