One of these is a Must for our Xmas Eve cocktail hour John Terry

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd. We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton. I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:

He had no other option but good lord isn’t this just delicious 🤭

R.I.P. to the guy who made working the phones in a newsroom look glamorous and inspired a generation of journos.

RIP Robert Redford, greatly missed. Glorious Butch and Sundance.⭐

Re:fashion- can't deny

I am terrified for Afghan women and girls tonight. For years, my work has been covert access to healthcare, education, and information through mobile phones. If the Taliban cuts internet access, they lose their last lifeline. Total silence. Total erasure.

One of my students informed me that the internet will likely be cut off soon in our province. If I’m not online, please don’t worry the Taliban are shutting down internet access. They want people to use only internal phone networks under their control so they can more easily

This is absolutely appalling - yet another turn of the screw against women's existence in Afghanistan by the hideous Taliban. Erasing their words as 'unislamic'. They can't speak, read, do/receive medical care, teach, be taught, go outside, look thru windows, uncover both eyes.

Made me laugh as I prepare to toil up the hill to the weekly check in at fat farm.😄

I am of this tribe of childhood phone numbers good, internet passwords forgotten: Bristol 691646 (1964-66) Ripon 2800 (1966-70) Cheltenham 279640 (1970-79,easy if I say it in my Mum's voice) Online banking Haven't the foggiest (2006-crack of doom, forever)

One of the great 'what ifs' of history - if Harald Hardrada had won in 1066 & gone on to defeat William of Normandy. Would England have been part of a Northern -& American - alliance rather than in Renaissance Europe? Women likely would've had more equality than under Normans.

Some people call me the space cowboy, Some call me the gangster of love, Some people call me Maurice... - Yes Sir, but I do still need to see your driving license.

Two 4,000-year-old tablets from Kültepe (ancient Kanesh, Türkiye) reveal one of the earliest family dramas. 📜 In the first, a wife pleads with her husband in Mesopotamia: ‘I suffer greatly from your mother. I cannot endure it any longer. Come quickly.’

Food Standards Agency were asked: 1. Do you have a list of Halal slaughter houses ? ‘Yes we have one but it is not in the public interest to release.’ 2. Do you have a list of ‘stunned’ Halal Slaughter Houses ? ‘No.’ Why ever not Food Standards Agency ? You are supposed to be a regulator .

Today, faced with the choice between protecting the Jewish community as he promised, or protecting the seats of Wes Streeting & Shabana Mahmood MP from sectarian extremists who they privately find revolting, Keir Starmer is going to throw Jews under the bus. That’s his choice.

At a stroke, the Palestinian flag, regularly flown & waved in our streets for the past two years has become, to our UK government, a national flag. The men who murdered over 1000 Jews on 7/10/23 could never have imagined that their butchery would bring such surprising reward.

Hamas issued a statement welcoming Britain and other countries’ recognition of a Palestinian state and urged that the move be accompanied by “practical steps” against Israel. When a terror group is thanking and celebrating you, you know you’ve done something horribly wrong

12 years old. TWELVE.

Jfc. Appalling.