#Russians, this war must remind you of Kheraskov's lines:
Но какъ Россiйскiе Ираклы ни сражались,
Главы у гидры злой всечасно вновь раждались...
#Ukraine *will* prevail. #SlavaUkraini!
Primogeniture even...(sorry).
The insanity of this - even if you believe in an heriditary #monarchy! Who's the most experienced and most capable to take over? Anne, without a shadow of a doubt. And she features nowhere. But here we are with medieval royal promigeniture deciding our next head of state. Bonkers.
The first question on joining any #England rugby match is 'Is Itoje still on the pitch?' isn't it?
Outstanding #Scotland against a really rattled France, racking up 50 points after constant pressure, first rate discipline and total commitment. Put a big smile on this Englishman's face watching brilliant rugby from an energetic, thinking team. 👍
MPs outside earnings.
'But he's all for the working man and woman, isn't he?'
'The DOJ said it mistakenly withheld the files...'. Sure.
BBC News - Withheld Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What a surprise!
Hello, regulators. Regulators? Remember us? Consumers? The people who were supposed to benefit from privatization through lower prices?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pure Edwardian joy. Bravo #JohnHannah.
The Read, Series 4: The 39 Steps: The Read with John Hannah: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rxp2 via @bbciplayer
My fellow #liberals, please let's be a bit more hard edged, instrumental, doctrinaire, no holds barred and clever - and stop being witty and fluffy and thinking it wins votes.
Keep witty and fluffy for your dinner parties.
The problem with #Hegseth 's statements at the #Pentagon briefing are you really don't know whether US war aims have changed or...you know...Hegseth is (as they say here in the UK) all mouth and no trousers.
RE: #Trump.
#America, how do you do it? Hear that voice every darned day? I'm in the UK and I have to mute him when he appears. You must have him wall to wall. How on earth do you do manage?
Absolutely brilliant. #IanMcKellen and #AnnabelSmith bring the taped interviews to life brilliant. #Lowry comes across as a dutiful Edwardian lost in time.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Might the #BBCNews editors encourage their writers for the news website to use more measured language? Until changed a report said a drone 'crashed into' a UK base in Cyprus.
There are families of service personnel reading your reports, BBC. Accuracy please. You're not writing for effect.
Watching the #BBCNews channel and somehow in the fog of war isn't #LyseDoucet admirable? Always factual, always measured, always objective. An ideal correspondent.
Appalling delivery by a shoddy #EVRI deliverer: literally in the street outside the house. Pathetic.
So should Baghdad-born #NadhimZahawi be prevented from voting or even engaging in politics, Mr #Farage? Or are you making special exceptions for fri£nds?
The @museodelprado.es #Mengs exhibition looks to have been incredibly solid - scholarly, entertaining, unexpected. He's an extraordinary talent who, from Rome, shaped so much of northern Europe's enlightenment art.
www.museodelprado.es/en/resource/...
How on earth did Sarah Ferguson run up £6m of debt in the first place?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Watching an awful romcom called #IGiveItAYear and gosh hasn't British cinema paid the price for Richard Curtis all those years ago being pissed off he didn't get to make Bringing Up Baby? Cutesy, for people stuck in their 20s, with the wit of a cabbage.
New blogpost from me asking whether the government's recent encouragement of the creative industries suggests an enthusiasm for creativity, or just a continuing passion for 'tech' as the route to growth? And what happens if we do the 'tech' but forget the 'creative' bit?
ncace.ac.uk/2026/02/26/t...
'As I reflect on the auditorium, I remember there was a microphone just in front of me, and with hindsight I have to question whether this was wise, so close to where I was seated, knowing I would tic.'
Extraordinary BBC. Just wow. You *aimed* to catch his tics?
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
#Trump announcing a 'war on fraud' is like foxes promoting more secure hen houses. Fools nobody.
Someone's in a panic over #Epstein -related events this week. Full-on insane nutter distraction in play. Invading #Greenland next?
BBC News - Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Because AI is something they're deeply familiar with, or because they can spell it?
#America, *this* is why nobody's visiting your benighted, criminal-run rightwing theme park. You are no longer anything other than pitiable and contemptible.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Shocked at how little coverage there has been about police arresting Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
#BBCNews sounds like,
'Beverly Scuttlebutt, can you speculate for us on whether Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will have fresh socks delivered to him at the police station?'
It is all filling for the fact...they know nothing.
'Ok, Sergeant Plumstead, let's bring 'im in an' make 'im sweat.'
'Not sure that'll work wiv 'im, Sir...'
'A good day to bury bad news' as I recall?
