Double-headed eagles, white parrots and “defecating squirrels”: my experiences reporting from Russia. Our film ‘Our Man In Moscow’ for BBC Panorama is available on the iPlayer and will be shown on BBC One at 8pm tonight (Mon Feb 2). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘We put a stink bomb in Stephen Fry’s shoe’: Vic and Bob on the inspired idiocy of Shooting Stars

Seeing a private foundation at the top of the WHO funding list is still wild to me. Source: buff.ly/zFh8wsr

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It’s Groundhog Day on BBC News.

Adolescence lasts into your 30s – so how should parents treat their adult children?

‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order

In Gorton and Denton, I found a long-festering sense of fury that Labour has no idea how to tackle | John Harris

While domestic flights become more popular, train travel remains competitive in time along many routes within European countries. Source: buff.ly/poYBX0c

🇺🇦🇬🇧 A generation of Ukrainian children growing up in Britain are facing uncertainty about their future 👇 @zoecrowther.bsky.social explores how they are testing the UK’s immigration and education systems

Three wins in our past four @premierleague matches 🔥

Concerns emerge after 12 of Ofsted's new inspection report cards show duplicated language, despite being from different inspectors

Perhaps it’s a social media ban on the over 60s we should be considering 😬 Or maybe we could have politicians who actually take on the tech companies who actively direct groups of people to radicalising content online and fail to moderate.

Fascinating interview with Prof Will Jennings on his latest research into how people view their local area. He says people have pride in their areas but feel they have been left behind 👇

‘Feels like a losing battle’: the fight against flooding in Somerset

What a job! 😮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just saw an old bloke on the telly wondering around in his tweed, rambling on about loving collecting war memorabilia and staring longingly into the sunset and I thought it must be a daytime TV funeral ad. But no, it was a @reformuk.bsky.social party political broadcast. 😂😂

This is a great thread...only thing I would add is that there is a removal of parental responsibility in some parts of proposal. If young people are gaming or online during suspension it is, surely, parents role to stop this. Likewise, support learning during off site exclusion. Or am I being crazy?

Sorry to soil my timeline but this did make me laugh…you? Took me a moment… Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

liz truss has now been a podcaster for longer than she was prime minister

Scotland & England fans: the 2026 World Cup is set to be hosted in Trump’s USA. We can’t stay silent. Sign the petition to move it and protect players & fans! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...

There is only one Boss

Bournemouth have announced the signing of striker Rayan from Vasco da Gama on a long-term deal. He scored 25 goals in 99 appearances for the Brazilian club and finished 2025 with 20 goals in 57 games.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde

Holocaust Memorial Day A video telling the true story of what happened to my family, with photos, maps, documents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iR_...

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis and redouble our efforts to combat prejudice and hatred. I am deeply proud to be part of the government ensuring Holocaust education will be taught in all schools.

@theislandgeogr.bsky.social is one of the wisest and best thinkers and writers on making fieldwork work for you, and is also super generous! This is a brilliant resource for @gatepc.bsky.social @primarygeogeyppc.bsky.social and colleagues!

Tories down to 116 MPs now. Ed Davey 45 Reform defections from being Leader of the Opposition....

Trump: Has no strategy for taking Greenland. Rory Stewart: Has a (quite detailed) plan for taking Greenland.

Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

Here’s the lesson of the Andy Burnham saga: Labour needs a new leader – fast | Polly Toynbee

Reform: The Conservatives broke the country Also Reform: Welcome to another failed Conservative minister who broke the country

Next meeting of Reform MPs: Pochin: 'HELP, I feel very uncomfortable by the new brown face in the room!' Braverman: 'It's OK, I know I can never be English.' Lee Anderson: 'Aye, we all know Suella is a foreigner.' Farage: 'Indeed. Rest assured we'll deport her when we win.' All cheer.

Hampshire/Dorset/Purbeck chums! I'm at the Rex in Wareham next Sunday at 3.15 to celebrate the genius of Stan and Ollie a hundred years after they began working for Hal Roach. All the info here - see you then! loveitlocalevents.co.uk/laurel-and-h...

In this Trump era, we need satire more than ever. Just don’t expect it to save democracy | Alexander Hurst

There are no penguins in Greenland you absolute moron.

I took this photo a while back, Westminster Abbey reflected in a puddle on a rainy day

Heard someone heckle Trump during his Davos speech? It was Alastair Campbell...

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.

From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

‘The only woman for the job!’ Nigella Lawson must be the new Bake Off judge

BREAKING: Danish PM Mette Frederiksen praises British 'pragmatism' in a meeting with Keir Starmer at Downing St after Trump dropped tariff threats over Greenland 'You have a cup of tea & then you think a bit about everything. You get the facts on the table & then you find a way forward'

America, come take your deranged grandpa home, he's embarrassing you.

Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

Brilliant piece

I'd suggest this is polling capturing public opinion coalescing around "Trump has lost it."

Carney: The world as we know it has ended. An age of horrors begins Davos delegates: *thinking dreamily about Shades Macron* mhmm yeah