Well, who could have seen that coming? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to investigate Farage: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump to meet with Xi Jinping. Hopefully Trump's handlers keep him on a tight leash. Otherwise we'll probably all have to start learning Chinese! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Belle talks about the sinking of a Russian ship that was probably transporting nuclear materials to North Korea: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5un...

From mid-April 1989, some 300,000 student protestors had occupied #Tiananmen Square in #Beijing. On 13 May thousands of them began a hunger strike. #History #China

13 May 1981: Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, tried to assassinate #Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square in #Rome. #History

13 May 1950: The first race of the first ever Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone. #History #F1 Nino Farina won the race in an Alfa Romeo.

13 May 1943: The German Afrika Korps, and Italian troops in North Africa, surrendered to Allied forces. #History #WW2

13 May 1940: Winston #Churchill made his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. #History #WW2 (1/2)

13 May 1917: Three shepherd children (Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto) reported the first apparition of 'Our Lady of Fátima' at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, #Portugal. #History

13 May 1912: The Royal Flying Corps was established. #History #RFC #WW1

13 May 1861: Queen Victoria issued a "proclamation of neutrality" in respect of the American Civil War. #History #AmericanCivilWar Queen Victoria's proclamation recognised the Confederate states as having belligerent rights.

13 May 1846: The United States declared war on #Mexico. #History #USA #MexicanAmericanWar

13 May 1787: The first fleet of ships carrying convicts to the penal colony of #Australia left Portsmouth. #History

13 May 1568: A Protestant army commanded by James Stewart, Earl of Moray, defeated a numerically superior force led by Mary, Queen of Scots, and Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, at the Battle of Langside. #History #Scotland After the defeat, Mary fled into exile in England.

13 May 1515: Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, were officially married at Greenwich. #History #Tudor

It's International Nurses Day, so I invite you all to raise a glass to the memory of Mary Seacole.

12 May 2017: The #WannaCry ransomware attack began. It would impact over 400,000 computers worldwide, and targeted computers of the UK National Health Service. #History

12 May 1965: The Soviet space probe Luna 5 crashed into the lunar surface. #History #Exploration

12 May 1949: The Soviet Union lifted its blockade of #Berlin which had begun in April 1948. #History #1stColdWar

12 May 1942: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507. #History #WW2

12 May 1940: The German Army invaded France, attacking the Meuse Line through the heavily wooded Ardennes region. #History #WW2

12 May 1937: The Coronation of George VI took place in Westminster Abbey. #History #UK

12 May 1926: The TUC General Council visited 10 Downing Street to announce it was calling off the General Strike. #History #GeneralStrike

12 May 1846: The Donner Party of pioneers set out from Missouri, headed for #California. Of the 87 members of the party, only 48 would survive. #History #USA www.nps.gov/cali/learn/h...

12 May 1797: #Napoléon Bonaparte completed his conquest of #Venice. #History

12 May 1310: Fifty-four members of the Knights #Templar were burned at the stake as heretics in #France. #History

12 May 1191: Richard I (the "Lionheart") married Berengaria of Navarre in the Chapel of St. George at Limassol on Cyprus. #History #RichardI Queen Consort of England, #Berengaria of Navarre, is often known as "the only English queen never to set foot in the country".

12 May 113 CE: Roman emperor Trajan dedicated a column in #Rome celebrating and depicting his victory over the Dacians. #History #TrajansColumn

RIP Douglas Noel Adams. Died, aged just 49, 11 May 2001. www.theguardian.com/news/2001/ma... "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - DNA

Happy Birthday to Nobel Laureate Richard Phillips #Feynman. Born in Queens, New York, 11 May 1918. #RichardFeynman

11 May 2011: The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (more commonly known as the Istanbul Convention) was signed in #Istanbul, Turkey. #History (1/2) www.coe.int/en/web/istan...

11 May 2010: David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as head of the first UK coalition government since the Second World War. #History

11 May 1998: #India conducted three underground atomic tests in Pokhran. #History

11 May 1997: IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, 'Deep Blue', defeated Garry Kasparov, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion #chess player in a classic match format. #History #computing

11 May 1985: 56 football spectators were killed, and over 200 were injured, in a fire at Valley Parade football ground in #Bradford. #History #BradfordCity

11 May 1960: A team of four Israeli #Mossad agents captured fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina. #History

11 May 1862: The Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia, was scuttled in the James River, northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. #History #USCivilWar

11 May 1812: UK Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. #History

11 May 1502: #Columbus left Cádiz in Spain on his fourth and last voyage to the New World. #History

11 May 973: Edgar the Peaceful and his wife, Ælfthryth, were crowned King and Queen of #England. Edgar had ruled since 959. This was the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English king or queen. #History

11 May 330 CE: Constantinople became the new capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire. #History #Rome

Does this mean that Trump's operation Epstein Futility is back on? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who would want Sir Keir Starmer's job? Constantly sniped at and undermined by the tories, by Farage and his crypto-fascists, by most of the right-wing media, and by a large percentage of his own party! I imagine he only stays in post because he's terrified of what could replace him when he goes.

Rising fuel costs hit London's air ambulance: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday to #Bono. Born Paul David Hewson on 10 May 1960 in Dublin. #U2

10 May 2002: FBI agent Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling US secrets to Russia. #History #USA

10 May 1994: Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa. #History #SouthAfrica #NelsonMandela

10 May 1962: #Marvel Comics published the first issue of The Incredible #Hulk in the USA. #History #IncredibleHulk

10 May 1959: Three-times World Champion, Jack Brabham, won his first Grand Prix in #Monaco. #F1 #History