Same faces. Different lives. Ukrainian defenders are sharing “before and after” photos—who they were before russia’s invasion, and who they had to become to protect home. Behind every uniform is a job left behind, a family, a normal life put on pause. This is what resilience looks like.

🚨 BOT ALERT 🚨 After analysing Reform UK traffic on X, something doesn’t add up. Out of 3,000 accounts pushing Reform content, only around 470 show clear signs of real human activity. The rest? Repetitive posts. Same wording. Same timing. Classic automation behaviour.

Pity the media in U.K. ( Mason, LK, Rigby , Channel 4 .. Guardian etc ) , the opposition parties and the FEW Labour MPs making their own naked ambition to remove Starmer so clear , aren’t as reasoned and straightforward! She shames them all !!

still one of the most incredible videos of all time. wellness influencers doing woo encountering an indigenous shaman in the jungles of ecuador and he's like "I need your medicine, the tiger balm" and the guy is just like "no you need to get fucking penicillin moron" www.youtube.com/shorts/ecOsp...

Come on. £40bn is ludicrous. The Notre Dame restoration was less than 1bn. Most Olympics cost less. This is a glorified office and debating chamber. It’s not far off the entire defence budget.

When sprinkles are submerged in liquid nitrogen, they rapidly cool to −196 °C, causing the trapped moisture and air inside them to contract and the sugar structure to become brittle. cen.acs.org/education/Ch... #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

It's great that Guy Martin is doing this, he has a lot of followers that are normally interested in stuff that burns fuels and goes fast.

Have you heard the story of the actual kids that Lord of the Flies was based on? Lovely bunch who in reality looked after each other. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

Demand for UK rental properties drops as buying becomes more affordable - www.ft.com/content/1372... good news for inflation?

This Katy Balls interview with PM, conducted before latest revelations, is quite something. He says of Epstein: “Perhaps he wanted to be a mentor and I was naive in regarding him as a good-faith actor. There was no reason to shun his advice, but I was too trusting.” www.thetimes.com/article/22e6...

We all knew it was the case, but it's still shocking to see it written down like this

Well well well. Looks like they were correct. They just lied about who it was.

Having analyzed this frame by frame like the Zapruder film my verdict is the president did indeed have an Unidentified Ass Event at 0:34

The gravy train has reached the end of the line.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 30% (-3) LAB: 22% (+4) CON: 19% (+3) GRN: 12% (-3) LDM: 12% (=) Via Ipsos in the UK, 22-27 Jan. Changes w/ 30 Oct - 5 Nov.

The fact peers ideologically or religiously opposed to the #AssistedDyingBill have made it almost impossible for it to pass should be recognised as a national tragedy and a crisis for our democracy. Time matters to terminally ill people. It should for the Lords too. observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

I dealt with him in Brussels. He was the smartest and most impressive of the European Commissioners at that time, and cut through a difficult trade law case we were handling to get a swift and correct outcome. You could see why people prized his abilities.

OTD in 2002 Ukraine dismantled its final Tu-160, supersonic heavy bomber. Having given up nukes, long range ability to threaten Russia and the entire firing chain, Ukraine was subsequently rewarded with invasion, concern and thoughts & prayers.

UK Politics 90 per cent of Reform supporting comments on social media are bots Exclusive: Analysis of 649 pro-Reform UK comments in 2025 on social media found that 65 were from real people, while the rest were fake bot accounts used to make their support appear higher than it actually is.

The Rafah crossing has reopened - but only barely. Despite 20,000 sick Palestinians waiting to leave Gaza for medical treatment, only around 50 will be permitted to leave each day. No aid will be allowed through to Gaza. No foreign journalists will be allowed in either.

Who leaked this Number 10 discussion to Jeffrey Epstein? And are there consequences for the leaker? It’s an internal discussion re. getting markets moving in the aftermath of the financial crisis. No doubt of great interest to Epstein and his financial market clients.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 30% (-3) LAB: 22% (+4) CON: 19% (+3) GRN: 12% (-3) LDM: 12% (=) Via @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, 22-27 Jan. Changes w/ 30 Oct - 5 Nov.

Organisations and experts concerned about the impacts of palm oil DON'T support a blanket boycott of palm oil. Far better to demand #DeforestationFree #Sustainable #PalmOil. Choose #SUSTAINABLE #PalmOil & Save #Orangutans! www.orangutanlandtrust.com/palm-oil#sta...

During my civil service days nearly 20 years ago one comms veteran asked us 20-somethings which was the most trustworthy newspaper. None of us were right with our replies. “The Financial Times - Money does not lie to itself” 😄

I remember being told in all seriousness, "never trust a man that disnae drink".

What an odd day. I decided to go over to discover and this is the 4th post of this nature that's landed on my timeline. It feels a bit like sitting in a bus station and being accosted by a perv. Not great.

The director of Melania movie

Pleas to release him so he could bury his son were denied by ICE, with the family's lawyer condemning the "lack of humanity."

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

Now that Epstein is bag in the news and given that Stephen Hawking is in the files (and since he’s dead so he can’t sue) I can tell my Stephen Hawking story. In about 1996 I went to visit a friend who lived just outside Cambridge, let’s call her Lizzie (because that was her name 😃). We drove to

Anne Pricklover Spouse England Marriages, 1538–1973

'Members of the Scottish Green Party who signed a declaration saying sex is a biological reality have been barred from returning to the party for failing to maintain “political discipline”.' How can anyone vote Green with this scientific denial going on? Nutters. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

A surge in US military air activity across Europe and the Middle East is underway alongside rising tensions with Iran, with open-source tracking showing increased tanker, transport, and support aircraft movements over recent days. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/massive-us-a...

Starmer vows to take Britain deeper into EU single market: www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Watched Goldfinger today. I also discovered that two members of the cast later appeared in Last of the Summer Wine

Would you like Ukraine to become a member of NATO? Retweet = Yes Silence = No

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

Good piece here from @staylorish.bsky.social on the millions the SNP Scottish Government is spending to issue bonds that won’t increase borrowing capacity by a single penny. More taxpayer money spent on Nationalist posturing. 👇 spectator.com/article/scot...

I voted Green whilst Caroline Lucas was leader - they offered a thoughtful & often welcome alternative to Corbyn & Johnson. Now I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. Bring back Caroline Lucas.

Matt Goodwin is mass deleting tweets.

Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?

REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead. You'd honestly think this was newsworthy. But apparently not.

This *sounds* exactly like you'd expect. And is no less magnificent for that.

She batters him. Good on her.