There are some events in #WinterOlympics where the commentators really aid understanding. And then there’s #BigAir where it’s just a total word salad between two people as if no one else is watching or listening …🤔🙄

Stunning interview on the #Mandelson scandal by Gordon Brown on #BBCR4 forensic, incisive and clear on actions needed by the PM. 👏👏👍

A UN Convention will help us to act, advocate and empower. For this #GlobalRally I write about why a convention for older people matters to #socialwork @basw-uk.bsky.social @researchip.bsky.social @ageinternational.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3nnzsfwz

#OurManInMoscow excellent insightful profile of the consummate broadcaster @bbcstever.bsky.social such a calm, measured, gentle and insightful journalist.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A sad farewell today to #JimThomas @skillsforcare.bsky.social @longhouseman.bsky.social but a wonderful celebration of a life well lived. 💕

Lovely #OtherLives tribute to the late Jim Thomas @longhouseman.bsky.social by Zak. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Finally some good news! #ErasmusReturns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So delighted to be a #NeoDonor #GiveBlood #NHS

Woman on #FrontRow #BBCR4 just said “…and I’m not a Paddington fan”. What?! Has she no soul?!

Since when were diagnosis rates in mental health a matter for political intervention? 🤔https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8q26q2r75o

Great to be part of this discussion; lots more debate needed on where age and ageism fit in #socialcarereform #CaseyCommission

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Big shout out to the #AA for rescuing me off the M1 yesterday. Great service, thank you.

‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report

David Lamy’s plans for dealing with backlog in courts: Get rid of jury trials? Worrying implications for due process and huge power vested in single judge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ladymissbarton.bsky.social the wonderful #LegendTheBruceSpringsteenStory series discussed on #BBCR4 #Feedback today 👍👏

@evanhd.bsky.social Wallabies? #BBCR4PM yes - feral populations in South Northants and Buckinghamshire. 👍

And this: “In one area – adult social care – the researchers found that government action in the previous year had made things worse.”

How did it come to be such a dire situation for Labour? Excellent - but depressing - analysis here 👇

As someone who regularly watches and waves to #ISS I’ve loved watching #OnceUponATimeInSpace I hadn’t expected to be so moved by it. “Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.”

@ladymissbarton.bsky.social what a treat the #Legends series on #brucespringsteen has been. Warm, insightful, revealing and hopeful. So important to have a good companion for this part of the ride www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Amol Rajan opines “what a place to be as a country” commenting on economic policy #Today #Radio4. Really? Politically neutral?

#BettyBrown @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 93 year old victim of #PostOfficeScandal finally getting compensation. What dignity, courage and determination. 👏”no more shenanigans.”

What? #Today #BBCradio4 interrupts the Chancellor’s speech live from Downing Street for commentary??!

@allaboutthearchers.bsky.social conversation about #BringMeSunshine for a funeral stopped me in my tracks - that was my Dad’s final farewell music 🙁🥲

The #NukedBloodScandal is one of the greatest injustices of our time. These national heroes deserve justice and compensation

Excellent Long View of History from international editor #JeremyBowen #Today BBCR4. He has seen this through the years and understands the complexity more than most #IsraelGaza

Excellent Long View of History from international editor #JeremyBowen #Today BBCR4. He has seen this through the years and understands the complexity more than most #IsraelGaza

Extraordinary and wonderful to hear the fabulous voice of Richard Burton from 1984 interview with Richard Turnbull #WATO

Well, this promises to be marvellous! #Springsteen @ladymissbarton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Stunning oratory from #SirMaxHastings on why he will be on the streets tomorrow protesting against #TrumpVisit. This is what speaking truth to power sounds like listen from 17.50 @evanhd.bsky.social 👍👏 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Oh, I’m very sad to hear this #RobertRedford RIP www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

A joy to listen to #WhereTheDistanceShimmers A Eulogy to Route 66, poetic, lyrical, nostalgic @ladymissbarton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Loving #BohemianRhapsody at #LastNightIfTheProms How has it taken this long??!

Universities merger - the shape of things to come? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Who do they think they are?!" A furious @andyburnham.bsky.social on the news that a Reform UK government would scrap plans to build Northern Powerhouse Rail.

@channel4tv.bsky.social “less adverts, more bake off.” Nice idea …but that’s ’fewer adverts’. Thank you 🙄😉👍

#LordChrisPatten pulling no punches on #Wato commenting on China etc and highlighting the totalitarian and sociopathic nature of Trump. This is a man who understands diplomacy and the lack of it currently being displayed by the USA. Dangerous times.

Utterly deluded. “President of Europe”??!!

Anna Foster #Today #BBCR4 interviewing someone from Reform about refugee situation. Can’t follow any argument - continual interrupting. Pointless.

Well this is significant. Water shortages leading to lock closures on Grand Union Canal #CanalAndRiverTrust www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#VJDay80 #Kohima 80 years on from the surrender in Japan, the badge of the 14th Forgotten Army given to my 16 year old Mum in India by a returning soldier.

Blue skies smiling at me…

80% of local unpaid carer services see rising unmet need. To help overcome this, through the Department of Health and Social Care’s Accelerating Reform Fund, SCIE is helping areas innovate — like Worcestershire’s project guiding unpaid carers through hospital discharge.

#MrBlueSky #Summer

Houston, we have a problem. #JimLovell dies at 97 #Apollo13. RIP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#GordonBrown on #Today BBCR4 - a magnificent reminder of what a grown up, principled and passionate politician can be like. And how rare that is these days.

I always enjoy @timdowling.bsky.social #OnModernLife - warm, self-deprecating, witty. But when you write about life, love and loss of fathers and in-laws, it is a gift. Thank you. 🥲 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Challenging #Ageism and internalised limiting beliefs about older women. Inspirational stories @bsgageismsig.bsky.social @helenaherklots.bsky.social @janeminter.bsky.social