Thinking with a purpose; put dignity at the heart of every decision to disrupt routine acknowledgement of poverty  | Sean Harris

"Only one of the infections involved a fully vaccinated person."

⚡️'We want the end of the war — not the end of Ukraine,' Zelensky says in New Year address. "A Budapest-style piece of paper will not satisfy Ukraine. Ukraine does not need a Minsk-style meticulously drafted trap. My signature will be under a strong agreement," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

At times we see the danger but we don't perceive it as such. Maybe we refuse to or misinterpret it. Maybe our life experience tells us it's implausible or others with good/ill intent tell us not to worry. We deny the facts until we can do so no longer & sometimes beyond. #GoodMorning, everyone

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

Russia is the aggressor. Russia attacked Ukraine. Russia wants Ukraine to capitulate. Ukraine has always wanted peace. Ukraine has accepted all ceasefire proposals, unlike Russia.

As a retired teacher, the thing that shocked me re Farage's school exploits was the fact that as a young man of 17 he went out of his way to find and bully a 9-YEAR-OLD. During my entire professional career, dealing with many behavioural issues, I never found a 17 year old who would sink that low.

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority" edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

Merry Christmas. Peace is a privilege not everyone has today. Don’t forget Ukraine. Stand with Ukraine.

Multiple envoys selected by Putin meet in warm American city to discuss future of Ukraine

Christmas in Ukraine 🎄🎄🎄

Christmas Day sunset on Hergest Ridge #Herefordshire

Pope Leo says that he feels “much sadness” that Russia did not agree to a Christmas ceasefire.

Lone tree at Bridgwater Services. Merry Christmas

In Zaragoza, Spain, the sculpture La Mujer Que Nunca Hizo Nada (The Woman Who Never Did Anything) pays tribute to the often overlooked, unpaid work of women at home that keeps families & societies functioning. Xmas is one of their busiest times #GoodMorning, everyone Art: José Luis Fernández (2001)

The parallels betw the Watergate & Epstein affairs have been staggering from the start. So it's no surprise they have to be forced to release the files & then do so only drip by drip. The lesson from history: Keep up the pressure. It took 2 yrs for Nixon to resign. He, too, hoped it would go away.

The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up. Who saw that coming? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The cover up always incriminates you as much as the crime

I speak as a commercial rival who stands to make lots of money if it disappears. But more importantly I speak as a patriot and believer in the BBC’s ethos, mission and impact.

Venezuela is also not in North America.

Found this promise from 2024 ... Is anyone keeping count of how many water company executives are now in jail? @weownit.org.uk @feargalsharkey.bsky.social

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

@hannahcfrench.bsky.social Hi Hannah - enjoying your show, and great to hear the organ at Notre Dame! But that wasn't Bach's BWV 617, it was BWV 615 (In dir ist Freude - In thee is joy) with a carillon of bells played by the organist's feet, literally ringing in the new year. Bach was so inventive

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Scorpion vows no more stinging if frog treats him with respect.

It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.

A vote for a populist/ far right party in Europe is a vote for Putin

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have many things in common--but historically one thing will tie them together more than any other. They have both done more to weaken their own countries than any two US or Russian leaders for a century (if not longer).

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-sha...

🇩🇪 Merz: Russia is already attacking us every day — with drone overflights, assassinations, sabotage, espionage, cyberattacks, and targeted disinformation. We must not stand by and watch as the world is reordered. We are not a pawn of great powers.

Rejoining Erasmus is unambiguously good news - and a rare example of a policy that particularly benefits the young. And no, it is a not a "betrayal" of Brexit. It's the kind of sensible, grown-up arrangement between the UK & the EU that many Brexiters said they wanted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope other researchers will share their NCAR stories. Their team is unbelievably dedicated and supports so many people with so many different jobs in the U.S. Their data is a key piece of how we know what climate change is and what it's doing.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

The loss of parasites threatens ecosystem connectivity and could completely throw food webs into chaos. Climate change is doing so many things to ecosystems that we barely understand. www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/s...

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I kind of wish this wasn’t still so relevant…

I'm glad to have supported this petition. Perhaps we can make a difference, at times

HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.

Correction “there has no been no proper inquiry into foreign interference into previous elections and referdums” but plenty of evidence (DCMS/ISC) it wa attempted

This is not a sign that Ukraine is winning the land war, but its an important sign that the doom laden narrative (ukraine has "no cards" Ukraine will collapse) is wrong. Watch out, this narrative is being used to try and convince Europeans that Ukraine must take a terrible deal.