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....couple of our dahlias from this week, Edinburgh & Lucky Number 🌹💐🪻🌷 #GardenersWorld

No 10 is *not disputing* extraordinary claim in @spectator that Rachel Reeves is blocking defence funding because of the MoD’s poor record on ‘gender parity’ issues. Asked twice, the PM’s spokesman declines to comment on ‘speculation’…

"In Baghdad, every corner is like a thousand-year-old story waiting to be told." 🇮🇶 Agatha Christie enjoying tea on the balcony of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Baghdad, 1950s

A German General and a young Soviet boy who took him prisoner, Berlin, 1945.

International Energy Agency chief says that Europe has 'maybe six weeks' of jet fuel left, says current shock is 'the largest energy crisis we have ever faced', according to AP report.

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

'... it wasn’t principally the parents’ fault: it was really the fault of the British state and the ideological agenda under which it went about its business. It was the lethality of wokeness, or progressivism, writ large, in letters of blood' writes Rod Liddle. spectator.com/article/what-w…

🚨 NEW: Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander's car had to be towed last month after hitting a pothole in Oxfordshire [@martinabettt]

People have no idea how broken Britain is. If an asylum claim is refused officials send a letter saying “You should now leave the UK.” That’s it. No follow up. No deportation. How many asylum seekers leave do you think?

Lucy Letby: The Blocked Workplace Grievance. A look at decision by the trial judge to block the fact LL had a grievance decided in her favour but more importantly he blocked all the information from grievance investigation interviews. youtube.com/watch?v=qMzvgk…

Giving £752 million for military equipment to Ukraine but demanding an “efficiency squeeze” of £3.5 billion to the British military is not exactly the way to win the hearts and minds of the British public.

One in five teenagers in the UK do not share their political views due to a fear of being "cancelled", according to a new report. 🔗 Read more trib.al/1JtiQ3d

I can find no video evidence of Charles Laughton doing a dramatic reading of the New York City phone book (which apparently is a real thing) but here he is on live television taking the challenge of reading a tax form and trying to make it entertaining he does

A selfie taken by Tsar Nicholas II

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russian Security Council warns US negotiations with Iran may be a cover to prepare for a ground invasion.

Footage from 1967, a woman shares her 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath home in London, paying about €54 a week. Today, that same place would likely cost $3,000–$5,000+ a month

The Day's End - Albert Goodwin

That is an eye-watering amount of money. Four years into the war, is it not reasonable to question whether our government should be committing such sums to the cause - especially given the state of our own economy - and also whether there shouldn't be a greater push to secure a peace settlement?

ahh to be a fat bear floating down a river

Latest from Trumpworld. What an utter shambles. The man has lost control and doesn't know what he is doing from one moment to the next.

QUENTIN LETTS: Purple-faced, eyes blazing, Starmer let rip at Sir Lindsay - then whacked his fist on the side of Mr Speaker's throne trib.al/cqIvayN