Clare Emsley

@British_Airways as usual can’t get through. You’ve cancelled my flight which I rebooked online but hotel dates still incorrect. Can someone please help. Holiday line isn’t taking calls. Seriously?

Thoughts from the US "In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

Holy smokes. The Mail, a staunchly RIGHT-WING newspaper in the UK, slammed”‘bully” Trump and called for his state visit to be cancelled. Trump is now the laughingstock of the entire world.

And while Zelensky fights for Ukraines very existence Trump is off golfing and Vance is in the ski slopes. I know who I admire.

@DeborahMeaden thank you for investing in Omni. I ordered some after last week’s show for my fussy shi tsu. She loves it!

@British_Airways is there an issue with the app and website booking holidays? Been trying all day

@British_Airways complaint outstanding for over 3 months. Not even an acknowledgement. Raised another one this weekend. When checking saw the first one is still in a queue. Some queue!

@British_Airways how long do you take to respond?

Why are these people not arrested?

@johnlewis shocking practice. Where is my refund? Your customer service standards have fallen

@hoburneholidays please explain the extortionate increase to my site fees this year. How is 15% in line with inflation?

@British_Airways why can’t I book flights online with Avios and my companion voucher?

@pandocruises I have contacted you several times now and still heard nothing. I’ll left my keys in the safe and the person in the cabin after me handed them into reception. I still don’t have them. Please send them. Happy to pay the postage.

Extraordinary. And not in a good way

1000s of words have been said in reply to Lineker. It interests me that hardly anyone has looked closely at what terms and phrases were being used in Germany in the 1930s to see if they match (or not) what's said today by Ms Braverman. I offered a list, meant only as a starter.

Holocaust survivor says language used by #Braverman to describe immigrants is "very, very similar" to that used in Nazi Germany against Jewish people. #AsylumSeekers #IStandWithGary #LinekerGate #ToriesOut249 #GeneralElectionNow news.sky.com/story/holocaus…

So @garylineker has been made to 'step down' BUT BBC Chairman Richard Sharp who didn't tell the appointments committee that he had helped arrange a £800k loan for Johnson. Sharp has TWO investigations into his actions ongoing. Why hasn't HE stepped down? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

The fact that the BBC have suspended @GaryLineker for having an opinion illustrates what a scared institution it is. The word refugee has become an insult. The fact that a good goalscorer can't speak about it is and threatens the political structure shows how fragile it all is .

Gary Lineker’s son, George, speaking in today’s Mirror 👇