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Good morning ☺️ My favourite garden at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the Bat Conservation Trust's nocturnal garden 🥳 It was a joy to bump into @tomallencomedy who shared that he has bats in his garden! - And he was kind enough to name a couple of them for us 😆 Excellent garden design by Melanie Hick and Tach Pollard's bat sculpture is superb 👏 I had really strong batman-becomes-a-florist vibes whilst there 🦇 🪻and pictured the bat coming to life, wrapping its wings around me and taking off into the sky, so animated it at 1m 23s 😄 A shoutout to one of my favourite artisanal chocolatiers, Annabel's Patisserie. For Easter she had her seasonal Eggly selection, six individual flavoured chocolate eggs, and we decided to pair each flavour with a different garden/display 😋 Bats, flowers, a comedian and chocolate, #RHSChelsea a great day out 🤩

Good morning, trees behind the fence to brighten your day ☺️ Have a good Sunday 🙏

@POCX100 😅😁

@implausibleblog Canapés? You lefty.

A boat full of canapes after today's floral demo at Lily & Myrtle's Flower School 😋

@immabeahippo Fab views!

Spent Saturday up a big mountain

@juliet_turner6 Glorious! Was photographing poppies earlier today as well, though it seems you have more birdsong 👏

Just in case you wondered, this is the beauty of an organic crop field 🌾

Florist Mariusz Cwik demonstrating the art of Ikebana at the Lily & Myrtle Flower School ☺️🎉

@Kimberleydaph Fab dress 👏

Gym in the morning and Dishoom in Covent Garden for a friend date at 3pm for a curry in the sun (I’m late) 🌸 feel very Zimmerman! Like my dress? 💕

Popped into the Lily & Myrtle Flower School to watch florist Mariusz Cwik deliver a fantastic introduction to the flower arranging art of Ikebana - simply glorious 👏☺️🎉 A perfect Saturday 😎

@OzymandiusUK Agreed, this was horrific, and should deserve a harsh prison term

@implausibleblog And here is one of the group using a sledgehammer to break the back of a policewoman. He could have murdered her

Only Labour can be led by a former Human Right's Lawyer, Keir Starmer, and be ok with people not convicted of terrorism offences, being sentenced as though their actions were terrorism-related Criminal damage and attacking the police are serious wrongs that deserve firm punishment. But deliberately conflating them with terrorism sets a dangerous precedent When the state blurs the line between thuggish disorder and terrorism, it undermines public trust, invites accusations of two-tier justice, and weakens the very safeguards the former human rights barrister once championed This is the legacy of Keir Starmer, who leads the party, of Yvette Cooper, whose proscription of a protest group was ruled unlawful by the High Court, and Shabana Mahmood, who continues this divisive narrative I'm very much aligned to the views expressed by Baron Hain in the House of Lords, rightly calling out criminal behaviour while criticising this conflation. His words are true now, as they were back then. And like him, I too am deeply ashamed, "Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza" "I've never supported their activity, but there's a great difference between what they did and terrorism" "And if you start labelling people willy nilly terrorists right across the board, you're going down a very dangerous route" "Al Qaeda's attack on New Yorks twin towers killing 2,753 people - real terrorism" "ISIS - real terrorism" "This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong" "Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"

@RespectIsVital @PeaChannon Starmer's Labour more authoritarian than the Conservatives

You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence. Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone. Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied. So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.

Starmer had one core job To address fake news, online bots, print/TV misinformation, and clean up the political landscape so the foundations of our democracy can be strengthened He's failed, dramatically Until a political leader does this, division, often based on misinformation, will contiyti divide and weaken social cohesion What a disaster and failure @UKLabour has been under Starmer

Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and @Keir_Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting. QWHITE revealing!

Keir Starmer, "I will fight (any leadership challenge" "It's not about personal vanity" "It's not about stubbornness" "It's about the very deep sense of duty" "I was elected to serve this country"

BBC Newsnight dig up two interviews from their archive with David Hockney, RIP 🙏 The second one in 2015 in which he says, "I'm going to die soon. Who's to know how"

@WiltshireLad85 💯

@implausibleblog She could just as easily be talking about Johnson or Sunak there.

Pat in Makerfield who voted Labour in 2024 on Keir Starmer "I can't stand him" "He tells lies" "He made promises to get to that position and he just backtracks" "He doesn't apologise" "And if something goes wrong, it's always somebody else's fault, it's never his"

BBC News, "Elon Musk has become the world's first-ever trillionaire" "After the company he founded SpaceX, saw its value soar when it sold shares to the public for the first time" "Tonight the company is now valued at $2 trillion"

ITV News report that Israel is doing in Southern Lebanon what it was doing in Gaza

@AndyMcDonaldMP That's barely 15% of MPs

Almost 100 MPs and Peers are urging Ministers to prevent the 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' taking place in London this weekend. The govt has an opportunity to uphold obligations under international law and take action against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

In light of Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire Zack Polanski, "How hopeful are you that we can move to wealth taxes around the world?" Gabriel Zucman, "Sometimes there's a temptation to think it's too late, that the power of oligarchic forces is too extreme. The ownership of the media. That we can't do anything. That we're kind of stuck" "I don't view it that way" "The question is whether it's a matter of months or a matter of years" "Which country is going to be the one starting the movement, leading by example?" "I count on you. I count on the UK"