Rob Shergold🇺🇦

@SimonCalder I’ve travelled to the US 20+ times since early 90s. There is still plenty more I’d like to see. But I refuse to let the ‘land of free speech’ poke around my socials looking for something it doesn’t like. And I won’t risk my safety in a country which doesn’t welcome foreigners.

For the 80% who say they wouldn’t go to the US, I want to understand the main reason for saying so. Are you boycotting due to recent political events? Worried about personal safety? Alarmed about social media screening on arrival? Or you're just not interested in going to the US?

Thanks to all 12,000 who voted on their attitude to travelling to the US. Four out of five chose "I would not travel there".

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7376…

Freddie is looking down and giving y'all a standing ovation. That's spectacular!😍💗 The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!! With 30 musicians and singers in the STREET of Paris 😍 Cre : Julien Cohen Pianist

Bought a MacBook Pro from @backmarket uk. Arrived today. Really happy. And then I spotted there was something odd about the keyboard. Rather more ‘A’s and umlauts than I need. I checked the item listing. It definitely say ‘QWERTY - English and yet here I am with a Finnish laptop.

I just want to send a note of support to my behind the scenes colleagues and friends at @GMB and @thismorning, and across ITV daytime. Many, including scores of hardworking, dedicated, talented, production staff, and studio and other crew, (as has widely been reported) are being told their roles are at risk of redundancy and that they will have to compete for similar positions. It's a very difficult time, and I want to send a public note of appreciation for everything they do and have done (as I'm not due in the building for a while to see people in person - and even when there its only a fraction). And I think its important to be clear, in public, that this is primarily a function of the decline in linear television - and not a reflection on the quality of the work. TV ratings (and thus for ITV, show revenue) keep dropping by, say, 10% year on year as more people switch to streaming and other online eyeball competition. That then leads to cost cutting, and job losses. Not that understanding the rational makes it easier, for anyone facing this life challenge. Good vibes to all.

Something really hit me today 5 years ago, this was the last normal week of our lives

#uksnowmap 3/10

Michael Bond: “One day in 1966 the phone rang. It was Doreen Stephens, the then Head of BBC Children’s Television. They were thinking of revamping Watch With Mother and did I have any ideas?” 1/

This certainly tells a tragic tale.

every word

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

The UK immediately needs to: - Increase defence spending rapidly (rather than shrinking its army) - Focus its military strategy on deterring Russian aggression in Europe (rather than confronting ‘global threats’) - Work with European allies to defend Europe under a NATO that doesn’t have US support (rather than assuming that America guarantees European security). Anything less would be a government dereliction of duty.

This reads like something from the Letters page of @vizcomic

End of a long week. #ThisMorning #Peston #BBCNews #NFTS

Jesus, this advert hits hard.

"Digital natives"