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Still banging on about the book at festivals everywhere - do get it to keep elderly relatives quiet over summer - plus thanks to ⁦@MatthewStadlen⁩ for this interview and there were people there, honest 😉

This is an extraordinary story: deserves much wider coverage but won’t get it

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I had two body guards, the Met Police and campus security in order to give a talk on women’s rights and free speech at University College London.

What on earth were they thinking? 'just be kind,' perhaps? One for #Americast once we've dealt with current events ...

@icod Holding hands in public after the age of 16.

Chatting on Instagram about things (in addition to eating in the street) that my mum thought were "common" Here's the additions

@cramponpoint Pygmies in comparison even the scrum half 🥊

That's a big statement. Take a look at the French team.

Finn Russell is the best player in the world. Thank you for your attention to this matter

this is going to be good if depressing

@Freddygray31 @DanielDiMartino Beautifully understated goodbye: "the world's ending so we have to go. But thanks etc .."

While discussing the instability of the regime in Venezuela for a podcast with @DanielDiMartino we had to evacuate the London office on police orders …

@bythewatersedge @BBCr4today 🙀

Dear me, @JustinOnWeb. Not knowing Morph?!? I fear this could rapidly escalate into a resigning matter. Are you honestly arguing that this was not your plasti-scene? @BBCr4today

The President & the Polka 1pm @BBCRadio3 @JustinOnWeb explores the relationship between classical music and American political history. Today: Selling the American Dream - music in the service of Cold War influence. Producer Megan Jones #Bernstein bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Our guinea pig was born under Theresa May and has seen 5 prime ministers in her lifetime. Will she live to see a 6th?

@richardquest @afneil @British_Airways You fly commercial Richard ?🙀

@afneil @British_Airways Yup Andrew. Same here. It just became too difficult to keep Gold with the new tier levels. My travels haven’t gone down, they moved the goal posts. BUT Not sure BA are bothered at least they don’t seem to be.

A case study in how @British_Airways, by setting impossibly high tier point hurdles, is going to lose a lot of money/big paying customers. Planning my next trip to NYC in Spring. Normally I’d do business Nice-London on BA, return first class London-NYC-London and business London-Nice, fitting in a few working days in London there and back. All up the fares would come to around £5,000 for flights in second half of April. A lot of money — especially since it comes out of my pocket. Nobody picks up my expenses. But at my age I like to travel in comfort. And I like the BA crews. However now that the tier point hurdle is too high for renewing guest list status for all but perpetual travellers, why bother planning a schedule round BA flights? I’ve booked Nice-NYC-Nice first class return on Delta for just over €3,000. No brainer, really. Direct flight, almost half the price. And @British_Airways will lose £5,000. Plus much more if this now becomes my regular NYC schedule. I can’t tell you the number of people I know now doing similar flight schedule planning which simply removes BA from the planning, when it used to be at the centre. And, yes, I know it’s most definitely a first-world problem! But BA makes most of its money from passengers flying first/business. With fewer of us the fares of premium/economy passengers will rise. Well done @British_Airways. How to stuff loyal, high-paying customers of longstanding for no good reason whatsoever. Hi @Delta. Thanks for reserving me seat 1A both ways! Can’t wait.

Music Matters: The President and the Polka 1pm @BBCRadio3 with @JustinOnWeb Today, the musical melting pot, and the influence of immigrants and emigrés, who brought with them new ideas that would help shape the sound of American music bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

- great privilege for me to do this: more to life than news 🤠

This is outstanding 🥊

@richardquest @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney No chopper Richard? #disappointing

I am on the train heading back from. #Davos2026 reading @CanadianPM speech. It will go down as one of the great speeches that changed thinking. @MarkJCarney calls out the emperors new clothes. It is well worth reading in full weforum.org/stories/2026/0…

@NickBryantNY 🧐

Coming soon on Substack - feels timely @nickbryant454396?r=17l32x&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@nickbryant454…

@janetpontin @mara_yamauchi @FondOfBeetles Yes - we regularly cover this and will continue to

@JustinOnWeb Just wondering if BBC's Americast might cover pivotal current US Supreme Court case on saving women's sport from male 'competitors'? Because nowhere else in BBC seems to know it's happening. @mara_yamauchi @FondOfBeetles two great sources for you if Sarah is busy...

The @BBCRadio3 American Roadtrip continues today with @PetrocTrelawny broadcasting live from Philadelphia at 9am. And at 1pm, @JustinOnWeb explores the surprising links between classical music and US politics in our new Music Matters series, The President and the Polka.