Peter Walters

“Good. I'm glad he's dead”, Trump on the death of Robert Mueller, who volunteered for Vietnam when his blue blood family connections could have got him a deferment, won a Bronze Star for valor, and a Purple Heart and who served F.B.I. director in the immediate aftermath of 911.

@afneil @adamboultonTABB And you went to war ‘to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb’ even though Trump says you’d already done so last year - having had ‘the great honour to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability’

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

Happy Mothers' Day! This is by Alice Neel. 1967. I don't need to tell you how emotionally complex it is. But even thought there's trepidation in the mum's eyes, and fierce puzzlement in the baby, look how firmly they cling together and form a mum and baby unit. Love, love, love.

Thank you. She was also a great war artist. I love this : Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring (1943) Laura Knight

@ITVRugby @topsy_ojo Why do commentators feel obliged to ‘apologise for the language’ ? a. It’s not their fault b. Nobody really cares - it’s just normal c. Half the time I never heard it in the first place

"We've not performed at the level we expect of ourselves" 👀 "We'll ensure that tonight we put in a performance to be proud of" 👊 Steve Borthwick speaks to @topsy_ojo ahead of England's clash against France 🗣️

Just watched terrific #twiggy documentary at @CurzonCinemas Mayfair followed by Q and A with Director Sadie Frost and Twiggy herself, who is wonderful. Great film

Thank god for @PrivateEyeNews

Okay. Who did this?

Bansky 👇

Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec By Edouard Vuillard 1897

The Fighting Temeraire. 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Just to be clear, KCTMO was technically an ALMO, but in reality was not. Genuine ALMOs are almost universally high performing, highly regarded, excellent social housing providers. They topped the rankings in this year’s tenant satisfaction measures tables.

What a great writer. The ideal combination of ideas, challenge, plot and laugh out loud humour. I loved his novels - literary fiction at its unpretentious, easy going, but acutely rapier-like best. I hope another generation discovers the joyous pleasure of reading these novels

I’ve been at #Lord’s today for a lunch (thank you caterers and delightful staff) and looked around the Pavilion. I hadn’t realised they have charming original Lowrys… ‘A Cricket Match’ 1952

@JohnRentoul I’m glad you mention Labour’s appalling cynical failure to support May’s soft Brexit. It led directly to the nuts ‘deal’ we eventually got - and they knew the consequences. So now they start rowing back, miles downstream, boats against the current. It needn’t have been like this

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Hi everyone. I'm now on @bluesky social along with rapidly increasing millions of others as an alternative to Twitter. I hope my followers here follow me on there - its the same handle @peterwalt7. See you soon I hope

I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions. Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent. I'm not saying Trump's win was down to the gender stuff - I'm not an American voter, so can't judge. In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they've embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly (although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn't, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.) What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces. Parents are angry at being demonised because they don't want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit. People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that's having severe real world consequences. Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink. Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters. And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male. So to those screaming 'bigot' and 'fascist' at me, you should know two things. Firstly, I'm completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I'd have thought you'd have realised by now. Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.

@BBCRadio3 @edibow @AFRODEUTSCHE_AD I love the music - but wish the presenters could be just less soporific? There’s a sort of whispering earnest Dignitas bedside manner to it which really jars. The usual Radio 3 presenter vibe is fine - sensible, sober, and mildly upbeat - please drop the eyes-wide hushed syrup

Introducing BBC Radio 3 Unwind. BBC Radio 3 Unwind is a new 24/7 stream on BBC Sounds showcasing a broad and eclectic range of calming classical music. Set yourself up for the day with Classical Unwind hosted by Dr Sian Williams, join us for a musical journey into Cinematic Soundtracks with Edith Bowman, ease into the evening with Niall Breslin and Classical Wind Down, and discover enticing new music with Afrodeutsche and Soundwaves.