Robert Weir

📸 Marco Rubio wearing oversized shoes that Trump ordered for him by just guessing his size. Trump has been buying $145 Florsheim dress shoes for allies, using the gifts as a lighthearted way to encourage loyalty and unity within his circle. Source: The Times

The Iranian women's football team were labeled "war-time traitors" by the regime's state TV after refusing to sing its anthem at the Asian women's cup in Australia The Australian government was urged to allow them temporary refuge due to the grave threat of returning to Iran. It seems like that didn't happen. Here they are on the bus headed back to Iran flashing SOS hand signs through the window. This actually makes me cry.

Strange. I could have sworn that a mysoginistic, repressive, theocratic Islamist regime that’d been waging a regional war for years and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens was a teeny weeny bit rogue?

The ongoing building safety/service charge, which has ruined the lives of millions, continues to be one of the great political scandals of our time. It remains astonishing how many young people and families continue to be left in limbo and face crippling costs. If this (largely) affected pensioners, we’d talk of little else.

Because of the Falklands, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories, the United Kingdom is responsible for 25% of the world's penguins. This is evident in their behaviour.

‘If you tax people who work and pay people who don’t work, don’t be surprised if you have a lot of people not working’ In today’s episode, @CamillaTominey and @timothy_stanley speak to renowned American economist and author Arthur Laffer who explains why high taxes hinder economic growth 👇 Let us know your thoughts below 🎧 Listen now linktr.ee/thedailytpodca…

Sue Everard, the mother of Sarah Everard, has described how she is still ‘still full of rage’ over the horrors of her daughter’s final hours. Read her full emotional statement here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/0…

Man delivering line that he’s been practising all week at dinner party

Is freezing thresholds yet again putting up income taxes on working people? Of course it is.

Real Madrid take the lead at Meadow Park, and it just had to be her... 👀 Caroline Weir haunts her former club with a sweetly-struck volley 😮‍💨 📻 Second half coming up on @BBCSounds HT: 🔴 Arsenal 0-1 Real Madrid ⚪️ #BBCFootball #ARSRMA #UWCL

The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥

✍️ 'Scrapping the two-child benefit cap will entrench welfare dependency and will penalise those making prudent decisions' | Writes @AnnabelDenham1 Read the column ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/1…

Taking from my pensions savings to deliver inflation busting increases to state pension spending today. The cruel irony here is there’s no way I’m getting state pension. The system will have long since collapsed by the time I retire. Good to know more will be taken from me to facilitate all this.

Unemployment up to 5%. 180,000 jobs lost since last October. Fewer people in work. More paid in benefits. Higher taxes. Who can Labour blame?

Last jobs & wages figs out ahead of budget ▶️ UK unemployment highest since pandemic - now at 5% in last quarter ▶️ Number of employees on payrolls continuing to fall - ONS estimates down 180k over past year ▶️ Wages growing more slowly in last quarter More on @BBCBreakfast

💥 A pre Budget reminder of what @RachelReevesMP promised, categorically, at Budget 2024: no more tax rises. Last year, she raised taxes by £40 billion. That *in itself* was a massive break from promising no tax rises during the General Election campaign.🧵

The British government has somehow created a command economy it doesn’t have command of, for an economy that doesn’t exist.

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”** My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found. At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me. At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul. At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being. At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible. Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever. **I’m writing this to tell you something simple:** **Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.** Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*. You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless. You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours. *With love and gentleness,* — Patricia Routledge

This is what happens when antisemitism and Jew hate is grotesquely normalised. So much for #neveragain. It’s time to stop allowing history to repeat itself telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/0…

What are we on now? Phase 4?