Sarah Chambers🇺🇦💙

@SoVeryBritish @LucyGoBag Conversation with a bestie last night. Yes, of course stay the night with us. Just to warn the mattress is very thin, so may not be too comfortable. Immediately onto Booking.com and found a room at the nearby 3* hotel for under £100.

Me in my 20s sleeping at a friend’s house: “Don’t worry that you haven’t got a spare bed, I will sleep in my clothes on the kitchen floor or in the bath or folded into a cupboard or in the big bush outside your front door or in a bin” Me in my 40s: “Thank you for the offer of a spare bed, but I’m going to drive three hours home to my own one instead”

Something especially gruesome about Trump trolling the UK (and Hegseth the RN) while USAF planes are using British mainland airbases & Diego Garcia to wage the war that has closed the strait in the first place.

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN DID NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷

Can you help identify these paint-spraying vandals? H&F is appealing for information to help catch graffiti vandals who targeted King Street and Uxbridge Road. More: lbhf.gov.uk/news/2026/03/c…

Daily Shadow Fleet update (just for fun). Currently five sanctioned Shadow Fleet tankers in the Channel and one sanctioned Russian tanker, Proxima. All sailing through without insurance, fueling Putin's war in Ukraine. I wonder if the UK's perimeters for seizure will be met today. h/t @StarboardIntel

It’s only week five this is the global picture as of today. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - Fuel rationing active. Universities closed. Military deployed in oil depots. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - Fuel rationing active. 15 litre per week cap for private motorists. Four day school week. Scaled back public sector operations. 🇸🇮 Slovenia - 50 litre per day cap on fuel for private drivers. 200 litres for businesses and farmers. Indefinite. 🇵🇭 Philippines - National energy emergency declared. Four day working week in place. 🇵🇰 Pakistan - Four day work weeks and school closures still in effect. 🇲🇲 Myanmar - Alternating driving days imposed. 🇹🇭 Thailand - Diesel price cap imposed. Government officials told to work from home and limit travel. Fuel exports banned except to Cambodia and Laos. 🇻🇳 Vietnam - Tapping fuel price stabilisation fund. Officials encouraged to work from home and limit travel. 🇰🇪 Kenya - Rationing by major fuel suppliers ongoing. Rural areas already running out. 🇪🇬 Egypt - Fuel and electricity rationing active. Malls, restaurants and retailers shutting at 9pm. Illuminated billboards switched off. Government buildings closing at 6pm. 🇮🇳 India - Government phasing out LPG cylinders for households with access to piped gas to prioritise supply. 🇨🇳 China - Export ban on diesel, gasoline and aviation fuel until at least end of March. 🇰🇷 South Korea - Fuel price cap imposed. First in 30 years. Voluntary fuel conservation measures in place. 🇯🇵 Japan - Refiners requesting government release of stockpiled oil. 95% of crude imported from Gulf states. 🇪🇸 Spain - €5 billion emergency package. Tax reductions on electricity and gas. Subsidies for transport operators and farmers. 🇩🇪 Germany - BASF raising prices on goods by up to 30%. What could be coming 🇬🇧 UK - Ministers could activate contingency powers to introduce fuel rationing at petrol stations. 80% of UK goods travel by road. IEA has advised considering carpooling and working from home to save fuel. 🇪🇺 EU - Emergency measures under discussion. Storage across many member states below 30%. Shell's CEO warned Europe could face fuel rationing starting in April if the Strait stays closed. G7 finance ministers, energy ministers and central bank governors met in Paris today and issued a joint statement saying they stand ready to take "all necessary measures" to preserve stability in energy markets. None of these restrictions have been easing. In several countries they are only getting worse.

This is an absolutely INSANE thing to say out loud. We killed their leaders in the middle of negotiations because we didn’t like the way they negotiated?!?!

95% of those executed by Apartheid South Africa were Black Israel has now passed a law that will impose executions which will be 100% Palestinian & in the occupied territories The argument about whether Israel operates an apartheid regime is now over It does

@DominicMcGregor @HammersmithSoc @Merton_Council Wish we could get funding for this in H&F! Improving the facades makes a huge difference. I love old fashioned awnings as well.. @ChelFulhamBen @LBHF @SharonHolder_ @HistoricalDaisy

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better use of council money. Huge shout to to @Merton_Council for the improve of their shop parades in the region. Improving how an area looks has a major impact on the local economy. I always remember the story of broken windows in New York. The theory is simple. One broken window left unrepaired signals that nobody cares. So another gets broken. Then another. Until decline becomes the norm and feels impossible to reverse. The opposite is also true. One renovated shopfront tells the street that someone gives a damn. A business owner sees their neighbour invest and thinks , maybe I should too. A customer walks past and decides to go in rather than walk on. A landlord fixes the flat above because suddenly the area feels worth it. It’s not just paint and signage. It’s a signal. And signals change behaviour at scale. The before and after here isn’t just aesthetic. It’s economic. It’s the difference between a high street in decline and one with a future. More councils should be doing exactly this.

Saghar (25) and Ghazal Ghodrat (29), Sisters from Shiraz, were kidnapped in January by the regime in Iran. Since then, no one has heard from them. No message. No sign they’re even alive. Their family has been threatened into silence. Their only hope now is for the world to keep saying their names. Because if no one does, they don’t just disappear once. They disappear twice.

“Look, if you’re going to be an immigrant in another country, you have to learn to obey the laws.“ - The Daily Mail, every single bloody day.

Israeli Knesset members are currently voting to pass a death penalty bill that would apply only to Palestinians. In what would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago, it is poised to pass.

Launch illegal and unnecessary war that devastates Arab economies. Ask them to pay for it while global economy spirals and primacy of US dollar imperiled by stupidity and overreach of USG. Art of the deal.

You cannot attack objects essential for civilian survival. It’s against the Geneva Convention…

M&S Clapham - we don’t have to live like this. #restorebritain

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

Margaret Rutherford (L) and Agatha Christie (R) on the set of the 1961 filming of MGM’s “Murder She Said”. Rutherford was 69 and Christie 71. The notable part of this photo for me is that both women were leading in their field and Rutherford was leading on screen. She was allowed to be older to look older and still be visible and laudable. The reason I launched my #actingyouragecampaign in 2018 was because this is no longer the case for women on screen. I don’t think there are any women over 50 on U.K. TV as presenters with naturally grey hair, any more. I regularly see influencers praising how young, older women look and praising the cosmetic surgery they’ve had done. Older faces are deemed failed faces on women. It’s getting worse. There is an entire generation of women who’ve been erased and the criticism lands squarely on the shoulders of women like me who are asking for a range of representations of women onscreen. This has to extend to visibly ageing women. Chemically modifying our faces and follicles carries significant risks. The cumulative mental health cost is unquantifiable to younger and older women. Meanwhile the profits roll in for the companies making money from manufactured misery. My brother died when he was 17 and I was 12 so I know ageing is a privilege. I survived a heart attack last year and I’m facing a brand new and unrelated health challenge which I didn’t see coming. Life is so precious. The least important aspect of life is how we look and as women were so much more. Why are we complying with a narrative which asks us to prioritise the least interesting thing about us. #actingyouragecampaign #dontcastherout #ageingisntfailing (Photo via @rembrandtsroom )

🇮🇷 The beautiful melodies of handpan artist Erfan Farahdoost in northern Iran, February 13, 2026.

My name is Rima and I am a Lithuanian American medic serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I see all over x that morale is low among you. Do not give up. Stay strong and fight with us. I know it's hard but we have to dig deep. Share if you are still in the fight with us.