Sarah Perkins

@BBCRadio4 excellent programme about exporting the housing problem just now. But why the shock that there was only one bus an hour? Sounds like everyone involved is a Londoner, with no idea how the rest of the country has to get by.

Today I received a Christmas card which was posted on 12th December. Nearly a month to cover 65 miles or so. Google reckons I could walk it in just under 24 hours. Sigh.

Lovely, but mine is comfier.

Caryatids of the Erechtheion, Athens, Greece 🇬🇷 In 1951, Dior brought couture to their feet

Oh… because net migration has plummeted under Labour… including non eu countries…

@rshereme For decades now I have been grateful not to be a US citizen. It must be dreadful. The reason they don't realise how bad things are can only be their legendary ignorance what the rest of the world is like.

When talking about Greenland, Senator Ted Cruz said: “To become an American is the greatest gift we can give anyone on planet Earth.”

“I don’t doubt that Maduro is a criminal but so is Trump. I don’t doubt that Maduro rigged the elections, but so did Trump. I don’t doubt that Maduro weaponized the justice system but so has Trump” ~Rev Kevin Johnson of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem

I am endlessly in awe of the sheer political and diplomatic naïveté of people who think the British Prime Minister should conduct the rhetoric of international relations as if he were some ranting bloke sitting in an attic on his Facebook account. Grow up.

The Wise Men c1920 #JohnHallThorpe #Epiphany

Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi. Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy.

Lady Mone is now being allowed to keep her 15,000 per week rental income, and she's yet to pay a penny back. The government should seize all of her assets. RT if you agree.

London, Winter 1928 #CRWNevinson

This is indefensible. Lord Wolfson can either be Shadow Attorney General or Roman Abramovich's lawyer. He can't be both.

56 Labour 2024 Manifesto Pledges delivered, on track or in progress. In 18 months Labour are delivering for ordinary people. Link in below tweet. Judge Labour on what they’re doing. Not what the daily comics tell you.

The Tory Shadow Attorney General is also now Abramovich’s legal counsel - apparently working to protect his assets from efforts to recover them for Ukraine. Barristers should not be judged by the character of their clients. But his political position is clearly untenable.

My mums in hospital , treatment/ diagnostics so far. Chest x ray Ecg Blood tests Iv antibiotics Fluids Nebulisers Oxygen Plus 3 meals a day and refreshments Bill, when she leaves in, hopefully a few days £0.00 Thankyou NHS and all who work in it.

As Zelensky visits the White House and gets bullied again, remember this clip of Marco Rubio explaining the U.S. promised to defend Ukraine FOREVER if they gave up their nukes when the USSR fell. That’s why Lil Marco hides. He hoped we wouldn’t find it. Don’t share it right now.

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. Roald Dahl, 1986

Yorkshire's equivalent to the Coca-Cola truck 🎅

“Who was Wenceslas-or ‘Wenceslaus’ as it is often written. Probably he is some relation to Santa Claus. They were brothers: Santa and Wense Claus. Santa brought the presents round on Christmas Day, and Wense looked out on Boxing Day to see no mistakes had been made.”~A.A.Milne