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@CarlBovisNature My favourite bird of all time...

Adorable Long Tailed Tit looking for bugs in the catkins. 😍 Taken last week at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊🐦

@forwardnotback Many happy returns...as you say, forward not back!

Good morning I’ve reached day 50 Fifty days ago my family and friends were told I was “unlikely to survive the night” then it was “the next few nights” What happened in resus and critical care doesn’t matter - I’ve been told it was grim Great treatment Great care #ForwardNotBack

@SimoninSuffolk Fab! Did you go into the crypt? Saxon if l remember rightly...

Ripon.

To Ripon Cathedral!

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

“Controversial” ? Seriously? How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”?

@forwardnotback Wishing you all the very best for a speedy recovery... it's clearly been a very difficult few weeks for you, and l've missed your insights. Keep on keeping on! 🙂

Breakfast Still no Bubble!

@SandyofSuffolk @montie @GoodwinMJ @reformparty_uk Yep, can't have Reform candidates being investigated for factual errors/lying or you wouldn't have enough candidates!

@montie @GoodwinMJ @reformparty_uk We don't need you in Reform, Tim, if you're going to tweet stuff like this. Unfollowed.

The whole controversy over @GoodwinMJ's book reminds me of the early warning sign that Rachel Reeves' dodgy footnotes provided about her. @reformparty_uk should now fully investigate Mr Goodwin's book and if there are repeated examples of factual error he should be removed from the candidates list. We need our future MPs to be trustworthy and credible.

Apparently, it’s now patriotic to ...*checks notes*... divert as much money as possible from the public purse into your own pocket.🇬🇧💸 At least, that's one defence of Richard Tice’s aggressive tax planning. Here’s what his own reaction reveals about our 2 tier tax system. 🧵1/8

Happy St Patrick’s Day from Shaun and the flock! ☘️ #HappyStPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #StPatricksDay

@ShabanaMahmood Hey, quick question, why have you photoshopped lots of red marks and scratches over @ZackPolanski's face so he looks kinda violent and scary? Do you think this is a fair and honourable thing to do?

Call me Mr Bastard, but might I suggest a prison sentence would be more of a deterrent than a fine the consumers will inevitably end up paying?

@SimoninSuffolk @KPW1453 And all in the SUN...wonderful!

The ruin of Dunfermline Royal Palace. A rebuilding by Jamie the Saxt of the Abbey guesthouse, it was the favourite palace of his wife Anna of Denmark, and the birthplace in 1600 of his son, the future Charles I, the last British monarch to be born in Scotland.

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

@forwardnotback So sorry to hear this, and wishing you all the very best for a speedy recovery.

Quick update, sorry no more #twitterquiz I am in critical care in Portsmouth and gravely ill. Sorry for the message, thanks for all the fun and friendship over the years. I can’t reply to messages.

@PolitlcsUK Soundbites that she thinks people want to hear from Badenoch, moaning about being talked over, which is one of her main tactics, and Lewis telling it straight as usual.

🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch clashes with Martin Lewis on her plans for student loans

This is absolutely outrageous from @bbcquestiontime! One week before a by-election which is a 2-horse race between Reform and the Greens.... and they only invite Reform on to the show? How can this possibly be regarded as "impartial"?

This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official. It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this. Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.

Ok, so we have established that Starmer is staying Can we now move on to those UK politicians who are actually in the Epstein Files? Perhaps start with the MP under the influence of the architects of the fascist uprising in the U.S. Public interest, and all that!

How is #Farage, leader of the party leading in the polls, being named in the #EpsteinFiles MORE THAN 40 times, not on the front page of EVERY U.K newspaper and across EVERY U.K news station? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! So I suppose it’s up to us on here to share it, as per…

@SophyRidgeSky I could never understand why people think Mandelson, Johnson, Farage etc have charisma. To me they have always seemed creepy, unserious, untrustworthy, self-serving and utterly repellent.

Peter Mandelson is obviously a very charming man. Funny, well connected, gossipy, you hear a lot of people talk about him with affection in Westminster. My own stand out memory of him is a little different. The first time I met him was at my first ever Labour Party conference, I was a trainee reporter in my early twenties.  In other words, I had no status or any connections really at all. And I guess the best way to put it, is that Peter Mandelson was dismissive rather than charming. The reason I'm saying this is because I think it goes to the heart of Westminster's problem, a problem that I believe is deeply connected to the Epstein scandal (in Epstein’s world status - connections - and money - was everything.) Because people who look at Westminster - in the same way as they might look at Washington - and think, this is a closed group of elites, who all know each other, who go to the same parties, and share the same in jokes... well, to a large extent, they are right. There are too many people in Westminster who look over the shoulder of the person they're talking to see if there's someone more important in the room. Status is everything... what stories can they give me... how can they further my career? The personal and the professional become blurred.  And Peter Mandelson is the embodiment of that. Charming, well connected, gossipy. In the inner circle.  If we're honest with ourselves, that's the reason he's been allowed to fail and then be rehabilitated so many times. It's the reason he was given the best job in politics - US Ambassador - despite being friends with a paedophile. And it's the reason he's had a softer landing than many others would have in his position.  A softer landing... until now. Because after the latest dump of Epstein emails, there really is no coming back. Not even for the most charming man in Westminster.