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[Bill Ellson @BillEllson]

Clement Attlee in a dodgem car
(along with Aina & Tage Erlanger and Olaf Palme at Malmö Folkets Park)

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

Odd quirk in this - this is the slowest figure since modern records began in 2013/14. But ...
- Londoners today make 20% fewer trips than they did then
- Central area traffic is down 18% and inner London down 3%

What's slowing the buses?

[𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic @sib313]

@sophia_edw28123 Yes, the system is broken.

But we know the main cause and it is flow through beds not staff shortages. And most A&Es would have plenty of capacity if beds did: it isn't A&E capacity that is the problem.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@JDVance Henry's family have asked that his murder isn't exploited by cretins like you James

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Robert “Magyar” Brovdi appears to have taken it a bit personally that he didn’t get an invitation to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

I’m not going to amplify Reform’s ad by sharing it, but the wilful misrepresentation of Kemi Badenoch - selectively quoting what she said about ‘white lives matter’ - is disgraceful and dangerous.

It needs to be challenged, including by those of us who are not Conservatives.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The U.S. House of Representatives tonight passed a War Powers Resolution attempting to limit the military powers of President Donald J. Trump and end the Iran War. Four Republicans - Reps. Thomas Massie, Tom Barrett, Warren Davidson, and Brian Fitzpatrick - joined all House Democrats to push the measure to a vote, with 215 voting for and 208 voting against, with the resolution to now go before a high contested vote in the Senate.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Here's what happens to your nation's air defenses when the budget for Pansirs ends up in Swiss Bank accounts, luxury flats in Knightsbridge and the Paris apartments of mistresses with a fondness for Versace Crocodile skin toilet seat covers.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Bill Ellson @BillEllson]

@LDV_NNR @AvivaUK Did mug punters from @AvivaUK , sorry 'volunteers', buy as many tea towels and other tat as the mugs from @networkrail did 2 years ago , or the mugs from @H_S_E or Drax PS, did in previous years?
Did you tell them the marsh ragwort will always grow back for next year's mugs?

[Vincent Stops @VincentStops]

If you thought London’s bus services couldn’t get any slower, you were wrong. Another all time low. The reason - no one in London government cares enough and all the lobbying is done by cyclists. @LonTravelWatch

[World Bollard Association™ @WorldBollard]

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness.
#WorldBollardAssociation

[EHRC @EHRC]

Our draft Code of Practice helps providers of services, public functions and associations apply the Equality Act 2010. It doesn't apply to workplaces; employers should consult the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regs 1992, the Equality Act, and seek independent legal advice.

[MargaretOGorman @MargaretOG66351]

Maybe I'm just being a nerd? But, I'd be inclined to change the second sentence here. When you see it, you can't unsee it.

[Quentin Letts @thequentinletts]

Plaintive note from a Mr Smith of East Preston, Sussex.

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

It’s pointless and a pity to lose the historic “Chancery” name for part of the High Court (why not modernise “King’s Bench” too?), and in this announcement to say nothing of its traditional place in resolving disputes over wills and trusts in English law https://t.co/hJpvGQCU6C

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

Federal agency chief balks at fulfilling bare minimum for small-d democratic legitimacy in a rule of law society.

[Bill Ellson @BillEllson]

@RosieDuffield1 @soniasodha And two of them would happily sign an EDM calling for their own execution, because they never read anything.

[Hakeem Jeffries @hakeemjeffries]

There it is.

The Florida House Speaker traded a gerrymandered congressional map in the middle of the decade for an Ambassadorship.

The culture of corruption is happening in plain sight.

Remember in November.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Ukraine’s Invisible Army

Russia has one of the most expensive air defense networks on the planet. Ukraine has found a way to make it shoot itself broke.

Kyiv’s military intelligence is now deploying hundreds of jet-powered decoy drones alongside real strike packages. These are not cheap foam toys. They mimic the radar signatures of lethal platforms well enough that Russian operators face an impossible choice: burn costly interceptors on fakes, or gamble that the next one is also a fake. Spoiler: it isn’t.

The math is brutal. A $30,000 decoy forces a response from a $3 million missile. Do that a few hundred times per night and Russia’s air defense budget starts looking like a bonfire.

Ukraine’s upgraded arsenal can now reach roughly a quarter of Russia’s landmass and over 70% of its population. Moscow built a fortress. Kyiv is teaching it to punch itself.

The war’s most decisive front isn’t in the trenches. It’s in the radar screens, where every blip is a gamble Russia can no longer afford to lose.