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[Isabelle @northnorth_west]

We have a Prime Minister who offers solidarity and “support” to victims of Putin’s current carpet bombing in Ukraine, while in the same breath sending Syrian refugees - victims of Putin’s carpet bombing - to Rwanda. Johnson is a disgrace.

WRITE TO YOUR MP https://t.co/4ZEuOk8vxU

[Kim Cato @Cato_loquitur]

Wales' oldest classical music festival returns to Greygynog Hall https://t.co/V60KUbepNb

[tim briggs @Briggs99]

@theboymarks 😍

[ESO Youth @youthESO]

Welcome to over 40 young musicians today to our Beginners course @BromsSchool. They’re sounding fabulous and working so hard - well done all 😊 @BromsPrep @K_HeathPrimary @RGSDMusic @stjohnsmiddle @WPS_Music_Dept @TownJnrSchool @HarbornePrimary @Charford1st @ourladyqop #children

[Sainsbury Archive @sainsburyarch]

Happy #NationalBiscuitDay 🍪

[C20 Society @C20Society]

In honour of #NationalFishAndChipDay (yep, we can barely believe it’s that time of year again, either) we commissioned Yorkshire-based photographer Jonathan Taylor to capture probably the UK’s most architecturally significant chippie. 👀 Behold the Oakwood Fish Bar, Leeds…

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'Peace,' shows the burial at sea of Turner’s friend, the artist David Wilkie who died after returning from the Middle East. Turner's painting verges on abstraction and was roundly criticised when it was first exhibited in 1842 as 'unfinished and unbecoming.'

[Graham Smith @GrahamSmithCR]

Steve Double is the first of Cornwall’s MPs to welcome a windfall tax on energy companies – eight days after voting against the idea https://t.co/BezjLKrJZD

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

When the House of Commons held a vote on this last week every single Conservative MP voted against.

[Pat McFadden @patmcfaddenmp]

1) They adopted our idea.
2) They have made all the Tory MPs sent out to defend the Govt’s position and argue against windfall tax look like fools (again).
3) Because the Government is so chaotic this will keep happening.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Have any of the ministers who were wholeheartedly opposed to a windfall tax last week as a matter fact resigned as a matter of principle now the government is introducing a windfall tax?

[Brendan May @bmay]

What ‘big calls’ did he get right? Covid care homes disaster? Doctors wearing bin bags for protection? Opening then closing schools again within 24 hours? Brexit mayhem? Passport delays? Economic collapse? Late on windfall tax? Misleading Parliament? Paterson? Sewage?

What? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods]

Publication day! I can’t believe my backwards tour of British history is finally out in the world — I hope you love it! I’m available in all good bookshops, and some disreputable ones
https://t.co/0sMPAc9LXt

[C20 Society @C20Society]

NEWS // C20 listings to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Five C20 buildings and structures across the country have just been listed in celebration of the Jubilee -
including an Art Deco pavilion, a high-tech records office and motorway marker posts…

https://t.co/M4lK8v4Wll

[Geitner Simmons @GeitnerSimmons]

Attn, #Midwest aficionados

Another great thread by @RolandGunnTN on regional linguistics

https://t.co/H35CxGEXA5

[Birmingham Cathedral @bhamcathedral]

Great News! We have secured £641, 200 from @HeritageFundM_E to conserve our exceptional stained-glass windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones & deliver exciting programme of activity which will start soon. Conservation will start early next year. https://t.co/wFrpHRYlYs

[King's College Choir @ChoirOfKingsCam]

It is with sadness that we have learned this evening of the death of Simon Preston.

Organist, conductor and composer, Simon was originally a chorister at King’s, later returning as Organ Scholar. His contributions to music were extraordinary, and he will be greatly missed.

[Kim Cato @Cato_loquitur]

If, like me, you’ve got a touch of rainy-Sunday melancholia, here’s a dose of beautiful lute balm…

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

On the Protocol, Tory Chair of NI Select @Simon4NDorset: “It’s a naive nonsense for the govt to ask anyone to believe that (1) they didn’t understand what they signed up to…(2) that ministers thought the EU would behave entirely differently to that stipulated in the agreement.”