Cilla May💙

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Clare Hepworth OBE @Hepworthclare]

Leaving aside the ungracious comments from Trump - the tributes pouring in for Keir Starmer from International leaders are phenomenal.
They make the behaviour of some Labour MPs appear very shabby.
#justsaying

[Paul Castle @Goto_paulcastle]

THE WORLD IS TAKING NOTICE
When leaders in Kyiv, Ottawa and across NATO thank Keir Starmer for his service, perhaps the question is no longer what Britain thought of him.
Perhaps the question is what the world saw in him.
Principle. Duty. Steadiness.
He rebuilt Labour, restored Britain's standing and strengthened our alliances in a dangerous world.
The loudest voices wrote the headlines.
History may write a different verdict.
#Labour #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics

[WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK @JANUSZCZAK]

I see that Lucian Freud’s monumental portrait of the sleeping Sue Tilley (right) is coming up for auction in June at Sothebys. Estimated at £20-30 million! But Sue, a big Arsenal fan, has created her own version (left) to express her love of Arteta’s 1 nil monsters. Sweet!

[Cilla May💙 @CillaMay1]

@RobbieRinder Happy Birthday x

[Cilla May💙 @CillaMay1]

@StewartRowden1

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

It really doesn’t matter who you support. Just enjoying this ❤️

[RG | BEATS @DR_BEATS_KICK]

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

Gunnersaurus making his way home on his little scooter is the best content you will see all day 😭

[Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles]

I haven't posted on here for an age because ...you know
Anyways I have big announcement coming up so thought I would do a test to see if it's worth putting out on X
I am testing with a picture of Elon from a recent tapestry I made about AI called Behold Humanity!

[Disenchanted @disnenchanted]

@EmmaJanesLife @RhinestoneCow11 Maybe we should have an Attenborough bank holiday with people encouraged to improve their local environment. @Keir_Starmer This would be popular

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Three months ago, I did a fun advert for ⁦@paddypower⁩ promoting PSA prostate cancer tests. Today, I received this email which I post with Mike’s permission. As he said ‘the more exposure the better!’
So happy for him.
Take the test, chaps, it may save your life too.

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

I don’t know if you know but… it’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

I have been reading about @chrishoy this week and he has inspired me to post this.

Cancer is not a nice word. It sends fear into most people and so many of us are touched by it either directly or indirectly.

Last July I had a prostate screening blood test at the Canon Medical Arena in Sheffield. My dad has had prostate cancer before and now it’s back. His experience has made me far more aware of the risks and the worries so visiting the @LivingCareGroup centre felt like £15 and 15 minutes well spent.

They had 200 appointments available - all subsidised by a local charity. I posted on my social media and spent much of the day reading through the thousands of comments.

There were so many people who were struggling to get an appointment with their doctor and they just wanted that level of reassurance that comes from a simple medical test.

There were hundreds of comments about the need for a national screening programme and many more were pointing to the fact that 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer at some point in their lives.

One email stood out above everything else for me. I have read it quite a few times.

Dear Dan,
I would like to thank you so much for talking about your visit in Sheffield for an inexpensive PSA test.

My husband lost his paternal grandfather to prostrate cancer and his cousin has terminal prostrate cancer. Although my husband used to have tests, he hasn't over the last 10 years.

Your post prompted him to go along to Living Care and take the test. After a second PSA test, an ultrasound and an MRI scan, he has been diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

It was quite a shock, but had you not posted about it that day, I don't know when he would have got tested and the cancer may have been found, not just at a later stage, but at a catastrophically later stage, like his cousin.

Obviously, it's still a worry, but I’d like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the nudge you gave him, giving him a better chance of survival.
Yours, truly gratefully…

That for me is what Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is all about. It’s about helping each other. It’s about people like this lovely lady and her husband.
It’s about simple tests.
It’s about changing lives and saving lives.

@ProstateUK

[Daisy, Dylan, 🌈Kyser & 🌈Lupe & Mum @jacqui_hagger]

Please share. Percy is looking for a home to spend his twilight years as he going into kennels in Wimborne Dorset on Monday Sadly his owner is in hospital and is not coming home. There may be a person on X who has room in their hearts and a sofa to share with this boy.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today.

Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison.

Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency.

Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it.

When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional.

This is close to becoming law.

Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

[The Other 98% @TheOther_9]

Trump's team has spent more than $5 million having images of him with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs bleached from the internet

Would be very terrible if this went viral!

Source:https://t.co/xNIX34GBaP

[Rayan Amiri @realRayanAmiri]

NEW — The Islamist regime in Iran has transferred 19-year-old Iranian wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi to solitary confinement to execute him. He was arrested after supporting the protests. While the mainstream media is underreporting Iran, be the voice of Iranians. SHARE NOW!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. #Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself. Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.
https://t.co/LZ9hxddaS1

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Before Christmas we covered the Baroness Amos report into maternity and neonatal care.

It was pretty horrific reading. Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying when they shouldn't be.

And perhaps the most depressing thing of all... absolutely none of it was a surprise. Because multiple reports and multiple reviews over multiple years have told us the same thing.

But after we did that reporting, something quite extraordinary happened.

We were inundated with emails from women who wanted to share their experiences and their stories.

I've been a journalist for 20 years and I've never seen anything like it. Women whose lives were put at risk. Women who lost babies. Women who weren't listened to - who were treated like vessels rather than human beings.

So today we brought some of those women together into the studio to talk about what happened to them.

We know the problems with maternity care. We've had reports, we've had reviews, we've had hand-wringing and serious faces from politicians and NHS leaders, and promises that things will change. But nothing seems to change. It all seems to stay exactly the same.

And it's just not ok. So we're not going to move on and allow the news cycle to shift onto something else.

We're going to demand change. And we're going to do it by amplifying the voices of the women who wrote to us with their story to share.

And if you've got a story - let us know. We're going to be doing everything we can to get those stories in front of the politicians and the NHS leaders who can do something about it.