Elected today — together with our Romanian and Moldovan buddies — to @UNESCO’s Executive Board.
Russia didn’t make it.
Well, fair elections were never really their thing anyway.
Starmer is boring and has made a few mistakes but to see the relentless onslaught of media and social media depicting him as worse than Pol Pot is staggering. There must be a lot of big money behind it.
In the first 10 years of this century, satisfaction levels with the NHS were at 70% - this was under the last Labour government. Then came Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss & Sunak, 14 years of Tory neglect and satisfaction levels today stand at 24%. Not for nothing do we need an election ASAP - every day they delay causes more harm and costs more lives.
We declare red lines for ourselves, but not for Russia. We publicly tie our own hands while leaving Putin free to pillage, rape and destroy. We create strategic transparency, not strategic ambiguity. It's time to change course. 🧵
Wake up @MailOnline@Telegraph protestors are blocking roads , people are missing hospital appointments , funerals , emergency services can’t get through ! Here’s some epithets for you ‘Farmo-mob’ , ‘Farmo-loons’ , ‘Farmo-zealots’ . C’mon call for them all to be locked up forever ! You wouldn’t want to accused of hypocrisy !
We must see restrictions on the sale of fireworks, firework control zones & maximum noise levels. The law in England & Wales must be brought into line with tighter regulation in Scotland. Fireworks are causing huge domestic & wild animal suffering & increase stress for people too” listen back to my interview with Natasha Devon on LBC Radio