Lyre Productions

Producing Scottish feature films. Founded by Tim Barrow. Created THE INHERITANCE and THE SPACE BETWEEN. Currently screening our 3rd feature RIPTIDE.

[Lyre Productions @LyreFilms]

Thrilled to present our latest film UPSTREAM. Created for the incredible Canmore Trust. https://t.co/kOODBxwWlA

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[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

✈️Private jet flights are 30 times more polluting than regular flights.

After years of campaigning from Scottish Green MSPs, the Scottish Government is set to introduce a private jet tax!

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Irish politicians are avoiding questions about Aughinish. Patrick O’Donovan refuses to answer my calls. The refinery is in his constituency

He says the Russian owned plant is not connected to Russia’s war machine, without showing evidence. They want this to blow over. It won’t

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇦🇭🇺 Ukraine and Hungary have reached a full agreement on the rights of national minorities

"I have extremely important news for you. In 3 weeks we managed to achieve what Viktor Orban's team failed to achieve in 10 years. We have reached a comprehensive agreement with Ukraine on expanding the linguistic, educational, cultural and political rights of the hundred-thousand-strong Hungarian minority," said Peter Magyar.

According to him, the agreement was the result of several weeks of intensive negotiations between Hungarian and Ukrainian experts.

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Delighted to be running a directing workshop here this evening!

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Please support this important campaign: https://t.co/8DRu6UvyK7

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[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen:

There is a total established link between power, political power, capital, tech giants and AI. And the purpose of this is undermining democracy.

That's the goal because the people who are developing this stuff are against democracy.

I met Sam Altman a couple of years ago. I spent hours with him and at the end of the discussion I said to him, "You have created a monster."

And he said, "Yes, and now it's up to you to find out how to deal with it."

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇭🇺 Hungary’s new PM just delivered a huge shock to Netanyahu. 🔥👏

🇭🇺 PM Péter reversed Netanyahu's puppet Viktor Orbán’s 2025 decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.

Netanyahu now faces an ICC arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. 🔥🔥

Peter is getting widespread praise online for his courage👏

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 ROLAND GARROS GOT UNCOMFORTABLE

Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova beat a Russian opponent at Roland Garros for the first time in her career, then said the quiet part out loud.

“Many Russian athletes actively participate in propaganda, play in Gazprom-linked tournaments, and openly support Putin,” she said after the match.

She also said the WTA pressured her for months over public comments about Russian players and the war, demanding she stop naming certain athletes and threatening fines or even disqualification.

So a Ukrainian player speaks about propaganda and aggression, and suddenly the problem is her tone.

That tells you plenty about the double standard.

[j wall ✡ @jwhaifa]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac — one of France's most wanted Resistance leaders. He was sentenced to death. His execution was days away.
His wife Lucie was six months pregnant.
Most people would have hidden. Would have grieved quietly and prayed for a miracle. Lucie Aubrac did something else entirely. She obtained forged identity papers, constructed a cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie — the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon — and convinced him to grant her a visit with the condemned man.
She wasn't there to say goodbye.
She was memorizing guard positions. Counting minutes. Mapping the route the prison truck would take.
On October 21, 1943, that truck rolled through the streets of Lyon carrying Raymond and other prisoners toward what should have been the end. Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a team of Resistance fighters, planning an ambush with the precision of a military operation. When the truck reached the ambush point, the team struck — fast, coordinated, and without hesitation.
In the chaos of gunfire and confusion, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free.
Lucie — visibly, unmistakably pregnant — had organized every detail of his liberation.
They went into hiding. Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a safe house while German forces searched for them across France. When liberation finally came, the Aubracs didn't merely survive — they rebuilt.
Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life. Lucie became a historian, pouring decades into ensuring that the women of the French Resistance — so often unnamed, so easily forgotten — were written permanently into the record. They raised three children. They traveled the world. They argued and laughed and grew old together.
When journalists asked Lucie, years later, what had compelled her to risk everything that October day, she didn't hesitate.
"He was my husband. What else would I do?"
Lucie Aubrac passed away in 2007 at the age of 94. Raymond — who had once needed a commando team to be freed from a German prison — lived on until 2012, reaching 97 years old. In his final years, he continued speaking publicly about the Resistance, about memory, about the obligation to tell the truth.
They had been married for 64 years.
Not a love story built on grand gestures or perfect circumstances. A love story built in occupied France, in safe houses and forged documents and a prison truck ambush on a Lyon street — forged in fire, and never broken.
True love doesn't wait for rescue. Sometimes, it does the rescuing

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute.

My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

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[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

The Prime Minister’s salary will be reduced to less than half of its current level. The salaries of ministers, members of parliament, and mayors will also be significantly reduced.

What I expect: humanity, moderation, and humility.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

That’s how you do it!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon

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@ThomasOrTK Stop funding genocide by Israel. Stop enabling the slaughter of Palestinian children

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Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil at beloved @lyceumedinburgh is stunningly wonderful. Massive congratulations to the team! And Ricky's songs are just... no words.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

I am on my way to my first official visit to Poland as Prime Minister.

We are arriving in the beautiful city of Kraków on a commercial flight via Vienna, from where we will continue by train to Warsaw later this evening.

Joining the prime ministerial delegation are Foreign Minister @_OrbanAnita, Minister for the Economy and Energy István Kapitány, Minister for Transport and Investment Dávid Vitézy, Minister of Defence Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, Minister for Social Relations and Culture Zoltán Tarr, and Minister of Agriculture and Food Szabolcs Bóna.

We will hold official talks with the Prime Minister of Poland. I will also meet the President of Poland, as well as the Marshal of the Sejm and the President of the Senate.

As of today, in the event that both Deputy Prime Minister Anita Orbán and I are simultaneously unable to perform our duties, I am appointing Minister Dr Bálint György Ruff as Deputy Prime Minister.

On Thursday morning, I will travel from Warsaw to Vienna, where I will also hold official talks with the Austrian Chancellor and President.
On Thursday evening, I will return to Budapest by train.

"Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki
I do szabli, i do szklanki
Oba zuchy, oba żwawi
Niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi. "
"Lengyel-magyar két jó barát
Együtt harcol s issza borát
Vitéz s bátor mindkettője
Áldás szálljon mindkettőre."