Rt Hon Sir Peter Mannion MP

MP for South East North Wessex Downs and Hampshire Central North. No, I'm not doing a podcast.

[Rt Hon Sir Peter Mannion MP @MatthewHawxe]

Scams can happen to anyone—even the most successful and well-known individuals. You are not alone, and there is no shame in speaking up.

If you’ve experienced fraud or suspect you’ve been targeted, it’s important to seek guidance and support. #cryptorecovery #cryptoscam #Scam

[Dietrich 🇻🇦 @jarldietrich]

"The gravest form of poverty is not to know God."
Pope Leo XIV

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

US Vice President JD Vance’s 6-year-old son, Vivek, was baptized into the Catholic Church on Easter Sunday.

[queenofjustice @queenofjes]

King Charles and Queen Camilla

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer gives parenting advice

"[My kids] see part of their role in life as to sort of belittle me and laugh at me... and that is a good thing"

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

I had a lot of fun at CinemaCon seeing so many friends. The year has already gotten off to a great start for cinema, and I'm looking forward to all the films still to come in the year ahead from countless hardworking and talented artists!

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump threatened to suspend the US-UK trade deal because Starmer refused to join the Hormuz blockade.

Starmer’s response:

“I am not going to act under pressure. This war is not in my national interest. I cannot yield.”

This is America’s closest ally. The country that has followed Washington into every military engagement for 80 years.

Starmer already refused the blockade.

Called Israel’s bombing of Lebanon wrong from the floor of Parliament. Suspended automatic defense renewals with Israel.

And now when Trump threatened the trade relationship — he didn’t move.

Britain, Australia, Italy, Meloni — every ally Trump expected to follow him has said no.

The blockade has no coalition.

[Daniel Hathersage @danhathersage]

Funerary effigy of Edward III. Carved almost 650 years ago, and carried at his funeral in 1377.

The left side of his mouth is slightly distorted. Perhaps a sign of the stroke that killed him, suggesting the effigy was based on a death mask.

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch smiling next to her husband Bob Koch

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In 1985, a man named Douglas Simmonds walked into the British Museum, carrying a bag of old objects. His father Leonard had served with the Royal Air Force in the Middle East during and after the Second World War, and like many veterans stationed far from home, he had picked up curiosities along the way. Clay fragments. Small carved objects. Things that looked interesting without being obviously valuable.

After Leonard died, the collection passed to his son. Douglas wanted someone to tell him what he had. The man who looked at the objects was Irving Finkel — one of the very few people alive who can read cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Finkel looked at the tablets one by one. Then he picked up a small, damaged piece of clay — roughly the size of a mobile phone — and started reading. He went very still. The opening lines were famous to anyone in his field. They were the beginning of the Atra-Hasis Flood Story — one of the oldest narratives in recorded human history. A god warning a chosen man of a coming catastrophe. An instruction to build a great boat and save the animals. A story so ancient it had been told and retold across civilizations for thousands of years before anyone carved it into stone or pressed it into paper. But this particular tablet contained something that had never been seen before - construction instructions. Precise ones naming materials, measurements, quantities. A working blueprint for the ark itself — specific enough that a boat could actually be built from it. And the ark it described was nothing like the one in Genesis, it was round. A massive circular coracle — coiled from palm fiber rope, supported by thick wooden ribs, sealed with layers of bitumen that seeped naturally from the Iraqi earth. It was not designed not to sail anywhere, but simply to float, because it had nowhere specific to go, it just needed to survive.

Finkel was — in his own words — "wobbly with desire" to keep studying it. But Simmonds took it back, he wasn't oblivious about its significance. He was simply a man who had inherited a family treasure and wasn't ready to surrender it to a museum. He was, by all accounts, a person of considerable intelligence who knew exactly what he was carrying. But he just wasn't willing to leave it behind.

Finkel never forgot the tablet. For 24 years, he thought about those opening lines. Wondered what the full text said. Then, in 2009, he spotted Douglas Simmonds at a Babylonian exhibition inside the very museum where they had first met. He walked over and asked directly: please, bring the tablet back. This time, Simmonds agreed. What followed was years of painstaking work. The tablet's 60 lines of cuneiform covered both sides of the clay. Some sections were chipped or cracked, forcing Finkel to cross-reference fragments, compare symbols, and reconstruct meaning from what time had left behind. But the construction instructions were remarkable in their specificity — detailed enough that he eventually worked with ancient shipbuilding experts to actually build a replica of the round ark, at roughly one-third scale. When he launched it on a river in Kerala, India, with documentary cameras rolling, the ancient design held.

📷 : Dr. Irving Finkel, a philologist and Assyriologist, displaying a 4000 years-old clay tablet containing the story of the Ark at the British Museum

© The Stories They Never Shared

#archaeohistories

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

Catholics come in.. It's Story time..

Once upon a time, in October 13th, 1884.
Pope Leo XIII had just finished celebrating Holy Mass in the Vatican.
As he turned from the altar, he suddenly stopped, frozen in place.
His face grew pale, his eyes fixed on something unseen.
For nearly 10 minutes, he stood motionless in complete silence.
Those nearby thought he had fallen ill.
But something far greater was happening.

When he finally came to consciousness, his face was trembling, his body weak.
He whispered softly, “What a horrible vision I have seen.”
He explained that he had heard two voices.
One gentle and filled with love - the voice of Christ.
And the other, harsh and full of hatred - the voice of Satan.

Satan sai:, “I can destroy your church.”
Jesus replied: “You can? Then go ahead and try.”
Satan said: “I need more time and more power.”
Jesus asked: “How much time? How much power?”
Satan answered: “About 75 to 100 years. And greater influence over those who will serve me.”

Jesus responded: “You have the time and the power. Do with them what you will.”
In that terrifying moment, Pope Leo XIII saw visions of the future.
The church under attack, evil spreading across nations, and countless souls turning away from God.
He understood that humanity was entering a great spiritual battle, one that would test faith for generations.
He went to his private study, took pen and paper, and wrote a prayer - a Heavenly shield for the church against the powers of darkness;

He wrote....
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.
And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

The prayer was ordered to be said after every Mass - a spiritual weapon for the faithful and a reminder that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness.

Even today, more than a century later, the words of Pope Leo XIII echoes through the ages, reminding us that the Church will stand and that Christ has already won the victory.

May the Lord deliver us from every snare of the evil one.
May he strengthen his Church, renew our faith, and help us stand firm in the truth of Christ.

Through the intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel, may light always conquer darkness in our hearts, our homes, and in our world.
Amen.

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

After 3 years of war, what is happening in Sudan is the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

The UK is announcing over £140 million this year for humanitarian support and victims of sexual violence ⬇️

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

International law applies to all States, without exception.

Respect for its rules is not optional.

Without it, instability spreads, mistrust deepens & conflicts spiral out of control.

This is not the moment to retreat from international law.

It is the moment to reaffirm it.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'Although we have different beliefs, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of living, we can live together in peace'

Pope Leo XIV clarified the purpose behind his mosque visit in Algeria while speaking to journalists this morning

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

RIGHT NOW in 1865, Abraham Lincoln dies from a gunshot wound he suffered nine hours earlier at Ford's Theater. "There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen," remarked War Secretary Edwin Stanton. "Now he belongs to the ages."

[Rt Hon Sir Peter Mannion MP @MatthewHawxe]

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