PHYLL THORMAN 💎

Wife, mam, grandma 💞@Chris_Thorman6 🇬🇧@paulthorman 🇺🇸 @neilthorman 🇬🇧 🎶🏉

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

Family love & laughter led by these two Geordie boys! Absolute class & style, iconic moment never to be forgotten! #Familywedding https://t.co/cMPNRE0lyx

[Chris Thorman @Chris_Thorman6]

The roast of Paul Michael Thorman

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

@womensrldotcom Thanks Richard a true tribute to JK

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

An 18 minute hat trick and immense work rate sees Harvey Reynolds as your Player of the Match

[The Chronicle @ChronicleLive]

Wildlife lover creates adorable LEGO Puffin set inspired by Northumberland coastline
https://t.co/2W8MqXjkkt

[Fartown from Yesteryear @FartownGiants]

#OTD in 2005, an unbelievable 2nd half performance saw the Giants overturn a 20-4 deficit to beat @WiganWarriorsRL 26-24 and move into a play-off place.
@Chris_Thorman6's double and tries from St Hilaire, Nero and O'Hare saw the Fartowners clinch an unlikely victory.

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

A good result 👌🏻

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

Full time.

Job done on the road. We'll see you in a few weeks @RochdaleHornets 6-54

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

@ThunderRugby Stop it!

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

@ThunderRugby Stay calm!

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

Good luck 👍🏻 @MetcalfeRichie @ThunderRugby

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

📍Landed

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

A great result today!

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

It's a win for Thunder 52-8. Blaydon is the place to be for entertainment on Tyneside! Enjoy your weekend Thunder fans!

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

We're just hours away from gameday! Another beltin' day in the North East in store as we welcome York Barbarians and Batley Bulldogs to Blaydon.

🎟️ https://t.co/P0zlgq3PbM

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

Congratulations, an amazing achievement @mcshane_paul 💛

[York RLFC Knights @YorkRLFC]

𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 👏

Paul McShane will take the field tomorrow night, for the 400th time in his professional career.

It was a special morning at training as Paul's family surprised him to present his shirt to mark this rare occasion 💛

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝟎𝟎: York Knights (44) @CTRLFC (223), @WTrinityRL (51), @leedsrhinos (63), @WidnesRL (11), @hullfcofficial (4), @HunsletRLFC (1) & @England_RL (3)

Congratulations, Macca!
🤝 proudly sponsored by @ClinicalTechno4

#OurEra | #ThisIsYork ⚔️

[Gavin Wilson... @GavWilson]

Further to my tweet on Saturday, I emailed @NB_Hd_of_News to complain about the @yorksport coverage in @yorkpress deteriorating further.

1. Look at the time he replied
2. Look at his email signture

Its just not sustainable.
Newsquest is killing local journalism.

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

@ThunderRugby Good luck @ThunderRugby 👍🏻

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

Hard fought win @ThunderRugby

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

Try Thunder!

Hunter at the double with a show and go to score on the hooter. Harrison converts and we win 14-32.

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

Here is Graham Steadman's 20 Player Squad for this Sunday's match against Keighley Cougars, back home, at Blaydon (3pm KO)

🎟️ https://t.co/P0zlgq3PbM

[Newcastle Thunder @ThunderRugby]

Tomorrow we take on Keighley Cougars at Blaydon. Check out our Gameday Guide over on our website and grab your tickets in advance!

🗞️ https://t.co/cl8blZah59

🎟️ https://t.co/P0zlgq3PbM

[PHYLL THORMAN 💎 @PhyllThorman]

@Johnashton88 @YorkRLFC @NYKnightsRL So good to hear RL this!

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

The orange shit-gibbon has no comprehension of the Pandora’s box he just opened.

🇦🇪🇺🇸 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.

"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?"

Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.

His questions:

* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?
* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?
* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose
* Your "Board of Peace" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?
* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela
* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)
* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total
* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days
* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes

The sharpest line: "Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?"

Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying "we didn't sign up for this."

The letter ends: "True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace."

@KhalafAlHabtoor

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

We’re absolutely honoured to win Interview of the Year at the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards

This was an interview with John Hunt and his daughter Amy about the attack that killed John’s wife Carol and two other daughters Hannah and Louise

John & Amy spoke with immense courage and dignity ❤️

#Newsnight
#RTS