J. Sebag-Montefiore

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The Odyssey is a long-form poem about a myth. It has a long history of being reinterpreted by artists, directors, & translators. Orson Welles cast Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy back in 1950. Today's critics are culturally illiterate buffoons.
https://t.co/yrv1sgZOxW

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

I mean, you have to love the Brits for this.

[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

Passer sa vie à parler de laxisme, d’insécurité, de la lutte contre la délinquance.

Être définitivement condamnée.

Promettre de ne pas se présenter sous bracelet électronique… Finalement pour y aller avec.

La honte a un nom : #LePen

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

This Clacton Circus is an absolute gift for Andy Burnham. All scrutiny has suddenly dissipated. Gets extra space to put his team and 100 day strategy together. Then stands on the steps of No.10 looking Prime Ministerial, whilst Nigel Farage is wandering around arguing with a bin.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

We can’t have parliamentary elections being paid for by people standing in them - that’s obviously nuts.

[Jovan Owusu-Nepaul @JOwusuNepaul]

🧵I want to thank Labour members and friends for asking whether I would stand again.

The Labour Party has made the right choice today, to not stand a candidate in this sham by-election.

[Jenny Maria Nilsson @jennymaria]

Det märkliga är inte att vårdanställda står & aggressivt vrålar i sina sjukhuskläder - i entrén till sjukhuset där de arbetar, omdömeslösa finns alltid - det konstiga är att ingen i ledningen sätter ett omedelbart stopp för det.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money - another big scoop by our @Annaisaac

https://t.co/hg41X5dwpr

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

It's 9pm local time in London, everyone in the Royal Box has left the building, and the camera pans to the one person who stayed to watch the last match of the day...

Roger Federer, the winningest men's champion in Wimbledon history.

Cinema.

[Steve Clark @steveclarkuk]

Today I am remembering Miriam Hyman and the 51 other people murdered in the 7/7 London bombings 21 years ago today. Miriam was a lovely person and a great picture researcher. Her family set up a charity which helps children in India needing eye operations. https://t.co/BYBYc919Vt

[Fig Newton @TopTerf]

To the London black cab driver who found me bloodied in the chaos of central London and drove me all the way to Reading: thank you.

Thank you for cleaning my face. For the sugary tea at the BP garage. For delivering me safely to my friend's front door and refusing to charge me a single penny.

In the trauma of that day, I never asked your name. I don’t think I even thanked you properly, and I am so sorry for that. But I hope you know that I remember you every single year.

You were a hero when London needed one most.

#SevenSeven
#NeverForget
#LondonBombings

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Happy 80th birthday to my friend George W. Bush!

Your friendship—and that of your father and your entire family—has been one of the great gifts of my life. It has always reminded me that long before we’re politicians, we’re fellow Americans and, above all, human beings.

And for the next month, I’m especially grateful to finally have someone older than me! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and friendship.

Our country is stronger when we remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

[Christer Sfeirكريستر @ChristerSfeir]

Demonstrationen utanför Karolinska var förstås ingen slump. Det handlade inte bara om att uttrycka en åsikt, utan om att lägga beslag på vårdens moraliska auktoritet. Budskapet var underförstått: Den som arbetar här förväntas stå på vår sida. Det är klassiskt aktivistiskt dominansbeteende, att ockupera en institution med högt förtroende och göra den till kuliss för den egna politiska agendan. Sjukhusentrén förvandlas från en plats för patienter till en scen för opinionsbildning. Nästa steg blir att den som inte deltar förväntas förklara sig. Det är så neutral mark eroderas: inte genom beslut, utan genom socialt och symboliskt tryck…

[Jan Berg @jantberg]

Skulle du vilja bli behandlad av en läkare som är extremist - vad säger regionen om att de demonstrerar i deras kläder …

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

For years, the media called Israel paranoid.

But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.

Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.

[Peter Stothard @PeterStothard1]

Sad to hear just now of the death of Joanna Mackle, magnificent (usually tall-hatted) enthusiast for fine writing at Faber for so long. She and I kept the secret of Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letter till The Times broke the story in 1998. A tough task. Fondly remembered today.

[Gordon McIntosh ✨ #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 @Gordy_Mc1ntosh]

That would be the same 10 years that Keir Starmer said was required to do the same thing.

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

Wishing @thomashampson a very happy birthday!

[Farshid Jalalvand @f_jalalvand]

De homosexuella som inte avrättas av IRI tvingas till könskorrigerande kirurgi, men det är ”högerkonservativa i Sverige” som ”utmålar” MÖ som fientlig mot HBTQI. Tar en enda person denna skribent seriöst?