Rupert Carey

Senior Editor, BBC Verify. My views (unless sitting on my phone).

[Mark O'Haire @MarkOHaire]

Alan Partridge tries to explain the format of the 1994 World Cup finals with the never-to-be-forgotten Soccermeter.

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

@DrHelenFry Non-fiction: Stalingrad or Berlin, The Downfall (both Anthony Beevor).
Fiction: Suite Francaise, Irene Nemerovsky, the epic Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman) and Sword of Honour Trilogy (Evelyn Waugh)

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Orson Welles with a great story about Winston Churchill on The Dick Cavett Show, 1970. Churchill was a true gentleman…

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

Jacques Cousteau with family and crew in a submarine under the Red Sea in 1963. Red wine and cigs all day and night. Sub Life goes hard.

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

Confused by the #WorldCupDraw? Time for Alan Partridge’s World Cup “soccer meter” https://t.co/K0rjyScMVt via @YouTube

[The Magic Mod @TaylorMod]

As soon as the bass hit that was it
Pure joy and carnage

RIP Mani

[Ben Tavener @BBCBenTavener]

Our piece for @bbcnews from Vladivostok on how Russia’s war on Ukraine affects people across the country, even here – 7,000km from the front line.

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

@holland_tom Which one’s the Alpha? Is it the one in the snorkel coat?

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

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The Chinese owners of British Steel say they are now considering shutting their blast furnaces and end steelmaking at Scunthorpe in early June - only a few months away.
It would mean an end of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it during the industrial revolution

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Skateboarding in Medellín with a great night view

[📹 hojan.alzate / danielcgiraldo]

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

And 1, the very greatest, as recounted by director John Boorman. The one that ends with a CHP officer asking "Do you know you have Lee Marvin on your roof?"

[Scandinavian Aesthetics @ScandinavianAE]

Reykjavík, Iceland 🇮🇸

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

@DrHelenFry Thin Red Line

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Gdańsk in the morning mist looks utterly ethereal.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to fuel wave of misinformation https://t.co/czBvyEqqMX

[Ben Chu @BenChu_]

How many farms will likely be affected by the changes to inheritance tax in the Budget?

Our Verify analysis 📺👇

[Duncan Weldon @DuncanWeldon]

Quite the chart. An even bigger political backlash than after 2008/09.
People really really really hate inflation.

https://t.co/vPFKJ27s1c

[Ben Chu @BenChu_]

Donald Trump has claimed the cost of his proposed new tariffs would be borne by foreign countries, not by Americans.

Here's what the evidence says 👇

https://t.co/VBzgTBm1ak

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

@SeanSpurr More than words

[Rupert Carey @Roop1]

@modsoftoday Head over heels or Pale Shelter