MsT

Bone viveuse with a sultry black coat, If you ignore the white bits round her muzzle and cold wet black nose

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Must watch people https://t.co/kjil1D6xw5

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Very Fun Fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

***Well worth reading. James Ball points out that self styled “whistleblower” edits Trump’s usual rambling speech on Jan 6 just as Panorama did. Prescott’s edit is less justified and gets off the old insurrectionist off the treason hook

[MsT @Tillymalink]

JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith - America Magazine https://t.co/JLd1SZtQoZ

[AF Post @AFpost]

Pope Leo XIV has called for an “immediate ceasefire” after Israel struck the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing 2 people and injuring several others.

Pope Francis’ friend, Father Gabriel Romanelli, is among the wounded.

Follow: @AFpost

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

New Deputy Chairman of Reform is Paul Nuttall – the man who falsely claimed to be a pro footballer, have a PhD, live in his constituency when he didn’t and have close friends who died at Hillsborough. A vetting system cock-up or just Reform being the natural home of lying twats?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Disability benefits are 'unsustainable', the NHS is 'unsustainable' and now the pension triple lock is 'unsustainable', or so we are told. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Lawyers for Liz Truss have asked me to stop saying Liz Truss crashed the economy. I only said Liz Truss crashed the economy because Liz Truss did crash the economy. If she wanted me to not say Liz Truss crashed the economy, she shouldn’t have crashed the economy.
Please don’t RT

[MsT @Tillymalink]

So, so sorry to hear this. Lots of love to Eileen and the rest of the family. He will be greatly missed

[Broughton Spurtle @theSpurtle]

SAD NEWS FOR BROUGHTON:—John Dickie, founding editor of the Broughton Spurtle, will stir no more: https://t.co/tgyxahrVnC
#Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

[Cyrenians @Cyrenians1968]

As dangerously low temperatures set in, please contact 0808 178 2323 if you see anyone at risk of rough sleeping to help them into accommodation.

[MsT @Tillymalink]

@BBCSounds using iOS 18 and the VoiceOver screenreader on an iPhone and an iPad, can no longer read station schedules it keeps jumping back to the top of the list. Still works fine on an old iPhone running iOS 15.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk. https://t.co/IX9HC2GcYr

[MsT @Tillymalink]

The dramatised version at the Edinburgh International Festival wasn't too shabby either

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Whatever you do try to see this film, based on the book of a recovering alcoholic in Orkney. Saoirse Ronan absolutely brilliant. Great to catch up with her and her partner Jack Lowden who produced it. Cannot recommend it enough. Harrowing but hopeful

[Vanishing Point @VPointTheatreCo]

Year round it's getting harder to have an arts industry in Scotland. Who do the politicians expect to make the shows, which feed the festivals they're all so keen to be photographed at? Those guys seem more interested in lauding the Scots who have LEFT Scotland. (ML)

[MsT @Tillymalink]

Now if he'd been a champion Monopoly player…

[Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa]

Not normally one for predictions, but if this is true I predict bad news for arts orgs waiting to hear about the £100m the @scotgov has promised their industry over the next few years, but has never been rolled out. Really hope I’m wrong, but the mood music I’m hearing is v grim.

[Rachel Cunliffe @RMCunliffe]

Nothing to see here, just the guy who bought Twitter having free speech explained to him by a cat

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

It's surprising to me how many people still seem to think Elon Musk is driving moderate political opinion away from Twitter by mistake, rather than on purpose.