Caroline

Let the river run....

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Is this the best day of my life?

[Middle Temple @middletemple]

Congratulations to the 71 barristers Called to the Bar this afternoon in the first of our Trinity ceremonies. It’s a major achievement and we look forward to watching your next steps.

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Love and luck to the company of THE CHERRY ORCHARD at @TheRSC, who open to the press tonight.

A new translation by my darling partner, directed by @tamaracharvey and starring Kenneth Branagh and Helen Hunt, it runs in the Swan until 29 August.

Желаю тебе удачи!

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Is there anything more persuasive of what's wrong with the BBC than it using half time of the World Cup final to show a propaganda video paid for by the licence fee to tell us why we need to pay for the BBC?

[Alessandra Libutti 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 @a_libutti]

Il problema per Burnham, comunque agirà, è e resterà il peccato originale.

Arriva al potere dopo aver tramato per oltre un anno contro un primo ministro che - al momento in cui lui cominciava a tramare - aveva riportato i laburisti al potere dopo 14 anni solo da un anno. E questo per me chiude già il cerchio: 0 lealtà, 0 etica.

Arriva al potere senza alcun mandato e ci arriva proponendo politiche più a sinistra di Starmer contro il mandato moderato votato dagli elettori.

Burnham è l’incarnazione di quella sinistra che non riuscendo a vincere le elezioni, strappa il potere a chi le ha vinte.

Il problema futuro per ogni leader laburista che promuoverà politiche moderate come Starmer sarà: come potrà l’elettorato credere a un partito che usa il leader moderato solo per poi scalzarlo e poi imporre politiche più estreme?

Il precedente per il Labour può essere devastante.

A meno che, ovviamente, è solo un bluff e Burnham continuerà l’agenda di Starmer solo con una faccia più simpatica al pubblico.

Ma in tal caso, il peccato originale prima o poi potrebbe tornare a mordere.

[Dr Craig Haslop @craigh_]

Totally agree with this. The hatred aimed at Starmer on social media and the relentless hectoring from the MSM was never proportional to how Starmer was a leader and a PM. I would not be surprised if we find evidence of algorithmic manipulation (certainly on X) at some point.

[Kenneth @NiceGuyKenny]

It’s a strange old feeling being 1-0 up on 84 minutes and still knowing for a fact you’re going to lose.

[Manchester News MEN @MENnewsdesk]

Manchester Museum's Stan the T-Rex on the move after 22 years https://t.co/2FscOE42Wi

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Kemi Badenoch says she agreed with the PM on inviting President Zelensky to the UK after he was "attacked in the White House", asking if cross-party support for Ukraine should endure

Keir Starmer reflects on the emotion of greeting Zelensky

#PMQs https://t.co/ZQgL6OEJk9

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered. https://t.co/hw8XBjxO8o

[Ellie Hodges @elliehodges62]

Just a quick one.
When a 78 year old woman is murdered in her own home - a place that’s meant to be the safest place of all. YOU don’t need to preface your condolences with, “I didn’t agree with her political opinions.”

It’s OK to simply say, “What a horrible way for someone to die. I’m horrified, and I send my best wishes to her friends and family.”

[Nara Hodge @Nara_Hodge]

She had a house she truly loved with stunning views. She made it nice and cosy to suit her own taste. She created a library room she had always wanted to enjoy in her retirement. She had a cat she loved. She had her views, principles, faith and she stuck to them. It was her right.
And then came such a horrible, distressing , cruel end. No one deserves this.
Rest in peace, Ann Widdecombe .

[Allie Hodgkins-Brown @AllieHBNews]

Always remember him for being on air in the early hours of that fateful day in 1997, announcing the death of Diana, Princess of Wales with such poise & gravitas.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Apology not accepted.
Nothing to do with facts. You called that great woman, just slaughtered, an “old maid”, a “virgin”, a “spinster”.
Language which gave away your horrible misogyny.
You would NEVER have described a 78-year old man as “bachelor” let alone “virgin”.
It was unforgivable.
As Ann would have said: “APP-ALL-LLING”!

[Kyle MacLachlan @Kyle_MacLachlan]

hit the road with me and my ludicrously capacious forthcoming memoir.

hope 2 see u there 👍  https://t.co/lu3F9PUCDp

[Nadhim Zahawi @nadhimzahawi]

💔👇🏽

[rebekah @rebekah_e_s]

we now go to the FIFA VAR room

[Welcome to Twin Peaks @ThatsOurWaldo]

THE NORWEGIANS ARE LEAVING!

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Adam Bolton thinks he’s a fact based journalist rather than a bare faced misogynist 😂

[Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood]

This 👇

Quite possibly the most ill judged, emotionally detached and grossly incompetent piece of “news coverage” I have ever seen broadcast by a mainstream news channel in the UK. How this grotesque commentary was broadcast at all - but then allowed to continue in real time is utterly beyond me.

Disgusting.