Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.Β π΅πΈ
"Chan Chan" by Buena Vista Social Club is a timeless son Cubano masterpiece from their 1997 Grammy-winning album, blending infectious rhythms with playful storytelling. Written by Company Segundo in 1987, it evokes Cuba's rural spirit through a cheeky tale of love and desire on the beach.
@afneil For months we were told only military pressure could deliver security. Now, after lives have been lost and billions spent, the result is a ceasefire, negotiations, sanctions relief, and compromise.
Thames Water is a national disgrace. Saddled with nearly Β£20 billion in debt, it has dumped raw sewage for hundreds of thousands of hours into our rivers, faced a record Β£123 million fine, and now wants customers to bail out its Β£10 billion rescue package. Privatisation has failed. Enough of debt, dividends and pollution while families pay soaring bills.
Keir Starmer takes his seat beside Donald Trump at the G7: one inherited privilege, the other inherited wealth. Between them sits a century of promises made to ordinary people and a century of disappointments delivered.
Eton College: where generations of Britain's rulers are taught that leadership is their birthright and the rest of the nation is a subject for administration.
βShe keeps urging him to wake up, refusing every attempt to pull her away from him.β
π¨A heartbreaking scene capturing a childβs painful farewell to her father, a nurse, and her brother, killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza City.
Governments have a curious habit of calling provocation "policy" and retaliation "aggression." Seizing ships may produce a triumphant headline today, but tomorrow may bring higher energy prices, disrupted trade and fresh tensions at sea. Empires often mistake the first act for the final scene.
British armed forces intercept Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in Channel https://t.co/MJfQes8muL
@KimJohnsonMP The most accomplished damage is often done by respectable politicians in expensive suits.
A criminal may ruin a few lives; a government can ruin millions, all while calling it policy. The danger of power is that it arrives wearing a smile.
@Mrbhadoosky The tragedy of modern politics is that it mistakes prohibition for parenting. If a child spends nine hours staring at a wall, the failure is not technology but imagination.
@Default69202648 Pensioners taken away by police for expressing a political opinion. The modern State no longer fears violence half so much as it fears dissent. When speech becomes a crime, freedom survives only as a slogan.
@educationgovuk@JoshMacAlister Technology is part of the problem. But if politicians are serious about giving children their childhoods back, they might start by addressing the conditions that make growing up so difficult in the first place.
@Keir_Starmer A noble sentiment. But childhood is also shaped by poverty, overcrowded classrooms, disappearing youth clubs, long NHS waiting lists, and parents working longer hours for less reward.
@Keir_Starmer Quite so.
The curious question is why these dangers are intolerable when practised by technology companies, yet acceptable when employed by politicians, party machines and state institutions.
@SkyNews Adults are daily subjected to outrage, fear, manipulation and endless partisan theatre. If social media poisons young minds, then much of modern politics appears determined to poison mature ones.
The difference is merely that one sells advertising, while the other sells votes.
@bphillipsonMP@ITVNewsPolitics One million young people unemployed is not merely an economic statistic. It is one million ambitions delayed, one million talents wasted, and one million futures left waiting in the corridor while politicians congratulate themselves in the ballroom.
Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani damaged property and received years of their lives in return. Judge Jeremy Johnson called it justice; others may call it a warning. When political dissent is weighed on the same scales as terrorism, liberty should examine the small print of its contract.
Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. An extraordinary achievement.
Yet it raises an uncomfortable question: if one individual can accumulate over $1 trillion in wealth while millions struggle to afford housing, food, and energy, is the economy rewarding innovation or concentrating power on a scale history has never seen?
The future has arrived. Who benefits from it remains the real debate.
Celebrated British artist David Hockney has died at the age of 88, just weeks before his 89th birthday.
He was one of the most influential British painters and photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Serious escalation in the Middle East: US & Iran trading strikes for a 2nd day, with attacks hitting regional bases & shipping lanes. Israel-Lebanon & Gaza fighting continues amid fragile ceasefires. Risks of wider conflict rising fast. Urgent need for de-escalation & diplomacy.
For decades, politicians have been guilty of a dereliction of duty. They stopped planning for the future and focused instead on the next election, not the next generation.
The result? Crumbling infrastructure, stagnant wages, unaffordable housing, overstretched public services, and a nation less prepared for the challenges ahead.
Leadership is not about managing decline. It is about building a future.