Moira

[Moira @moiracarson]

@casalindi Love a bed full of brindles-sheer poetry ❤️

[Moira @moiracarson]

@casalindi How awful for her-but she is in the best place with the best people (and pups) ❤️❤️❤️

[emily m @maitlis]

This is the most extraordinary account of what it feels like - on a personal level - when dictators topple . It’s by our friend and co host on @TheNewsAgents USA @MilesTaylorUSA https://t.co/qAVW5OF9GQ

[Moira @moiracarson]

@GalgosdelSol ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Crown Estate is worth £16.7 billion making £1.2 billion in profit last year.

They're chasing out the UK's oldest Indian restaurant, Veeraswamy.

The Crown Estate wants to refurbish the building and create a larger entrance for offices upstairs, allowing it to charge higher office rents. It says the work requires removing Veeraswamy’s separate entrance and cannot proceed with the restaurant remaining there.

Veeraswamy disputes that eviction is necessary. Its owners say they have offered to share the enlarged entrance, accommodate the works and match the rent expected from office tenants. The Crown Estate has rejected those alternatives.

The estate has offered around £500,000 compensation, while the owners estimate relocating would cost £5 million.

Labour keeps talking about reviving our high streets. Yet here is Veeraswamy, a cultural landmark with a century of history, facing eviction so its landlord can command higher office rents.

It reflects a familiar problem across the country: the places that give our high streets their character are sacrificed for greater returns.

If Labour is serious about revival, protecting that heritage should be part of it.

Any plans to step in and help @RNBlake (if you aren't already)?

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Never forget that Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered fighting Trump’s fascism.

Tonight belongs to them.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

The Obama's never has this problem.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.

🎥 The Guardian

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm on record saying I'd pay good money to a White House reporter who asks when Donald Trump is heading to Wakanda to sign the Sokovia Accords.

(A bonus for throwing in: "The Wakandans are big fans of yours and say they want to build a Trump Tower in their country.")

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNN's Senior Data Analyst Harry Enten just HUMILIATED Donald Trump making clear that President Obama soars above him in terms of popularity with the American people. Retweet this to ensure every American sees Trump's worst nightmare come true.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨REPUBLICANS WANT THIS BURIED

A video is going viral of all the times Trump promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine within 24 hours of winning in 2024.

It’s two years later and all he’s become is a stool pigeon for Putin.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🔥🔥🔥HOLY HELL: Whatever you do, do not repost this as Donald Trump will lose his shit if he hears this insane applause Ohio gave Obama today!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

OH SO IT IS IRAN and not Ukraine huh?

[Arlene @ABCDAP]

DO NOT LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH UNTIL YOU ARE SURE THE MACHINE REGISTERED YOUR 'DEMOCRAT' VOTE. Many people are reporting they voted DEMOCRAT and it clicked back to REPUBLICAN. A voter says it took 4 times before it stayed on DEMOCRAT. The fix is in! https://t.co/CWydzUFAMD

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

GOOD BYE everyone

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2020: Matt Hancock, "Right from the start we've tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes"

2026: Baroness Hallett, "The claim that a so called protective ring has be thrown around care homes right from the start was unfounded. Quite the opposite is true. The adult social care sector as a whole, appeared to be something of an after thought"

My view:

Matt Hancock said the government had tried to throw a “protective ring” around care homes. He repeated the claim in Parliament. Nadhim Zahawi later publicly backed it, while Boris Johnson defended the government’s handling when challenged. Now Baroness Hallett’s inquiry has rejected the claim as unfounded: care homes were not protected from the start; adult social care was treated as an afterthought.

This was more than a failure of words. Patients were discharged from hospitals into care homes without routine testing, and care homes were not advised to isolate those arrivals. Staff faced shortages of PPE and testing, while residents and families bore the consequences. The inquiry describes a system that failed to plan for the risks and failed to put care homes at the centre of its response.

What we saw was a collective failure—a collaboration of incompetence at the expense of life. The phrase “protective ring” offered reassurance while the protections people needed were missing. Thousands of families were left grieving, and care workers were left trying to cope with the consequences. Those responsible should face the findings honestly, explain how this happened and make sure the lessons lead to change.

But the question remains, why is there almost no accountability for the actions government ministers took during covid?

[Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti]

Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:

"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.

"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.

"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."

https://t.co/AxaE8imd6A

[Flying Dutch Fella 🇺🇦🇳🇱🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇨🇦🇬🇱 @FlyingDutchPall]

Weird, I don’t see much of this on Twitter.

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