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[julie @rashbrj]

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[julie @rashbrj]

@mikejwhelan I rarely post on X at all but have followed you and Rebecca for several years. Thoughts with you both at this very difficult time.

[julie @rashbrj]

@TruthFairy131 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnñnnnn mmm

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Barack Obama hasn't been President in almost 10 years. MAGA racists cannot get past the fact that a Black man was President, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and will be remembered in history as one of the great leaders of the 21st Century.

RETWEET if you love President Obama! 💙

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

Today is #EducationDay. It has been 1,589 days since Taliban banned girls over 11 from school in Afghanistan and the world still looks away.

This is a despicable stain on the conscience of institutions meant to defend rights and dignity including @UNHumanRights @Europarl_EN

[Shayan @shayan_]

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.

Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

[SIZWE-BANSI @SizweBansii]

🚨 URGENT:
She’s been sentenced to be stoned to death in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 for being a woman Taekwondo 🥋 coach and training young women .

Her name is Khadija Ahmadzada and she’s only 22 years old .

Her only chance of survival is if you can share this post,create awareness❗️

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Composer Stephen Schwartz, who wrote Wicked, has cancelled his planned 2026 gala at the Kennedy Center in response to Trump’s renaming.

RETWEET if you stand with Schwartz against Trump!

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Update: results in - still cancer-free 🥳

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Sick of the BBC acting as a mouthpiece for Farage and Reform? Us too.

Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

Dems would bail him out 🤡

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*

**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**

**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**

Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

*With love and gentleness,*

— Patricia Routledge

[Pablo O'Hana @PabloOHana]

Man I love my country 🇬🇧 On the train today, two girls without tickets started kicking off at the conductors, calling them 'fat slags', 'fucking lesbians' and all sorts. A non-white foreign passenger steps in, so they start firing racist abuse, telling him to 'go back where he came from' and that Farage & Anderson will 'sort his lot out.' Then half the carriage jumped in to back him and the conductors, including an old white man who could barely walk, but wasn't going to let that stop him from giving his two pence. The police were called, and a few of us checked in on the conductors. When all was said and done and the train was moving again, the old man got up and turned to the foreign man and just said "cuppa?" and honestly, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Absolute class act from everyone and a reminder that the vile vocal minority do NOT represent our great country. Call me naive, but I truly believe our country is better than the horrid politics of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson etc, and when push comes to shove, when shit hits the fan, we know who we are – and man, it really ain't that, no matter how hard people like Farage try to make it so.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Donald Trump and the people around him—his advisors, his allies, his sycophants in Congress and on television—don’t want us to remember what connects us. They don’t want us to see ourselves in others, or for others to see themselves in us. They don’t want us to feel anything but rage and suspicion. They want us disoriented. Hardened. Alone.
https://t.co/cEtb2PRzik

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This is shocking and heartbreaking.
I’m calling on the international community, especially journalists, to watch this video and help help my friend @jinbabamiri to save her father.

Her father, Rezgar Beigzadeh, an Iranian-Kurdish man, has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

His only “crime” was helping injured protesters after the killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022. Also using Starlink to give people internet access when the regime shut it down is his other “crime”.

Now, the regime is falsely accusing him of plotting to kill @khamenei_ir a total lie, meant to take revenge after losing face in the war with Israel.

Share this. Talk about it. Pressure leaders.
Before they execute an innocent man for daring to help.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: President Obama slams Trump for cutting USAID in a message to workers on their last day: “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.”

RETWEET if you stand with @BarackObama!

[Lynne Stott 🐈🌄🌋 @StottLynne]

@WDYTYA_UK @BBCOne One of the best episodes ever. Will Young remained so composed, dignified and respectful. Wonderful. 👏🏻👏🏻

[Susannah Farley-Green @FarleySusannah]

@wdytyamagazine I thought it was one of the best and most interesting episodes I have seen. Will Young came over as a very genuine person whose family history was fascinating and horrifying at the same time.

[Gareth @gjmarklew]

Really entertaining episode of #WDYTYA tonight - Will Young seems just so enthusiastic about everything. It’s great to see someone so engaged with their family stories.

[Flying Pig 🚁 @flyabout7]

I’m fascinated by genealogy and have traced my ancestors back to the 13th century Shetland Isles.

My ancestors are Umphrays on my mum’s side.

I’ve just finished watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ with Will Young on BBC1.

One of the best episodes I’ve ever seen. 👌