The Prince of Wales honours the bravery of those who participated in D-Day.
“Today we remember the bravery of those who crossed this sea to liberate Europe. Those who ensured that Operation Overlord was a success. And those who waited for their safe return.
#DDay80
"The stories of courage, resilience and solidarity which we have heard today, and throughout our lives, cannot fail to move us, to inspire us, and to remind us of what we owe to that great wartime generation."
A speech by The King to mark #DDay80 in Portsmouth. Click to read.
@RestIsPolitics@RoryStewartUK@campbellclaret Do you agree with J K Rowling’s stance against the SNP’s new hate crime law, and daring the police to arrest her? Do you agree that “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.” Ref The Telegraph 1.4.24
Met with the Chancellor to reiterate what Portsmouth’s families and businesses need to hear in the Budget. I discussed the work I’m doing with UK civil reserve and others to deliver a greater return for our defence and contingency budgets and increase capability. Our first duty is to protect our nation and its interests.
@RestIsPolitics It’s St Andrew’s Day on Thursday this week. What is Alastair & Rory’s favourite traditional & contemporary Pipe tune & why? Have either of them heard Gordon Duncan’s “Sleeping Tune”? Perhaps Alastair could play out the programme playing a piece. Best wishes to all at TRIP
@RestIsPolitics@campbellclaret@RoryStewartUK It’s St Andrew’s Day on Thursday this week. What is Alastair & Rory’s favourite traditional & contemporary Pipe tune & why? Have either of them heard Gordon Duncan’s “Sleeping Tune”? Perhaps Alastair could play out the programme playing a piece. Best wishes to all at TRIP
It was an honour for me to play the piano at George Alagiah’s memorial service. Such an emotional, uplifting celebration of his life. Here’s the montage of George at work and at home for which I provided a musical accompaniment.
Couple of guys out for a mountain bike ride over the Glen's and moors in Scotland bump into King Charles III, who then have a chat like he's one of the boys in the pub.
Things like that for me is why I'm a royalist, the plus side of the Royal Family, they contribute billions to our economy every year
I’ve recorded this tribute to George Alagiah: one of the finest and nicest journalists at the BBC. For the former Africa correspondent, I play Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (Lord Bless Africa). Thank you to George's close friend Allan Little @alittl for suggesting the music.
Come on this is awful! One of the many reasons to be so angry with Boris Johnson was the isolationist populism that led to the appallingly managed deeply damaging abolition of DfiD - Keir should be better than this https://t.co/BMT21NLXib
Western intelligence agencies are warning that Putin has been mortally wounded by Prigozhin’s aborted coup and that NATO must prepare for the collapse of Russia. It’s difficult to predict the likely timing, but civil war seems inevitable rather than possible. We could see a humanitarian catastrophe unfold. Worse still, different factions vying for control of Russia’s nuclear stockpiles might force us to deploy ground forces to stabilise the region and prevent the wrong people gaining access to WMD. However likely or unlikely this scenario is, Britain needs to be prepared for the unexpected and we are not. We have had 12 months to ramp-up our capabilities. But whereas our European partners have increased defence spending, we contemplating further cuts.
The Wagner groups astonishing range of contacts - and contracts in Africa - with gold, diamond and timber concessions financing their operations - @RestIsPolitics
Cutting waiting lists is one of our 5 priorities. Here's what we've done.
Labour are still deciding what their priorities are. Meantime, they're failing the people of Wales.