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[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This is just a terrifying and atrocious murder by predator Russia. And a repellent symptom of our flinthearted world sickness

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@jamierkennedy @TheOpen Surely making slightly less money, every twelve years or so, can be allowed for within the R&A budget. Keeping Muirfield on the rota is good for long term brand value of the Open. Taking the extra cash from going outwith the UK would be a grubby move.

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@Gerashchenko_en Whose side is he on?

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia killed Fatima Guseynova when she came to Kharkiv for her graduation.

Her classmate has been badly injured and doctors are fighting for her life.

Deepest condolences... Russia has taken yet another young life, more future.

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@TomTugendhat The council leader deflects responsibility by saying she needs “more powers”

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@Gerashchenko_en I read your news every day, from Scotland. I wish I could vote for more direct action in defence of Ukraine against this evil ideology which must be defeated. Please stay strong.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Putin spends millions from Russia's budget to subject Ukrainians to a life without heating, electricity and water during a harsh winter. He wants hospitals, schools, nurseries to stop working. He strives to freeze the homes where kids and adults, the elderly and the sick live.

None of the millions of Russians protest against that - instead, they approve. That's their level of hatred, cruelty and lack of any sense.

Ukrainians are going through a terrible ordeal.
Ukraine is waiting for spring and hoping for peace.

Putin needs to be in prison, not on the Board of Peace.

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@bhatti_saqib @TomTugendhat Adding 20% tax onto fees is pretty consequential for those private schools already struggling

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@albertedwards99 I’m not. Reeves’ ideological taxing things to break things. She’s only interested in styling out her job to cling onto it. Clueless.

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@Gerashchenko_en Evil

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Three years ago, Russian terrorists dropped a powerful bomb on the Drama Theater in Mariupol

Inside, defenseless people were hiding from shelling. The word "CHILDREN" was written in huge letters on the ground.

The theater became a mass grave. Hundreds of people were killed, including a heartbreaking number of children.

The exact death toll is still unknown — Russia did everything to cover up the scale of the tragedy.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:

December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.

July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.

February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.

U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.

~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.

The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.

America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.

Slava Ukraina.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

This is Ihor's granddaughter Sofia. Russia killed her and her parents yesterday.

Ihor waited at the tragedy site all night. The bodies of his son and daughter-in-law still haven't been found.

The search and rescue operation in Poltava continues.

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@AnnieChave What are the chances of the ECB preventing Rod Bransgrove selling Hampshire CCC to an Indian franchise? Doesn’t English cricket value its own independence anymore?

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@ScotRail “Staff shortages” I think your explanation could go further?

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Yuval Noah Harari explains why russia can’t be allowed to win & why this war can’t be compared to disasters in Iraq & Afghanistan.

#StandWithUkraine

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@theanalyst @mitchwccc At its simplest, this is selling off future revenues in exchange for a one-off sum of money. Why can’t English cricket negotiate its own global broadcasting deals and keep 100% of those revenues in the English game? Too seduced by the short term windfall. Worrying!

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

A petition is growing in strength calling on Nationwide to give members a vote on its proposed £2.9bn takeover of Virgin Money... https://t.co/djkWxVpDE3

[V Coltherd @vcoltherd]

@MrsLaw_ Great planning. Thank you so much

[Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser]

“This could be a total disaster for Nationwide, perhaps our most important financial institution after the Bank of England”.

@SimonEngStand on Debbie Crosbie’s attempted £2.9bn takeover of the former Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank group Virgin Money.
https://t.co/K5TPeeKw7p