Emma-Jane
"If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem" Toni Morrison
- It shouldn’t have taken a dead man’s emails to believe thousands of women #Epstein
- Nick Watt you can’t possibly liken Barry Gardiner, BARRY GARDINER! to Sir Thomas Moore. #Newsnight Chuckling.
- Mandelson: ‘I have confidence in him, he is playing an important role in UK-US relationship’ -Starmer 10 Sept 2025 Same day Gordon Brown asked for investigation of info passing between Mandelson and Epstein Two months later: we can’t find anything Scandal writ large
- Millions of files of evidence collected but not a single man prosecuted. Not a single one. #EpsteinFiles
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- Centre / left ahead by 9% it’s not even close to over. Tactical voting. YouGov, Sky, Times voting intention RefUK 25(+1) LAB 21%(+2) CON 17%(-1) GRN 16%(-1) LDEM 14%(nc) Changes since last week
- A terrible sign for the left to have become the political vehicle of those already doing well Voting intention by education level: Low ➡️Ref: 42% (+19) 🔵Con: 21% (-10) 🔴Lab: 12% (-16) 🟠LD: 10% (+1) 🟢Grn: 9% (+5) High 🔴Lab: 25% (-17) 🟢Grn: 21% (+12) 🟠LD: 18% (+5) 🔵Con: 16% (-2) ➡️Ref: 13% (+5)
- We’ve turned the corner CEO of Lloyds Bank: "Real wages rising, household savings at their highest levels for decades, and consumers and businesses continuing to reduce their indebtedness. About 60 per cent of households strengthened their financial position last year."
- “When even one person stops performing… the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.” — Canadian Prime Minister Mark #Carney: #Davos26
- What leadership looks like cc Keir Starmer #Davos26
- “Having a place like Europe, which sometimes is too slow, for sure, and needs to be reformed, for sure, but which is predictable, loyal, and where you know that the rule of the game is the rule of law, is a good place” Macron, WEF 2026
- "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- USA debt held by: United Kingdom: $888.5 billion Belgium: $481.0 billion Canada: $472.2 billion Luxembourg: $425.6 billion France: $376.1 billion Germany: $109.8 billion Denmark: $12 billion The power isn’t yours Donald.
- Omid Djalili “The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.”
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- …three way now as Germany and Sweden troops are being deployed to Greenland as a deterrent… Pic from the White House
- An extraordinary statement, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that the Islamic Republic of Iran is in its “last days and weeks” and has no legitimacy. Merz would be the first major world leader to predict such a rapid end to the regime. Cc Keir Starmer bit.ly/3NecTYJ
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- Omid Djalili “At least 12,000 killed in Iran crackdown as blackout deepens | Iran International”. #Iran
- YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention CON 20% (+1), LAB 19%(+2), LDEM 16%(nc), RefUK 24%(-2), GRN 14%(-2)
- Nobel prize winner physicists, Roger Penrose says the Big Bang was not the beginning of our universe, rather it was the end of the previous one.
- “If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies”. J.K. Rowling
- …well hello Germany 🇩🇪 ✌️
- Iranian Embassy London #FreeIran 🇮🇷
- The women of Iran
- Iran 🇮🇷 tonight. Millions on the streets.
- All the planets in our solar system and the moon in a single photo.
- …zandeh bad Iran 🇮🇷 زنده باد ایران
- Omid Djalili “The country on strike. Massive numbers on the streets. Internet cut. Mullahs seen at Moscow airport. Yet the regime still shoot at protestors. Many dead. But the people keep on coming. The courage of our fellow human beings is staggering”. #IranRevolution2026
- Which potential coalitions have the most support from Britons? LD + Lab, Davey PM: 36% support Lab + Grn, Starmer PM: 33% Lab + LD, Starmer PM: 31% Grn + Lab, Polanski PM: 30% Ref + Con, Farage PM: 29% LD + Con, Davey PM: 26% Con + Ref, Badenoch PM: 25% Con + LD, Badenoch PM: 24% Via @YouGov
- President Trump says his 'own morality' is the only constraint on his power as commander in chief, and that 'I do not need international law', according to interview with The New York Times @nytimes.com
- Toni Morrison: "It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good".
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- Betelgeuse - a star beyond our solar system
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- Scientists have measured the shortest moment in history a Zeptosecond That’s 0.000000000000000000001 seconds.
- From @pippacrerar.bsky.social “Well that's interesting... the Lib Dems 10-minute rule bill to rejoin the customs union has just passed. After a 100-100 tie the deputy speaker followed convention and cast the deciding vote in favour. It won't get govt time so won't progress - but still a moment.
- Carragher is a wee ninny! #MoSalah
- Mo Salah
- Amber is a bloomin’ musical theatre star! It’s her job FFS. #Strictly
- “My battery is low and it's getting dark." This was the final message from NASA Opportunity, sent to Mars for 90 days but wandered for nearly 15 years. Its final transmission wasn't words, but fading data-summed up on Earth as "My battery is low and it's getting dark."
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- Titan. James Webb Telescope.
- Watch Professor Hannah Fry and Chloe Barnes fall a little in love - sublime portrait, powerful women, beautiful telly. Portrait Artist of the Year - Final.
- Of course she didn’t - ahem Chris Mason www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- The Telegraph - the house paper of Brexit - publishes a 2,000-word obituary admitting: 📉 Brexit has cut UK GDP by up to 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% 📉 No trade benefits 📉 No regulatory freedom 📉 No immigration control 📉 No growth …beginning of the end.
- Happy days. New - Trump approval (Trump 2024 voters) 🟢 Approve 83% 🟤 Dissaprove 15% YouGov #A - RV - 11/24
- Alex was in massive pain, god-love-her! Would have finaled. What a woman. #Strictly
- Gordon Brown: “Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than any of the seven previous Conservative chancellors, who, in 14 long years, did nothing but harm to the lives of vulnerable children” #Budget2025
