Not sure why @Uber liked this comment. I would have been embarrassed and offered an apology or an explanation as to how to reclaim the cancellation fee (since the app is Byzantine in its complexity regarding this issue.

'Due to Liz Truss and Brexit we can only afford to give away one strategic air base to a Chinese ally'

If you read one piece today make it this extraordinary article from Lord Glasman on how he emerged from 12 hours of fasting during Yom Kippur to turn on his phone and be met by a cacophony of grief Every word is carefully weighed, it is a beautiful piece of writing. Well worth

“Since the readmission of the Jews to England in the 1650s (thank you Oliver Cromwell) until 1960 (when a Jewish student was killed by fascists), not a single Jew was killed in our country for being a Jew. This is unique in all Europe and the Americas.”

arresting words from Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander.

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000. Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

I will be teaching a course on The Legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte: from his rise in the French Revolution to his reforms, epic battles, and final defeat at Waterloo, discover the triumphs, failures, and enduring legacy. Do come along on 3 and 4 September and be part of the

*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

Grandson is trying to book a driving test, there are no tests available for 6 months. However, if you go on a website, they put you on a list if you pay them up to £200 and they get you a quick date How are they doing this? They must be snapping up all of the dates? Anyone?

The fireman was asked why he was laughing while saving this old woman. He said that the old woman had told him: - You reminded me of my wedding night.

🧵The White House just dropped these mini video profiles highlighting America's first patriotic legends, celebrating their enduring contributions that founded this nation. This thread will contain them. Bookmark worthy.🙂 1. Thomas Heyward Jr.

https://t.co/yDUp1gD4P1

I have been trying to meet with the Presiding Officer since I was removed from the chamber last week. Today she claimed not to be aware of my numerous requests for a meeting. Do her officials really decline meetings with MSPs without her knowledge?

Scatman Crothers was born on this day in 1910. Scatman played drums with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, played Scat Cat in the Aristocats, he shined in The Shining, and voiced Hong Kong Phooey. This performance of All of Me with Redd Foxx on Sanford and Son is brilliant.

How many people could even CONCEIVE of doing this, let alone then do it & so brilliantly on a primetime TV show. ORSON WELLES - born 110yrs ago today - transforms himself (in full costume hair & make-up) into ‘Falstaff’ on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW in 1968.

Every now and then I like to highlight characters in history who crossed paths with American Presidents in some way, shape or form. Today… I’d like to talk **briefly** about a Scottish journalist named James T. Callender… Enjoy the thread! 🧵 #POTUS ⬇️

In the @ScotTories debate last week on protecting single-sex spaces, neither the SNP cabinet secretary opening the debate nor the minister closing it took a single intervention. Taxpayers' who pay their combined £232,637 salary deserve better.

You can buy any book you are looking for on the internet. But we need physical, independent bookshops because that is where you discover the books you were not looking for, and never knew you needed.

My latest book will be released early June and is available to pre-order on Amazon and W H Smiths now! It’s titled ….‘Still Here’ …. May the darts be with you. 👑 @bracecricket

Great to attend the #conforawards25 dinner last night to celebrate achievement in the forestry sector. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. @IanDuncanHMG pictured summing up a fantastic evening