RT @hilarybennmp: Happy Birthday Dad.

RT @yashar: In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe….

What do you want to know?.

RT @steveracemp: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already achieved enough to go down in history as one of the great leaders - showing his true chara….

Been watching John Prescott’s funeral - full of great anecdotes, and a particularly nice choice of hymns.‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save’ aka ‘For those in peril on the sea’ for the former seaman.And ‘Amazing Grace’ with its links to another former Hull MP William Wilberforce.

What it once looked like apaz (Sic transit gloria mundi)

A rare trace of Tudor survival in the gatehouse of Richmond Palace once that huge historic hub of Henrician court life, and nearby some mock Tudor architecture

In a Simpsons-esque scene there was a fire alarm in the office. Everyone was meant to be out in a maximum of 90 seconds. ‘How long did we take?’.‘I don’t know we stopped counting after 8 minutes’.

Frozen canals of Warwickshire

Hmm, not sure this chap is going to get back to me.

RT @ClarkeMicah: My response to the (weird) greeting 'Happy New Year': 'Thank you but I pay absolutely no attention to the 'New Year', an e….

My Mum thought those ‘2025’ glasses people were wearing were persciption lenses and thought it was a waste of money as you’d look silly wearing them when it gets to 2026….

Reception here is pretty rubbish so this may take a while to send but hope everyone has a great 2018! Happy New Year everyone 🎉.

RT @Criminalsimpson: If you started “Itchy & Scratchy Land” at exactly 11:46:37 tonight you can ring in 2025 when the waiter at TGI McScrar….

She attended political meetings from the 1930s to a Co-op Party meeting on Zoom 5 days before her death.

Some great stories at Saxon Spence’s memorial service today - perhaps almost the last person who can genuinely say they’d known Labour Prime Ministers from Attlee (who she knew from at least 1945 and used to dance with) to Starmer (who sent a nice message).

RT @LukePollard: Said goodbye to the indefatigable Saxon Spence today. As a lifelong co-operator and Labour member, she has been a towering….

(When Joe Biden was already a Senator).

Jimmy Carter's very long life means that before today the last Democratic President to die was Lyndon Johnson in January 1973 (!).

RT @ElunedAnderson: The two oldest living presidents are now the incumbent president and the president elect.