Elizabeth Blunt

There used to be a tonic called Virol. Same root?

Mandelson may be charged with misconduct in public office, for the insider information he gave Epstein. No one in the States seems to be talking about that. "I never had anything to do with the girls" doesn't let you off the hook. It's also about being compromised.

Some Americans are noticing that Britain has dealt much more severely with Epstein's associates. But they should also note that this is not just about what they did with under-age girls. It is also about what they gave in exchange for the treats and loans and tropical holidays. 1/2

Thank yyou for the reminder. I took down the actual Christmas decorations at Epiphany, but left a few twinkly lights, just to cheer the dark days.

I hope this isn't a valedictory. I loved your piece on the website, but I shall never be able to look at you (or a squirrel) in the same way again.

Alarming. But I don't see the point. What are they trying to do? Even if they could prove Trump won Georgia, they can't rewrite history. Biden has completed his presidency, and Trump has got two terms, so can't be awarded a third.

I go to the nice man in the computer/ phone shop next to Kingston station. Do you have a local, real life shop you can support.?

YES! I also used to be a shift worker. I lost that excuse when I tried, but will soon be able to say, "I am eighty years old. I don't have to do anything I don't want to."

Liz Truss's real legacy

Thank you.

Some of the BBC's best reporting on Jan 6 was by reporters who knew what to do in a coup.

Well done. I once made my own, and it was the best haggis ever. But once in a lifetime is enough....

What is happening in Minnesota is appalling, but I am perturbed by how many people seem particularly shocked and outraged by the fact that ICE kills US citizens. Would it be less shocking if they killed foreign nationals like me? Or indeed the undocumented migrants they are searching for?

(Google 'County Hall penguins' of you have no idea what I am talking about)

Perhaps she is going to free the unfortunate penguins imprisoned in the basement of old County Hall.

Pah!

What the US Republican Party needs is the equivalent of the British Tory Party's 1922 Committee - aka the'Men in Grey Suits'. Once they have decided a leader's time is up, they are RUTHLESS.

For context - the rest of the video the White House only posted the first frame of (courtesy of @pepel_klaasa) 🤣

I had forty years of BBC training about not insulting other people's heads of state, but President Trump was awake, tweeting this, private messages from Macron etc and nonsense about the Chagos Islands BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND TWO IN THE MORNING. Something is deeply, deeply wrong.

Yes. My interest is in Africa. And sources there which established a Twitter presence have seldom moved on.

Now you have to tell us....

QV Latin - medieval Latin doesn't count.

My mother had a wooden board cut to fit the space, held in place with a stick propped against it. When I grew up and had my own fireplace, I lived dangerously and did it with newspaper.

Just wondering, do users ever ask it to undress men?

What could possibly go wrong.....

Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B. Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma. Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness. Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness. Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free. 🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.

✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination.

🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.

🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.

Someone put a lot of time and love into making that doll. And then lost their child.

My grandmother, like the Queen, had two birthdays. The official one was a few days late, because the snow in rural Kent was so deep that her father couldn't get to the registrar in time.

But we don't have to buy it.

Ah yes, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. I have a vivid memory of barrelling down it in a taxi in the pouring rain. It was only when we approached the toll gate at the far end, and I saw the driver pumping the brake pedal, that I realised we had come all the way from Lagos with no brakes. #AnthonyJoshua