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Good morning Bluesky. It’s 1° outside but feels like -7° apparently! I can believe it! My new phone arrives today 🎉🥳

Ordered a new phone this afternoon. Ridiculously excited.

It did! I was so glad the weather was nice and I didn’t have an excuse not to go. I really miss sitting by the river.

Managed to get out and do a few laps round the courtyard area of our flats with the help of the carer. I could feel the circulation returning to my legs! Want to build up to getting my confidence back to go on my own

@jpop41.bsky.social Morning Jane! Glad to see you’re back in your account

Oh thank God! The media have got another Labour ‘scandal’ to lead their agenda - sorry, news programmes. #r4today

Got breakfast, but run out of pods to listen to. Forced to listen to #r4today …

That’s good news! I fancy beans on toast now …

Concerned about this growing feeling that onceTrump is gone things will return to normal. They won’t. That’s the way I felt in 1997 ; that Thatcherism was gone. But it wasn’t. Every little thing that Trump does now will make it easier for an incoming administration to think ‘Well we’ll keep that’

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics “Starmer is fluffing it up” | Rory and Alastair React to Munich Security Conference

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social trying to unpick the big speeches and big moments at Munich Security Conference. Plus a new LEADING with Rob Malley who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal for the US and is expert on all things Middle East

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Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases

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‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets photo of meeting with Trump Unclear how encounter between Britain’s shortest-serving PM and US president was initiated and how long it lasted

The picture we’ve all been waiting for … 🤢

My wifi is up, but ‘no internet access’ so radio silence from me for a while!

Natalie Fleet MP: Her grooming story and how she fought back Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 13/02/2026 · 53m

LATEST News Agents: there are plenty of MPs who talk about the horrors of sexual abuse and grooming. Natalie Fleet has lived it. This ep is a transifxing conversation about her experience and where Starmer and the Mandelson story should go next.

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With you on @lbc.co.uk from 3-6pm…

- Youth Unemployment tops Europe for first time
- Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists
- Measles outbreak in North London
- Hobbies could be the answer to loneliness and social isolation

BREAKING: @patrickwintour.bsky.social reports Jonathan Powell turned down the opportunity to become Starmer’s chief of staff, and is thinking of leaving at the end of the year.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🎩 Into the next round!

⏱️ We head into extra-time

NMECHAAAAAAA!!! WHAT A START TO THE SECOND HALF!!

More genius from Sir Michael. Why this man is not running the country I shall never understand. Sir Michael that is, not the scumbag below...

I fancy the odds on Chris Mason … 🤣 He aged about 10 years last week

👊 UNDERWAY! COME ON LEEDS!!

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
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🏆 𝗖𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!
🆚 Birmingham City
🏟️ St Andrew’s
🕛 12:00pm
📱 #BIRLEE

Caught up on all podcasts. Now waiting for Birmingham City v Leeds on t’telly at 12 and t’radio at the same time, Prefer radio but should use my TNT subscription …

Good show today!

Up to date with jobs and tuned in for @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Breakfast in about half an hour. Thought struck me - interesting how #GeorgeOsborne’ ‘s name keeps cropping up in the Epstein - Mandelson web isn’t it? Must give it some more thought !

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Chief mouser Palmerston dies after swapping Foreign Office for Bermuda Social media account for Palmerston, who retired in 2020, announces death of ‘Diplocat extraordinaire’

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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

An email to my MP on the BBC World Service. Cheesy and nostalgic, I know, but also heartfelt.

“Dear Mr Stride,

I implore you to do all you can as a politician and in parliament to protect the BBC World Service.

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