Ecstatic to finally capture Albert, one of our two very rare white sparrows, on camera in our garden. Can't afford a posh camera, but rather than giving up I used a smartphone and some binoculars. @BBCSpringwatch @Natures_Voice @britishbirds @ChrisGPackham

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This is totally brilliant @sajidjavid @David_Goodhart bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7…

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Please sign this petition: Restart small scale mining of British #coal for the #heritage sector petition.parliament.uk/petit…

Will our leadership now listen more to people like @PaulEmbery, Maurice Glasman and @Jonathan_Hinder? And give @ShabanaMahmood the backing she needs as Home Secretary to turn this sea of light blue to red again? datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nsuLS/…

"Driven by strategic aims". The great Maurice Glasman speaks sense on Donald Trump. And thankfully, he's one of us Labours. @BBCPM @blue_labour bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002q3…

שגרירות איחוד האמירויות מאחלת לכולם חג חנוכה שמח ומואר! שתזכו לחגוג את החג עם האהובים עליכם, בשמחה, אושר ועם המון אור בלב.

RT @TraffordArchive: Location quiz for today 📷Can you identify these locations in the Trafford area? Answers will be posted tomorrow mornin…

RT @CalvertLewin14: Account opened, away win and top support throughout!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend. MOT

More violence on a University campus. An important survey by @TheFIREorg found 15% of US students said violence is always or sometimes acceptable to stop a speech on campus, with a further 19% saying it was “rarely acceptable”. We must change they way we disagree #CharlieKirk

My Scabiosa on the bottom left of this picture has somehow hybridised into a lovely pale pink flower. Is that rare? @GWandShows @The_RHS @mr_plantgeek @TeleGardening

Grew up with a well-thumbed book of Escher's work on my parent's bookshelf

Maurice Glasman - founder of @blue_labour - on excoriating form when it comes to the lanyard class:

Thank you @andrewdoyle_com for your eloquent and beautifully concise book "Free Speech and why it matters". I'd argue it deserves to have its place on school and University syllabuses.

Dear @bbctms . Why do you insist on using the Aussie expression 5-for? What's wrong with the tried and tested phrase "5-wickets"?

The woman who was arrested and beaten is the director of the Kinneret summer camp. Fifty Jewish French children, aged 10 – 15, were singing Hebrew songs on the plane. The @vueling airline crew said that Israel is a terrorist state and forced the children off the aircraft; they are now in Valencia, waiting to return to France. In line with Hamas’s campaign of lies echoed by Al Jazeera, Haaretz, and others, we are seeing numerous severe antisemitic incidents recently; this is one of the most serious.

Dear @GardeningExpres . I ordered some tomato plants on Weds 9 August and sent you a message the day after via the website asking for a rough ETA as some days are not convenient. I still haven't received a reply. Can you please let me know?

26 May 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Carel Gans, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.