A judge decided that they knew better than the jury. That is not how our justice system is meant to work.

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.

Sign of the times, alas. Ever since 1888, anyone who was ever a student in Paris bought books at Gibert Jeune. It'll now be a burger joint Spent loads of time there myself as assistant d'anglais at the Lycée Saint-Louis, just a few steps up the boulevard Saint-Michel ❤️

My brilliant friend @bbclysedoucet has won the Women’s Prize for non-fiction. I am bursting with pride and excitement! Her book ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ is wonderful. share.google/aU9Uzr3R3auTrzS…

An event is planned to be hosted in London proudly promoting the sale of land on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. This is obscene. I've called on @MayorofLondon and @YvetteCooperMP to stop the event and for this govt to take real action on illegal settlements.

It’s a thrill to be meeting all these amazing writers during this treat of a week for The Women’s Prize

RT @mhmd_s09: One of the most horrific scenes in human history has been revealed. The moment a small child carrying a water jug ​​to her b…

Whatever world Tony Blair inhabits appears to be one without climate change & where UK temperature record for May hasn’t just been smashed by over 2C. How else to explain his extraordinary dismissal of net zero & erroneous claim that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables? 🙄

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick. Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share

Top tip for surviving heatwave, which I only just learned. When the worst of the heat is over, put a fan by an open window. It accelerates the flow of cooler air into the room.

Fully rate these amazing Arsenal fans trying to do Bhangra moves. Il take the light bulb changing hand move! Well done lads! This is BRITAIN..no, this is GREAT BRITAIN 🇬🇧

Beautiful St Swithins church in Bath where I talked about Gwen and Augustus John today

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

At Bath Literary Fesitval tomorrow - do come if you're in the neighboughood. Its going to be the hottest day of the year, but nothing so hot as the combined stories of Gwen and Augustus John bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-o…

The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth. He also cancelled all of the global Ebola prevention programs. The UN has now declared Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID has already killed more children than in Gaza and Ukraine combined. He cut lifetimes for millions and the result is a silent massacres. Nor should we forget his complicity in the genocide in Gaza, as well as in the war in Ukraine and the Epstein case. I don’t understand how billionaires think. If I only had one billion dollars, I would rush to fix our world problem. Homeless, hungry, poverty, wars, climate change... etc. They can be heroes and not just billionaires. What a waste.

Claudio Monteverdi b otd 1567! What a great composer - his imagination, passion and depth of feeling mirroring that of the great Italian visual artists of his day. "The end of all good music is to affect the soul." "The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth."

Shattering news from Ukraine. At least 24 people, including 3 children, have now been confirmed killed in yesterday’s attack on Kyiv, meaning Russia has just inflicted one of the deadliest attacks on the capital since the start of its full-scale invasion. It is so vital we don’t let this pass us by, nor glaze over, nor turn away. Russia will keep on murdering civilians in Ukraine for as long as we permit this. Meanwhile, Ukraine isn’t just defending itself - it’s defending the rest of Europe against Putin’s imperial obsessions. I will be travelling to Ukraine next month to write, to document and to meet local palliative care teams doing their utmost to provide care to patients under conditions of war. I am in awe of what Ukrainian health care teams manage to achieve, despite everything, through sheer grit and professionalism. An inspiration to us all. @hospiceukraine

THE biggest story right now is how @Nigel_Farage took bribes to subvert UK elections and influence policy to the benefit of foreign crypto scammers. Please share, lest we forget.

Absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism for my work exposing rape as a weapon of war

Chapeau to @balletboyz for celebrating their 25th anniversary in such high style. Wonderful to see old classics from the rep, by @RMaliphant, @JavierDeFrutos6 & @wheeldondance and discover the choreography of XieXin - a marvel of fluency, suspension and gorgeous mystery