When the horse you ride everyday wins the Oaks 🥹 THUNDERING ON takes the Betfred Oaks in style for @JosephOBrien2 #ITVRacing

🚨 "Nicola Sturgeon cannot handle being challenged or questioned I think we've seen that in all kinds of fields in all kinds of areas over the last few years". 👉 "Nicola said there was nothing to look at while Peter was raiding the till" @WingsScotland @AlexNeilSNP

I know Joanna is happy outside frontline politics in its current state (as am I). However, she is the exactly the calibre of person we need as a First Minister. We need people with real talent, intellectual acuity and real life experience in our parliament, not the current sub-mediocre nodding dogs who will vote for anything they’re told to.

When I Have Got New For You devotes the first 10 minutes of the show to the Murrell scandal you know that Sturgeon and Swinney are now toast. Seriously, Mrs Flynn must be eyeing up the windows and measuring the curtains for Bute House.....youtube.com/watch?v=obPbEPTH…

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

NZ & GB Jumps jockey challenge Tauranga 1985

A weekend that we’ll remember for years to come. 💛🤍 A special horse. A special syndicate. Creating special memories. 🍎

Live look at Apple Away and @MichaelScu 😍

Irish Grand National winner Soldier In Milan could sport new silks next season as British owner buys into Aintree candidate racingpost.com/news/ireland/…

I’m deeply moved by this moment: a lady living with cerebral palsy gets her photo taken with a mounted soldier. He kindly positions his horse for a better picture, and the horse gently acknowledges her.

She's arrived! 🇫🇷 Apple Away, @MichaelScu and Derek Fox are settling in for the week with @almracing ahead of her tilt at the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil on Saturday!🍎

And away she goes! 🇫🇷 Apple Away, @MichaelScu and Derek Fox begin their journey to France! First stop will be at Sandown tonight, before heading onto the Eurostar tomorrow morning, where they’ll be based at the wonderful facilities of @almracing before the big day on Saturday! 🍎💛🤍

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has lifted all tariffs on Scottish whiskey and bourbon following a request from the King

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SHE LEAKED THE MEMO THAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE IRAQ WAR. In January 2003, Katharine Gun was a Mandarin translator at GCHQ, Britain's signals intelligence agency. She showed up to work one morning, opened her email, and found a memo that would destroy her career, threaten her marriage, and land her in court facing two years in prison. The email was from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the NSA's regional targets division, asking GCHQ to help spy on the private communications of six UN Security Council nations whose votes would determine whether the world approved an invasion of Iraq. The goal was to gather intelligence that would give US policymakers leverage over smaller nations. Angola. Cameroon. Chile. Guinea. Pakistan. Bulgaria. Countries with no dog in this fight, being bugged so Washington and London could fix the result. Gun printed the email, slipped it into her handbag, and eventually passed it to a journalist. In March 2003 the memo was published by The Observer, creating a media firestorm and raising serious questions about the legality of the Iraq War. Then they came for her. She was charged under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act in November 2003. She refused to plead guilty. Her legal team decided the best defence was to prove that the war itself was illegal, and demanded the government hand over its own legal advice to Tony Blair. And here is the part that tells you everything you need to know about how power actually works. The case came to court on 25 February 2004. Within half an hour it was dropped. The prosecution offered no evidence. In May 2019 The Guardian reported the case was dropped because the prosecution realised that evidence would emerge showing that even British government lawyers believed the invasion was unlawful. The government could not prosecute the whistleblower without putting the war on trial. So they quietly walked out of court and hoped everyone would forget. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, called Gun's action the most important and courageous leak he had ever seen. Three UK inquiries into the Iraq War never once examined her case. Sources: The Observer / The Guardian

Always a pleasure to see the brilliant Corach Rambler on our stable visit to @lucindavrussell! 💛🤍

Talking about deficits isn’t a vote winner. If you tell people ‘It’s going to be tough and cuts need to be made’ they’re not going to vote for you. But if you talk about free-this and free-that, people will vote for you, and I think that’s a major flaw in democracy.