NEW | England asked to consider making a “display or gesture of solidarity with Iranian women fighting for their civil liberties” when the two countries meet at the World Cup. 
Letter from Layla Moran MP, the party’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, to Southgate and Kane ⬇️

Owen’s parents got the telegram telling them of his death just as the local church bells started ringing to celebrate the Armistice.

'Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell.

The more I hear about the way Qatar won the right to stage the World Cup, the more details I read about the treatment of the stadium builders, & the more stories like this about paid inducements, the more determined I am not to watch a single match.

thetimes.co.uk/article/af679d…

Traditional TV channels, from the BBC to ITV & Channels 4 & 5, seem to be wiping the floor with Netflix. Now Netflix has joined the Barb audience measuring system, we know that its most popular programme on 1 Nov, The Watcher, got 120,918 views. Ch 4’s GBBO got 3.97m that night.

Downing Street says Rishi Sunak has no plans to move the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Liz Truss had committed Britain to a review of the idea, which would have followed Donald Trump’s much-criticised decision to make the move.

Russia has launched hundreds of cruise missiles and drones at Ukraine. 'Juice' is one of the Ukrainian fighter pilots tasked with intercepting the deadly weapons

Migrant workers in Qatar have built most of the infrastructure for the World Cup – but human rights groups say many of them have been badly treated.

We spoke to Nepali workers about their “nightmare experience.”

During the excavations in Pompeii, the remains of over one thousand victims of the 79 AD eruption have been found.During the first phase of the eruption, those who hadn’t left the city in time were trapped in their homes or shelters buried by a shower of pumice stones and lapilli

I provide free content on this platform that 850,000 + people want to read. Now Elon Musk wants to charge me for providing free content to nearly a million people on his platform. Interesting market principles at play here. Shouldn't he (or my readers) be paying me? Thoughts?

Really sorry to hear that Imran Khan has been shot at a protest march in Pakistan. Apparently he was hit in the leg.

“Russian science is dead after 24 Feb. A country without science has no future.” We meet Russian university lecturer Denis Skopin, fired for “immoral behaviour” (he'd been arrested at an anti-mobilisation protest & jailed for 10 days.) Cam. anton chicherov Prod. Liza

Very telling.

What an incredible display!

This makes us all feel really confident about the future of Twitter.

'The table's set for four'
#Groucho : 'That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing' #ANightAtTheOpera 1935

A bit embarrassing — when I took my Irish terrier Cody to church this morning he yodelled along with the hymns and the sermon. The vicar was very forgiving afterwards: ‘We do say “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord”, and we don’t specify what sort of noise.’

The Shah’s regime fell in Iran because Shia tradition meant that every 40 days after the deaths of demonstrators there were more & bigger demos & more deaths. The same process now seems to be under way — & the current govt has no better idea how to deal with it than the Shah did.