This Christmas ad for a pub in Enniskillen is better than anything John Lewis has ever put out

Nikita was at school when he was taken by Russian soldiers.

His mother had no idea where he was for months, or if he was even alive.

Read more in my latest story with Molly Hunter, Ostap Hunkevych and Ed Flanagan: nbcnews.com/news/world/ukr…

Give the person at Radio 1 who got Joe Goldberg to recite the “You Won Jane” Come Dine With Me scene a raise.

Extraordinary interview with Charles Walker MP on my #TimesRadio show today:

'I think it's hard to construct an argument now that the Conservatives can win that general election, I suspect the conversation is, you know, how much do we lose it by?'

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Kwasi Kwarteng’s ex-boss bet big on falling pound weeks after lunch with him thetimes.co.uk/article/kwasi-…

Owami Davies has been found and “appears fit and well cared for”, Metropolitan Police announces

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak confirms he held a US green card until October last year.

In order to get a green card he would have had to have declared himself a permanent resident in the US.

Liam Paynes Oscars interview but it’s Celtic folk

The Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust gofund.me/cc4785db Please RT thanks so much 💙

'We're humans, why shouldn't we go to school?'

Schoolgirls are protesting on the streets of Kabul, after the Taliban backtracked on promises to allow girls to attend secondary school. Afghanistan is the only country in the world to deny girls an education.

Exclusive: Metropolitan Police officers investigating serial killer Stephen Port made assumptions about gay men which “cannot be ignored”, a leaked police watchdog report has found.

A victim’s partner says officers were “homophobic”, which the Met has denied.

A 15-year-old Black girl, known as Child Q, who was strip searched in a London school by two police officers has thanked the public for its support.

A protest in support of Child Q took place outside Stoke Newington police station today, as Ayshah Tull reports.

Families from besieged and starving Mariupol are looking for their relatives on social media. Here a woman appeals for news on her parents, Irina and Andrei. The city of half a million lost most comms 2 weeks ago

You rarely hear from mothers of Russian soldiers. This lady came up to us at an anti-war protest in Moscow, desperate for the safety of her 22 yr old son. She told us there were only 10 men left in his regiment. If there are voices Putin fears, it’s these

“She’s coming home.”

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard says the family feels “huge relief” after she was released from prison in Iran, adding that the first thing she wants when she gets home is a “cup of tea”.

BBC’s Mark Easton: 286 Ukrainians hoping to come to UK have been turned away at Calais, according to local officials. They’ve been told to go to Paris or Brussels to apply. There’s no Home Office team in Calais (though the HO said there was).

12yr old Yeva, from Kharkiv, reads from her war diary (in Russian). She’s written 80 pages in 10 days. Herself & her grandmother are in a refugee centre in Western Ukraine. #YevasDiary
channel4.com/news/russia-uk…

Keep hearing that phrase ‘false flag?’ Wondering what Russians are being told about this crisis?

Here’s an explainer from Moscow, where we pick apart some of the specific claims being made by separatists and Russian state media ABC News #Ukraine

What does the mainstream media get wrong when reporting on homelessness?

🗣️ Filmmaker Paul Atherton (A Londoner's London), who has lived experience of homelessness, shares some tips: