Yesterday, I got a text from Mr Parry saying ‘I’ll be a little late home from work, I’m just photographing a train under a rainbow.’ This is one of the many reasons I love him, he frequently utters sentences never before spoken in the history of humankind.

Brexiteers need to get over themselves. Michel Barnier appointment as France's PM has nothing - like zero - to do with the UK The €sceptic Right tends to obsess a lot more over the EU than the EU obsesses over them

this is an absolutely bananas complaint to have about the Vice President of the United States

On 🧵s someone asked, What has the German coalition done well? I recalled a mid-term review that analysed its achievements & concluded govt had already implemented or tackled ⅔ of its entire legislative programme. Someone's just written to complain the review was a year old.😁

Today's random #German word of the day is this. 📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-englis… Increase your mind matter! #LearnALanguage !

Not wishing to criticise Andy who is an excellent observer & cartoonist, the cartoon shows me how govts & public now deny & miss how much of that truancy is down to repeated & lingering Covid infections that incapacitate many children. They might just be ill & aren't allowed to.

And then there was this child: "There are more important things than pocket money." "Are there? What are they?" "Food." My heart. [filmed in the 1970s]

At the start 2024, after news of AfD plans to 'remigrate' even settled & naturalised immigrants, for weeks & in hundreds of places over 2m people came out in pro-democracy, pro-diversity protests. Their motto: #WeAreMore We are & we want to live in diverse, open societies.

Cartoon: Fadi Abou Hassan - FadiToOn (Palestine/Syria)

The worrying thing is not just that Russia is yet again trying to buy this election, but that Donald Trump is perfectly happy with this. I know. This isn't new. Yet it's still worth saying. wired.com/story/project-…

You probably don't know this, but it's perfectly possible to scroll past a tweet without leaving a snarky remark. Try it! 🤜🤛 #TestedForYou

The problem with populists is that they pander to and thereby strengthen people's base feelings. By fuelling emotions for personal gain, votes & support, they make it impossible for facts to get through. We saw it at work during the #Brexit debate.

If caterpillars have decimated your cabbage I am, of course, very sad for you, but I'm also very happy for the caterpillars. 🦋

Wenn der Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz es weiter zulässt, daß die Rechtspopulisten der CDU/CSU & FDP ihn vor sich hertreiben, werd ich sauer. Mit der Mehrheit bin ich im Frühjahr auf die Straße gegangen. #WirSindMehr - nach wie vor & für Wahrheit, Diversität & Demokratie spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soz…

Listening to this really sweet whodunnit featuring one Angela Merkel who - now retired to a cottage in her home Uckermark region - stumbles across & solves a murder. It's utterly adorable, wonderfully narrated & just the right listen for a sunny garden & knitting day.

The wind has changed The plane' path is again overhead So I hear the last wings of the day Carry people off, home or away Either way, full of anticipation While I'm here, safe to stay And envious for not leaving.