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The Blue Dot
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Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
The United States is committing “superpower suicide,” says historian @TimothyDSnyder.
“I'm having a hard time thinking of cases where a great power, an empire—a superpower, has self-destructed with such speed.”
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Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Half a million Palestinians in Gaza could be cut off from food support provided by the UN’s World Food Programme.
The agency says it's being forced to make major cuts due to a lack of funding.
Two-thirds of Gaza’s population is already facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse.
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Ron Koslow, Screenwriter and Creator of 'Beauty and the Beast' TV Series, Dies at 81 variety.com/2026/tv/news/ron…
RT @SkyNews: "Like so many thousand he died alone", Jean Adamson talks of loosing her father who caught Covid-19 in a care home.
She spoke…
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
1/2 It has been 8 years since the Government apologised for the treatment of people caught up in the Windrush scandal.
Yet for many survivors, the long and complicated process to secure compensation means their struggle for justice is not yet over.
Legal support can mean the difference between justice being served and denied. One claimant initially received nothing. With legal support, they were offered more than £80,000 in compensation.
That’s why I’ve signed this letter calling on the Home Office to deliver on its commitment to the survivors and fund independent legal advice for applicants to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone (Audio) youtu.be/LJrFxnvcWhc?si=XvuG… via @YouTube
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
If you are one of the ever-dwindling 33% of Americans who still approves of the President, you can skip reading this and proceed directly to firing off any and all mindlessly tedious--- yet seemingly obligatory --- TDS outcries to the author, who is NOT me! Thanks!
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Ann Hornaday, the longtime film critic at The Washington Post, died Sunday at her home in Baltimore following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. She was 66.
variety.com/2026/film/people…
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Remembering the late Actor, Clive Hornby (20 October 1944 – 3 July 2008)
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Navi Pillay on #C4News: "The Genocide convention, which was passed in 1948, places a peremptory obligation on every state.. they are obliged to take action to prevent genocide wherever it is occurring or is about to happen.. its time now that they carry out these obligations"
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
The government has officially blocked my call for a public inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza.
Delaying scrutiny will not make questions about British complicity in genocide disappear - and we will never give up until we have brought about justice for the Palestinian people.
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Tim O’Donnell, the veteran comedy writer-director known for his work on sitcoms including “Growing Pains,” “Dave’s World” and “Phil of the Future,” has died. He was 77.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/tim…
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Remembering the late Actor and Comedian, Roger Kitter (20 October 1949 – 3 January 2015)
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Compelling people to pay a tax on non-BBC streaming, simply because they chose to watch content online, destroys public trust.
Worse still, people shouldn't be forced to finance campaigns designed to discredit political dissent under the guise of "tackling misinformation".
Public service broadcasting relies on public consent. When the state decides which political narratives are "trustworthy" - and taxes citizens to subsidise them - it undermines democratic accountability.
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Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Happy Birthday to the brilliant English actress, and my favourite cousin, Kacey Ainsworth who was born on this day in 1968. #KaceyAinsworth #Eastenders #Grantchester #TopsyTurvey #CallTheMidwife #SweeneyTodd #MovingOn #TracyBeakerReturns #HolbyBlue #RockAndChips #HotelBabylon
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Remembering the great English actor Bernard Hepton (Francis Bernard Heptonstall) who was born on this day in 1925. He died in 2018. #BernardHepton #ElizabethR #TheSixWivesOfHenryVIII #SecretArmy #Colditz #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #IClaudius #TheSquirrels #GetCarter #TheOldDevils
Michael Bartrum 🌍🤓 retweeted
Remembering the great Irish-born English actor Michael Gambon who was born on this day in 1940. He died in 2023. #MichaelGambon #TheSingingDetective #TheLifeOfGalileo #Skylight #PathToWar #TheNormanConquests #GosforthPark #TheKingsSpeech #PerfectStrangers #Longitude #Emma
