"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Incredible work from everyone involved here

Smiling after a hard fought campaign and a very difficult count. Lincoln's Labour MP plus 3 Lincolnshire County Councillors 🌹

First Farage betrayed British farmers with Brexit.

Now he's betraying farmers AGAIN by pressuring the UK government to allow imports of chlorinated chicken from the US as part of a trade deal with Trump.

From a Sunday Telegraph story about people who have inherited houses while already owning one, complaining that having to pay double council tax on this second home (if they keep it) is ‘extortion’ and I just…cannot

Fmr National Security Advisor, Lord Ricketts: “It’s a bold step given how tight the fiscal position is. I’m sad it has to come from the aid budget, but if UK is to lead w Macron a much more ambitious European security policy, this increase was indispensable.” ~AA

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a fascinating @ecfr.eu study of global opinion towards Trump's election: India is the most pro-Trump country and Britain a strong contender for most anti-Trump country. This was post-election, pre-inauguration polling
ecfr.eu/publication/...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh made his reputation at the turn of the 20thC as an architect and designer of great originality. In 1914, he left his native Glasgow, and by the time he painted 'Peonies,' (c1920) he was living in London where his work had never been fully appreciated.

Despite Pluto being downgraded to 'dwarf planet' nearly 20 years ago, half of Britons still consider it to be a planet

Planet: 50%
Dwarf planet: 21%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Photo of all the workers who have spent the last five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Finally, after a 75 year gap, formal negotiations will begin at the UN for a Convention on Crimes against Humanity: www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/a...

Today is the 1000th day of a war that was begun by a Russian leader who believed it would be over in three days. One of the greatest military miscalculations in recent history.