@fallofcivilizations.com Found this in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan

@jonnelledge.bsky.social found this in the Waterstones equivalent in Milan

@fallofcivilizations.com Found your book in Milan

“At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivors.”

Thanks Anna Moore for telling my story so sensitively.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Shocking gap in government spending on a child versus an older person is revealed:

Over 20 years, real per-person government spending on pensioners increased by 55%, compared to just 20% for children.

#spendingreview #childpoverty #intergenerationalfairness

www.if.org.uk/research-pos...

Not that I’m obsessing but there are TWENTY NINE permutations of results on Sunday. #nffc get Champions league in 8 of 9 scenarios where we win. We get conference in 15 scenarios & Europa in 6.

In 2 cases, (if we draw, villa win and Newcastle win or draw) we get Europa only if Chelsea beat Betis 🤯

☀️We're giving away 5 special edition mugs, plus a free copy of the Sunday Times bestseller Fall of Civilizations! ☀️

To enter, just repost this and follow the publisher @duckworthbooks.bsky.social!

Giveaway closes at midnight on Friday 23rd May. Good luck!

@proftimob.bsky.social just taken this with my phone. It was moving west to east ish. Over Reading, UK. Any ideas?

Brilliant front page

@iandunt.bsky.social
For some reason I think you'll enjoy this youtu.be/muoddHKZthg?...

Delighted this feature I did with @inews.co.uk is now online – telling the story of 2024 in 14 charts. It's a whole range of topics, some UK and some internationally – and we did also work to make sure they weren't all gloomy. Do take a look.
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Kemi can eat whatever she wants, but can we please stop lionising working through lunch?

We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.

unnerving realising how few new things we have sometimes isn't it

In probably the most moving moment of my career to date, 50 Orthodox trainee priests came to the Kyiv premiere of my documentary The Battle For Kyiv and sang a beautiful hymn in honour of the film.

Completely blown away.

Now we have dark afternoons and mornings, just a reminder to fellas everywhere not to walk behind women.
It's creepy at best. Terrifying at worst.
Please cross the road and walk ahead. Thanks 😊

Hubble Ultra Deep field stuns me whenever I think about it.

Each of these blobs is a galaxy, like ours. Photographed in an area of the sky the size of your thumbnail.

And we’ll never visit a single one: the scale is so incomprehensibly gargantuan. Even our nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is too far.