Matthew Robinson @Robbo_82

Incredible moment in the NYT wedding section.

@SophieTScott @Matt1Driscoll @MTWnhs If you can't figure out when to flush a loo or read notices there is no hope

@LucienWolfe111 @ettingermentum idiot

Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention. It’s happened before, but now it seems different. I’ve dedicated most of my career in journalism to covering it. Because it’s the most appalling atrocity in modern British history. In this thread, I’ll tell you what I know about the crisis, what I’ve uncovered, and what is yet to be revealed…

@Pbizzlemyshizzl @AmiriKing Mostly peaceful

For all the fans of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and Jimmy Stewart . . . Just months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart, one of the best-known actors of the day, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II. An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status and huge popularity with the American public, he was assigned to starring in recruiting films, attending rallies, and training younger pilots. Stewart, however, wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions in Europe, not spend time in a stateside training command. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted. Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Throughout his time overseas, the US Army Air Corps' top brass had tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it. Determined to lead by example, he bucked the system, assigning himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit. But his wartime service came at a high personal price. In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being “flak happy,” today called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally). He was depressed, couldn’t focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over. As one of Stewart's biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.” In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The rest is history. Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasn’t acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for potentially millions to see. But despite Stewart's inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history. When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This country's conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when we'll have to fight.” This weekend, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” it’s also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of Jimmy Stewart and all the men who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime. We will always remember you! Postscript: While fighting in Europe, Stewart's Oscar statue was proudly displayed in his father’s Pennsylvania hardware store. Throughout his life, the beloved actor always said his father, a World War I veteran, was the person who had made the biggest impact on him. Jimmy Stewart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and died in 1997 at the age of 89. H/T @mustangmarine

I believe this man was a worker from Thailand 🇹🇭. May his soul rest in peace, and may these Hamas Muslim Brotherhood savages go straight to hell. x.com/K_AminThaabet/…

An innocent man was murdered in cold blood while riding his bicycle. The killers joked about it on social media Yet, where is the media outrage? Now you begin to understand the lie.

Libby Emmons @libbyemmons

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Just seeing this. How vile.

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Absolutely fantastic local restaurant, very luck to have been many times.

Thackerays Restaurant @ThackeraysRest

3 years ago

August marks 22 years since we bought Thackeray’s! Thank you to everyone who has joined, supported, worked, and dined with us for over two decades - we’re incredibly proud and blessed to still be here doing what we love. From the entire team, here’s to many more.

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This is just me, but when did we conflate free speech with the right to disrupt things? I don't like football. This means I am free to tweet this. It doesn't give me the right to run onto the pitch with a placard saying "Not my sport."

You remember all that outrage about Boris and a slice of birthday cake……#NeverLabour #NickBrown #KierStarmer 🤔🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

Graphic content. Viral video shows two boys beating a 9-year-old girl on a school bus in Homestead, Fla. on Feb. 1. The mother of the girl says she has reported bullying to Coconut Palm K-8 Academy but was informed they couldn’t do anything. x.com/FightHaven/sta…

Does Scotland’s First Minister believe all trans women are women? Scottish Gov has just implemented an effective ban on trans prisoners who’ve committed sexual & violent crimes against women being moved to a women-only prison. @itvnews

This is the gist of every Matthew Parris op-ed since 2016 and it will stay that way until Rory Stewart somehow becomes Prime Minster.

German inflation is the highest it has been since the Deutschmark was absorbed into the €uro.

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Why is Canada euthanising the poor? spectator.co.uk/article/why-is… via @spectator

Mr Steerpike in The Spectator: Five shadow ministers breach MPs' rules in five months spectator.co.uk/article/five-s… via @spectator

Despite Climate-Doomsaying, Great Barrier Reef's Coral Growth Soars To Record zerohedge.com/geopolitical/d…