More delivering with the help of my amazing volunteers - today 1,600 leaflets went through doors across Carterton. The rest of Brize Norton will be getting theirs tomorrow! 💪

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Liberal Democrats GAIN Oxfordshire - taking control of the council for the first time ever. 12 GAINS to elect 36 Councillors. 🔶

“If you're appalled by lurch to the right by Reform and the others, come and join the Liberal Democrats because we're the ones taking the challenge to Reform." Munira Wilson 🇺🇦

Just as I was despairing of human nature bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I’m so excited to work with the other councillors, regardless of party, to deliver for residents across Oxfordshire and especially in Brize Norton & Carterton East 💪🔶

Today in the UK House of Commons MPs will hold a debate on the research and treatment of #braintumours. The debate was put forward by Siobhain McDonagh and Charlie Maynard MP 🔶. Health Minister Ashley Dalton MP will respond. Watch live this afternoon - parliamentlive.tv/Commons

"What obligations do the British have towards us? What have the Dutch done to deserve the generous help they so clearly expect?"—Anne Frank. Still so grateful to this country for coming to our rescue 80+ years ago fivebooks.com/best-books/ve-…

NEW: "The US economy is a phenomenally powerful beast." Dmitry Grozoubinski recommends the best books on tariffs: fivebooks.com/best-books/tar… Books by Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp 🇺🇦🇵🇸, Douglas Irwin, Richard Baldwin, Henry Gao, Weihuan Zhou, Jennifer Hillman, Joost Pauwelyn

"The tone I've tried to go for is one where you have made the horrible mistake of being seated next to me at a bar and asking me a question about trade, and now I have trapped you..and I'm delivering the answers" fivebooks.com/book/why-polit… Canbury Press

As the UK signs a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius today, you won't be surprised to find out there is a good book about this history we can recommend (by writer and lawyer Philippe Sands): fivebooks.com/book/the-last-…

The land for a railway line from Oxford to Witney and Carterton will be protected and set aside in West Oxfordshire District Council’s upcoming Local Plan. The council says it wants “a sustainable pattern of growth based on well-connected towns and strategic transport corridors”.

Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18

Tonight, Is the night, Of nights.

There’s far too little fuss made about the wonderful ⁦Simon Mason⁩ I never knew about this book and I’m a huge fan. This is the 3rd in this series. I loved the first two!

It's D Day. 4,427 Allied soldiers died today so that generations not even born, like mine, could grow up in freedom. WWII Memorial Friends

The most voracios financiers are in the queue for 16 million captive customers. A rescue bid for Thames Water? Looks more Like accepting a dinner date with Hannibal Lecter. Will government save us or just bring along the chianti? reuters.com/world/uk/uks-t…

Hiroshige The Sea at Satta (1858)

NEW: Spanish noir, historical fiction from Cyprus, an Italian bestseller, a family saga and gothic ghost story set in Palestine: some newly translated novels set around the Mediterranean, published by Foundry Editions. fivebooks.com/best-books/the…

A great line up of books. And I’m delighted to say that 3 of the 5 authors have been guests on my podcast Helen Castor Dan Jones and Stephen Alford shows.acast.com/willy-willy-ha…