Tom Kington

View from Rome office window on a Spring evening https://t.co/oiCUh0efyY

Four friars in Florence say they are ready to risk jail as they plan flash mobs and sit-ins to fight plans to turn their historic monastery into a luxury retirement home https://t.co/PiRxvoK8Ca

The Times has no paywall this weekend so it's free to read my piece about why Bangladeshis flying into Benghazi in Libya are a big factor in a 40pc leap in migrant sailings to Italy this year, denting Giorgia Meloni's reputation for halting the flow https://t.co/HmThOm3QeK

12 hours before last night's 4.4 quake in seismic hotspot Pozzuoli I filed this piece about local restaurants offering customers free meals if they sit tight and don't flee when a tremor hits as they are eating https://t.co/Nb6rwHfLJw

Barons Court tube station - Nice architecture and home for many years to Oscar the Polish barber who did a great flat-top and sold something for the weekend

Joanna @1curiouslane

Barons Court Tube Station, a historical landmark since its opening in 1905, exemplifies architectural heritage as a Grade II listed building in London. This well preserved station remains an integral part of the London Underground, serving the District and Piccadilly lines. https://t.co/Dcyqv4Usaw

As Europe wonders if Trump will switch off US weapons it has bought and if it should not spend its new arms cash in the US, a report says European NATO states are currently waiting on deliveries of 472 US fighters and 150 US combat helicopters https://t.co/ck3nFJTciZ

Back for another schools football tournament at the Rome sports complex sponsored by a funeral home https://t.co/ExIDXSDupa

Analyst Tocci said the Italian right had a “chip on its shoulder” about the French, although left wing MEP Annunziata argued it was not just the right: “We don’t get along with the French, we don’t fit. They are overcompetitive and don’t share anything" https://t.co/HHaJjBp0jx

Serbia seized on Trump's attack on USAid to raid pro-democracy NGOs supported by it. Belgrade cited Trump’s “suspicions” about USAid and its “possible money laundering and misuse of US taxpayer funds in Serbia” to justify the raids https://t.co/cV1kaXdjo8

Two doctors warn that if Pope Francis' condition dips further, the next step would be sedation and intubation. But would his medical team deem it worthwhile for an 88 year old with a history of lung problems? And crucially, would Francis agree? https://t.co/hHPFq3yS7q

Should the US enter the UK-Italy-Japan GCAP fighter programme? Absolutely, says Paolo Zampolli, a long time friend of President Trump's who toured Italy last week as the new US special envoy to the country https://t.co/taVv4MUVud

Vatican watcher Luis Badilla tells me lobbying for the next pope has not yet started and Rome journalists following cardinals to discover secret meetings have been disappointed. “The cardinals have been going to the barber and the supermarket," he says https://t.co/u1JlFJVrE3

'Utterly unacceptable' - Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, JJ Abrams and other Hollywood luminaries sign letter demanding Italy PM Giorgia Meloni block a plan allowing the conversion of dozens of shuttered cinemas in Rome into shopping centres and hotels https://t.co/H30ANbmJN1

Asked in 2023 when a pope should resign, Francis replied it was when they experienced “a tiredness that doesn’t let you see things clearly. A lack of clarity, of knowing how to evaluate situations.” https://t.co/rstvhFzApo

Best readers' comments on the Times website: "Goodbye, Mr. Bond", "Amazon is the new Spectre", and "The name’s Group. Focus Group" https://t.co/Y9mhgf9twt