I'm incredibly angry I needed to write a piece about the bizarre stupidity of the Hatzola ambulance ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories, but apparently this is the world we're living in now. Please read & share (including with idiots you see parroting this stuff) www.jewishnews.co.uk/bizarre-stup...

I've long thought that some of the most beautiful bird plumage is the range of browns you get on poultry, "game" birds and ducks in "eclipse" plumage. Simultaneously great camouflage from distance, gorgeous close up. Beautifully caught here by @linda2.bsky.social

Worst episode of Naked Attraction ever.

Turns out that in absence of an alarm clock my cat can wake me up by sticking his face two inches away from mine and staring hard.

This is the funniest false positive for my labeller @facelabels.bsky.social so far

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Given current discourse, I propose: Badgerton Otterham Foxcester (pronounced Fuxster, obvs.) Robinsnest Newt Town New Town (so amphibious they named it twice.)

Erythroniums!!!! Spring is here!

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn’t Indiana Jones).

I find it interesting that most of the US responses to this I’ve seen focus on the shocking fact that Denmark had to do this I get the point, but I think the realisation that the US is not on our side is much more a given in Europe The point that interests me is the strength of the Danish response

Tempted to bookmark this for when a US marine Expeditionary Unit storms ashore somewhere next week.

What we are witnessing here is an attack on what it is to be British: free to worship, free to speak, free to gather. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended in two World Wars. The British people will not put up with this - simple as.

I say this as someone who grew up in a former steel town: during my entire life the UK hasn't had any discernible comparative advantage in the sector, aside from highly specialised stuff. Countless attempts to revive the sector have prevented towns like mine from diversifying and moving on. 1/2

I don't know if it's funny or not that the replies to this have Americans expressing surprise at an Irish Taoiseach and British PM being on good terms. "Tell me you know nothing about Anglo-Irish relations without telling me oh hang on, don't bother, I see that you're American".

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Chris Mason and Beth Rigby adopt a sneering tone in the belief it makes them a serious journalist. It doesn't. The best interviewers - Mishal Husain, Brian Walden, Nick Clarke and others are/were unfailingly polite and respectful.

Fionna's quite right in her analysis here, but I think it's also worth looking at what "illegal war" means. It may be the case that this war is illegal under US law due to the constitutional limits on Presidential authority. Frankly, I don't care, that's a matter for Americans.

I love the implication in this that medieval religious processions were generally at risk of deteriorating into a punch-up about who went first, like Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard and ARP wardens in a parade.

Last week Trump said he didn't need Britain's help because he'd already won this war. So we mustn't let him push the UK around now. Any decision on the deployment of our Armed Forces should be made in the UK's national interest and subject to a vote in Parliament.

Israel's campaign of murderous ethnic cleansing and genocide continues in Lebanon. How can any human hand-wring about this? The 'both sides' are the side of life and the side of death. Israel is obsessed with mass-murdering children and they must be stopped www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

There really aren’t simple solutions to our current economic situation lying around

Truest headline ever.

Reform and the Conservatives are happy to cheer on Trump’s illegal Iran war that could send your energy bills soaring.

I agree with @ayoub.bsky.social that “Israel’s territorial ambitions and drive for total domination far outweigh any commitment to long-term regional stability.”

This. (“they” in this context being the Lib Dems.)

I'm afraid I am completely in favour of having animals instead of people on British banknotes. Although to be truly representative of British wildlife one should be a seagull nicking someone's chips and another two foxes shagging behind a dustbin.

This is in fact the logical conclusion of Trump’s “great man” view of geopolitics (as explained by Fiona Hill) in which Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim, assorted tech oligarchs etc are people who can change the world via deals, or be assassinated. Everyone else is just a class of people who react like sheep.

So, here's Senator Murphy's thread on the briefing he received from the Trump admin on the Iran War, and it is awful, if not very surprising really, but a couple of things stand out for non-Americans. 1. The off-ramp for the closure of the Straits appears to be in the hands of the Iranian regime.

"A very beautiful story." How the Alps lost its bone-breaker vultures - then got them back. Few things are as uplifting as the return of wild nature. share.google/VtrCMPihKuIK...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

A video of Father Pierre, the parish priest of the village of Al-Qlayaa in southern Lebanon, ringing the bell of his church. He refused to leave his parish and his town, saying that the only weapons they carry are peace, love, and prayer.

I was pretty sceptical of the idea that the US could reintroduce hereditary monarchy to Iran but turns out I was wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

I’m disproportionately pleased by this news. All my childhood butterfly books included the Large Tort but I never saw one, and it wasn’t until I was middle aged that I discovered that was because they were extinct in the UK. Delighted to find they are back. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very interesting stuff.

As the Americans land B1 bombers at RAF Fairford, President Trump is promising a relentless assault. We are being drawn into an offensive war. The PM must spell out to Parliament what constitutes a “defensive” operation and the limits on the use of our bases. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't think news media should normalise the idea that countries can issue 'evacuation orders' at other countries.

Absolutely this.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

1/ Experts issued some pretty dire warnings about Trumpian tariffs and Brexit, and the result was not nearly as bad as it could have been. Now they're issuing dire warnings about Iran. A much smarter friend asked me how I was thinking about the difference. My short answer: control.

This is getting a lot of attention, and rightly IMO. Polanski has taken the Green Party further and faster than I expected.

All those people calling London “unsafe” and calling for people to “move to Dubai” step forward. This is your time to shine!

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we... ...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

I need you to know that Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon 15,400 times since it was struck in Nov 2024. That is 31 times EVERY DAY on average. This barely gets reported by western media. Why do you think that is? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

I’m especially impressed with the two people who respectively thought Iran was in Cromer and Southampton.

Good.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Honest to God this came up in my feed and my first reaction was that the post would be someone complaining about the BBC Sunday Politics show. I need to get out and look at daffodils or something, the news is driving me crazy.

So, I’ve just discovered that Carole King is on Blue Sky, and, OK, it’s an “official account” so presumably she has staff, but I am so pleased to find her here and also just to be reminded that she exists. One of those people who made the world a better place.