Un giro inesperado 😂 cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

6/ Next, let's get the Forestry Commission to restore more broadleaved woods, instead of restocking quite so many conifer plantations. Give it a new statutory purpose for nature. Its duties were last seriously updated in the 1967 Forestry Act - outmoded and unfit for the 21st century.

Don't forget our next online event is this Saturday! Join us for '“Blaring defiant tunes”: relief, resilience and jazz' with a great line up of talks from Sir Deian Hopkin, Sue Bowyer and Dr Steve Thompson. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1926-and-c...

Basically there will be no freebies from the EU to the UK regardless of the importance of security. And the perception that there should be or might be continues to heavily damage UK political understanding of its options towards the EU.

In general, UK heatwaves have tended to be short and produce a spike in deaths followed by a dip of a similar size over the next couple of weeks. This suggests that they mostly just accelerate the deaths of very frail people by a week or two. This may change in future as we see longer heatwaves. 6/6

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

Dweud eich dweud ar Ardoll Ymwelwyr posib yng Ngwynedd. Mae'r ymgynghoriad cyhoeddus bellach ar agor. Rhannwch eich barn cyn 26 Gorffennaf. https://orlo.uk/nK7r7

Spain has joined France and Switzerland in banning Palantir from public sector contracts, and Madrid is under pressure to review the military contract it currently has with the Thiel company - and perhaps decline to renew it. Italy has banned all new contracts. Over to you, Ottawa

UK police arrest 12 after "extreme right-wing" investigation reut.rs/4pkl84f

I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

Pont y Borth ar gau eto! Gwelsom ni bobl yn eistedd mewn faniau gwaith ar bob pen i’r bont bob dydd wythnos diwethaf, a meddwl eu bod yn gwylio rhag cerbydau trymion. Ond efallai dim ond cymryd hoe fach oedden nhw! newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/gorf...

RIP to Omagh's Sam Neill It was something we used to joke about in the 90s - Famous Antipodean actor, born here by a quirk of fate but with absolutely no ties to the place; yet always mentioned in the local press as 'Omagh's Sam Neill'. I clicked on BBC NI and, yep, still at it.

Ffatri sinc, sydd angen lot o bŵer, yn Astwrias. Nawr yn cynhyrchu 32.6MWh y flwyddyn o baneli haul. Tuag at y dyfodol cynaliadwy!

In France, 3 nuclear reactors have been shut down and 8 others are operating at reduced power due to the heatwave. Nukes produce and release enormous amounts of heat. Wind turbines and solar panels don't - just sayin'. Hey #ontario - let's go renewable! shrlnk.ca/s/BKj4CNrN

A great actor is all men, somehow (3,5) #cryptic #crossword

In European folklore stone circles were often explained as young women petrified for dancing on a Sunday. Such is the case of the double cromlech of Les Demoiselles in Langon (Ille-et-Vilaine). Card by Lacroix in Châteaubriant c.1905.

Ewropa O haf poeth Sbaen i gelwyddau noeth ar gyfryngau Hwngari, a mymryn o bêl-droed – pigion o straeon mawr y cyfandir ✍️ Dylan Wyn

today's card pull: everyone knows that what goes around comes around, and this is triply true of kindness, giving and sharing. reach out to someone and know that many hands will reach back to you #tarot #tarotsky

A beautiful demoiselle, showing off its delicate wing composition and resplendent colour. The larvae, which live in rivers, are highly vulnerable to oxygen depletion mainly due to agricultural (but also household) waste, causing the species to become rare across much of its European range.

Political Map of Australia in the 1920s showing the very short lived Central Australia territory which only existed from 1927 to 1931 7 more maps in the same series: brilliantmaps.com/new-oxfor...

RIP David Willey, after a long life in journalism. BBC Vatican reporter for decades, he also remembered ‘being in the room’ at the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In which I try desperately to respect Scottish Border traditions, but why would you name your lettings agency after “one who robs, plunders and pillages” oh wait landlords.

And another thing ….. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@josephinefp.bsky.social the publisher being honoured here, Margaret Busby, is Moira Stuart’s cousin.

🇪🇸 Mariano Rajoy, former Spanish Prime Minister representing the Partido Popular, sparked a diplomatic incident by describing France as a team "without French players" ahead of the France vs. Spain semi-final at the #2026WorldCup. 👇

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Cynghorwyr o Gaerdydd yn galw am wahardd parcio ar balmentydd ledled Cymru newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/cyng...

Of course our rivers and ancient trees deserve our protection. We are only their guardians for the time we are here at which point we pass them on to those who follow on from us. Why would we not want to leave them in a better state than when we found them?

I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats

Ymweld ag ardaloedd gwaharddedig byddin Prydain yn Epynt. Nos yfory S4C. Cymunedau Cymraeg Brycheiniog yn 'dechrau ffynnu' unwaith eto ar ôl ‘chwalfa Epynt’ newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/cymu...

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

“Mum was Spain’s famous ‘girl with the gun’. Her life was like a film” @katiegatens.bsky.social

The Times is reporting: Convicted US fraudster “Posh George” Cottrell secretly bankrolled Nigel Farage, funded social media team, security, drivers & luxury pads. Farage failed to declare it. Had email access too.🤔

Los experimentos de Vallejo-Nájera con presos republicanos que autorizó Franco: "Hay que aprovechar el material humano" www.eldiario.es/1_cbe1aa?utm...

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

“.. The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer .. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Golgolgolgolgol!

The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .

A woman playing double pipes leads three nearly naked men across this wine jar. One dances, one plays a lyre. This party scene was never meant to stay in Athens. It was painted around 430 BCE to be sold to Etruscans in Italy, people the painter would never meet.

Fi'n hen, ac yn cofio gemau rygbi ar ffilm ! Mae gweld 🇦🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 yn fyw o San Juan yn dal yn wyrthiol.

Wyddoch chi am hanes y dôn Gresford a’i bwysigrwydd i lowyr Durham? Na fi.

Very appropriate on the day of Durham Miners Gala. It's always an honour to be chosen to lead the bands in "Gresford." Think it's Fishburn Band this year. 266 deaths - 1934.

Children outside an air raid shelter, Gresford, north-east Wales, 1939, photo by Geoff Charles, 1909-2002 (National Library of Wales).

Mae hyn yn digwydd yng Nghymru hefyd. Dwi ddim yn credu bod mwy na dwy brifysgol yng Nghymru yn cynnig Almaeneg erbyn hyn.

Was just reminded that years and years ago, when voice search was in its infancy, I searched for “chardonnay viognier”, a nice white blend. Google gave us results for “quinoa vagina”.

This is an all too accurate summation of how Westminster, Whitehall, and Fleet Street think of Europe: Great powers discuss, and the rest do what they're told. We don't love in that era anymore

📷 EN IMÁGENES | El Festival de Nava premia a la mejor sidra natural de Asturias

Also, I don't think most people know this: every year, *The BBC* in Northern Ireland broadcasts a 1-hour "highlight" show with colour commentary of the Orange Order parades and marching bands as if it's the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.