I bet it's 230,000 by now. And rising.

City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence It Doesn't.

#10minutesfromhome Shadows at Manchester Art Gallery

Umbra. #MinimalMonday #ClassicMono #LifeInANorthernTown

Wow! What are the chances of that?! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sam, who is CPR trained, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman [give chest compressions] and gave no response. “I said, ‘Please!’ I know she’ll get tired and need to be subbed out. She was told: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”

As of today, on fuel cost alone, it is 140 times more expensive to drive a petrol or diesel car per mile than it is to power your average electric bike. Maths based on £1.61 petrol and £1.95 diesel cost & UK drivers' 36/43mpg average, respectively. www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/how...

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

"The image clearly depicts me as a simple vendor of seafood sandwiches"

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

Shoaib Sohail was dismissed by his employer, Swansea Council, last year due to his links to anti-Islam activist and English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson. But here he is popping up in a photograph of Reform activists, seemingly taken just last week.

He seems nice* bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

A study published by Forestry England confirms that England has the capacity to sustain golden eagle populations once more, with eight potential, unnamed ‘recovery zones’, mostly in the north of the country, identified as being the most suitable areas | Peter Morris

Tl,dr: "[Taking money] is normal. And I struggle to believe that [you're not on the take, just like me.]"

This is distress behaviour. Given enough time and if everybody stays back and stays quiet, it may well come out of the lake on its own.

Yes, let's.

Oh dear.

I don't go big on laughing and pointing, but we should definitely laugh and point at white nationalists like Matt Goodwin when they vomit up this kind of shite.

Nah. MattGPT's latest contribution to the cutting edge of contemporary political discourse is sitting at number 7 in the book charts. The Seriously Epic Holiday of Lottie Brooks is number 1. And - I shit you not - there's a colouring book at number 6. I love that.

*Great thread* The day after his sugar-daddy Orbán failed to get elected - so I guess they have that in common - Matt Goodwin is presenting at an Orbán-linked thinktank in Budapest. Jon is one of nearly 18 people in the audience. He's attending so we don't have to, and live-skeeting for lolz

The NHS is experiencing a major workforce crisis. The Government's solution? Shed more jobs, demoralise staff and outsource work to the private sector. Anyone would think Streeting is actively seeking to destroy the NHS. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/leas...

FFS.

Outstanding. I've seen some folk claim that the Green Party opposed this. That's not true. But like every good lie, there's a grain of truth in it. And there is some Green party internal politics behind this piece of good news that might interest you. 1/3 eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/world...

People who think that speeding is sexy should probably not be trusted with anything more dangerous than a Play Doh kitchen set with blunted edges.

Just this.

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations. Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

Groynes, 1925 #cubism #paulklee

"Shard fences are an incredible blend of practicality, heritage and ecological value. For farmers it provides a durable livestock boundary. The accompanying hedgerows act as vital wildlife corridors, and it offers visitors a glimpse into the traditional ways this land has been managed for centuries”

The Reithian values of 'inform, educate, and entertain' on which the BBC was founded seem increasingly to have been replaced with Sanitise, airbrush, and nudge the window rightwards

As well as being fascinating in and of itself, this also looks like a great example of Famous Generals Indicating Where The Toilets Are.

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One determined woman versus the aristocracy

A great moment to remember why Scruton's FT column came to an abrupt end.

I mean, it's great that you've heard of Benny Rothman, but have you heard of Ethel Haythornthwaite? You have now.

Robert Delaunay ( French, 1885 - 1941 ) Rythme circulaire, 1937 Oil on canvas 254 by 301 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

While chemical companies knew of health risks, even to their own staff, for years, they seem to have done little research on treating health harms caused. As a result, agencies have little advice to offer people, beyond 'probably best not eat that veg'. share.google/7Nk9jAXU9P1B... 3/4

Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.

Odd how the minor administrative errors always seem to produce the same results. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The reason Labour’s Streeting is threatening thousands of overworked resident doctors right now is simple: He’d rather deny them fair pay for incredibly demanding work than give up the billions of public money lining the pockets of his rich allies and backers

"What’s needed isn’t just another thinktank. It’s a deliberate effort to build the kind of institutional power that turns positive environmental and socially just ideas -underpinned by sound economic thinking- into deliverable political outcomes. And right now, that might be exactly what’s missing."

"Have you considered beige, madam?" There's a new, Green-aligned, think-tank in town - Verdant - and @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social has emitted thinks about it that are, IMO, worth a read: fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/04/loca...

'Bluebells', machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #womensart

Your regular reminder that, per @goodlawproject.org, Wes Streeting has accepted £372,000 in donations from private health interests between 2015 and 2025, including £53,000 in February 2025 from OPD Group, which offers headhunting services to the NHS and private healthcare sector.

This gorgeous conundrum of a building is on one of my regular rides. I don't think there's public access to the interior, but if you fancy walking around it - the corbelling is something else - it's here: