#TheArchers The Trojan AI cot. Beware used-car salesmen bearing gifts. You wheel the generous offering to Securitas (goddess of safety) into your home, and in the small hours, a whole bunch of anxieties jump out, overpowering the parents' brains.

Newest member of the family. 🙂❤️

Careful Kirsty, last time Kate administered a massage she nearly killed a vicar #Thearchers

As ever, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social ably captures the weird psychology of aggressive hostility to science and empathy that characterises the right-wing mindset, desperately doubling down on denialism when refuted. "Performative ignorance" is a great phrase. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ON OUR RADAR // Green Phoenix Festival 2026 🍃📽️🎤🌱 Sustainability all-dayer returns with comedy, music, workshops, film screenings, community stalls and more. 🗓️ Sun 5 July 🕚 11am 📍 Exeter Phoenix exeterobserver.org/2026/06/16/g...

#TheArchers Mr Carter mansplaining how the lesbian hen do is too stereotypical is... brave.

I especially love this diagram.

A good explainer about why it’s wise to be very skeptical of industrial carbon capture schemes…. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

#TheArchers Natasha is annoyed with Tom for caring about his new business project and also annoyed with Tom for insufficient enthusiasm about her project (when he just didn't know where it had got to). Tom is a selfish patronising dick, but he's ended up with a very similar partner.

Ed: “You know you can always talk to us, Keira. Now that you have a speaking part.” #TheArchers

Exeter is a great university, so what on earth is its management doing? Meanwhile, the government needs to get a grip: It's cut real term funding per student by 35% in the last decade, while doing its best to lose lucrative income from international students. #DefendExeterUni

Alf Dubs is right. Time for compassion towards refugees. And let's be more rational about international students and researchers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It me. 🤣☺️❤️

So there's that...

This is completely unacceptable. We've had DECADES to prepare for this.

I can believe it.

I’m not trying to be difficult, says Helen #TheArchers I don’t need to try

#TheArchers The Ambridge microclimate is hilarious today of all days.

FEATURES // St Petrock’s homelessness survey finds increase in women sleeping rough in Exeter Charity says women’s homelessness often hidden from view because of “fears around safety, harassment, and gender-based violence”. exeterobserver.org/2026/06/22/s...

A traumatized child prisoner watched on in horror as their pet therapy ferret savaged a screaming rat. A member of staff then stomped the rat to death. This method of vermin control was approved last month following a surge in the prison's rat infestation. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#TheArchers That conversation between Kirsty and Kate about Wren got me again. 😢

Wake Up Exeter | venue vigilantes want something bigger for the city Exeter deserves to be a city it thinks it is. Wake Up Exeter is calling on residents to engage in an ambitious approach to culture

Good news! The Earth may not, after all, be swallowed up by the ballooning Sun as it dies. There’s a chance tidal effects mean we drift away into the cold, lonely darkness of interstellar space instead! In these troubled times, it’s nice to have that hope, at least.

#TheArchers Poor Amber. Her mother is a piece of work.

#TheArchers "By this time next year we'll be MILLIONAIRES" The Only Fools and Horses Archers crossover that Eddie dreams of...

Well said. 👏👏👏👏👏

Fleeing your home country, and everything you know, because of war, violence or persecution takes incredible courage. To everyone who has recently arrived in London seeking safety: you are welcome here.

That was below the belt David. Surely you should have checked the field too, if it has a public footpath? #TheArchers

#TheArchers It was a dog right? Not Clive on a day trip from Borchester?

Children worldwide face increasing threats from heatwaves, storms, floods, and droughts as the climate crisis worsens, with more than one billion facing at least three of these at once www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#TheArchers Toxic father-son relationships coming to a head in the run-up to Father's Day!

Time for Europe to step up and fund monitoring, understanding and forecasting the Amoc. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#TheArchers Podcast has indeed confirmed that was Jim’s exit episode. 😢

The Access to Work scheme is supposed to help disabled people in work, but demand exceeds supply and its delay-riddled administration has “significant failings” with “a clear human cost”, says today’s Commons Public Accounts Committee report. committees.parliament.uk/work/9516/th...

Not good not good. There will be other pandemics and we are less well placed to deal with them than we were with Covid. “We are in a much worse place because of the hostility to public health and global health that now exists”.

#TheArchers Brian strutting into the Bull later tonight:

The fight for Home Farm has become particularly nasty and unpleasant. Jenny would be very, very disappointed in both Adam and Brian. #TheArchers

#TheArchers BRIAN: "I'll say this only once Adam, so watch my lips: Get out ma pub! ... I mean... Get off my land!" Brilliant stuff 👏👏👏

#TheArchers So should we be referring to Sunday Omnibi?!

RIP David Hockney. From Yorkshire to California via one of the most famous portraits of a cat

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable, arguably Britain's best-loved landscape painter – rivalled only by his almost exact contemporary J. M. W. Turner. Discover stories and artworks 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artists/constable-john-17761837 📷 National Gallery

ON OUR RADAR // Exeter Refugee Week 2026 📽️🪘📻 Refugee Support Devon celebrates annual event with a film screening, radio programme and live performance alongside month-long fundraising campaign. 🗓️ Mon 15 to Sat 20 June 📍 Exeter city centre exeterobserver.org/2026/06/02/e...

15,860 deaths due to long waits in A&E in 2025 in England. That's roughly an order of magnitude more than died in road traffic accidents. A notch under 3% of all 530,000 deaths that year. We are making glacial progress - it was 16,644 in 2024. Back to pre-pandemic levels in 15-20 years (!).

#TheArchers While you've got to feel sorry for Adam because of Brian's lifelong manipulation and bullying, the dementia lie is a nasty weapon. But I have a feeling Brian is capable of beating it, and turning the other siblings against Adam.

#TheArchers If there's anyone who can resolve the bitter Home Farm succession row calmly and wisely it's all-round good egg Martyn Gibson

#TheArchers Robin Fairbrother.

All the weather today: Sun. Cold. Muggy. Rain. Windy. Cold. Sun. And repeat! Photos an hour apart.

Pick a lamb #TheArchers Any lamb at all Now don’t tell me which one you’ve picked - let me think: it’s a Texel. Am I right?