If you are in Scarborough any time from 14 February to 8 March you’ll be able to catch my painting Adventure at the Old Parcels Office open exhibition. Always nice to send work up North, as it’s a good excuse for a road trip to see the hills.

2016 I was working for a D Trump type, and let me tell you there is no appeasement, they’re never satisfied and will bully their way on and on. The only way is with a solid No, and to stand firm in the aftermath. They’ll then move on to something or someone else.

Oh, pleassseee! What could possibly go wrong if you were sailing nuclear reactors around increasingly stormy, little regulated, politically unstable seas? Has anyone thought about pirates? 🤦 #NoNewNuclear www.thetimes.com/business/com...

My seascapes look like boiling cauldrons, as there is no point in being accurate. It’s boring, laborious work, and says nothing other than here this is. Like writing an instruction manual as opposed to a poem.

I’m suing Donald Trump 500 billion dollars for wasting all our fucking time with his shit.

"I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush." 📸 : Cy Twombly, in front of his painting by David Lees April 1958

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Windmills once ground grain. Today, turbines off the Norfolk coast generate gigawatts of clean power. East Anglia’s energy story keeps evolving. Andrew Stonor reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/sense...

Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders. When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it. He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead. The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me. A pattern emerging...

Yesterday's swim in the murky dawn.

Wind farm floating on a haar. Could barely see 2m in front by the time we left GY, blast it was thick.

The hunt

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Up and out.

An aspect of Graham Sutherland’s, A Foundry: Hot Metal has been Poured into a Mould and Inflammable Gas is Rising 1941-2

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool

16th January 2026 07.14

My middle one, the funniest, most intelligent, night owl late person, has just send me a funny reel at 7am. I thought this worth reporting. Astonished, I’m also wondering if I ought to be worried.

Once upon a time in Happisburgh. The sea never sleeps. #coastalerosion

Halfway through winter, the weatherman just said so.

Manierre Dawson Blue Complex (1912)

NEW | The North Sea has an estimated 30 GW of offshore capacity making it the LARGEST offshore wind hub in the world 🌪️ North Sea capacity continues to grow with 1.6 GW added in 2025 ⚡ https://loom.ly/WAeVf9o

Waves like mountains. A turbulent sea off the English coast.

Abandoned pub, Great Yarmouth “In the absence of shared spaces, misinformation and hate can fill the void, creating tinderbox conditions for violence. Rebuilding local infrastructure isn’t just about nostalgia – it’s a vital bulwark against division and the dangerous pull of the far right”

7-13-2024 in Barney, North Dakota

Octopus Energy has officially launched its world-first initiative guaranteeing customers no bills for a decade in Scotland 👇

Odilon Redon : L’Espirit-gardien des eaux, (The Guardian Spirit of the Waters), 1878

🛑 BREAKING: The UK is the world’s WORST offender when it comes to letting Big Oil drill in protected areas 🌊 ⚠️ UK Govt has already issued oil licences that overlap with 13,500km² of protected areas – nearly ten times the size of Greater London 🔽 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Welcome to the 1980s, everyone.

Anti-racism campaigners and unions have voiced their horror after Nigel Farage doubled down on his decade-old call for anti-discrimination laws to be ripped up so employers can discriminate www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

8.4 GIGAWATTS of offshore wind just contracted in the UK, thanks to Ed Miliband's recent auction - enough electricity to power 12 million homes. The US can boil in Venezuelan oil. We're investing in energy you don't need to invade other nations to obtain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Back to this experimental drawing today. Funny how after few days away I can see it needs a lot more contrast. I love charcoal.

Book Cover of the Day:

The funeral of Martin Parr was a very moving occasion yesterday. The tributes and memories reflected the emotions of those gathered, sadness that he had left us too soon, but heartfelt thaks for his life, work and friendship.

I know nostalgia for Blockbuster is a thing. I don’t really remember it that way. I remember it having fewer movies than the stores I went to as a kid. But I worked at Blockbuster when I was 17. Here are some things that happened while I was there.

Global temperatures dip in 2025 but more heat records on way, scientists warn

A remarkable hoard in West Norfolk is exciting archaelogists and scholars who study the lives and battles of Boudica and her Norfolk Iceni | Sarah Patey

Widely celebrated by art historians as the first design text of the American Arts & Crafts movement, Arthur Wesley Dow’s Composition: A Series of Exercises Selected From a New System of Art Education revolutionized the American classroom: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dow-composition

I’m really enjoying Nick Cave’s reinvention as an agony aunt.

"everyone needs a friend " ink on paper #drawings #sketches

Glasgow Women's Aid has called to revoke the MBE of former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg

Varnished, framed and ready to go.

Nobody tell them.

This is beyond shocking - how can this be allowed to happen? Why on earth can’t they be released on bail? They have a right to a fair trial, appropriate medical treatment, & the removal of punitive Prison Service conditions. Govt’s ban on Palestine Action is simply intolerable

Well this all looks fine