The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

Come back Gareth?

“there’ll be no fucking rowing in New York” is the best chant

My allotment harvest this morning. A tribute to TS Eliot.

Marmite on toast ice cream - you’ll hate it

Spare a thought for Trump during the Spain v Belgium game Friday, he won't know who to have shafted by Infantino in his next corruption call

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

Balogun's going to score the winner isn't he

v bored of norway rowing now. shut up, yr not vikings, you work in the oil industry

make the BBC games more exciting by taking bets on the number of times Alan Shearer says "pace" and "space"

you either love 'em or hate 'em

Nice piece about Burnham and how politics and literature don't have to be mutually exclusive. Shame the novels of N Dorries didn't get a mention tho... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wish they’d also sent off the Turkish guy when he mimed what Almiron did

@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social Hi Dawn, I know it's an important issue for you, so I hope you're getting behind the campaign to stop yet another gambling place in Brent? In the old Lloyds bank in Willesden (don't save your money, lose it!) Thank you, Sam (Dollis Hill)

"a great artist and a great human" - lovely piece by Jonathan Jones www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We always pay to sit away from our children

I did something about a house www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

YES! Cape Verde in the office sweepstake. Cmon you… Blue Sharks!

if my calculations (asking AI) are right, the earliest USA and Iran can meet at the World Cup is in the 1st knockout round on July 3 🙏

good

Blue tits fledged from the nest box. Some joyous flight practice (with me shoeing off magpies and cats), now they're gone, and the garden is silent. Bereft.

neighbour just came round to warn he was hosting a drumming workshop this weekend....

4/20 ☹️ www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

brilliant, obvs www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

a 40,000 acre data centre in Utah - I think that would make it bigger than Liechtenstein edition.cnn.com/2026/05/09/t...

Ah, the days when people bought newspapers to get a free copy of an interview with Francis Bacon from 1963

this is surprisingly difficult, apart from Reform candidates which are unsurprisingly easy guesstheparty.co.uk

I went to a pub www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

obvs everyone has seen this by now, but isn't it brilliant youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU?...

Love Becky Barnicoat’s ‘toons www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

i did something about an empty church, and other empty churches www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I did a piece about a Newport department store that closed down www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Placeholder partners: are you ‘the one’ – or just being used as a stopgap?

Easter hols and weather picking up - well worth re-sharing this from @samwollaston.bsky.social again 👏 www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

Possible solution: stop breeding pheasants and get the pheasant shooters to shoot the cats instead. Both problems solved www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Do you like my yellow tulips?

strong agree with this

don't think i'll be switching www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stay humble Leo. A joyous inteview by @shattenstone.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

11 different scorers for Bosnia (even if one was an og), that's got to be some sort of record?

There were about 3600 public libraries open in the UK in 2020. This is about £40 for each of them.

bloody hell. at least I know which side of the Isle of Wight to go on holiday...

weird yellow thing in the sky here ☀️

first half decent drying day for while. fyi

Watched the Alex Honnold skyscraper film last night. Not as good as the Harold Lloyd original imo

maybe you want to read quite a long piece about lithium mining in Cornwall? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint