Also, I *need* to post more Carrizo Plain flowers because it was 😍

The Spanish language ESPN call of Carré’s try is, predictably, absolutely top notch.

Just incredible that at no point in the Biden White House when Galaxy Brain Sullivan said, "if we make our Foreign Policy Trumpian enough he won't be able to attack us" did anyone reply, "but Jakey, what if he just lies about it the way he does about everything all the time?"

The law concerning the legality of a given war and the laws governing the practice of war are separate. There is a good reason for this. Even if the war itself is illegal, the combatants still have to obey the laws of war.

Tory peer quits after investigation into PPE role (No, not that one) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's been a while since ive posted an in-office break/lunch piece because work has been quite exhausting and meetings chewing up breaks and some lunch. That said..here's a few weeks of 5-10 mins here and there in the last month 9x12 pen on paper #DarkArt #TraditionalArt

This is definitely me being grumpy but enough with the portmanteaus. Just use the normal words which already exist to describe the world. Create new words only as necessary to refer to previously unnamed phenomena.

3/3 Did you drive the pink Cadillac hired by Nathan Gill who last year got ten years for taking bribes from a Russian spy? Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master. Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics? Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline. Some of his pals are blanking me. Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"? Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

Okay what the hell here's the free version if you have nothing better to do drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The comments underneath this are depressing. "You are protected by [X] privacy law" does not mean, and has never meant, that you are completely anonymous. If you want a completely anonymous digital service, you are probably buying from criminals and, no, you're not truly anonymous even then.

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.

Okay. Anyone long Guyana? I feel like now is a good time to be long Guyana.

Yes and no. China doesn't have a presence in ME but they are all over Africa and LATAM. They are very quickly transitioning away from technologies that keep the ME relevant as a supplier. ME obviously still relevant as a trade route. This is an acute crisis for them, but that won't last.

Sunder is correct here - the headline figure is quite misleading Here are the profiles *over time* Both care workers *and* dependents are fiscally positive for their first *20 years*. Dependents are ultimately negative but only when old/sick/retired.

Well, Hezbollah again commits suicide and invites Lebanon's doom in the process. Dying for Ayatollahs thousands of kms away. We are about to face a refugee crisis of unbelievable proportions from Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan. And it's still just day 5.

*The war between the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and Pakistan continues in many areas, sparking a significant refugee crisis, so far contained and supported by the UN agencies. Those however, are at maximum capacity, overwhelmed preparing in the whole region.

This is a good game. Well worth that price

Today has been a good day.

My painting SONORAN DESERT I’m giving away 20 free mini prints this weekend! Enter on my site!

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)

This is one of the greatest burns of the British tax dodging class I've ever seen.

“I’d rather have a Fajr-2 for tea than let the NHS touch what I, a self-made man, earned all on my own. Yes, my father is a peer and my mother was a Bond girl. What of it” - overheard, Emirates Business Class Lounge

The local fortress nobles must be Reform UK members.

Only thing that would have improved this is a drone slowly approaching the expat's window behind him.

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I'll do it with the caveat that, if I survive (regardless of the situation of the cargo) I get a payment > £100m. I'm not often a gambling man, but the all-or-nothing option does have some appeal.

I wonder if any other nation Americans consider one of our geopolitical Rivals noticed that four days of lobbing missiles at Iran from afar reduced the president to screaming at defense contractor CEOs to conjur up more missiles instantly because we're running out.

China in the crosshairs as EU launches sweeping plans to save its industrial future My report on all today's goings on www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Back to the industrial accelerator act - this jumped out at me: It will insist that companies from countries which do not allow EU firms to access their own procurement markets are excluded from the bloc’s tenders in sectors including steel, cement, automotive, solar, wind and nuclear

Two more proposals today which will hit China: the EU Ports Strategy and the EU Industrial Maritime Strategy Both will further squeeze Chinese investors in infrastructure at a time at which their port holdings in the West are under scrutiny. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Here we go - EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne presents the long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act "What I'm talking to you about isn't just a change in our modus operandi - it's actually a change in doctrine. This is something that was unthinkable even just a few months ago"

Daily sketch 🪾🌌🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? (Zoomed out version below) #art #artsky #ink #sketch #noai

Rough calcs... The vessel plus cargo was likely valued at as much as $300,000,000 China unlikely to have paids for the cargo, so total loss to Russia.

What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

I see the ‘patriotic’ parts of the press are delighting in a US President having a go at the PM.

I haven't done shading in my sketches for more than 25 years. Always felt like it could put the lines at risk of becoming unreadable. It is strange how we creatively change over time.

What you're looking at is not a sunrise — it's the Russian LNG tanker ARCTIC METAGAZ (IMO 9243148) struck by a massive explosion in the Mediterranean this morning. Photographed by crew aboard a merchant vessel, via Vanguard Tech.

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Paradox should push a Hearts of Iron update just to see the impact on Pentagon strategic planning

I am honored and delighted to announce that my image of two Springboks in a sandstorm that was raging in Namibia's coastal dunes has won the Grand prize of the2026 international Memorial Maria Luisa competition! 🥳🥂🍾 #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #bluesky #nature #mammals

The United States is seeking an armed uprising inside Iran, with a ground operation expected within days. www.itv.com/news/2026-03...

So apart from the incoherence of his timeline, and the fact that he's shitting on Ukraine (again), is this an admission that A) the US is now running out of expensive weapons and B) that they no longer believe they have a (lord forgive me) 'technological overmatch' against a certain peer adversary?