"For some reason"

Today is the 13th anniversary of the heinous murder of British Soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby. Lee was killed in a brutal terrorist attack and his memory must never be forgotten. Thinking of Lee’s family and friends and everyone affected by that dreadful day.

La Caverne de Pont Neuf by the French artist JR in tribute to Christo wrapping the bridge more than 40 years ago.

🇫🇷 presidential hopeful Edouard Philippe is now under investigation for embezzlement over contracts in his mayoral seat Le Havre. So what does this mean for next year's election? Will it dent his popularity? And could we really have a 2nd round run-off between 2 men who are both under investigation?

Pont Neuf Paris for the inflating of La Caverne by the French artist JR in tribute to Christo wrapping the bridge 41 years ago.

Read that again: staff at an NHS hospital deliberately obstructed a rape investigation. "An NHS trust deliberately obstructed a police investigation into the rape of a transgender patient on an all-male secure psychiatric ward." www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

A visit to the French town that saw off the far-right after political rivals joined forces. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

A visit to the French town that saw off the far-right after political rivals joined forces. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

what i'm saying is: to join the EU, you kinda sorta have to ask their opinion on it too because the answer might not be what you are looking for

Quelle surprise. "The UN ( @UN @UN_Women), too, dragged its heels in recognising the atrocities committed. It seems 'believe all women' did not apply in this instance." www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Two arrested over arson attack at former synagogue in east London

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Wonderful story from @kimwillsher.bsky.social

French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Huge wildfire tears through Chornobyl Exclusion Zone as firefighters battle flames amid fears over radiation. More than 1,100 hectares of forest have burned, with strong winds and explosive hazards making efforts to contain the blaze even more dangerous. www.kyivpost.com/post/75708

Our CEO, Darren Henley, has published a new blog on antisemitism and the need for honest reflection, care, and action across the cultural sector. Read the blog in full: https://bit.ly/3QWObxM

Oh. How terrible. Imagine being forced to stop using this abominable product www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vladimir Putin attacking children again. Yet Russia is allowed to show art at Venice and take part in the Paralympics, and FIFA wants it back in world football. It's a terrorist state. It shouldn't be in any of those places.

The jury system only works if jurors try to reach a true verdict according to the evidence. If you openly encourage jurors to deliver a verdict according to their personal beliefs, the whole system collapses. Just remember that not everyone has the same views as you. /1

‘Put your baby on its back to sleep’ is public health genius: free, anyone can do it, cut cot death rates by 80%. Amazing. Just listened to great BBC woman’s hour (h/t to public service broadcasting too) on how it’s being undermined by Instagram-famous idiots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An extra £20 per week could reduce the chances of children who are living below the poverty line from entering the care system, a new study has found. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

An update on British euroscepticism. Morning.

"Healthy life expectancy for men in UK has fallen from 62.9 yrs in 2012-14 to 60.7 years in 2022-24 & from 63.7 to 60.9 yrs for women over the same timeframe ..." The decline ... is so significant that, in more than 90% of UK, people start suffering from illness before the state pension age of 66."

A good point well made. (from X)

This is an astonishingly successful public policy reform, and so heartening. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

“If you’re a supporter of the Palestinians and you don’t like the conflation of opposition to Israel with antisemitism, here’s a really easy way to reject that conflation: take a stand now against antisemitism and in support of British Jews.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A bitter end to John Lemon beer...and a bit of fun for the bank holiday weekend! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

40th anniversary of world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is very funny.

Anyone else having problems with Bluesky? Again? Jeez this is getting boring. It's logged me out and I can only get back in on laptop. Mobile phone just error messages and "Rate Limit Exceeded".

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

EU provisionally approves €90bn Ukraine loan as Hungary drops opposition after Druzhba pipeline reopens – Europe live

In March, we reported that a UK exporter was selling kit that could be used to make drones and missiles to an Armenian firm with ties to the Russian military supply chain. Today, the govt has announces plans to toughen export controls to stop sanctions-busting diversion via third countries. [1/3]

The IOC’s decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness | Tanya Aldred

Giles was so generous with his time and so helpful when it came to explaining to journalists very clearly and with quotable precision exactly how a wrong un landlord was being a wrong un. But mostly I just remember thinking he was a really, really kind human who cared about the state of others.

En “Proximity and resilience: the two pillars of the city’s new urban language” (Barcelona Metròpolis), destaco cómo la proximidad, a través de la proxiliencia, puede transformar nuestras ciudades. www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/e...

Film about press baron and Nazi collaborator Jean Luchaire divides French historians. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Narrator: in fact, he had quite a lot of cards.

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social "Is Ukraine winning the drone war?" The Russians certainly think so. What are the implications of Ukraine's innovations for the war and, more broadly, for how other countries should be thinking about drones? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...

19 April 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Bernard Nugelman, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 817 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale talks to Helen Pidd about safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall, announcing her new role as chair www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My obituary of Nathalie Baye. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Very pleased to see Kezia Dugdale as chair of Stonewall. She radiates decency, tolerance and understanding and, in my view, those are just the qualities needed to escape from a harmful culture war which I firmly believe most people don't want.

The truth about what’s behind this corruption will be ghastly www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall

London synagogue firebombed in fifth incident claimed by Iran-linked group ft.trib.al/rLFKxLK