Morning.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Not to alarm anyone, but the denizens of DC seem eager to visit our fair Isles. Perhaps Rockall could be used as a reception lounge?

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables. Come on world, this IS possible! And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉 (graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

JUST IN: After Trump’s tariffs wiped more than $2.5 trillion off U.S. stock markets in less than a day, Liz Truss has awarded Donald Trump with the Golden Lettuce — the highest honor in reckless economic policy.

The story here is not that it can power 2M homes (3.1 from '26) or that its more than total households in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rather its a world leading tx connected grid forming battery that will deliver the system services that are an essential step to GBs first Zero Carbon Operations (ZCO)

#Trump #Farage #Pie youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Their coffee might be shite, but at hats off to them for getting involved in the peace process.

A brand new sketch show - SKETCH SHOW - on C4? With Mitchell & Webb and Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, and Krystal Evans? Plus NEW and UPCOMING writers? A SKETCH SHOW? On BRITISH TV?

Anyone else remember being challenged to spell disestablishmentarianism in the school playground? Or possibly antdisestablishmentarianism #CoE #disestablishmentarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

How I arrived on bluesky

Starmer in post until he's 70 then? Can't imagine why Trump has a dislike for lawyers. #Trump #Starmer #MuppetintheWhiteHouse www.independent.co.uk/independentp...

EXCLUSIVE: Driving licences will be digitised and available on phones this year, paving the way for it to become the go-to proof of identity for tens of millions of people The digital driver’s licence will be available on a new Gov.uk app

We have now reached the timeline where the Scutters from Red Dwarf are real. Next stop, Kryten!

I'm sorry, *what?*

Nigel Farage is not up the job. Only Tommy Robinson and Douglas Murray can save Britain from the Woke Mind Virus and the trans muslim communists an exclusive op ed by Elon Musk in The Spectator

"have the ketamine-addled man-child call for Farage's resignation because he won't support Tommy Robinson" "aren't you meant to be on holiday?"

Bit concerned that Elon might be talking his way out of a state dinner tbh.

Italy have built a magnificent wall on their iconic land border with Turkey. I went to see it myself and it’s the finest wall I have ever seen. We simply must build a similar wall on the cliffs of Dover an exclusive op ed by Suella Braverman in The Telegraph

Will I understand the plot of Nosferatu if I haven't seen Nosferaone?

really quite apoplectic about all the mainstream Tory figures in Britain who backed Musk essentially as a way to own the libs and who will now suffer no consequences from staying silent as their ally behaves like a fascist, and a direct danger to senior female politicians

This is amazing: it’s incredibly windy in the UK right now, so only about 10% of the National Grid is currently being powered by fossil fuels.

For Sale: Scrabble set. Missing a few letters. Needs a bit of TLC.

btw you can check the website WikiShootMe for nearby landmarks that need freely-licensed photos, visit them, and then snap pics for Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons! it's so fun and the list of photoless destinations is endless. I chose this movie theater as an example bc it's where I first watched Cars

Jools Holland’s Hootenanny has been cancelled due to bad weather & flooding across Britain in September.

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Tribunal orders release of the confidential citations Boris Johnson supplied to justify giving peerages to Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell, following my 18-month FOI battle with House of Lords Appointments Commission.

'It is a reminder that it is possible to heal, even after we have been cut down.' Today the National Trust gave away 49 saplings grown from Sycamore Gap Tree seeds to communities - including an MND centre and a gardening project near Grenfell Tower. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oliver Cromwell's house festooned with Christmas lights. The man would be spinning in his grave, if he hadn't already been exhumed and dismembered.

Some shots of the snow in Exeter last week...

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/