"I don't want you to hang my photo in your offices. Because a President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang pictures of your children instead. And before you make a decision, look into their eyes." - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

It’s the 60th anniversary today of a dog called Pickles finding the stolen Jules Rimet trophy by a tree in Upper Norwood in south London, which will please anyone who’s watched Small Prophets

Forget your back-garden hot tub, the boat-top bath tub is where it’s at.

118,000 miles of hedgerows have disappeared across the UK since 1950. More were lost during the two world wars removed by compulsory order to provide land for the population to ‘dig for victory’. So this initiative is impressive.

Answer: they are not.

A new day A calm start down on the River Lea. #LondonBirds #hackney #kingfisher #birdphotography #birds #wildlife #hackneymarshes #riverlea #ukbirds

The Farage / Ipswich Town thing is so interesting. Ipswich claimed he’d booked a tour under a different name. Athletic say he was guest of chairman. (The crossover of UK football with Reform on X is sooooo under appreciated as a social force.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA Insane Minimum 32.2C at Port Hedland yesterday. It's the hottest night ever recorded in the whole Southern Hemisphere this time of the year. April will start smashing thousands of records in Australia,South America and South Africa. Mind blowing.

Bob is a senior foster boy and all future medical bills are covered by Cecil County Animal Services but they are also adding a $250 Chewy gift card for the lucky adopter. Please let's try and find a real home for Bob in Maryland.

Three countries stood alone as 123 nations voted to formally label the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity” the U.S., Israel, and Argentina all voted no on the Ghana-led UN reparations resolution.

The things Goodwin got wrong weren’t obscure academic citations or quibbles over statistics. They were objective falsehoods. ...reports that don't exist ..a string of invented quotations ...a claim that Boris Johnson was in Opposition in 2019... www.thenerve.news/p/matt-goodw...

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

There are no words.

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

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This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Lexit benefit: renationalise Royal Mail, and re-grant it the delivery monopoly.

I took this photo a few years ago during almond blossom time in Andalucia, before I knew of Vincent's painting, but now I can't see one without thinking of the other.

Just received a pension email which says, “with retirement approaching on the horizon…” I’m 52 and unlikely to be able to afford to retire until I’m at least 70. That’s less “approaching on the horizon” and more “just about visible with a long-range telescope”.

Keeping in step with our current upside down weather, March came in like a lamb and is looking ready to go out like a lion.

A secure children’s home is meant to protect vulnerable girls. Inspectors found unlawful restraint, abuse & inadequate supervision. How did the East Anglian home deteriorate this far? If this isn’t a safeguarding failure, what is?

Labour have been smearing the Greens on our evidenced-based approach to drugs. If the PM won’t listen to us, and he won’t listen to the experts, will he listen to the families at @anyoneschild.bsky.social, who have lost loved ones under the UK’s current negligent drug policies?

“Since 2020 Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children, UN data shows. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.” This is shameful and yet unsurprising. No accountability. No justice.

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I'm no religious scholar, but I don't think the Christian God wants you to crucify people.

Alternative headline, “Drunk attempts ABH on man doing his job”

I was thinking “someone needs to set up an alternative to the Guides”, and then I remembered that the Woodcraft Folk exist. If there isn’t a group near you, you can set one up. woodcraft.org.uk/about-woodcr...

Immigration enforcement is far from new, but it has got worse under Labour. There's always a significant degree of racial profiling in raids, along with a routine failure to protect victims of exploitation and modern slavery, favouring Instesd to penalise them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is disgusting. They were already searched when they were captured and before they got on this Eastern ICE flight. There is NO legitimate reason to force them to stand in the rain and be groped by some GEO Group thug.

Sunrise The first rays of sunlight illuminating Mr Kingfisher down on Hackney Marshes. #LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #birds #kingfisher #hackneymarshes #ukbirds

guys I'm starting to think the guys heisting half a billion dollars at a time from the market through blatantly-rigged insider trading manipulations over and over again might not have our best interests at heart

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

Same energy.

This is what protecting freedoms and enforcing norms look like. Badenoch and colleagues should take note.

It really is the point. If a Conservative front bencher is allowed to make a discriminatory Islamophobic argument like this without sanction from his party - indeed with support from its leadership - that represents a major erosion of anti-prejudice norms and indeed of religious freedom norms.

Important to understand that, as someone banned from being a director for four years for failing to pay more than £1m in tax, when Ant Middleton says, "I certainly don't miss working day on/ day off for... a lying corrupt UK government!" he is not talking about himself.

incredible -- Fox & Friends completely ignored Trump's batshit post celebrating Mueller's death during their brief news hit about Mueller's passing, and instead highlighted the more normal response of George W Bush

Trump this morning reposted a call for him to serve a third term as a reward for “a stolen election”

“We were told that the film wouldn’t work, although there remains the possibility that they couldn’t find any best bits of Kemi Badenoch.” Well, quite.

Running out my front door tonight in North Pole, Alaska to see one of the best auroras of the year... unreal!

I've always thought Methodists were inclusive, but I didn't realise just how inclusive they are.

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Impermanence To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops Shaken from a crane's bill Eihei Dogen #WorldPoetryDay www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/D/Doge...

Mueller was a decorated combat Marine who leaves behind a wife and two children. There is no defending this. Trump is scum.

“There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.” Walt Whitman

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.