Billed as a tribute to America’s 250th, the White House cage fight landed conveniently close to Trump’s 80th birthday. And the whole production was staged like imperial Rome… Is Trump “Caesar-maxxing?” ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/sGq3F76LCbc

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW This week: Fight! Fight! Fight! The team (plus guest Sarah Shannon) catch up on the latest White House cage fight, on the World Cup, on the USA and Iran's actual fight, and on the British fight for the right between Reform and Restore. YouTube: youtu.be/sGq3F76LCbc

Have you tried the Merlin bird call identification app from Cornell Uni? It works remarkable well: merlin.allaboutbirds.org

Goodbye David Hockney. What a legend. His paintings blew my mind when I was a teenager, studying art. And they still do. Human creativity is amazing and he took it to an apogee.

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Brexit has been a permanent tax on British growth—and some British voters “can’t quite admit that they locked themselves into it,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues. Watch The David Frum Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjOo...

On 22 May, nearly ten years after it was issued and after Lucy Letby has spent more than 2,000 days in prison, the Thirlwall Inquiry released the full report into her successful grievance procedure against consultants at the Countess of Chester hospital, which the jury never saw. 🧵1/3

I think this might be favourite comment ever on a post.

No Russian thinker has worked harder than Aleksandr Dugin to rationalize the invasion of Ukraine—but Dugin, along with many other Russian elites, has run out of cogent stories to tell, Simon Shuster reports:

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Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, Helen Lewis writes:

Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, Helen Lewis writes:

In March, I visited North Ealing Primary School as part of @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BritishScienceWeek. I talked about all the cool things you get to do as a #geologist, including visiting (and abseiling into) volcanoes! 🌋 My message clearly stuck with at least one budding artist-geologist! 🙌🏾

Love this 😆 #Reform

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

You can build an interactive science game in about three minutes. No coding knowledge needed — just a prompt and a few clicks in Canva or Gemini. www.sciencefix.co.uk/2026/05/make... #edusky #ai #primaryscience #canva

Big announcement for Education users!! More Reality capture options....

Students in my Community GIS are wrapping up. They write blog posts about their work throughout the semester, and this one is especially thoughtful.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Closing in on 10 million page views of LivingGeography - should reach that tomorrow - over 13700 posts since May 2008 when I started it livinggeography.blogspot.com

Nice article about the quake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent advisory. 🧪

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden

Cycling for an icecream ... 🚲🍦 ... the journey is the destination

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

On Sunday, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again. Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

One night before the elections the great people of Hungary are on the streets, rejecting the malicious influence coming from Russia, Serbia and certain people from the USA. The crowds are huge across the country. They can write history tomorrow.

1/3. Very helpful summary in preparation for the epochal Hungarian elections tomorrow. See also essays by Anne Applebaum and Lászlo Gendler and commentary by Kim Scheppele mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

Cowslips in Kent #Springwatch

Brilliant Joy Division cover: youtu.be/L2UzKWC9CfY?...

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map... The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. #LimitlessParkinsonsCare You can expect a few posts from me with brutal honesty about the science, facts and my journey. @parkinsoncanada.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social @parkinsonseurope.bsky.social @mjfoxfoundation.bsky.social www.parkinson.ca/pam/

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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded… The new Private Eye is out now.

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

SpeedGeeking is in 1 week at Esri Dev & Tech Summit 😄 Come geek out about GIS things with me! Tues, Mar 10 • 5-6pm • Renaissance Palm Springs (San Jacinto + Santa Rosa) #ArcGIS #GIS #Esri

IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays. The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

This is a chiffchaff. While small numbers overwinter here in the UK, hearing their song ‘chiff chaff chiff chaff’ for me really signals the start of Spring, I know I’ll be hearing one any day 🥰 #watercolours #birdart 🪶

Make your (story) maps move. 🌋Lava creeps, smoke billows, and rifts glow in this Kīlauea story refresh — all thanks to new animated symbols in Map Viewer. Give them a try: ow.ly/oUMA50YmC1M #gischat ⚒️ #geogsky #geogchat

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW This week: A Tale of Two Andrews Ian, Adam, Andy and Rachael Claye discuss two men named Andrew - one who used to be a prince, and one who’s still a solicitor with a very dubious practice. Listen: pod.fo/e/395f64 YouTube: youtu.be/pHNuqHyF5M0

Watch this from Historian Sir Anthony Seldon 👏 ➡️ Calls to wipe student debt and pay for it out of general taxation ➡️ Bring in Martin Lewis and give him four weeks to find a solution ➡️ There are no dead end courses eg the arts, stresses universities are so much more

HUGE!!!!! ✊🏾 #academicsky

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