Going to bed. But obviously Belgium should win. Or Italy, because the singer was such a poster boy for graceful aging. #Eurovision

OK. I was flagging. But it was definitely worth lasting out for Lordi doing “Save All Your Kisses For Me”.

As usual, 40 minutes into Eurovision and I start wondering if I’ve eaten the wrong kind of mushroom. #Eurovision

The Danish lad seems to have gone to the scary bit of the sex dungeon. #Eurovision

Two fascinating bits of Cashiana substack.com/@adamrutherf...

*Wes Anderson faints*

Went Wainspotting today. Carrock Fell looking east. Didn’t bother taking a picture of the spectacular horizontal hail later because my left ear was full of ice.

Absolutely nothing prepared me for this Harry Potter lookalike. Dying.

Obviously it’s hard to believe that President Trump wouldn’t have thought something through. But if you paint the Reflecting Pool swimming pool blue it won’t reflect any more will it? It’ll just look like a paddling pool.

Great new products from Bait and Switch Incorporated… open.substack.com/pub/populari...

A comprehensive ban on the use of phone text messages to advance the plot of television thrillers.

Ministerial leapfrog: a pertinent phrase from Antony Beevor’s fascinating book about Rasputin.

In separate reports today’s Times notes that enjoying the arts, drinking coffee and eating olive oil all slow aging. If they add liquorice allsorts to the list I should achieve standstill

Fascinating. But I think it gets the finger movements wrong… sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Poor David Attenborough. This is like when your family betray you and tell the waiter it’s your birthday. And they come out with a piece of chocolate cake with a sparkler in it and sing Happy Birthday. That, but times ten thousand.

OK...just to clarify. I KNOW this is a tulip. But I don't know what variety of tulip it is.

Have a flower. I don’t know what this is and I’m startled that it deigned to appear in our garden. But I like its moxie too…

I like this man's moxie... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wastwater: gloomiest and loomiest of the lakes. Seen from the path down from Middle Fell.

Sheep detective. Current case? Trying to work out why I’ve stopped to take her picture.

This is fascinating (ht @levparikian.bsky.social)

The third episode of Should I Marry A Murderer is astonishing. And the whole series is like a real life version of that Zendaya film The Drama. With the central character Snapchatting their own descent into madness. Complete with hearts and glitter filters.

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

Impressed by our new dishwasher. And the take-away service. Less impressed that I forgot to take all our cutlery out of the old one.

On Front Row tonight: glorious Zurburán, The House of the Spirits as a Prime mini-series and Tom Wright’s play about Brian Epstein, Please Please Me. Join @mmdelgado.bsky.social and @markravenhill.bsky.social and me at 7:15 on Radio Four.

“Yeah..but did I pass or not?”

No I am *NOT* taking a picture of a Banksy. I am taking a picture of people taking pictures of a Banksy. It’s a very different thing.

Well I was thinking of going to the gym this morning. Hardly seems worth it now.

'To go with the Waitrose prose, Tom Leonard's 'Jist ti Let Yi No' ahv drank thi speshlz that wurrin thi frij n thit yiwurr probbli hodn back furthi pahrti awright they wur great thaht stroang thaht cawld

Are there any lemons more lemony than a Zurbarán lemon?

Interesting piece on the current face-off. Tldr: He was stupid to start it and he’s too stupid to end it. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Waiting for the Out is both an incredible BBC drama mini-series, and also the longest ever advert for induction hobs

Want to know how to turn lead to gold? We have tips, ancient and modern on Start the Week. And an end to pothole misery! Join @kitchapman.bsky.social, Ijeoma Uchegbu and @markmiodownik.bsky.social just after 9:00 on Radio Four.

Where the fuck is Occam’s razor when you need it — maybe it’s in Occam’s wash bag, could someone go and fetch it, thanks

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Credibly stupid.

Good lord…this picture.

Went for a walk in Epping Forest today. Would buy again.

You put your tanker in, your tanker out In, out, in, out, you shake it all about You do the Straits of Hormuz and you turn around That’s what it’s all about!

When they write the history of this administration’s lurch into war they really should call it The Worst and The Thickest. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Sad to hear about Andy Kershaw. He was just enthusiasm in human form. Went to one of his impromptu kitchen concerts in Crouch End once. Can’t have been easy being his downstairs neighbour, but God it was fun.

What could possibly go wrong?

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

Fascinating judicial road-trip. And a must-read if you've watched Sovereign... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This graph (and number) represents articles about Donald Trump in the New York Times between 2000 and 2024. One day he'll flatline again. Source: tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

The unbridled arrogance running America is what made that Titan bloke think his submersible could defy the laws of physics.

Chumps wanted.