Houseplant hacks: do humidifiers really help houseplants?

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari". Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.

Would be so cool to build a tunnel

Trump is a dickhead

There were some problems at the BBC but at least they are not NPR

I read mark urban substack and yeah there are problems. Dont know about orchestrated but there are problems at the BBC. I wish journalists were honest about it. open.substack.com/pub/markurba...

If people read mark urban substack it makes semse to me why he left but this lad its all about woke and other stuff. Delusion 😂😂😂😂

Dont know about rightwingers but there are femenists celebrating the departure.

Which party is in power in denmark

Many of the 1880s boxers and wrestlers I research were of an age to have sons who served in WWI. Wrestling Champion Jack Wannop and wife Miriam had 10 children, two dying as babies. All four adult sons served. This is Miriam with little Hilda, May and Sidney. Both May and Sidney died in 1918.

If Keir Starmer’s election campaign was carrying a ming vase across an ice rink, then this budget – according to one minister – is like “wrestling a squirrel across a minefield”. The squirrel is not the markets, but the PLP. Our weekend read www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thought it was about fashion but its about politics

Othello review – David Harewood makes a commanding return to landmark role

Dont think we have teen vogue in UK sadly.

Will be interesting how the numbers move after the budget

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Hope there is a future in syria.

Last night Ukraine attacked Russian targets (including Moscow) with hundreds of drones and Russian authorities downplayed the event. Three years ago we were told if Ukraine attacked Crimea, Russia would go nuclear. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Hard left again dont accept biology. 😂😂😂

Went to chicago lovely place

Trump is going in. Mad man

The Revolution No One Wanted www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sudan’s brutal civil war – what has happened in El Fasher?

Another piece on sudan which found interesting from @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Whats happpening in sudan reminded of this piece. The Revolution No One Wanted www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ben Jennings on Halloween and the budget – cartoon

Gutted about the result but in we go. #bhafc

Wonder if people from other parts of the world have this debate who are on X. I follow different sports and X still the best platform for it.

Always hated manchester united and still do. Yesterday the beat us but my hatred will always be there. #bhafc

Oh no lwts blame DEI for my ignorance. Stupid woman

Timing? Not so much

Its not the end of the world people

The labour party are in power. Yet some tory MP proposes something unworkable and people go mental. Am more worried what reform would propose as they are top in the polls. Tory party wont be in power for the next ten years.

Things must be bad for the goverment when even @newstatesman1913.bsky.social are showing pessimism.

In latin america they have the US system and seem to make quiet a few dictators while i wonder how many dictators are in the parliamnet system.

Dam the Economist is £10.99 dam.

Who saw this coming 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cant wait for Hollywood to make a film about this robbery.

A huge Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on Wednesday damaged energy and railway infrastructure and killed at least seven people, as US President Donald Trump’s latest peace efforts appeared to unravel. on.ft.com/3JqQ3LL

Racist tommy was to extreme even for maccabi fans.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Nelson: The Gathering Storm After several years abroad, Nelson returns home to Britain for the first time since his victory in the Battle of the Nile. However, the scandalous affair with Lady Hamilton has tainted his reputation, and he receives suspicion as well as plaudits.

LIVE: UN agencies on the situation in Gaza youtube.com/live/_dKZGog...

Today’s ONS figures show that over the first half of the year, government borrowing has exceeded the OBR’s March forecast. This is despite the cash size of the economy exceeding expectations as inflation has remained high – higher inflation hasn’t yet led to higher tax receipts.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

“The trouble with libertarianism is eventually you run out of the USA’s money,” as Thatcher so nearly said.

Daniel Kinahan is one of the most powerful cocaine traffickers in the world—but he lives a strikingly public life in Dubai, shopping at malls and consorting with famous boxers like Tyson Fury.

Enoch was a neoliberal in economics and wonder how he would deal with mass immigration which his economic program depends on.

Pedro sanchez is underestimated

#bhafc we beat the oil barons