This poor quality photo of a sunflower, complete with bee, is cheering me up on a dreich morning.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Never change, Scotland

I know he decided to disappear many years ago, but at least we knew he was out there, being silently brilliant. Damn.

So much Honda love. 115k miles on my old Civic and it’s still the most reliable member of the household.

Food bank charity Trussell Trust says in the last 5 years there’s been a 46% rise in emergency food parcels provided to families with children New figures suggest 1.8 million were given out last year (compared to the year before that’s an 8% decrease)

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

The Labour leadership, man. The frogs who boiled themselves.

Peak Oban.

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.

How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

It’s almost as if somebody set Washington DC alight and you can see the flames from here

The joy of not caring whether you’re good at something. Loved this story, even before the perfectly imperfect pots.

The Recycling Factory offers a programme where you can send in used cartridges which will be converted into a donation to a charity of your choice, rather than further enriching the grasping monsters who sell printer ink for the price of liquid gold www.therecyclingfactory.com

Hat tip to the headline 👏

I recently questioned #BBC political journalists’ approach to scrutiny of #Reform’s policies+said if #NigelFarage was not rigorously challenged until the run-up to the next election, it would be too late. It seems Wes Streeting agrees. It’s time for the BBC to step up, IMO. 👇🏻

NYT #Strands puzzle is just taking the piss today.

Me: What a lovely sunny day! The sun: May I demonstrate how filthy your house is?

Good plan. A long hot soak in Cabin Pressure is what I need this week.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.

He’s perfect. I’m also pretty sure that he’s just finished a new album that he’d love you to listen to.