Details of this summer's BBC Proms have been announced: www.bbc.co.uk/proms
There will be concerts every day from 17th July to 12th September with music from a wide range of composers.
Admittedly, there'll be nothing by Bruckner.
🇬🇧🇺🇸 At RAF Fairford, several B-52 Stratofortress aircraft of the United States Air Force were today equipped with AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles
As it appears, in the event of a resumption of hostilities against Iran, these strategic bombers could rapidly deploy from this base.
It might be added that this picture was taken around 20h 45m UTC, 9:45 p.m. local summer time, from Ynys Môn, Wales. Observers in some parts of Eastern Europe and Western Asia would have seen the Moon and Pleiades when the Moon was passing in front of the star cluster, an interesting event.
The Moon, Venus and the Pleiades star cluster
The narrow crescent Moon, the Pleiades star cluster, and the planet Venus (bottom) during twilight last night.
Uranus is also faintly visible to the left of the picture.
The trouble is that I can't remember where I read the claim that the island was in Flintshire, or whether I've misremembered something entirely.
An interesting thread on the status of Ynys Seiriol, a small, uninhabited island off Ynys Môn.
I have a strange, vague, memory of once reading a bizarre claim that Ynys Seiriol was once part of Flintshire, which is nowhere near it.
Disappointing.
Nigel Farage is an evil corrupt asshole.,
Who does this description of Kaiser Wilhelm II remind you of? (Written by Christopher Clark in 2015).
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
Reform UK now says it is merely "looking into" Byline Times' revelations that one of its candidates authored a conspiracy theory article in a 9/11 Trutherb' journal.
It effectively claimed the COVID pandemic was a Pentagon-led scam. Bereaved families are furious.
uk.news.yahoo.com/reform-uk-lo...
“Agendas have become politicised, government agencies that support basic and applied research have been undermined, knowledgable advisers and experts have been dismissed or have fled and revised guidelines contradict decades of rigorous research”
#USBrainDrain www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
NEW: The IRGC appears to be controlling Iranian decision-making instead of Iranian political officials who are engaging with the United States in negotiations, particularly Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi. (1/7)
Popular astronomy: over the next two nights, the narrow crescent Moon, Venus and the Pleiades star cluster will appear close together in the western sky after dusk. Uranus will be close to the Pleiades.
The Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades as seen from some parts of the world Sunday evening.
Well-played, @zeit
"I would rather w**k with a razor".
Pretty clear response from bloke in Wales when asked if he would consider voting Reform...
The man from Reform (who took it in good spirits tbf) is Zak Weaver, a former Tory staffer who defected in February.
Church organist here. Lovely old dear in the congregation looks like Ken Dodd. Every time she comes in to a service I try and secretly play 'Happiness'. Nobody has spotted this yet.
How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
BBC's Newsnight has reported that Sir Olly Robbins has lost the confidence of the prime minister and the foreign secretary, and will leave his job as permanent under-secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Donald Trump has declared that he will not defend Italy if Italy is attacked militarily.
Reform's Ricky Hodges urged "veterans" to put the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, "in a coma for a long time".
Previously said he wanted to shoot people "in the face", and that he would "love to come up against" a group of Labour activists to "take their... limbs off".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by Paul Lewis @direthoughts.com & me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A square graphic on a white background. At the top, there are two distinct, rough, painted-style brushstroke patches side-by-side: one in the blue and yellow of the European Union flag and one in the red, white, and blue of the United Kingdom's Union Jack. Below the flags, bold, dark blue text reads: "THE UK IS COMING BACK TO ERASMUS+." In the bottom right corner, there is a small, rectangular official European Union flag.
The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
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link.europa.eu/MHc9JP
Da iawn. Doeddwn i ddim wedi sylweddoli doedd dim erthygl Cymraeg. Da iawn i chi.
Well, I didn't know about that. Good for that research team.
The Wikipedia article about the bacterium myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis, which was first found near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Ynys Môn: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxococ...
