Graph showing how much pollution each water company spills per customer.

Eye-watering (no pun intended). Source (no pun intended): www.ft.com/content/ff7a...

Royal Mail invests £500m to tackle late deliveries as second-class post cut back Courier promises to meet new delivery targets by next May after being fined last year for poor record

Royal Mail scandal.

2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays.

Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets.

Price won't be reduced for worse service

Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.

"T&E calls on the European Commission's forthcoming Single Ticketing Package to require major rail operators to display and sell other willing operators' tickets under fair conditions"

Eh? There should be no willing here! The willing ones already do it. The issue is the unwilling ones!

(6/11)

G'night Hookland

If I’m taking a lot of beans on my EasyJet flight I always book a seat with extra legume.

Insight

Far Side comic: “through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

Gary Larson was joking about this almost 40 years ago!

Between Iraq and a Kharg place.

#LiqueurInASongOrMovie

Three Cointreaus in the Fountain

I am what I Amaretto #LiqueurInASongOrMovie

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Statu of a girl in a lush green May garden

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine [..] why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

#ShakespeareSunday

Meadow Saxifrage, a five-petalled white flower on a long stem.

Underside of a Meadow Saxifrage leaf showing small brown powdery areas on reddish spots, which are the rust Puccinia saxifragae.

Underside of a Meadow Saxifrage leaf held between finger and thumb, showing a large area of small brown powdery rust spots, which are the rust Puccinia saxifragae.

Before heading home I went to Earlham Cemetery to see a species of rust fungus that I'd not seen before. This is Puccinia saxifragae on Meadow Saxifrage, seen there previously by @vannabartlett.bsky.social & @jeremybartlett.bsky.social .

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

Breaking: Kinahan cartel leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai. It follows a Bellingcat investigation last month that traced him to an MMA event in Dubai - providing the first proof that the cartel's leadership was still in hiding in the UAE. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The library has it in various formats.

They've gone to a lot of effort to disguise themselves, heavy use of the word sovereign and a bunch of jumble about bond markets, but so so far from Green.

If you are planning to vote for Scottish Greens don’t be duped by Independent Green Voice nothing environmental or organic about them. Set up by neo-fascist BNP/UKIP. A scandal that they are allowed to use the words green, organic and have a leaf in logo.

Unacceptable.
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/m...

I actually know a real life tram enthusiast.

Truely everything has a fandom

😂

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Im convinced the psychopaths running the show don’t care if this happens.

If they can amass more wealth & power in the short term, divide us with fear & hate and ensure the poor & marginalized suffer & die first, they likely see that as a win.

This is what we’re up against.

‘Greatest series ever’ ending after 70 years The show has been hailed as ‘a truly distinctive landmark piece of filmmaking’

I'm so sad to hear this, but of course it's inevitable. Some of the best TV I've ever watched is within this series. Can't wait to see the final instalment.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....

Protecting Curlews in Nidderdale 🐦

Join Alex Large (Hartwith Curlew Project) on 11th May as he shares how a small 2022 initiative grew into a thriving community conservation project in North Yorkshire 🌿 🌎 🧪

Book your FREE place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986157075...

@curlewaction.bsky.social

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons on #Trump #XiJinping #StraitOfHormuz #HormuzBlockade #IranWar #Ceasefire @Independent – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

A photo showing seven people gathered around some bedding plants on a city street, surrounded by high walls. Credit: URSOILL

City soils are degraded and trapped under concrete. So researchers are working to fix them using nature-based remediation, as I reported for @nextcity.org

nextcity.org/urbanist-news/european-r...

'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers say Archaeologists have so far uncovered

Our early prehistoric forebears, woolly mammoths and hippos tip up in Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

I know we're all a bit distracted right now but www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Smiths Crisps (Singing Spuds) - 1980's UK Advert YouTube video by DrDejvu

When it comes to singing potatoes in the dirt, it's hard to top this

With the local elections fast approaching this deserves revisiting:

Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant".

Please share as widely as possible. The news media have a convenient habit of forgetting about Farage's service to Russia.