"a 39-year-old man was arrested in Ealing on Tuesday under the Terrorism Act, in connection with an investigation into jars of a non-hazardous substance found in Kensington Gardens" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fun detail in the release:
"The Finnish Defence Forces will communicate with the assigned reservists, and therefore the reservists do not need to contact the Finnish Defence Forces."
≈ Hold your horses you overenthusiastic lot, we just need a few people for a while 😀
If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend
I regret to inform you the weather forecasters are once again describing mornings as 'fresh'
My neighbor told me Keir Starmer keeps eating his senior civil servants so I asked how many senior civil servants he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new senior civil servant afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding senior civil servants to Keir Starmer and then hi
Ask @newschambers.bsky.social
In case there was any room left for doubt, London's oldest Roman Catholic Church's reflection this week is on liberation theology
Screenshot of marine traffic in the Strait of Hormuz with one ship broadcasting its destination as "OMG" (like "oh my God", which is probably how we all feel right about now).
Same, buddy
After our story yesterday, the US has now expanded the Hormuz blockade to include Iranian and sanctioned ships, warning they could be subject to interdiction, search and seizure regardless of their location www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
Leonardo is paying tax on that in Virginia. Saab's fair enough but a few tens of millions doesn't compare to what Europe spends on US weapons. I think it's arrogant for America to assume, as they clearly have, that the EU will just continue to buy their expensive systems forever.
Which European defence companies is the Pentagon buying from?
This was always going to happen once Europe decided to actually spend on defence. Why should European money go to the Americans? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
In one of my all-time favourite examples of "per capita is a shite statistic", the crime rate in Vatican City is the highest in the world
From the Archdiocese of Baltimore, of all places: www.archbalt.org/crime-and-pu...
I'd love to kayak away from all this
I grew up thinking about boats, never wanted anything but to be around boats, learn about boats, look at boats.
Be careful what you wish for I guess because my entire waking life has been and will, for the foreseeable future, be about boats.
Tracking data appears to show a number of Iran-linked ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the hours after the U.S. blockade of the waterway began on Monday. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
In this week's free Patreon post, I write about the map I drew for Steve Mentz's book, "Sailing Without Ahab." It's an unusual map that combines the world of Moby Dick with the geography of Steve's local coastlines.
Give it a read!
#maps #melville #mobydick
www.patreon.com/posts/world-...
The swedish anti-sketchiness force-field is powerful.
sketchy.boats/9260823
sketchy.boats/9311622
[Stevie Nicks voice] Trianon
My @flightradar24.com subscription should be on the NHS aeon.co/essays/how-t...
Btw, the ship was dark in AIS for over 40 days. So what ever its doing, its ment to be seen
www.itamilradar.com/2026/04/11/h...
My energy company emailed this morning to say my direct debit is going up nearly £30
US photographer, film-maker, musician and author Gordon Parks created a groundbreaking body of work that made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
‘Gordon Parks: The South in Colour.’
No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been
I’m going to need to see this mountain beach farm cave
Meet the artists and musicians keeping a Mardi Gras tradition alive for over a century. It's one that most tourists will never see. 60 Minutes, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
ok but shooting down airplanes with surface to air missiles and IR sensors isn't asymmetric anything
