Netanyahu claimed last week that Magyar invited him to Hungary.
Today Magyar said that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary:
โI made it clear to the Israeli PM โ we will not back down... If a state is an ICC member and a person who is wanted enters that territory, they must be detainedโ
Good Reuters story on the government's "earned settlement" proposals and the care sector.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
The US decision to extend sanctions waivers for Russian oil is "difficult to understand", Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis says. "I had no indication that the new waiver was being prepared. But, indeed, a couple of days later, there was a new waiver."
Image of oil
Prof Martin Grossell describes the impact oil slicks can have on sea creatures:
โMany of the compounds found in crude oil will target heart function and respiration". Animals' immunity can be lowered, their nervous systems disrupted so navigating, hunting or escaping predators is more difficult.
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A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz
@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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Lovely colour.
Sunrise this morning here in Glastonbury.
Following on from last week's bs "investigation" which absolutely misrepresented the scale and nature of people potentially claiming asylum under false grounds, it is exceptionally hard to see how this is in any way acceptable and not blatant bias. This is an advert not a news piece.
Have you verified your email address by clicking the link in the email they sent you? If not that would make it go round and round.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
What a waste of your time and theirs.
Close up of a white Hellebore bloom partially open, with greenish anthers and reddish pistils.
Another shot. Hellebore. Have a beautiful day. โฅ๏ธ
#PNW #Flowers #Macro #Gardens #Photography
Mt. Hood at sunrise. Dark conifers, snowy mountaintop with some rock exposed, surrounded by pink-orange clouds with some indigo sky clouds behind.
One moreโฆ sunrise. Mt. Hood. ๐ฉทโฎ๏ธ๐ซถ๐ป
#PNW #Mountain #Sunrise
"More Like It" by Manny Francisco (Philippines).
"More Like It" by Manny Francisco (Philippines).
I imagine, as N Ireland is treated as the poor relation by Westminster, that there is nowhere near enough provision for mental health support. It must be incredibly hard for everyone.
That must have been horrific. You must have been subconsciously on alert out in public for a long time afterwards.
"The nature and consequences of recent events in Venezuela should serve as a warning to the Belarusian leadership against making mistakes," President Zelenskyy
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
I think this sums up what many people think: Scotland has improved enormously under the SNP, much more than England under the London parties in the same period. We need to protect that, as well as building for the future.
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Thanks, that's helpful.
Constituency Vote? List Vote? How to maximise pro-indy MSPs and minimise unionist MSPS. The voting system used in Scottish general elections was explicitly set up by the Labour UK government in 1998* to prevent an SP majority in the Scottish Parliament. It is split into two votes.. constituency votes seats, whilst the Conservatives and Labour together won only 10 seats. However, due to their constituency vote success, the SP's 956,000 list votes were 'devalued' by the system and won โข a Constituency vote similar to Westminster's 'First Past The Post' (FPTP) system (deciding 73 Holyrood seats). โข and a Regional, or List vote, which uses the "Additional Member System' to select extra MSPs from a party list (deciding 56 Holyrood seats). A party may stand for list seats only if it wishes. The system is designed to ensure that the more constituency seats a party wins, the more their list votes are 'devalued' and the harder it becomes for it to win list seats. By contrast, the value of list votes for parties that win fewer constituency seats is increased. In the 2016 election, for example, the SNP won 59 of the 73 them only 4 additional list MSPs, whilst the Conservatives' and Labour's combined list votes - only 4,000 more votes - got them 45 additional list MSPs. How to maximise your pro-indy votes in May 2026 ... Assuming that the SNP continues to poll well on the constituency vote, the best way to maximise your pro-indy votes and reduce the number of Unionist MSPs is to give your regional list vote to the Scottish Greens who are best placed in all* regions to increase pro-indy list seats - vote SNP1/SGP2. * In rare circumstances where the SNP and Scottish Greens compete for a constituency, vote for whichever holds the lead - Leader1/SGPZ.
How to use your second vote in Scotland's May 7th election to maximise pro-Indy MSPs and reduce unionist MSPs including Reform. #Holyrood #SNP1SGP2
Candidate is a good man, but sitting Lib Dem is a really great constituency MSP and farmers here don't like SNP government.
I usually vote SNP1/2, but you've convinced me. I think I misunderstood how it was worked out because I'm in Orkney which SNP are highly unlikely to win, so I thought they'd do better on the H&I list, but I see now it doesn't work like that.
UKIP have had to abandon their Scottish election launch event before it became an embarrassing fiasco, and are now desperately trying to blame the police and a phoney 'antifa' threat.
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/04/ukip...
On this day in 1943, three Belgian Jewish resistance fighters carried out a unique and audacious action against the nazis - they stopped a train to Auschwitz and freed Jews being shipped to the gas chambers.
Read more here:
searchlightmagazine.com/2026/04/the-...
This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.
Composite photo of seven different cloud photos, one taken each day this week. A cloud diary.
This week in clouds.
#MentalHealthMatters ๐
Richard Tice apparently does not think that Richard Tice should resign over the incredible amount of tax found to be owed, despite calling for Angela Raynor to do just that over something objectively much, much smaller if she had "any moral decency"...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost ยฃ100,000 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.
