Purple rain on the guardian weather

Ten years later I still love this guardian tribute to Prince

Israeli military tells press it intends to reproduce Gaza "yellow line" in south Lebanon, maintain indefinitely depopulated, destroyed area: www.cnn.com/2026/04/18/w...

Done! Looking forward to reading (when's it out??)

Jeff Webb, father of cheerleading, 1949-2026 His vision of high-octane competition turned the sport into a multibillion-dollar business

Yikes:
"[cheerleading]...accounts for around two-thirds of all severe head and spinal injuries suffered by female athletes in the US, according to academic research published in 2022"

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Yasi Town

Geese obviously. And then this totally brilliant earworm-filled EP: open.spotify.com/track/1sR9PN...

Genuinely kind of disturbing how little attention has been paid to Israeli officials explicitly promising to do unto southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza

This is super interesting — and helps also answer my question about why ICBM missile control bunkers were always this sea foam green:

There is only dance music in times of warrrrrrrrrrrrr

Geese gig at Hammersmith Apollo

Geese?!

the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down

There is a false belief that Lebanon has endured this before, so this time around things are somehow manageable. But they are clearly far worse than they were in 2024 or even before that. Read this thread for a view inside the scale of suffering in the centre of Beirut.

Since March 2, the World Health Organization said on Saturday, 27 attacks on healthcare sites in Lebanon have resulted in 30 deaths and 35 injuries. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported additional attacks on Monday, raising the toll to 38 dead and 69 wounded, along with dozens of ambulances and vehicles destroyed and 13 health centers bombed.

Heartbreaking that, yet again, thousands of innocent people across Lebanon are being subjected to indiscriminate violence and mass destruction of their homes

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Not going to pretend I understood every ohm of this article but loved it deeply anyway

great read, this

🎵 "chill's always hiding, I've looked everywhere"

(also, where can I get one of these...)

our fan base does also have zero chill though

changed a tyre for the first time ever today

A five by five bingo card, here are the things to look out for: Top row: 80's bed linen, obscure musical instrument, bed too small for over 6ft person, CRT TV/Monitor, tumble dryer Second row: exercise bike (as clothes horse), DALEK, 90s or earlier games console, too much crafting stuff, single beds for long term partners Middle row: old cuddly toy, bed on tiles/lino, DUVET, multiple labubus, bare plaster board Fourth row: bed next to fridge, 4+ Jilly Cooper novels, definitely dead house plant, caravan, large collection of jigsaws Bottom row: giant buzz ball, "curtains" that are not curtains, scary dolls, bed under table, power tools.

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

This is a brilliant, gripping story, and at once inspiring and very sad.

Superb list! (*humble assertion = You Could've Been A Lady beats Every 1s A Winner as Hot Chocolate 's finest work)

Whatever would Bruegel the Elder think? (read the quote in yr previous piece and thought - this PR person is *wasted* in current role...)

This is really very good. And weird. Best opening paragraph...ever?

Essential listening, especially if you have been waiting for decades for someone to say this to Parris, starts from 23 minutes in.

Record-breaker: Leonard Barden’s chess column celebrates 70 years and a place in history Now 96, this week marks a milestone for our columnist, whose astonishing career has set a Guinness World Record

‘After 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, Leonard Barden is still going strong. In all that time he has never missed a week – rain or shine, in sickness and in health. And now, officially, he is a record-breaker.’

By @seaningle.bsky.social

Many people are saying this (in West Ham WhatsApp groups)

@sarahoconnorft.ft.com exposé on the internet form-filling hell of the apostrophe-haver