And you can complain to the BBC here:

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Jaws was a book first. And imho that makes a difference.
Better story with all the best tropes - monsters / a team of flawed heroes who don’t trust each other (magnificent seven style) / small guy against the machine (Roy Scheider’s cop fighting against the money)
And the inimitable Robert Shaw

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Eek!

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE LEADERS OF
THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, CANADA, DENMARK, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND JAPAN.

A close-up of pink flowers emerging from a tree, a blue sky is in the background

Did you know... magnolia evolved on earth about 95 million years ago!

Magnolia is so old in fact that it pre-dates the existence of bees and butterflies, meaning they relied on beetles to pollinate in their early days.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Ah yes April 1st

Trial & Error - Two days of chaos at Basildon and Southend courts Our south Essex crime & investigations reporter recounts two days of chaos: a flooded courthouse, a collapsed interpreter and a missing…

For two days, every Essex court case I tried to cover went wrong.

A flooded court, a collapsed interpreter, a runaway defendant.

My firsthand experience of two days of justice system chaos:

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2596892...

(Spoiler: Zero delays caused by juries!)

@barristersecret.bsky.social

Asia Depends on L.N.G. From the Middle East. This Is What Happens When It Runs Out. With a cutoff in shipments imminent, Asian countries, the biggest importers of liquefied natural gas from the Middle East, are already burning more coal and reducing consumption.

Countries across Asia are bracing for a complete cutoff in coming days of Middle Eastern LNG, a fuel that underpins power generation and industrial output across much of the region.

No evidence of 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election An investigation into alleged

Sadly this whole wretched fiasco is a win-win for Farage, since if the police had found evidence of fraud, it’d have been The Foreigns Are Stealing Our Elections, and since they (predictably) haven’t, it’s The Establishment Is Conspiring With The Foreigns To Steal Our Elections

How the BBC and Daily Mail Spread Reform's ‘Family Voting’ Lies The real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided'
@chrischirp.bsky.social

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Left: Nigel Farage, "Never once did I say we could cut council tax"

Right: Nigel Farage leaflet literally saying 'cut your taxes'

Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz Israelis said securing the strait for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz — a critical conduit for global energy supplies — has emerged as perhaps the paramount objective of the Iran war.

Vintage packaging for Fry's Chocolate Eggs features a scenic riverside view and people in period attire.

A vintage box labeled "Fry's Chocolate Egg" features an illustration of a girl holding an egg, with small yellow decorations.

A vintage Fry's hollow chocolate egg, wrapped in silver foil with decorative flowers, placed beside a measuring tape for scale.

History Lesson first...

Using an Egg as a symbol of Easter and rebirth has been a thing for centuries.

Chocolate Eggs, not so much!

The first-ever hollow chocolate Easter Egg was created by Fry's in Bristol in 1873.

And guess what?

There was no mention of the word EASTER on the packaging😱

2/

Trump says US will ‘obliterate’ Iran's power plants if Strait of Hormuz not open before 48-hour deadline

Just for avoidance of doubt, this would be a war crime. It could arguably be multiple war crimes as it would violate multiple international laws which specifically prohibit the destruction of objects indispensable to civilian survival, which "obliterating Iran's power plants" would definitely be.

Starmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPs PM will consider exempting large numbers from proposed changes, which would leave people waiting 10 years for settled status

There’s no saving these cruel, pointless and unworkable proposals and it’s to be hoped that critics within Labour won’t allow themselves to be fobbed off with tinkering around at the edges

Bit confused by Momentum (trademarked??) is firmly with Reform UK. Really? Wow…

Will the asylum support legislation changes make a huge difference? S95 and 98 were always discretionary. And regulation 5 was caveated by ‘if they are deemed eligible…’ Won’t it all just end up in court to get support started? (Speaking as a s55 veteran…)

‘Criticism of one’s government does not mean welcoming the destruction of one’s society’

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Surprise! Seems those "legitimate concerns" were about melanin content after all

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy.

Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts.

An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The White House could have—& should have—reformed USAID. It chose instead to obliterate the agency, causing deaths all over the world.

Now we know what happened to the Congressionally-mandated funding for USAID.

Ending our rule of law will harm all Americans, on the Right & Left.

Rwanda's £290 million was about 40% of £715 million spent directly on the failed UK/Rwanda policy. (There were much higher costs of associated policies, esp hundreds of millions spent on hotel accomodation, with claims not being processed at all, to wait for Rwanda deal)
www.gov.uk/government/p...