I enjoy Music Hall songs, but to be honest if flag shaggers took them up in a big way, I might be less enthusiastic. Btw I play English Concertina, supposedly our only uniquely native instrument, but I'd rather they didn't make that their own, either.
$4.24 trillion among 70 million? That means GDP per head of $61k. A typical British family of four turns over $244,000, you think? Obviously not, so figure tells us nothing about the real economy of ordinary people. What is it - a measure of how much the finance guys are laundering?
Did car journeys reduce?
My confused understanding: consumers pay extra for renewables because gas sets the price, that money goes to gov via CfDs and then somehow comes back to reduce bills. Is there a diagram for the money flow somewhere?
So,we pay high bills to pay low bills...
Genuine question: with CfDs in place, when prices are high, who gets the excess profits? The government? The energy companies? National Grid?
I enjoyed The Ulysses Voyage: Sea Search for the Odyssey by Tim Severin, who sailed a reconstructed bronze age Greek galley and identified likely Cretan locations for parts of the story.
Thanks!
Thing about space based energy - I can't see how it works unless either you have such an enormous collector that you might as well just build a solar farm at a fraction of the cost, or the beam has got to be so concentrated that it will fry anything it hits. Have I missed something?
Blue tit (small bird with yellow chest ,white face, black eye stripe and blue crown) perched on an apple branch with green leaves and pink flower buds
I couldn't resist a blue tit amongst the apple buds #birds
For the third day running, the BBC news website leads with an anti-immigration scare. It's becoming like the Daily Express.
"[Magyar] said 70-80% of Hungary's media had been requisitioned by Orbán allies"
What percentage of the UK media has been requisitioned by the far right? Not just the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun etc - the BBC's lead story today is an immigration scare
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top story on Radio 3 news, and the BBC website. Local elections next month where Reform hopes to make big gains - BBC doing its bit to help them.
If Americans care about #ClimateChange, why the obsession with driving personal trucks?
"Ethel Haythornthwaite fiercely fought to free the great north roof of England" is a great tongue twister
It's not the Moon Day's fault that our culture has made it what it is
Sunshine and showers
12th April 2026 18.55
The kind of person who would sit in the sink isn't the kind of person who would obey a sign telling them not to.
I agree. I think a good starting point is to ask what Putin would like, and then do the opposite.
That's always the case for an opposition party, especially one that's not been in power previously. Specific promises are dangerous; what you can do is make clear the principles and values that would guide decisions.
That's a nice little tune - never heard of the play or author, thanks for sharing
I particularly loved her version of Purcell's O Solitude. It's great to hear such music sung in a natural style.
This Easter, I've been mediating on Euler's Identity, which at the most profound mathematical level connects circular motion with exponential growth and decay. And thinking about nature, the seasons, and the cycle of life, death and new life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%2...
A few days ago, I saw our robin do this display in the direction of a cat on top of the fence. Some thorny pyracantha branches ensured the cat couldn't get at the bird, though they could see each other.
Full image of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
How anybody can look at this image and think there are better options out there is entirely beyond me.
The only planet with whales, and butterflies, and giant sequoias. Home.
I was 12 then too. But to be pedantic Apollo 8 orbited the moon ten times - Artemis II never actually enters lunar orbit, it just slingshots around and back to Earth.
By "hottest" Country he's referring to Death Valley, I suppose.
If someone had told teenage me back in 1972 that there'd be no more manned moon missions until I was pushing 70, I wouldn't have believed them.
