Final bloody mente! 👏🤦‍♀️

NEW from @desmog.com - Nigel Farage has personally accepted at least £675k from foreign governments, companies & donors since becoming an MP.

But this isn’t just about one politician. It’s about gaping holes in the UK’s rules on foreign money & political influence.

www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

New plans to introduce voucher scheme that will help people save money The Scottish Greens want to introduce a repair voucher scheme that will help people save money.

We've all been there, when something breaks and it's cheaper to bin & replace rather than repair it.

The @scottishgreens.org's discounted repairs scheme would be good for buyers, for businesses and for our planet.

97 public libraries in Scotland have permanently closed since 2008.

Libraries are an essential community service, providing far more than just books. We'll ensure councils have the financial backing they need so that no community is left without access to one.

Picasso’s Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | María Ramírez Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez

“This year will mark 45 years since an Iberia commercial flight from New York landed in Madrid with its pilot announcing to the surprised passengers that they had just travelled with one of the country’s most famous exiles…”
My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looking to rehome these journals for the cost of postage only - UK based. Costs £12 to post 20kg and less to post less #booksky #academia #archaeology #history

British ship financier charged by NCA over Russian sanction violations John Ormerod accused of making money transfers after being designated for arranging oil tanker purchases for Lukoil

🚨Hugely significant development in sanctions enforcement to see British shipping financier John Ormerod charged with #money laundering and breach of Russia #sanctions, related to his alleged role in moving money linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers:

www.ft.com/content/470b...

Accelerating conversion to organic farming in Scotland Accelerating conversion to organic farming in Scotland: Learning from Austria

We are delighted to announce that @ariane-burgess.bsky.social will join #DavidMcKay @soilassocscot.bsky.social and organic farmer, #RachelIves to discuss how to expand #organic farming in Scotland
Please join us on May 13th! 🍓🫐🍊🍇🍷🥕🥦🍞🥔🥩😋
@scottishgreens.org
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerati...

Nathalie Baye, prolific star of French and Hollywood cinema, dies aged 77 Baye went from working with the great French auteurs in the 1970s and 80s, including Truffaut and Godard, to high profile roles in Catch Me if You Can and Downton Abbey: A New Era

So sad, loved her in, The Return of Martin Guerre, one of my favourite films.

Nathalie Baye, prolific star of French and Hollywood cinema, dies aged 77 | Film | The Guardian share.google/q1PdRcGWZwxk...

Looking down an ancient paved road with people, Roman ruins and mountains in the distance

Looking down the Via di Mercurio from the Roman city wall of #Pompeii towards the forum, early one Saturday morning

📷 Sept 2023

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : Donald Trump affirme que « le blocus continuera » sur les ports iraniens si aucun accord de paix n’est conclu avec Téhéran et menace de ne pas prolonger le cessez-l... De son côté, l’Iran a menacé samedi de refermer le détroit stratégique d’Ormuz si les Etats-Unis maintenaient leur blocus, après avoir annoncé la veille sa réouverture complète pour les navires commer...

Two takeaways from the “Hormuz Summit” involving 40 nations which at the Elysée Palace yesterday. The most significant fact may be the near unanimity of view of the leaders of the Big Four western European countries: France, UK, Germany and Italy. 1/

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I could watch them all day..I should say

Lovely footage of the first bear born in Aragon in more than 50 years, shortly after emerging from hibernation. Part of the slow recovery of brown bears in the Pyrenees. Via Aragón TV.

🇮🇹🇺🇦 "Supporting Ukraine is not only moral duty, but also strategic necessity, because at stake is not only dignity, freedom and independence of Kyiv, but also security of Europe"

- Giorgia Meloni
Prime Minister of Italy

European Union and United Kingdom take decisive step towards Erasmus+ association in 2027 Today, the European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK\'s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.

EU & UK today signed the decision associating the UK to the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. "This will enable tens of thousands of citizens to learn, study and train on the other side of the Channel and foster person-to-person ties." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Thought this was a late April's Fool, yes, good idea! being witnessing this for years, can this be a National policy please? to encompass my local town of Pieve?
It's never any women though is it?, they'll too busy with actual work😉

Complimenti! 👏👏, eccelente!, looks fabulous!, a belated Buon Apettito to you both! bet it was well enjoyed! 😋😋
your own cooking show perhaps?

France’s new restitution law passes final vote Procedures for returning objects will be “strictly supervised” and the law applies only to items illegally taken between June 1815 and April 1972

Big news in the restitution/museum world. Nine long years after 'that' Macron speech in Ouagadougou, France has passed a new framework law for the deaccessioning of colonial cultural loot.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/14/f...

Blue badge holders: how are you treated by other members of the public when out? Have you experienced reactions from other people when using your blue badge? We’d like to hear from you

**CALL OUT** I’m looking to gather experiences of disabled people who have been criticised or harassed by the public about their Blue Badge or Motability car etc when out.

Click on link to fill in our form. Please do share to reach as many people as possible. www.the-guardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump now ordering naval blockade of Vatican City, also unaware that it is landlocked.

I guess I need to extend my already long list of comparisons between Trump and King John to include 'has a fight with the pope'.

🤡 The Brexit irony is extraordinary.

Britain helped design a system to manage/control borders across Europe.

Then we chose to leave, turning ourselves from insiders into third-country aliens.

Now 🇬🇧 citizens are subject to very scrutiny Brexiters wanted to impose on others.

Brexit lost control.

Yes, think you're right about the weather.
We had the potatoes etc with the ham too at our friends in Germany.
Buon Apettito, Guten Appetit! when you have it! 😋

Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism.

For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.

😆
We had a feeling that you guys would get them up there...green is healthier anyway

Is that 28 letters? I know, I was surprised, it was more the actual word than the length.

THE MOMENT JANNIK SINNER BEAT CARLOS ALCARAZ TO WIN THE MONTE CARLO TITLE.

The first man to win 4 consecutive Masters titles since Novak Djokovic in 2013.

Back to #1 in the world… look at his reaction. 🥹

Chills. 🇮🇹🦊

Jannik Sinner becomes the 2nd man to win Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte Carlo in the same season since the beginning of the Masters 1000 format.

Novak Djokovic - 2015.

Jannik Sinner - 2026.

Monstrous stat for the new world #1. 🇮🇹🦊

Weiss Spargel season again in Germany!, absolutely delicious! Our Bavarian friends made it for us when we visited them in Augsburg. Unfortunately can't seem to get them here in central Italy, only the puny green variety. German supermarkets have a special machine that removes their outer layer.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 34 letter word on wordiply

Wordiply-It had to happen one day!

34 letter word, who would have thought it's actually in the English language dictionary.