$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Big oil companies making windfall profits if $30m an hour. $30m an hour transferred from consumers to large corporations as a result of this war… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great background music for painting figures Henry!

Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds

🔴 Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat

The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/m...

'You know what will help boost the electoral chances of an unpopular, past his sell-by date, disruptive, despised by neighbours, Moscow acolyte? A visit from the even less popular second in command of an unpopular past his sell-by date, disruptive, despised by neighbours, Moscow acolyte.'
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'Oh.'

Iran: We will blockade the straits of Hormuz if you attack us.

Donald: No, WE will blockade the straits of Hormuz unless you surrender to us.

Iran: Ok. That might save us some trouble tbh.

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-base...

Glad Keir Starmer's Labour government is prioritising stopping musicians from performing. Wouldn't want them distracted from their complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people and an illegal war on Iran. What a pathetic excuse of a Prime Minister

Kanye West wrote a pro Hitler song called "Heil Hitler."

He sold T shirts with swastikas on them - and suggested that slavery was "a choice."

It's absolutely appropriate that he be banned from the UK and maybe Sultana should pick her battles more carefully.

The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.

At some point in the future school kids will laugh at Trump in history lessons, despite him thinking he is the GOAT. They will also wonder about which idiots elected him; which ones supported him; and, what on Earth happened to all of those checks and balances within US democracy?

I bet that is not in the inevitable heroic war film

America went from this to this.

I'm glad the US pilot is safe but the sheer discrepancy shown by most Americans of all political stripes between the value of the life a soldier who *literally signed up for this shit* and the value of the lives of thousands of civilians who didn't is indefensible under any coherent moral code

The Epstein Spectrum A moral exercise in a moral desert

“Some people in the Epstein files are monstrously gross. Some are moderately gross. Some are situationally, aspirationally, or cosmetically gross.” Josh Tyrangiel sifted through nearly 3.5 million pages to determine a taxonomy for those named in the files.

It’s that time of year again.

Just did Chris a favour and was interviewed - enjoyed it!

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Paul Tierney before kickoff:

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.

Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.

Hi Chris, happy to help if you talk to profs from other institutions😊Just drop me an email - p.b.jackson@bham.ac.uk - I am away for a couple of days but back Monday

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Definitely not a big bucket…

Something I never thought I would ever say - I will he talking to Carlus Acosta and Tony Iommi about the Black Sabbath ballet in Birmingham next week. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/to...

I knew it. Just forgot to mention it to anyone…

Dutch late night TV has its take

2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO] YouTube video by 2CELLOS

Some times you only need 2.

Love this video.

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Henry the Navigator in Porto. The person who rounded up the Portuguese fleet, pointed to the horizon and said ‘sail that way’. What could possibly go wrong?

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology