Thank you. Now I can use its name while shouting my disapproval at it. 😜

Large caterpillar on a de-headed tulip stalk with garden background on a sunny morning.

Deep purple tulip head being held next to its chewed through stem on which perches a guilty caterpillar.

Does anyone know what type of caterpillar this is? I think it has some explaining to do.

Reeves vows to cut link between gas and electricity prices in UK Chancellor says she will look at ways of ensuring the wholesale price of electricity is set more often by renewables

Big deal, this. And arguably long overdue.

www.ft.com/content/2adc...

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Sweet victory 😁

Nice to be performing something in my home city for a change.
Looking forward working on this with @paulbirchmakes.bsky.social and @ridinglights.bsky.social

Ukrainian artist
Anlriy Katerniuk

Meanwhile, on the moon...

Plum blossom down the allotment yesterday.

A tray of small leafy tomato plants from above with some enveloped sheet music lying on the carpet beside them

Tomatoes & Octets… a rare combination.

At the moment 61% of our electricity is being generated by the wind. That wind doesn't have to travel through the Straits of Hormuz. It isn't an extra expense because of a war to satisfy the ego of an 'unstable man-baby' in the White House. If we want or own energy it's right here.

Dario Fo in Morte Accidentale di un Anarchico [Accidental Death of an Anarchist] in 1970. The photo shows him taking the phone away from his ear and laughing with his brilliant huge comic teeth.

Happy 100th birthday to the late and undeniably great Dario Fo, the great proof that you can be deeply, politically radical, raising consciousness, stimulating rage and understanding in equal measure... and still be funny as fuck.

Labour Should Pledge To Rejoin European Union At Next General Election, Says Sadiq Khan The London mayor's comments are a clear challenge to Keir Starmer.

A welcome blast of honesty. And it’s good that Labour is finally acknowledging how rubbish Brexit is. But the elephant in the room remains. It’s immigration and the racism Brexit unleashed. Until we can have an honest public debate about that, we stay stuck.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

According to BBC news: ‘Kemi Badenoch said: "removing Churchill from banknotes is erasing our history”’

Really? Apart from anything else, I can’t remember the last time I used a banknote…

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Away for a couple of days. Came home to find Olivia (The Clivia) in full bloom! 😁

‘They were careless people,’ Fitzgerald writes of Daisy and Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, ‘they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together.

Oh yes, this:

A total of 22 ritual monuments, largely dating to the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, have now been identified within 500m of the henge. Among these are nine barrows, five ‘henge-type’ enclosures, two long barrows, two pit circles and two timber circles (HER). The visible mounds within the road system are modern. This is a lidar image derived from Environmental Agency open source data.gov.uk data (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 Dr John Wells CC BY-SA 4.0

There is far more to Ferrybridge than former power stations and motorway services. Ferrybridge Henge is a major Neolithic–Bronze Age ceremonial monument in West Yorkshire, defined by a 180-metre circular earthwork with twin ditches and opposing entrances. Situated by the River

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

1/2

Not a big fan of Keir Starmer, but if Trump disapproves of what he’s doing at the moment, he’s probably pretty well nailing it.

Beautiful Camellia - must be further South than us; mine is no where near out yet!

Booked tickets for the theatre tonight … forgot to go. 🤦‍♂️😭

Yes, the reporting has been abysmal but at least Polanski is starting to call them out on poor journalism:

bsky.app/profile/mike...

Yes, the press reporting is dismal although Polanski starting to do the job of calling them out on poor journalism:

bsky.app/profile/mike...

I'm very excited to be finally getting this onstage!

Trees pruned, beds prepared, paths laid, greenhouse repaired….Getting the allotment sorted for the spring #AllotmentLife

Loving my new home office shelves/cupboards created by my friend Richard. I just need to get on and do some work now…

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity