Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

ok yes that lrb piece is as good as everyone is saying

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance - recorded in Berlin for the Other Side of Midnight in 1988 YouTube video by Salvage Operation

Happy birthday to Neneh Cherry. Here's Buffalo Stance filmed in Berlin for The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
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Interview with Fairport Convention’s Chris Leslie Ahead of the band’s 2026 Spring Tour, I catch up with Fairport Convention’s Chris Leslie. We discuss how he fell in love with the band’s music as a teenager, getting to know the b…

Ahead of the band's spring tour and the launch of a new live album, I speak to Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention about his three-decade stint with the band and how he fell in love with their music as a teenager long before he joined.
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Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

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Not raining here, sadly.

I think you need more accoutrements now.

Is that not a beetroot? 🧐

British Geological Survey map showing areas of UK suitable for fracking

And Reform have pledged to open the UK for fracking if elected.

Below is a British Geological Survey map of areas in the UK suitable for fracking exploration 👇🏾

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Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon -

- vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution:

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Windrush Victims Voice Anger Over Government Plan to Pay Asylum Seekers to Leave the UK Windrush Victims Voice Anger Over Government Plan to Pay Asylum Seekers to Leave the UK Euen Herbert-Small Assistant Editor Share "We have worked and paid taxes, yet we...

WINDRUSH VICTIMS VOICE ANGER OVER GOVERNEMENT PROPOSALS TO PAY ASYLUM SEEKERS UPTO £40K TO LEAVE THE UK
"We have worked & paid taxes, yet we can't even get legal aid to challenege the Home Office, while 'failed asylum seekers' can access everything, including housing and money to leave the UK."

Water Security Atlas, adjusted to show parts of the world growing drier or wetter. Showing part of Greenland, the Arctic, Antarctic, Africa Europe, the Middle East, part of Asia.

Meanwhile, as climate change alters groundwater & rainfall, some parts of the world are growing drier, others wetter. You can explore changes in your part of the work, using our Water Security Atlas:

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Viewpoint: Is bloodied Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh just another image? The image of a bloodied Syrian boy in an ambulance should not be just a hashtag or viral moment: it must become a movement to end the war, argues Lina Sergie Attar.

You know how sometimes a memory arrives perfectly formed in your mind? Every few months I remember this photograph in almost exact detail, usually if my own children pull a similar expression. And I wonder if he is alive.

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."

-Dorothy Parker

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands

But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed

How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

At the same time water supplies are stretched in England, farmers are finding they need to use more water, agricultural use in England more than doubling in the past 5 years, as Watershed's Rachel Salvidge revealed last year:

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Strands #734
“Nice glasses!”
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Interested in cohousing?
Here’s one coming soon!
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I came to opera later in life because of the attitude of people like Timothee. It’s exciting, very varied and I wish I’d realised, earlier.

A muddy berm being planted with a new hedge to hold it all together.

An old gappy hedgerow with large old hazel and lots of new saplings planted and guarded.

Despite 20+ people not bothering to show up or even cancel, we got a lot hedging planted today. One of them was a kid, who smashed it. A family of three rocked up at 3pm to pitch in after seeing our cries for help on local Facebook groups. 1,000 more to plant another time, now off to the next job.

Love - My Little Red Book [1966]. YouTube video by HarryLimePresents

Remembering Arthur Lee on the 81st anniversary of his birth. (He died in 2006). Here's Love performing (or lip-syncing) "My Little Red Book," originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the "What's New Pussycat" soundtrack.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 222:
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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Arizona is building the first solar canal in the U.S. . Solar-covered canals will generate renewable energy and save water in this notoriously dry area: buff.ly/3wEcF5h

We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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"Release the wieners!"

Three of the actresses in the Hammer horror film “The Vampire Lovers"
Madeline Smith, Janet Key and Pippa Steel, Elstree Studios. 12th March 1970.

In The Guardian Saturday magazine, a feature from me to kickstart your spring with my 10 easiest crops for the highest yields. I can’t pretend the world is in a good place at the moment, but growing your own food is always worthwhile.

Happy birthday to Ernie Isley who wrote this evergreen gem
▶️ youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
#WeekendSingles

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart