@chris Many European universities have little or no charge: https://www.study.eu/article/study-in-europe-for-free-or-low-tuition-fees

A potential candidate for re-introduction, as we are going to get wetter anyway: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn40kn8kn08o

Eves-dropping on a Reform Limited meeting https://bylines.scot/politics/satire/nigels-army/

Farage calls for Blue Planet to be replaced by Blue Passport:

New news source with a little humour too: https://www.thenerve.news/

Thank heavens we don't have guns. The left in the UK seem to be imitating the right in the US. Pecksniff: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pecksniffs-diary-13-09-25/

Which is the way forward for our current government, and who should we consider for the future? Pecksniff: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pecksniffs-diary-06-09-25/

What is quality of life? It can't be measured and is not a number. Clive Lewis: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/richness-of-life-cant-be-measured-in-gdp-what-happened-to-joy/

@MataHaring The translation doesn't mention a chocolate octopus with buoyancy aids in a bowling alley, so I suspect it isn't accurate. Either that or the picture is unrepresentative.

@jasongorman Many people regard the limitation with TDD as not coping with scenarios where you need to innovate. I am attracted to acceptance test driven development which focuses on the outcomes rather than the design.

In-bewhelmed – neither overwhelmed, nor underwhelmed, but somewhere in-between. Usage “I was in-bewhelmed by the trip into London today”, as opposed to “The journey into London was neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in-between”. I think it is more quickstinct 😉

Some spring flowers.

"There can be no national security without energy security, and dependence on fossil fuels has left us at the mercy of global markets we do not control.": https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2025/apr/19/tories-reform-clean-energy-steel-crisis

Is China planning to wait out the Trump presidency? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-trade-war-no-one-will-win-but-china-is-taking-the-long-view

Many carnivores recovering in Europe @Photography https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/23/europe-carnivores-predators-bears-animals-continent-scientists

@appassionato @photography If they stayed in the Scottish Highlands that would be fine, but they roam over enormous distances so it wouldn't be long before they had spanned the whole island.

@jasongorman With butter and garlic?

@jasongorman One king and two queens each?

And never forget Francis Bacon’s 400-year-old epic line: “Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.” Will Hutton: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/britains-wealth-gap-is-growing-its-malign-effects-seep-into-all-aspects-of-life-its-a-national-disaster

"Sunak has many detractors but there’s only one of them who thinks Liz Truss was a better prime minister than him and that person’s name is Liz Truss." David Mitchell: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/what-the-dickens-is-robert-jenrick-trying-to-tell-us