I'm calling on the UK Government to stop the proposed changes to Biodiversity Net Gain, which put nature recovery at risk just as the system starts to work. Nature needs time to thrive, not more setbacks. action.rspb.org.uk/page/174378/ac…

Mass in B minor in Bach's hand.

Criss Canning (Australian, born 1947)

Day 6 of drinking and water and salt so we our organs don't fail. Day 7 is tomorrow, we will do the same. Day 8, the same. Week 4, most of us will not be here anymore. Month 2, the world will wonder how 1.8 million people were allowed to be starved to death. Save us.

The house of French author Victor Hugo in Le Marais, Paris

BREAKING: Israelis are blocking aid trucks from entering Gaza again These psychotic settlers know people are starving & their response is to starve more. This is straight up Nazi behaviour.

A resident doctor starts on £17 an hour and could well save your life. Nick Robinson earns £360k a year for reading out bits of the Daily Mail two days a week. Remarkable. #r4today #bbcbreakfast

British artist Stanley Spencer was a prolific painter of flowers ~ here’s his Blue Iris / Landscape with Magnolias (1930s)

J. M. W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise

Second one interesting but think all minds probably are androgynous.

And still. We help.

This will be us soon and politicians and media will act like they didn’t know it was coming so soon. Don’t let them get away with it when it happens.

The UK should recognise the independent state of Palestine now and take the lead on securing a two-state solution and a lasting peace. Ed Davey

'Gourds.' (1978) William Brooker enjoyed a long and successful teaching career, and among his students was Howard Hodgkin who described his mentor as 'the only real teacher I ever had ... he made one feel that painting was a very important occupation.'

‘I’m very fond of the dailyness of life. I like getting up, and going to work, and opening the post, and answering letters offensively, and coming back in the evening, and having a drink and settling down to listen to records or to try to write poetry.’

Claude Monet Trouville, Hôtel des Roches Noires

Turner

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE #1 Hundreds of records smashed in Algeria,Tunisia,Libya,Balkans,Greece,Turkey,Cyprus 50C in Turkey,46C in Greece with a record hot night at Athens Efelsina Min 31.4C. Hottest day in history for Rhodes Island tied: 43.6C Lindos after an insane MINIMUM of 34.7C!

Northern China experiences a YEAR of rain in ONE DAY. 🚨 A heating atmosphere holds more moisture. 2024 is the hottest year on record. Governments plan to make it much hotter over the next 25 years despite scientists frantic warnings. abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…

33°C in Namsskogan. 32°C in Laksfors. These aren’t southern European cities — they’re towns in the #Arctic Circle. #Norway just recorded scorching temperatures more typical of the #Mediterranean. This is not normal. This is #climate change on steroids, and the media is silent.