Nobody Cares about Britain

[Innula Zenovka]

I've found this nice documentary, where they put 4 modern day bakers into an authentic Victorian bakery from 1830, using only recipes, tools and wheat as fell brewers' yeast from back then in a wood fired oven. Very interesting. I never heared about the Coburg loaf before. Coburg is about half an hour drive away from my home, maybe it's more popular there.

It's supposedly so named because its distinctive shape resembles that of the crown worn by Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I know... and this is the city of Coburg.

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And the fortress of Coburg.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Love Actually? Washington’s current relationship with Britain is more like Contempt Actually

For the UK to regain respect in the world, it needs its European leg as well as its transatlantic one

timothygartonash.substack.com

 

[Free]

I refuse to see Trump as the real life version of Billy Bob Thornton. (Though I don't like the film, so...)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Good article by a Conservative journalist on the response to the British Conservatives' attack on Islam

How Jews and Christians came to Muslims' defence

What an open iftar revealed about Britain’s changing language on faith - and the solidarity now emerging in response

frasernelson.substack.com

I write this as a member of a religious minority, so I declare my vested interest. When I started journalism I was advised “no good can ever come of anyone knowing you’re Catholic”. When I recently told a friend in Westminster how I was beaten for being Catholic (hardly an unusual experience in 1980s central Scotland) she was astonished. “You should write about this,” she said: as if sectarianism is a revelation. It made me wonder how many SW1 types playing this new game of religious identity politics are genuinely ignorant of where this path has always led.

The last two or three decades saw the extinction of sectarianism and its recognition as bigotry. Its retreat, and the emergence of a British model - space for people of all faiths and none to rub along together - is something precious. As the Jewish News recognises, worth defending.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Rupert Lowe: the most right-wing MP since 1945

The leader of the Restore party promotes immigration policies so extreme, that he’s even further right than the old BNP.

thenewworld.substack.com

 

[Free]

Man's blue skin A&E panic was just bed sheet dye

Tommy Lynch rushed to hospital when he woke with blue skin but it turned out to be from his sheets.

www.bbc.co.uk

I was reminded of this:

Man who turned blue after taking silver for skin condition dies

A man who turned blue after taking silver for a skin condition has died. Paul Karason, 62, suffered a heart attack before contracting pneumonia and having a severe stroke at a Washington state hospital on Monday. His estranged wife, Jo…

www.nydailynews.com

But I guess in this case, it was closer to:
The Real Blue Man Group Was Horrified at How the ‘Arrested Development’ Cast Did Their Makeup

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Darren's been towing a Land Rover 100 km for charity. That's dedication!

Ellie ✨ on Instagram: "Darren is still going. Since Friday at 12, he’s been pulling a 1.5 tonne Land Rover for 100 kilometres over 100 hours to raise £100,000. Not for fun. Not for a challenge. But to change lives. This is for children with one of the world’s rarest brain diseases. Children who were born healthy, but over time have lost the ability to walk, talk and eat on their own. A devastating disease that slowly takes everything. £100,000 could give them access to a trial intravenous treatment that may stop this disease in its tracks and even reverse some of the damage. This could completely change their future. Please take a moment and think what you could give today. A coffee. A bottle of wine. A meal out. A few pounds. If everyone gave something small, the impact would be huge. And please share this. That’s how we make this reach the people who can help. @habcfoundationuk To donate: https://www.justgiving.com/page/be-the-difference?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=020. #HelpRareChildren #100KForHope #EndRareDisease #PullingForPurpose #EveryPoundCounts"

106 likes, 7 comments - breathing_5pace on March 22, 2026: "Darren is still going. Since Friday at 12, he’s been pulling a 1.5 tonne Land Rover for 100 kilometres over 100 hours to raise £100,000. Not for fun. Not for a challenge. But to change lives. This is for children with one of the...

www.instagram.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Block on political crypto donations and a £100k cap from Britons abroad to take effect today

Bad news for Nigel Farage's Reform -- more here.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Darren's been towing a Land Rover 100 km for charity. That's dedication!

Ellie ✨ on Instagram: "Darren is still going. Since Friday at 12, he’s been pulling a 1.5 tonne Land Rover for 100 kilometres over 100 hours to raise £100,000. Not for fun. Not for a challenge. But to change lives. This is for children with one of the world’s rarest brain diseases. Children who were born healthy, but over time have lost the ability to walk, talk and eat on their own. A devastating disease that slowly takes everything. £100,000 could give them access to a trial intravenous treatment that may stop this disease in its tracks and even reverse some of the damage. This could completely change their future. Please take a moment and think what you could give today. A coffee. A bottle of wine. A meal out. A few pounds. If everyone gave something small, the impact would be huge. And please share this. That’s how we make this reach the people who can help. @habcfoundationuk To donate: https://www.justgiving.com/page/be-the-difference?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=020. #HelpRareChildren #100KForHope #EndRareDisease #PullingForPurpose #EveryPoundCounts"

106 likes, 7 comments - breathing_5pace on March 22, 2026: "Darren is still going. Since Friday at 12, he’s been pulling a 1.5 tonne Land Rover for 100 kilometres over 100 hours to raise £100,000. Not for fun. Not for a challenge. But to change lives. This is for children with one of the...

www.instagram.com

I thought that was the main way Land Rovers managed to roll down the road.

 

[Essence Lumin]

He's actually 19, not 16.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

19 is seriously elderly for a cat.

 

[Erich Templar]

NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Birmingham pastor charged after man drowned during baptism

Robert Smith, 61, died from drowning at an address in Erdington in October 2023.

www.bbc.co.uk

A pastor has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after a man died during a baptism ceremony in Birmingham.

Robert Smith, 61, from Brixton, London, died from drowning at an address on Slade Road, Erdington, on 8 October 2023.

Cheryl Bartley, 48, was charged with one count of gross negligence manslaughter in relation to her role as a pastor during the baptism, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Fortunately, since it was Britain, the gun was fake

Man jailed for threatening chicken shop worker with fake gun

Marwan Khadir, 18, threatens the worker with a fake gun after being given the wrong type of sauce.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Man jailed for killing wife who jumped from bridge

Lee Milne was sentenced to eight years for being responsible for his wife Kimberly's death, in the first case of its kind in Scotland.

www.bbc.co.uk

ETA

Kimberly’s story: the tragedy that changed British legal history

On the night of 27 July 2023, Kimberly Milne jumped to her death from a road bridge.

Her suicide came after months of mental health crises, compounded by a campaign of domestic abuse at the hands of her former partner. In this regard, to the officers who attended the scene, Kimberly’s was a depressingly familiar story.

What those officers could not have known is that the tragedy that unfolded on that summer evening would take on a unique significance, culminating in a prosecution that, almost three years later, would make British legal history.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Royal balm will not rescue the Anglo-American relationship (Evernote link because FT paywall)

[T]he Windsors are well practised in gritting their teeth. The prime minister has a duty to avoid embarrassing the monarchy; the quid pro quo is that the government sets the terms of the family’s diplomatic engagements. Romania’s Nicolae Ceaușescu and Uganda’s Idi Amin were among the gallery of tyrants hosted at Buckingham Palace by the late Queen.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This is the HMAS Melbourne, an Australian aircraft carrier operational from 1955 to 1982.

After it was decommissioned, all systems were dismantled and the empty hull was sold to China. China's plans for it were officially to make a casino ship out of it. When China got the Melbourne in 1985 however they used it to kick start their own aircraft carrier development instead by analysing thoroughly what was left on the hull.

Australia Sold Its Last Aircraft Carrier to China — Now China Has 3 Carriers and Australia Wishes It Had Kept Its Own

The HMAS Melbourne served in the Australian Navy from 1955 to 1982 without ever firing a shot in combat. It collided with two friendly ships — one Australian and one American — lost 30 aircraft to crashes, failed launches, and arresting gear malfunctions, and sailors believed the carrier was...

nationalsecurityjournal.org

 

[Ellie]

Here we go again.

More than 500 people have been arrested at the first mass demonstration opposing the proscription of Palestine Action since the group’s ban was ruled unlawful by the high court.

The Met said: “The Met are choosing to make arrests despite the government’s ban on the group being ruled unlawful by the high court, and leading lawyers warning that any arrests would be unlawful.”

Protestor, “We’re just fed up with it but we just keep going until they stop it,” she said. “It’s not just about Palestinian Action, so much about protest is being shut down now. It’s getting really scary about what this government is doing about free speech and the right to protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/met-police-make-arrests-at-london-palestine-action-protest

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Jeremy Corbyn's retirement project goes from bad to worse

Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social)

Your Party's entire Scottish interim executive has resigned en masse, declaring it "over" and saying they will start a new party instead. Says Your Party is not a "serious attempt to unite the left" and "cannot recover."

bsky.app