Good morning ☺️ My favourite garden at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the Bat Conservation Trust's nocturnal garden 🥳 It was a joy to bump into @tomallencomedy who shared that he has bats in his garden! - And he was kind enough to name a couple of them for us 😆 Excellent garden design by Melanie Hick and Tach Pollard's bat sculpture is superb 👏 I had really strong batman-becomes-a-florist vibes whilst there 🦇 🪻and pictured the bat coming to life, wrapping its wings around me and taking off into the sky, so animated it at 1m 23s 😄 A shoutout to one of my favourite artisanal chocolatiers, Annabel's Patisserie. For Easter she had her seasonal Eggly selection, six individual flavoured chocolate eggs, and we decided to pair each flavour with a different garden/display 😋 Bats, flowers, a comedian and chocolate, #RHSChelsea a great day out 🤩

Good morning, trees behind the fence to brighten your day ☺️ Have a good Sunday 🙏

A boat full of canapes after today's floral demo at Lily & Myrtle's Flower School 😋

Florist Mariusz Cwik demonstrating the art of Ikebana at the Lily & Myrtle Flower School ☺️🎉

Popped into the Lily & Myrtle Flower School to watch florist Mariusz Cwik deliver a fantastic introduction to the flower arranging art of Ikebana - simply glorious 👏☺️🎉 A perfect Saturday 😎

Only Labour can be led by a former Human Right's Lawyer, Keir Starmer, and be ok with people not convicted of terrorism offences, being sentenced as though their actions were terrorism-related Criminal damage and attacking the police are serious wrongs that deserve firm punishment. But deliberately conflating them with terrorism sets a dangerous precedent When the state blurs the line between thuggish disorder and terrorism, it undermines public trust, invites accusations of two-tier justice, and weakens the very safeguards the former human rights barrister once championed This is the legacy of Keir Starmer, who leads the party, of Yvette Cooper, whose proscription of a protest group was ruled unlawful by the High Court, and Shabana Mahmood, who continues this divisive narrative I'm very much aligned to the views expressed by Baron Hain in the House of Lords, rightly calling out criminal behaviour while criticising this conflation. His words are true now, as they were back then. And like him, I too am deeply ashamed, "Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza" "I've never supported their activity, but there's a great difference between what they did and terrorism" "And if you start labelling people willy nilly terrorists right across the board, you're going down a very dangerous route" "Al Qaeda's attack on New Yorks twin towers killing 2,753 people - real terrorism" "ISIS - real terrorism" "This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong" "Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"

Keir Starmer, "I will fight (any leadership challenge" "It's not about personal vanity" "It's not about stubbornness" "It's about the very deep sense of duty" "I was elected to serve this country"

BBC Newsnight dig up two interviews from their archive with David Hockney, RIP 🙏 The second one in 2015 in which he says, "I'm going to die soon. Who's to know how"

BBC News, "Elon Musk has become the world's first-ever trillionaire" "After the company he founded SpaceX, saw its value soar when it sold shares to the public for the first time" "Tonight the company is now valued at $2 trillion"

Pat in Makerfield who voted Labour in 2024 on Keir Starmer "I can't stand him" "He tells lies" "He made promises to get to that position and he just backtracks" "He doesn't apologise" "And if something goes wrong, it's always somebody else's fault, it's never his"

ITV News report that Israel is doing in Southern Lebanon what it was doing in Gaza

In light of Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire Zack Polanski, "How hopeful are you that we can move to wealth taxes around the world?" Gabriel Zucman, "Sometimes there's a temptation to think it's too late, that the power of oligarchic forces is too extreme. The ownership of the media. That we can't do anything. That we're kind of stuck" "I don't view it that way" "The question is whether it's a matter of months or a matter of years" "Which country is going to be the one starting the movement, leading by example?" "I count on you. I count on the UK"

Keir Starmer, "I'm not going to walk away from the commitment that I made in 2024"

Seaplane views in the Maldives showing the glorious transition of greens to blues with lapping waves in-between 🤩 Now that's a proper #FridayFeeling and a much needed timeline cleanse 😊

A throwback to random seaplane views in the Maldives 🤩

A throwback to random seaplane views in the Maldives 🤩

Ice cream and macarons 😋 📍Pierre Marcolini, Regent Street, London

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer's unnecessarily constraining fiscal rules strike again This time taking the scalp of John Healy, objecting to a lack of funding for defence Of course one of the biggest reasons why the country is poorer is because of Brexit -at least £30 billion a year lost in tax revenues, it's one of the reasons why Labour is scraping by instead of investing heavily in defence, the NHS, etc We can't have good things because instead of correcting the Brexit narrative, explaining the value of trade and free movement, Labour have chosen to make Brexit work and appease populists, ideologues and outright racists - remember Starmer's island of strangers? Starmer was a breath of fresh air after 14 years of Conservative chaos and their PM roundabout: May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak The country needs better leadership with vision, the change that Labour promised but haven't yet delivered

Caroline Lucas, "What happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who want this to happen" Then Paul Brand's response is exactly why @mehdirhasan has set up Zeteo UK PB jumps from the far right inflaming tensions, to criticising the Green Party saying they have a liberal approach to asylum and immigration When Caroline Lucas again tries to make her point, "There's a huge amount of hysteria being whipped up against immigration, there are people whose agenda it is to use these terrible moments" She's then cut off Caroline Lucas trying to make the point that social media is being exploited to fan the flames of violence and division, but instead of talking about this, the broadcasters deflect and dismiss her observations Really disappointing

Caroline Lucas, "Children's childhoods are being destroyed" "We keep urging the tech companies, trying to legislate, but it's a bit like whac-a-mole, you ban one thing and something else happens" "Evidence from Australia shows it doesn't work yet, two-thirds still access social media" "Bring in a ban, and tell tech firms, if you manage to regulate properly we can take it off" "But until that time we've got to protect our kids"

Omar Artan, a FIFA-approved Somali referee, denied entry by Trump’s administration. Canada offers a fix, FIFA’s bureaucracy kills it anyway How can anyone support the World Cup while this blatant racism and hypocrisy is being normalized?