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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Tuesday, 21 April 2026

  • The average temperature today is 9.88˚C,
  • With highs of 9.88˚C and lows of 9.88˚C,
  • It may feel like 6.76˚C with scattered clouds
  • The wind speed is 7.09m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1026hPa and humidity is 72%
  • The sun will rise at 04:59 and set at 19:14

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SUBSTANTIAL
  • It has been 777 days since the last change (2024-03-05)

Today’s tasks

  • Recycling Waste Collection Day
  • Food Waste Collection Day

Daily Doctrine

Be humble.

Fixture List

  • Coventry City v Portsmouth
  • Leicester City v Hull City
  • Norwich City v Derby County
  • Oxford United v Wrexham
  • QPR v Swansea City
  • Southampton v Bristol City
  • Stoke City v Millwall
  • West Brom v Watford
  • Bradford City v Plymouth Argyle
  • Doncaster Rovers v Lincoln City
  • Rotherham United v Luton Town
  • Stevenage v Barnsley
  • Stockport County v Mansfield Town
  • Cambridge United v Grimsby Town
  • Cheltenham Town v Tranmere Rovers
  • Hartlepool United v Southend United
  • Brighton & Hove Albion v Chelsea

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 130.1566925048828
  • ^FTSE : 10621.9296875
  • ^FTMC : 23033.05078125

Just for fun

Why did the Jazzman cross the road? To get from A to B flat 6th.

Top News

  • Iran hangs man accused of ties to Israel and setting mosque on fire during pre-war protests (€, 4 minutes ago)
  • Apple’s next chief Ternus faces defining AI moment (£, 4 minutes ago)
  • Watch: Europe’s relationship with Israel is fracturing — how far will it go? (€, 16 minutes ago)
  • Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul (®, 19 minutes ago)
  • German-made components found in Russian drones despite EU sanctions (€, 24 minutes ago)
  • US-Iran ceasefire on brink of collapse as talks stall and Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens (€, 29 minutes ago)
  • ‘Important threshold crossed’ as renewables meet world’s energy demands and fossil power drops (€, 38 minutes ago)
  • Timelapse footage shows maritime traffic around Gulf, Straight of Hormuz (€, 46 minutes ago)
  • Appetite among NATO members to join Iran war ‘very limited’, says Norway’s foreign affairs minister (€, 52 minutes ago)
  • Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture (®, 1 hours ago)
  • Apple chief Tim Cook to hand over to John Ternus in September (£, 1 hours ago)
  • Robbins says No 10 created ‘atmosphere of pressure’ over Mandelson appointment (£, 1 hours ago)
  • Marijuana smokers celebrate 420 in New York (€, 1 hours ago)
  • ‘This is a sacrilege’: Nancy Sinatra calls out Donald Trump for using father Frank’s ‘My Way’ (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Following four years of full-scale war, which EU countries are hosting the most Ukrainians? (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war (®, 2 hours ago)
  • Will social media addiction go the way of cigarettes? (£, 4 hours ago)
  • Babcock’s cheaper warships offer the Royal Navy hope (£, 4 hours ago)
  • Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ held talks with DP World over Gaza reconstruction (£, 4 hours ago)
  • Sotheby’s strikes $100mn debt deal with KKR backed by auction fees (£, 4 hours ago)
  • ‘Kiss of death’: how the US killed a Swiss merchant bank (£, 4 hours ago)
  • ‘Highly unlikely’ Iran ceasefire will be extended if no deal reached, Trump says (£, 5 hours ago)
  • NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing (®, 5 hours ago)
  • Bezos’s AI lab nears $38bn valuation in funding deal (£, 7 hours ago)
  • Microsoft’s GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch (®, 9 hours ago)
  • Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites ‘intentional behavior,’ then throws HackerOne under the bus (®, 9 hours ago)
  • Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again (®, 9 hours ago)
  • World’s blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home (®, 10 hours ago)
  • Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter (®, 11 hours ago)
  • Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don’t even have installed yet (®, 12 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Monday (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

swound - noun: A swoon; a fainting fit. verb intr.: To swoon; to faint.

Quote of the Day

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Oblique Strategies

Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of

Film Archive

  • Murder By Numbers (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 2002
  • Summary: Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 474, using [6, 7, 25, 50, 75, 100]

  • Answer: 6 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 100 - 75 x 7 / ( 50 - 25 ) ) x 6

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// Published 2026-04-21, with 1030 words.

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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Monday, 20 April 2026

  • The average temperature today is 10.87˚C,
  • With highs of 10.87˚C and lows of 10.87˚C,
  • It may feel like 9.87˚C with scattered clouds
  • The wind speed is 2.79m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1024hPa and humidity is 71%
  • The sun will rise at 05:01 and set at 19:12

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SUBSTANTIAL
  • It has been 776 days since the last change (2024-03-05)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Use a common language.

Fixture List

  • Crystal Palace v West Ham United

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 130.1999969482422
  • ^FTSE : 10667.599609375
  • ^FTMC : 23205.900390625

Just for fun

A woman from Detroit was recently interviewed by Police for setting on fire the terms and conditions of a loan. Her name was Bernadette.

Top News

  • Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US (®, 1 hours ago)
  • Trump’s social media posts have transformed oil trading in Iran war, says Citadel (£, 1 hours ago)
  • Almost 43,000 migrants register in first three days of Spain’s regularisation amnesty (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Spain’s call to suspend EU-Israel agreement set to fail amid broad opposition (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Turkey arrests 90 people with suspected links to so-called Islamic State group (€, 1 hours ago)
  • EU considers freezing Serbia’s €1.5 billion in EU funds amid rule of law scrutiny (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Starmer accused of scapegoating officials over Mandelson scandal (£, 1 hours ago)
  • You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house (®, 1 hours ago)
  • From soldier to developer: How German troops are test building their own drones (€, 2 hours ago)
  • UK PM Starmer admits Mandelson envoy appointment was a mistake amid Epstein row (€, 2 hours ago)
  • Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere (®, 2 hours ago)
  • Latest news bulletin April 20th, 2026 – Evening (€, 2 hours ago)
  • One of Europe’s sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all (®, 2 hours ago)
  • Businesses start claiming refunds on Trump’s ‘unlawful’ tariffs (€, 2 hours ago)
  • New York $3mn literature trove returned to Whitney heirs 40 years after theft (£, 2 hours ago)
  • New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans (®, 3 hours ago)
  • Gaza reconstruction to cost more than $70bn, officials say (£, 3 hours ago)
  • Fake footage allegedly shows Zelenskyy’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (€, 3 hours ago)
  • Can AI read your future? South Korea’s digital shamans put it to the test (€, 3 hours ago)
  • Starmer says ‘deliberate decision’ made to withhold Mandelson vetting from him (£, 4 hours ago)
  • Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes (®, 5 hours ago)
  • AI is reshaping Britain’s datacenter map away from London (®, 5 hours ago)
  • Miliband to unveil move to delink UK gas and electricity prices (£, 5 hours ago)
  • UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite (®, 6 hours ago)
  • The Iran crisis has not yet peaked (£, 6 hours ago)
  • HP’s remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life (®, 7 hours ago)
  • Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit (®, 8 hours ago)
  • Chelsea 0-1 Manchester United, Player Ratings: Searching for any green shoots (♣, 8 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Monday (♣, 10 hours ago)
  • ‘Highly unlikely’ Iran ceasefire will be extended if no deal reached, Trump says (£, 11 hours ago)
  • Out of office, still hyper-responsive (£, 14 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Sunday (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Liam Rosenior left befuddled by ‘impossible’ defeat after ‘dominant’ performance (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Chelsea 0-1 Manchester United, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

swale - noun: A low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy; also, a shallow channel or depression.

Quote of the Day

It is only a problem if it is a problem - Joe Delaney

Oblique Strategies

Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate

Film Archive

  • Doa: Dead Or Alive (Rated: 7)
  • Released in 2006
  • Summary: The world’s best fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. There, four female rival fighters will have to work together to uncover the secret that the organizer of the tournament is trying to hide.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 744, using [4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 100]

  • Answer: 36 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( ( 9 + 5 - 8 ) x 4 + 100 ) x 6

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// Published 2026-04-20, with 993 words.

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