Rich Alderton | 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺

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Points tart. Beer enthusiast. Green, lefty, middle-class, Guardian-reading, EV-driving, snowflake Remainer wanker. Refrigerator owner.

A sketch of Count Binface, with the word HOPE.
Screenshot from the Guardian. "This article was amended on 24 July 2023. Due to a typesetting error, an earlier version said that the number of atoms in the sun was “around 1057”, rather than 10 to the power of 57".
Screenshot of Westbahn's reservations website, showing a first class reservation from Munich to Vienna costs €64.90.
Screenshot from the Interrail app, showing the Frecciarossa from Paris to Milan
A rusty skip on wheels that had been made to look very much like a Tesla Cybertruck.
AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the Pope, raising his finger in the manner of an umpire, while an England cricketer appeals.
Picture of Brenda, a voter from Bristol, with the caption "You're joking, not another one?"
Presumed next German chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for more united Europe as he warned the continent was facing its “five to midnight” moment with shifting geopolitics and potential weakening in the transatlantic alliance with the US under Donald Trump. Merz, whose CDU/CSU won Sunday’s federal election, has signalled his intention to form a new government – most likely a coalition with the Social Democratic party – by Easter, which falls in late April.
Chart showing hourly unit prices for electricity today, with a peak of 99.9 pence.
Screenshot from the Eurail app, showing several departures from Belfast to Dublin, many of which display a note saying ‘not included in second class pass’.
Irish President Michael D Higgins holding a large lightbulb
Walkway to Kraków station. The modern station is in the background, the walkway is classical in design.
Picture of the return module. It is copper coloured, with a porthole on the side, curved with a flat tip, and shaped like the original poster's penis.
A Eurostar timetable for direct Glasgow-Paris trains, showing a journey time of around 9.5 hours, and Manchester-Paris in 7 hours.