Daily Rundown for 2026-04-25

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Saturday, 25 April 2026

  • The average temperature today is 9.57˚C,
  • With highs of 10.52˚C and lows of 9.42˚C,
  • It may feel like 9.57˚C with overcast clouds
  • The wind speed is 0.88m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1022hPa and humidity is 53%
  • The sun will rise at 04:50 and set at 19:21

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SUBSTANTIAL
  • It has been 781 days since the last change (2024-03-05)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Inspire others

Fixture List

  • Chelsea U18 v Ipswich Town U18
  • Manchester City U18 v Middlesbrough U18
  • Norwich City U18 v Crystal Palace U18
  • Brighton & Hove Albion Women v Manchester City Women
  • Charlton Athletic v Hull City
  • Middlesbrough v Watford
  • West Brom v Ipswich Town
  • Doncaster Rovers v Stevenage
  • Stockport County v Peterborough United
  • Grimsby Town v Swindon Town
  • MK Dons v Tranmere Rovers
  • Aldershot Town v Truro City
  • Altrincham v Gateshead
  • Boreham Wood v Sutton United
  • Boston United v Hartlepool United
  • Carlisle United v Brackley Town
  • Forest Green Rovers v Morecambe
  • Rochdale v York City
  • Scunthorpe United v Eastleigh
  • Southend United v Wealdstone
  • Tamworth v Braintree Town
  • Woking v FC Halifax Town
  • Yeovil Town v Solihull Moors
  • Merthyr Town v AFC Fylde
  • Slough Town v Dagenham & Redbridge
  • Worthing v Ebbsfleet United
  • Fulham v Aston Villa
  • Sunderland U18 v Manchester United U18
  • Manchester City v Southampton
  • Arsenal v Newcastle United
  • Manchester City U21 v Arsenal U21

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 129.66000366210938
  • ^FTSE : 10379.099609375
  • ^FTMC : 22582.80078125

Just for fun

What TV show is a pirates favourite? Plankety Plank.

Top News

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  • What the AI ‘jobpocalypse’ narrative misses (£, 2 hours ago)
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  • Power is draining away from Starmer’s Downing Street (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Banks brace for tax raid if Starmer is ousted (£, 2 hours ago)
  • America’s energy supremacy is being forged in war (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Pro-independence parties bank on rethink of UK ‘status quo’ after May 7 (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Frank Lampard’s ‘business’ is at Coventry, not Chelsea (♣, 5 hours ago)
  • Italy tests R1 robotic museum guide in Turin’s historic Palazzo Madama (€, 8 hours ago)
  • DeepSeek’s new models are so efficient they’ll run on a toaster … by which we mean Huawei’s NPUs (®, 9 hours ago)
  • US stocks race ahead of Europe as Wall Street shrugs off energy shock (£, 10 hours ago)
  • Cesc Fàbregas would be ‘stupid’ to think about Chelsea job opportunity right now (♣, 10 hours ago)
  • EU and US deepen cooperation on critical minerals amid concerns over China’s dominance (€, 10 hours ago)
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  • EU leaders vow to boost security and economic ties with Middle East to minimise effect of Iran war (€, 12 hours ago)
  • Starmer promises imminent laws to ban IRGC (£, 12 hours ago)
  • BA forced to downgrade thousands more loyalty scheme members after ‘error’ (£, 12 hours ago)
  • Reigning two-time champ Carlos Alcaraz pulls out of French Open due to wrist injury (€, 12 hours ago)
  • Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps (®, 13 hours ago)
  • Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs (®, 14 hours ago)
  • US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit (®, 14 hours ago)
  • ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival’s booty as 7.5M emails surface (®, 15 hours ago)
  • Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network (®, 15 hours ago)
  • More ancient Linux device support faces the chop (®, 16 hours ago)
  • Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party (®, 16 hours ago)
  • Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced workers to leave (®, 17 hours ago)
  • Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table (®, 17 hours ago)
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Word of the day

verdurous - adjective: Abounding in green vegetation; verdant.

Quote of the Day

Change is scary, but complacency is deadly. - Dave Dame, Agile Leader

Oblique Strategies

Don’t be afraid of things because they’re easy to do

Film Archive

  • Duchess (Rated: 10)
  • Released in 2024
  • Summary: Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 196, using [3, 5, 8, 8, 9, 75]

  • Answer: 23 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 8 / 8 + 75 - 9 ) x 3 - 5

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