@pfiennes
New book, out in May 2026! 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'. Author of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn', 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty'. #books #nature #climate oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
“We would be helping the Americans and Israelis in any way they saw appropriate”
“in ⚠️ANY⚠️ way ⚠️THEY⚠️ saw appropriate”
FFS. He wets his pants about an EU army and British sovereignty one minute. But would sign our troops up to god knows what, the next.
Tice is a weapons-grade moron.
Interesting!
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
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A ridiculous way for BBC ‘News’ to headline an article in which it’s clear that the Wildlife Trusts’ plans are overwhelmingly popular. But it has spurred me into making a donation towards this brilliant project—if you would like to chip in too, here’s the link 👇🏻
#Northumberland #Wildlife #Rewilding
Absolutely brilliant take-down by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
of ludicrous myths & misinformation spouting from Tony Blair’s think tank. Why on earth does he think it’s sensible to make our energy more costly & less secure?
I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
OR build a bold new campus for democracy outside London. Hold a competition to celebrate architects and craftspeople. Re-energise our traditions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
This is a very good point. bsky.app/profile/harr...
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Happy Birthday Sidonie-Gabrielle COLETTE. Born #OTD 1873.
Here's a pic of Roz Ven, her holiday home in Brittany; and her grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery in France; and a couple of pages from 'En Route' (out in May!).
Happy Birthday (for yesterday) to the brilliant and prolific Edith Wharton, born 24th Jan 1862. Here's her house in Hyères in the south of France. And the view! And her very own avenue. She'd like that.
Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
In about 1300 a new north aisle had been built, with a new altar at the east end.
This speech (english starts about 1:15) offers an understanding of the world that is deep, clear-eyed, principled rather than rhetorical & really makes you think — and could not stand in starker contrast to the disgraceful grotesque spectacle today at the White House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
A pretty unambiguous top line judgement in the UK's "National security assessment on global ecosystems" report, released today:
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity" Confidence: high.
Time to speed up action, then?
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
With the mighty and irrepressible @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Chose the wrong day to quit smoking
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
I got chiles
They’re multiplying
A photograph (1939) of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in front of Rodin's Monument to Balzac.
Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir, born #OTD 1908.
None of the writers I followed for 'En Route' turrned out to be uncomplicated...
A picture of Katherine Mansfield at her desk in Menton, South of France, in 1920.
The cover of 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'.
The first page of Chapter Seven of 'En Route'.
Katherine Mansfield died from TB #OTD 1923, aged just 34. She still had time to write some of the world's great short stories.
Here's the cover of my new book, 'En Route', and the first page of Chapter Seven - out in May!
