Peter Fiennes

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

“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.

In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Deadline is Tuesday

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Interesting!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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.

Cartoon

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

Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills

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 :)

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

Words to live by…
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Restoring Palace of Westminster could cost £40bn and take 61 years Home of UK parliament spends £1.5m a week on repairs but critics say restoration proposals lack accountability

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...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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.
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En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers

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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.

Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum YouTube video by National Post

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
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Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

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?

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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...