Fully support wildlife featuring on our banknotes, but it’s sad to see that plants will, once again, be treated merely as a pretty floral background to ‘animals & birds’. Why not feature Bluebell (the nations’ favourite wildflower) or iconic Lady’s-slipper Orchid? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to the govt's closing off of the right to protest... We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have." – Clerk of Westminster Quakers www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
7/ Netpol applauds the Quakers for ensuring there is space to train people to take nonviolent direct action, despite the previous police raid of their place of worship.
We hope they continue to do so despite this police repression.
ENDS
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Millin Bay site
Tuesday 10th March 7.30 to 9pm Ulster Museum; also zoom (register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member) Lisa White (QUB) talks about "Grave Matters - New research on human remains from megalithic sites in County Down" with an emphasis on Millin Bay
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How helpful is it to let spooks and national security actors define the climate and ecological crisis?
Civil society needs to speak up if we’re to avoid the dead-end securitisation of the climate crisis, argues Doug Weir of
@ceobs.org.
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2026/03/03/n...
Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids.
Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians.
And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.
BREAKING: UK to cut international finance on climate & nature
Seemingly under cover of the war on Iran, out comes some bad news
Reminder that govt were warned last year by UK’s spy chiefs that collapse of ecosystems could seriously impact national security
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“In the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.”
The first page of ‘What to Look for in Spring”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
The United States & Israel have launched an illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran.
Keir Starmer condemns Iran.
A gravestone with ivy leaves and a group of red ladybird.
Saturday's the perfect day to hang out with your mates on a gravestone...
Tuesday 10th February 7.30 to 9pm Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin tells the hidden history of the world's trees
Zoom - register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member
Board of Peace - Season 1
Official UK Govt security assessment concludes that
“Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity”
This is not a green NGO or leftie radical, but govt national security assessment
Response? Tumbleweed
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
Appointing Tony Blair to a 'Board of Peace' is like appointing Harold Shipman to a Board of Health
The cow man stands on a cart and is forking kale for the rough coated cattle to eat
‘The cowman’
What to Look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Tuesday 13th January 7.30 to 9pm
Michael Meharg talk: "Future Natural - winners and losers - how climate change may shape Northern Ireland"
- the changes over time, we are now, and the future of habitats and species.
Zoom - register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
On a misty winter day a farmer is laying a hedge
“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air”
Writer: EL GrantWatson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
The holly tree stands in front of a wall on a grey, snowy winter morning, with open countryside behind it
“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
Fiduciary duty may sound technical, but it matters hugely.
Pension schemes should not be forced to invest in fossil fuels, arms or tobacco when those investments harm health, the planet and pensioners’ long-term interests.
#Pensions
Full speech 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
This illustration was originally the front cover picture of the ladybird book. Two herons and clusters of other birds stand around a partially frozen lake under a yellow winter sky
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
Whitehead 1868
Tuesday 16th December 7.30 to 9pm joint with Belfast Geologists Society
Ian Enlander talk: "Whitehead and its historical economic Geology - our rocks and what we did to them"
Zoom -register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member
"A majority of Ecuadorians have voted against a measure to allow foreign military bases back in the country"
No prize for guessing which foreign military the president had in mind.
Tuesday 11th November 7.30 to 9pm Ulster Museum; also zoom (register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member) Helen James, Ulster Museum, speaks on "Freshwater Insects of Ireland" highlighting their life cycles, and the threats facing our freshwater ecosystems and their inhabitants
