It’s also important to think carefully before sharing sightings of rare breeding birds in the spring & summer - could this lead to disturbance, or worse? Read the RBBP guidance here tinyurl.com/RBBPsound and if in doubt, don’t! [2/2] youtu.be/Q739XXYWgDo?...
So now it's an otter? It's been a beaver, a badger...I vote Gruffalo.
Bastards!
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Liberal England: The making of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963)
People on the left tend to be uneasy about patriotism – the last refuge of the scoundrel and all that – but it’s remarkable how many right-wing politicians and commentators give every impression of disliking their own country.
Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡
Wrong battle Ed
📦 2.6 MILLION emergency food parcels were provided across the UK in 2025
👶 912,216 of these were for households with children
📈 That’s still 45% higher than pre-pandemic levels
Inflation is easing, but hardship isn’t. This isn’t right - and it doesn’t have to be this way.
Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?
To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics
The warnings are there for us all to see
One of the 'helping out other teams' things I did in Sudan was being on the interview panel for potential Chevening scholars. All incredibly impressive people that worked really hard to get to that point. To be on the cusp of a huge opportunity and then have it snatched away... Unconscionable.
Grasping little nobodies, who think they have a god given right to literally lord it over us in perpetuity, because some ancestor bought a peerage or was the illegitimate child of a royal or won some battle in a long forgotten colonial war or lent money to some tosser who lived beyond their means.
If you go back 900 years, then a very high percentage of the people who read this post will also be descended from this man's ancestor.
I'm almost certainly descended from him.
Why don't I get a seat in the House of Lords?
Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
Tories have no shame
NEW - I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Britain's leading patriot, Isabel Oakeshott, for the New Yorker in Dubai.
Read all about it here:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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He drafted my father’s will
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms
Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today
We have a looming animal welfare crisis in our sheep flocks due to a lack of access to shearers, caused by the Home Office. When I raised these issues with DEFRA senior civil servants last week it was clear that they were not aware of the issue, let alone on top of it - they must get a grip of it.
On the other hand, who cares?
Colliding with Clare Booth Luce in a doorway:
CBL: "Age before beauty."
DP (stepping aside): "Pearls before swine."
#DorothyParker #Parker
A great #WestCountry tradition.
Anyone willing to believe in or assist in the Johnson BS has to be classed as dangerous.
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.
A machine in Exeter train station that vends Penguin paperbacks as if they are Crunchie bars or packets of Quavers.
I do like the Penguin Books vending machine at Exeter train station but I won't be truly happy until there's another one next to it solely selling rare jazz, psych and soul records made between 1965 and 1970.
Worked for an independent BMW/MINI retailer & if you ever had a full stop, after your name on a letter or invoice it wasn't a typo. It was an internal note that you were an arsehole.
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
🧵 1/3
What if the chaos is actually the point?
#Trump and the #IranWar
@nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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My husband rescued over 100 #toads this morning...
Stuck in just a few inches of water, at the bottom of a deep-sided pit with a grate on top. He'd walked over the grate a few times before he noticed movement beneath it and realised what it was. Thank goodness he was able to reach them !
