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“Yet even their sweet names bring pleasure: silky wall-moss, frizzled crisp-moss, comb-moss, glittering wood-moss or the rather weird flat neckera and wall scalewort” Mark Cocker #naturewriting on Derbyshire bryophytes, liverwort, mosses in today’s Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This article is interesting… www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

No. Actually we need a second chamber that isn’t a reward for corruption or concealment of corruption.

Hadn't previously thought this, but if this Labour government wants to show any understanding of the situation then McSweeney's position is untenable. Now. Not after May. The change needed is in attitudes more than delivery.

43 people I follow are still following him

Amazing coda here.

Interestingly cryptic email from Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel, 26 June 2016: "Brexit, just the beginning"

If you think Starmer's Labour candidate for Gorton & Denton might have some socialist values, read her PR splurge for yet more public private partnership - which saddled so many hospitals with massive debts ... Angeliki Stogia is a paid privatiser www.arup.com/insights/dri... #SocialistSunday

Please SHARE! @europeanmovement.co.uk now has >27,000 followers. 🙌

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

"Make sure to get my good side", said this Carolina Wren when it saw me with my camera. North Texas #photography #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #Texas #backyardbirds

To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote": 1. Things have changed. 2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit) 3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.

Hannah is the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton. She is also a plumber and dog rescuer🐕💪

As always with Mandelson, it's the lying that does him in

emails show da Silva emailing Epstein...asking for money to fund an osteopathy course and other related expenses. “I will wire your loan amount immediated’y [sic],” Epstein replied. A few days later, da Silva sent Epstein email: “thank you for the money which arrived in my account this morning”.

by Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Yeah right….. 😏 #BoxOfficeStinker

We could see this coming too, from long ago. Government needs to stop embracing this stuff as if it could improve life. The practice of mistaking economic advances for improvements to well-being has been destroying humanity for decades. We need to wake up. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Only just heard that Ralph Towner died earlier this month. An inspired guitarist and composer whose work has been part of the soundtrack to my life for almost half a century. Here's one of his loveliest tunes and best solos. A melancholy, contemplative musical start to your day.

This is how the rest of the world now sees The United States under Trump.

🚨BREAKING 🟢 Yes: 69 🔴 No: 27 Our bill to ban greyhound racing has just taken a massive step forward after it was backed by the Scottish Parliament at stage 1! 🎉

NEW ANALYSIS: UK household electricity bills have risen over the last 5 years. BUT: Despite frequent claims that net zero is to blame: 2/3 of the increase is because of high gas prices shows new @ukerc.bsky.social report. Arguably without renewable energy the UK would see even higher bills today.

My brain hurts……… Looks like the world owns America A TRILLION owed to Japan alone!! What does this mean? Can the USA ever pay this money back??

Matt Goodwin lives nearly 200 miles from Manchester and he hates the place. Do you want someone like that as your MP?

We all know that January is a tough month, so here's mummy Deer giving her Fawn a morning wash as the birds tweet away and Snow White busily makes some bread.

Counterpoint. Instead, offer free media literacy and critical thinking training to every adult in the UK.

Happy birthday to King Tubby. Here’s his legendary desk. #Basic

Tomorrow marks 85 years since the dub master King Tubby was born. The first time that Tubby was credited on a 7" was in 1974. This deep cavernous dub of Carlton & Leroy's Not Responsible is one of those early 7s... youtu.be/n9_IdGjHPH0?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #kingtubby

Theme tune for every fucking day of the year youtu.be/u-Z2575ZhU0

I have been printing these out and leaving them lying around on desks in the office. Nobody throws receipts away in offices just in case they are important.

We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week. I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

I enjoyed this — the Guardian’s two politicsl cartoonists explain their differing techniques www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Green councillors save Glasgow City Council over £4m. The power of electing people who really care about getting the basics right 💚

The Richmond Item, Indiana, October 20, 1916

Missed the news about Ralph Towner RIP Always loved his playing- this may have been the first thing I heard of his - amazing player. youtu.be/D7UB9bffrCs?...

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

A message from Eliza Carthy about her dad, #MartinCarthy

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Highland cow baby is probably the most cutest thing I have ever seen

Joan Greenwood on the Isle of Barra in Scotland during a break from location filming for Whisky Galore! (1949)

Trump's speech lasted 70 minutes. That's 3 minutes longer than the silent German expressionist masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. And much like that film - he was weird and nightmarish while saying nothing at all.