A sleeping Herring Gull at Burghead this week #BirdoftheDay #EFGH #SchoolofBirding

Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

Who should lead the Labour Party? Honest to god… where is the decency, the integrity, the willingness to stick up for people, to call out the racists and the haters… loudly and unequivocally? Where did that go? What did these people go into politics for? Cos we couldn’t give a damn about their egos.

A male Ring Ouzel sitting tight behind the fencing, seen from Cairn Gorm viewing platform yesterday #BirdoftheDay #HeadShot

So, if he's going to stick with a hardline and frankly cruel immigration policy and thinks we should stay out of the EU and wants to reform the election system but only after the next election, what, I ask, is the actual fucking point of it all?

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Labour has a job to do, we’re not even two years in yet, things are tough - a leadership challenge would be self indulgent and illogical - in my view.

Not breaking the link allows right wing types to continue to blame green levies for what is a fossil fuel crisis, made worse by a defective market mechanism. Keir Starmer should take control of this - and actually break the link.

The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?

Am increasingly of the belief that politics in this country would immediately become 15% less shit if the existing crop of lobby hacks were fired into the sun and replaced with, I don't know, goats.

IS THAT IT?!!!!!! No details? 'This Labour government will be defined by rebuilding our relationship with Europe, by putting Britain at the heart of Europe'.

🤩 If we could manage to get west London politicians to see past their windscreen lens, they might realise that we too could do something super awesome like this at Hammersmith Bridge, combining heritage public realm with 21st century transport innovation! www.hammersmithbridge.solutions

Yes, it is 🗳️ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/may-2026/2026/05/is-it-finally-time-for-proportional-representation

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Imagine your commute being the most direct and efficient route by bike, flanked by urban green space, and taking a car would be more of an inconvenience. This is how you induce demand for cycling.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

A Chiffchaff at Rye Meads yesterday, showing it’s yellow rear end #BirdoftheDay #BirdButt

Starmer could of course call Trump privately now with the message that if he doesn’t immediately switch course the king and UK air bases are now out of bounds and forget about the World Cup. Who knows what’s happening behind the scenes but sleepwalking into this will never be forgiven.

Enough. Billboard done with @visionzerovancouver.ca

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

8/ None of this means giving up. It means being honest with our selves and facing reality. Fossil fuel burning must fall hard and fast. And we must protect and restore ecosystems. The sink matters as much as the smokestack. The atmosphere measures what we do, not what we promise.

congratulations to trump and bibi for starting a war and immediately making the iranian regime the strongest and richest it has been in its entire history incredible, world-historic geopolitical fuckup

I used to credit the Tory party with having the biggest number of thick people. Not any more. Cancelling training places for doctors cos of the strikes is SO DUMB. Is there an operational brain cell at Number 10? It's the needs of PATIENTS you need to be remembering.

I'm not into gesture politics but I think this visit should be cancelled, actually because it would be a gesture that it doesn't matter that in recent months Trump has repeatedy insulted Britain. But it does. The counter-argument is that it'd keep him sweet: it won't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

Right wing commentators lament the decline of jobs in oil and gas - which are quite natural as we run out of the stuff (just 10% left) - they miss this, a near 30% growth in green jobs in the last decade - and the Green Economy outgrowing the old economy year on year. buff.ly/CEWtLIu

A state visit is the highest diplomatic honour we can bestow. It must not be used to reward a President who has launched an illegal war, brought UK troops into harm’s way, and driven up energy and petrol prices for British families.

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Also, Discworld QOTDs.

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

Make it nationwide

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

Some daft twat (Stuart Rose) on BBC Radio 4 saying we should relax net zero targets and exploit North Sea oil/gas. How do the idiotic, horribly ignorant views of these fuckwits get aired without challenge, or without some factual explanation of the consequences? 🤷‍♂️🙄🤷‍♂️

A lifer Turtle Dove at Fingringhoe last June #PerfectlyPerched and a Yellowhammer near Spellbrook this week #SongBird #BirdoftheDay

We are not that far away from a 5 way split of c20%. This, if translated to an election result, would be utter chaos. Anyone who doesn't think we need electoral reform must have their head buried firmly in the sand. Or is called Starmer. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

Because accepting that "normal" does not mean "cisgender, heteronormative", but actually means "kind to eachother and not actively harming others" would put a lot of people currently in power out of a job.

“If you want to look at the economics, then look at all of it. For example, I've never seen a calculation of how much capacity, how much GDP, a poorly-paid immigrant working in a care home frees up for the family and relatives of all the people there, by taking on their caring responsibilities.”

Greenshank near Lymington last November #BirdoftheDay #WalkinginWater #Green

Glaucous and Herring Gulls at Waxham last week, amongst seals on the beach #BirdoftheDay #SteppingOut #NorfolkBirding

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

Combining a pair of Bullfinches, with a Greenfinch, at Sculthorpe Moor last week #BirdoftheDay #MixedPairs #Finches

Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill. Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines. Just shut up about Churchill.

This is a really good point about authenticity by Sadiq Khan

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people! Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS! Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life. Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

I’m convinced that people like Starmer, Streeting and Mahmoud have a world view so shaped by Labour factionalism that they’re unable to view calls for them to change as anything other than a call for Corbynism. Maybe in the real, non-Labour world people just want them to be kinder and more humane.

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!