The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Badenoch, Jenrick and whoever else has come up with, or endorses the idea of an ICE tribute act on these shores is a domestic terrorist.

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

Find out whether you like buttocks by holding a buttock up under your chin.

New best friend. #sohappytogether

'Boss, this story has everything, politics, corruption, threats to national security and your favourite subject, Reform Ltd'. 'STICK IT IN WALES' @BBC are just collaborators these days www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A few peas from arable margins this week for #wildflowerhour Crimson Clover, what look like agricultural varieties of Common Vetch and Tufted Vetch along with Alsike Clover.

Think I've got on to the Sand Lucerne thanks to the below named too. This time in Sefton, South Lancs. ##wildflowerhour

One of my favourites for #wildflowerhour Spiked Speedwell, it took a long time for me to finally catch up with this plant. Quite surprised by how many plants there were.

It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist

Late for ##wildflowerhour with this gorgeous Araneus quadratus (Four-spot Orb-weaver) in a Wild Carrot seed head.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

AI is like having an army of dickheads in your pocket part 1483.

I’ve signed this petition to ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Suspicions that a birder I was following is in fact a miserable, washed up, old racist arsehole confirmed this morning.

Left a Purple Toadflax growing in my South Liverpool back yard, hoping that recent colonist Toadflax Brocade moth would make use of it. Delighted to report that my cunning plan has worked.

It's been a while since I last saw Meadow Thistle. This one at Wicken Fen this week. #wildflowerhour

Great Fen-sedge at Wicken Fen. Easy to see how it gets the alternative name Saw Sedge. ##wildflowerhour

Cambridge Milk-parsley at Wicken Fen. 30 years on from seeing this on a walk led by @dartmoorac.bsky.social when I was a first-year undergraduate @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Yellow Loosetrife Bee being a #pollinatorpal on the aforementioned for #wildflowerhour

Well done to Palace.

Stopped off at Wicken Fen after working in Essex yesterday. Yellow-loosestrife bee Macropis europaea has been on my 'wants' list for a while, look at the pollen baskets. The carrion beetle Oiceoptoma thoracica a nice bonus.

My first ever Gypsy Moths at light in Essex this morning. Wondered whether the males that I caught were immigrants. Answer came in the afternoon when I found the female loafing on a veteran oak.

Has anybody ever installed Rmavis? NVC software. Trying to find an idiots guide to installing it but no luck.

Argyra leucocephala. Hard to believe that the two photographs are of the same fly. It's covered in scales that look silvery when they catch the light (when facing towards you).

#deadnettlechallenge for ##wildflowerhour various shades of Hemp Nettle. Shame I couldn't find the big un.

Black-headed Gull J2778 rung on 20th May 2025 at Østensjøvannet, Oslo, Norway as adult female. Seen four times within 6km of ringing site up to 17th June. Then seen at Alfred Holt Recreation Ground, Liverpool on 23rd July 2025. 871 km south West.

Hard to believe that it's possible to make a blackberry pie before the middle of July. My first ripe blackberry was on 19th June, beating my previous record by twelve days.

Saw a juvenile Green Woodpecker fly north over the road around here. Not sure how regular these are around this area? @birderjack.bsky.social @daveliverbirder.bsky.social @dfoyliv.bsky.social

I make no apology for posting more photographs of Spiked Speedwell for #wildflowerhour I've wanted to see this plant for nearly forty years so I've been making the most of it.

Managed something for the #grasschallenge for #wildflowerhour The stickle-brick constructed Cyperus Sedge.

Last few from North Wales limestone for #wildfowerhour Common Barberry (first time that I've found this plant for myself), and Salad Burnet.

A few more from the limestone of North Wales for #wildflowerhour Thyme, Bladder Campion and Lesser Meadow-rue.

A few bits from the limestone of North Wales this week. An unusual form of Common Rock Rose, Kidney Vetch, Spiked Speedwell and Dropwort. #wildflowerhour

Not surprised that my hay-fever was bad today.

Cistus Forester moths from Limestone sites in North Wales. #InsectWeek

I've been wondering about Yellow Oat-grass, have I overlooked it? would I recognise it? Is that runty False-Oat-grass it? Finally I spotted a sparkler that had been lit in a grassland. #wildflowerhour

I see the axis if evil are back together.

#InsectThursday & #ThrowbackThursday combined. I love this photo I took last Friday, a place full of beautiful memories #NorthBerwick, with #butterflies on the beach #PaintedLady & the promise of #BassRock in the distance. Needs a click! 🧡🧡🧡 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social #joy

Always great to see Thanasimus formicarius, a magnificent wood ant mimic. Might be a vice ounty first for Denbighshire.

If like me you've ever been accused of being born in a barn and want to chat about it, remember: my door is always open.

Israel is a terrorist state.

Mouse-ear Hawkweed will always be one of my favourite plants. #wildflowerhour

Another limestone speciality from Little Orme, Llandudno. White Horehound. #wildflowerhour

Hoary Rock-rose, a limestone speciality from Little Orme, Llandudno. #wildflowerhour

Moon rise last night was pretty spectacular.

A couple of poor photos of one of my favourite beetles. Sulphur Beetle at one of its most northerly UK locations, Little Orme near Llandudno.

I spent weeks trying to improve this Bill during Committee, tabling amendments to support the building of social and affordable housing and protecting environmental protections. The govt voted against them every time. 4/5