Addendum: Tintwistle, Cairngorms and Harlech are the most reported. A few other large fires from July: Conwy: 200acres, evacuations. Kelfield, Yorks: 35acres Clare, Suffolk: 100acres Bridgnorth, Shrops: 98acres Roden, near Telford: 88 acres Brentmoor Heath, Surrey: size unknown, burned for 5 days.

Fires are burning larger, hotter and fiercer. The Peak District blaze has set into the peat, meaning it can smoulder underground and flare up again easily. Severity indexes are off the charts.

Large fires in the Peak District, Cairngorms and north Wales are now effectively competing for limited firefighting helicopter resources. On Saturday, Welsh farmers said they felt abandoned - while authorities had approved helicopter use, they were still waiting for one to be available.

For something to be technically a wildfire, it must reach 1 hectare in size. We counted grass/heath/crop/forest fires that might narrowly miss that distinction but still take huge resources to tackle. This is two weeks of Britain burning:

Been on the apocalypse beat this week. Surveying English and Welsh fire services, we count 250+ significant wildfires in the first two weeks of July, destroying thousands of acres: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️

Went to the launch of this very fabulous book earlier this week - edited by my lovely friend Rastko Novaković - and got to meet @joeljoel.bsky.social - really fabulous book - also lots of additional STUFF on the website for-peace.maydayrooms.org

Usually, if something is deeply damaging and defamatory to an organization you founded, you wouldn't say you want everyone to read it. Rowling is someone who is confident the system will back her regardless of how she undermines her own organizations legal position because of her wealth.

Taking a book to the bubbled bath with an ice lolly. Ah sobriety your joys are myriad

Goldman, reprimanded by a male relative as a true agitator shouldn't be seen dancing as frivolity would hurt the Cause, wrote: "I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release & freedom from convention & prejudice, should demand the denial of life & joy".

@glassjarofmoles.bsky.social hello old friend x

What's going down in the loo? Tracking two friends across four scenes ahead of Flush @ Arcola, Maddy Costa looks at toilets onstage and off: sites for examinations of class and gender, the setting for discomfort and solidarity... Read it here or a sneak preview if you're not yet a paid subscriber:

On a more positive note, and this is not an exhaustive list, but please do follow, read, and support our friends at places like @wearequeeraf.com, @attitudemag.bsky.social, @divamag.bsky.social and other UK queer media that provide good public interest journalism for our community.

We hope others will join us to do the same. This is based on how @pinknews.bsky.social have decided to act, and we will be happy to revisit it if they change course and provide public interest journalism for the LGBTQ+ community. Until then, we will boycott the publication.

We deserve better from our community’s news outlets, and others provide vital coverage while respecting queer journalists, operating ethically and speaking truth to power. We are removing @pinknews.bsky.social from our press lists and will no longer provide direct comment to them.

Pink News have now: - Made journalists redundant in search of a ‘reporter-free newsroom’. This includes one of the UK’s only trans reporters covering our community, and many other talented queer reporters. - Uncritically platformed Wes Streeting spinning taking healthcare away from trans kids.

The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social. Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets. That ends today. Why?

Reminder - I will be presenting my book, Feral Class, at Broadside, Glasgow. Publication Launch. 28.03.26. 2 – 5 pm. All welcome 🙂 broadside.space/event/for-fr... Publisher - @minorcompositions.bsky.social #readingcommunity #books #stories #WritingCommunity #outsider #art

The Court of Appeal have given the transphobic group Sex Matters permission to challenge trans inclusion at Hampstead Heath ponds. But we’re preparing to intervene: https://goodlaw.social/9iqr

The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

You hide in the toilets because your colleague eats an apple criminally slowly at exactly 10am every day. A non-exhaustive catalogue of sensory malfunctions. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?

✊International Women’s Day is a protest ✊ Today, we recognise all women who are organising for justice and against division and inequality. For all those fighting back against transphobia, ableism, racism, male violence against women, misogyny and attacks on bodily autonomy. #IWD IWD26

unfortunately I lost it at this extremely stupid New Yorker cartoon

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Have a seat, sir. And prepare to Get Served.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

I love the sound of Tories losing their deposit in the morning

Save the date: 'Shadows and Projections', an exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings. 03/04/26-18/04/26 The Art Space, Cass Art 63 – 67 Queen Street Glasgow G1 3EN Open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm Sundays 11am-6pm Private view Friday 3rd April 6-8pm

And that’s the clip that’s been circulating. A calm, rational exchange in the face of a group of Americans declaring over a loud speaker that all Muslims are sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred as families (some with children) walked home from prayers 10/

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

joyce is going after elon again

Curious to learn more about independent filmmaking? - Improve your screen skills at our filmmaking masterclass on Wednesday 18th Feb @ 1.30pm. More info and register here: sway.cloud.microsoft/nCp7rZZHTV3D...

Far be it from me to say we ought to be careful who we listen to on these issues, but it’s worth pointing out that these reason this guy is doing this interview is to plug his subscription service.

We are going to make a specific mams patch for the Trans Unity Quilt and we want to include the names of our loved ones for posterity. Just first name and first initial of surname for safety. If anyone would like to be included or a loved one, please let me know ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

I love that he hated his life’s work. Relatable.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Great to hear a Democracy for Sale story on heads of news on Today on Radio 4 Also very good to see a proper credit for us - as an ‘investigative website’ not ‘a Substack’ - high up in the story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Friday 13th February is a big day. It's a Friday 13th. It's Galentines Day. It's the 7th anniversary of us becoming a registered charity. And we're launching our fourth issue of Lip Service! We're coming together for a Big Birthday Gash, and yo are invited... www.outsavvy.com/event/32638/...