A mini 'beast' of the leaf litter the pseudoscorpion Chthonius ischnocheles. This tiny arachnid is just a few millimetres long. It uses its venomous 'pincer palps' to immobilise prey such as mites then covers them with digestive fluid and injests the liquefied remains. They are harmless to humans!

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The window has already begun to close so we'd better start doing something meaningful pretty sharpish... www.ceh.ac.uk/press/we-hav...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to people briefed on the discussions. www.ft.com/content/d304...

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

It's going to be an epic meltdown when old Frosty discovers that this Pope is woke.

UK greenhouse gas emissions are now down 54% since 1990. They fell 2% last year. It's something the country doesn't boast about enough. Yes, some of it is switch from industry to services. But the biggest reductions are from changes to electricity supply. 👇 www.gov.uk/government/s...

❗️A Russian strike destroyed a whole street in Korosten, Zhytomyr region. A 70-year-old woman was killed, five more people injured. 1,500 days of this today.

That trip to the Moon is paying dividends already www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

What's glorious about the review is the inadvertent humour of the reviewer's self-conception colliding with the reality that this stuff is simply not as intelligent as he believes it to be.

The intro to this is incredible. Essentially a shrieking lamentation that the author can't sufficiently intellectualize an opinion only a dullard could have.

Goodwin's new book has even been slammed by The Critic. It must be truly dreadful. thecritic.co.uk/suicide-of-a...

It's confirmed: Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years. This is the first statistically significant evidence of an acceleration of global warming that many had been warning about. Story via @bloomberg.com FREE link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note

We’ve started surveying #Fylingdales Moor to plan restoration after last year’s #Wildfire. It’s a desolate landscape. On the upside, areas with higher plant diversity and more Sphagnum moss seem less affected by the #Fire. I wonder why? 🤔💧 #GreatNorthBog #Water #Peatland @northyorkmoors.org.uk

Norway has fish and puffins on their banknotes, and look at the state of them. When I went there last summer it was a woke hellscape of flowering plants, even in the cities. Sparrows wandering around like they owned the place. Bees everywhere. Absolute menaces.

An actual statement from the one-time natural party of government.

Hedgehogs *are* our national heroes

Politicians in opposition would do well to realise that they don't have to oppose everything and have a negative opinion on everything that happens whilst someone else is in power. It's perfectly acceptable to say nothing. Or even say "Oh we love these the UK has wonderful native wildlife."

Impressed that Kemi Badenoch now seems to be calling for an ... independent British war on Iran?

The money is on crooked as hell, but there are still odds to take that Witkoff is just incredibly stupid.

🚨🚨Major story of today: Nearly seven months ago, #Ukraine tried to sell the US their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones but #Trump admin dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week because of heavy drone strikes from #Iran.🧵 www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

New footage analysed by Bellingcat shows two of the world’s most wanted crime figures, Christy and Daniel Kinahan, appearing openly at a mixed martial arts event in Dubai, despite US sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to their arrest. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

a year is a long time in politics

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

This is exactly how the world sees the us administration!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Asked why he has appointed two ex-Tory minister when he criticises the Conservatives' record so much, Farage says Jenrick and Braverman left the Tory government as they resigned or were "eased out", which is a delightful way of saying Braverman was sacked twice.

Question for journalists, when a politician does not answer a question like this, why does the NEXT journalist not just say ‘actually I want you to answer HER question?’ And keep doing it until they do. Don’t stand for this bollox

The FT was literally told by Peter Mandelson to "F**k Off" and he called his relationship with Epstein "an FT obsession".

Wow.

President Zelensky said allowing the aggressor to take territory would repeat past mistakes and urged leaders not to seek compromises with Putin. He said Russia is losing 30,000 to 35,000 troops a month and called for full sanctions, including on Rosatom and the entire energy sector. #Ukraine

Today a chap from NFU spouted guff on R4 about complex rivers being dire for wildlife. Yet here a willow is creating a natural, oxygenated riffle. 1) Scouring rivers only benefits those who farm flood plains. 2) How do they think wildlife coped before we dredged rivers? Answer: marvellously.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised. Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”. It isn’t.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Nothing says 'traditional values' like making it so legally difficult for married women to vote that they collectively decide to stop taking their spouses' names. Cons will be left wondering how their own voting bills accidentally became the most effective campaign for maiden names in history.

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚡️'Remembrance is not a violation' — third Ukrainian athlete barred from wearing helmet at Olympics. Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat."

Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law. Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he