A bit late to the game but saw first #butterfly of the year - a Red Admiral basking in the sunshine

"we are working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think that hard work should get you a nice life. We have shown we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all." Hannah Spencer MP

Rare and Sensitive Breeding Birds. Please avoid posting photos of rare and sensitive breeding birds and divulging their location and nest sites from 1st March to 31 July. #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall

Happy St David’s Day everyone. xx 🪶

This month's picture of the Month... For more details click below southern-railway.com/2026/03/01/p...

if there was indeed any 'family voting' (unlikely), i would bet money it was women being pressured to vote reform by their white husbands

Most people in England & Wales are not Christian, and it’s axiomatic to a free society that religious beliefs - or the lack of them - are irrelevant to civic participation. Britain is a pluralist, not a Christian, society; and this is one more reason to fight Reform UK.

Thank you very much to Kate Ashbrook for sharing this blog post about her experience taking part in the Winter Bird Survey on Valentines Day of all days!: campaignerkate.wordp... @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science #Ornithology

Friends, may God journey with you through these Lenten weeks; Love lead you through the valley of division and hate. Light guide you amidst hopelessness and despair. Peace lift you out of regret, shame and pain. May the Risen One of Easter bless you with new hope, new joy and new life. 🙏🏼

Wow.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist and racial 'pathfinder,' dies at 84 https://cnn.it/3ZCgLFQ

The constituency I live in has a 30% rate of child poverty. The seventh highest in Scotland, with only Glasgow constituencies being higher. I was one of the kids who grew up below the poverty line. Missing meals. Socially excluded from basic activities. This is utter contempt from Reform.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

There is no LGB without the T. We rise together and we fall together. Part of my speech in Parliament for LGBTQ+ History Month:

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

Nice work, Gareth :)

*Reminder* Our next clubroom open day is this Saturday 14th, see below for details.

A real pleasure to be one of the first signatures of this motion. It needs a hundred signatures to be debated and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has that by the end of this week #Synod

You're invited to this free talk, Wed 18 Feb, 7.30pm, G44 Edith Morley Building, Uni of Reading (or via Zoom). Ken & Linda Smith of woodpecker-network.org.uk on their research into the status of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. New research techniques give some grounds for optimism. #ornithology

Taking place on Anglia Ruskin Uni’s Chelmsford campus, our 2026 conference is just a few minutes’ walk from the train & bus station, & also has convenient free parking. Finding out about Essex’s key birds couldn’t be easier! More info & book your place at ebws.org.uk/2026conference #essexbirding

Offering the mass this morning for #GeneralSynod as it meets, these were the words of the liturgy that struck me as particularly apt: "renew us by your Spirit, inspire us with your love, and unite us in the body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." 🙏⚓️🕯✝️ #CofEpeeps #Synod

Chris Shannahan should be pleased with this. Others should read the book. williamtemplefoundation.org.uk/review-of-li...

Most of our staff are themselves railway modellers, see below for details on our Development Manager's layout being at the FebEx Alton show this weekend.

Some truly fantastic pun work in the replies here...

You could make the same argument for Labour in the UK. Too much electoral strategy, not enough political vision and leadership.

Bachmann Europe have revealed today its spring 2026 British Railway Announcements that includes LBSC Raw Umber livery versions of the ex LBSC IoW coaches in the EFE Rail range and new versions of the SR 12T Covered van in 00 For details click below southern-railway.com/2026/02/04/b...

Instead of just uprating last year’s arbitrary amount each year, we need an independent, evidence-based advisory process to recommend minimum rates that reflect essential costs. Our new report shows UK & international examples of how this could work: 3/4 www.jrf.org.uk/social-secur...

We don't discriminate when it comes to who can feed in our garden - Herring Gulls passing from night-time roost on a nearby gravel pit to their days spent in town centre or trading estate

Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis earlier today. Please share and let this ring out from sea to shining sea. ICE out now!

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

#Travel Alison MacTier offers a round-up of places to meet God in the natural world #retreats #environment

This seems very short-sighted when defence and energy are priorities

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

You all need to know that the ABA bird of the year is a Horned Lark which is abbreviated HOLA.

One of my favourite books is Wild America, the 1953 trip made by legendary naturalists Roger Tory Peterson (USA) and James Fisher (UK). Some of it was filmed and RTP took that on tour to theaters across the States. Until today, that was the only opportunity to see it (1/2) youtu.be/irjm8dxb0xA?...

🎵I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending…🎶 The people who broke our country are the same people Nigel Farage is now relying on to fix it. It couldn’t be clearer: Reform UK are simply the Conservatives with a new logo.

Big thanks to Reform for helping us keep out Reform in Gorton & Denton.

#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay

How can a party of government with a large majority be quite so febrile? I am baffled!

If Andy Burnham is the only person who can will the by-election for Labour then I think they are lost cause anyway - get on with governing - there is a job to do after 14 years of #torychaos and to show what proper politicians do in contrast to #reformmavericks - fight the opposition not each other

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Rise and shine, it's the final day of #BigGardenBirdwatch! Remember, you can still take part even if you haven't signed up. Help us spread the word: share this post, text someone, or tell the whole table over your Sunday roast. The more data we get, the better 🧑🔬

🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥 Minnesotans showed up! ❤️ IF U STAND WITH MINNESOTA AND WANT ICE OUT!!!!!

Trying to build a world authoritarian regime, whose only goal is to line their own pockets.

This should be front page on every UK newspaper tomorrow. Help for Heroes and British Legion must be incandescent with rage. Wootton Bassett's stood still over 400 times as British coffins arrived back from USA's request of NATO article 5. Over 300 more lost limbs. A new low for USA's turd-in-chief.

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

Early mornings. Quiet trails. Amazing birds. Since he caught the birding bug through wildlife photography in his early teens, Harry has recorded 145 species within about two miles of home. Read more about Harry's local patch of Tattenhoe in the January journal britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...