Starmer’s ‘defensive strikes’ on Iran are a ‘fiction’, air force veteran warns The prime minister is ‘deeply wrong’ to let Trump bomb Iran from British soil, a former RAF officer has said 👇 www.declassifieduk.org/starmers-def...

A drone that brought food to Ukrainian Defenders on positions, brought back passengers - a cat and dog. They flew 12 kilometers during their evacuation. The Defenders of 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade are taking care of them.

📢 Some great news from Orkney! A new report shows Orkney Vole abundance last spring was the highest it's been since efforts to remove invasive non-native stoats began. This small, elusive vole is found nowhere else and is threatened by the arrival of stoats (in 2010). 📷: Adam Hough

She's back! Blue 35 has returned and made it clear that this is _her_ nest. We're not crying. Well, maybe a little bit. Welcome back you superstar. #FoulshawOspreys #Birds #Cumbria

Also if the book you want is out on loan, you can reserve it for free. And get a message when it is ready to collect.

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today! 🐰 Have a wonderful day. 📷 aprilmunday.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/t...

Happy Easter 🐇 See how many hares you can spot on our #NHMP cameras over the long weekend! Sign up and look out for hedgehogs and other animals and help conservation from the sofa 🍫☕ 👉 mammalweb.org/nhmp (link in bio) The #NHMP is run by PTES and British Hedgehog Preservation Society

Sea otters have lungs 2.5 times larger than similar-sized land mammals, making them masters of buoyancy in the ocean.

It is crazy how few people know this: Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago

Ireland's GDP has been massively boosted by companies basing their European operations there for tax purposes. However it's hard to avoid recognising that Ireland does benefit from being a member of the EU, As it's passport is Internationally welcomed all across Europe & has chosen to adopt the Euro

Everyday those B52s fly over head and my heart sinks. Everyday I am reminded we are enabling the bombing of children and civilians by allowing US planes to use our airbases. There is a choice, like Spain has made, not to support an illegal war. The government could make that choice too.

This adorable Long-Tailed Tit has been collecting moss in your feed. (You should probably compliment them now).

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Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

He's back! YW arrived on the nest last night. Welcome back old pal. #FoulshawOspreys @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

reposting every now and again till the elections

It is always a relief to see the first hedgehogs of the year. 😊

Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation system known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊 The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

Assault and worse. Israel's armed forces are allowed no restraint when it comes to attacking and killing journalists... CNN journalists in the illegally occupied West Bank and now Lebanese journalists. When will the West exert influence to stop this terrorism? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.” - words of wisdom from America’s worst president ever

“Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot.”

When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated. Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.

Fantastic turnout and incredible energy today. Scotland will be independent. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"UK farmers are looking with envy at the EU deal with Australia. Brussels agreed to a beef quota rising to 30,600 metric tons after 10 years. By contrast, UK agreed a beef quota starting at 35,000 tons and rising to 110,000 tons by year 10. After that, UK quotas disappear and tariffs fall to zero."

THE PRIME MINISTERS SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION PLAN WILL CHANGE THE RULES FOR MIGRANT CARE WORKERS It will keep them in a temporary status for a decade or more, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised. WHEN DID THAT BECOME THE POLICY OF A LABOUR GOVERNMENT? youtu.be/G7uTFllI5ks?...

After Mairi McAllan given top job, Scotland still builds twice as many affordable homes as last Scottish Labour government did, beats 110 000 target by an extra 30 000 and watches on as UK Labour slashes its target for England by more than a third talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/26/a...

But the strikes are now reaching further: the Moscow region, the Leningrad region, port infrastructure, and more distant energy and logistics facilities. Now the war, which the Kremlin built as an export of violence outward, is beginning to pull Russia's own territory into it.

Made a little intro to the @btobirds.bsky.social Birds in Greenspaces project that starts in April . It’s a fantastic opportunity to get out there and record all the birds we see in those pockets of green in between the urban areas a lot of us live in. Sign up here #birds www.bto.org/get-involved...

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

Spain just boasted that because of their investment in renewable energy, Last week a mega watt hour of electricity just cost €14. Scotland also invested in renewable energy, but last week it cost us €158 for a mega watt hour of electricity. That's because Westminster set our energy policies!

This is Zika the Squirrel Whisperer.An avenger for Red Squirrel, who hunts for signs of squirrel pox spreading, habitat stealing,invasive Grey Squirrel and tells her team where they are.Her domain is Hazelhead Park where the red squirrels are now back and the grey squirrels have been sent packing.

Went outside today to the unmistakable sound of a chiffchaff. 😊 Great to hear they have arrived. Birdnet agrees too.

Media shocking misrepresentation of the facts about Scotland’s ferries: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/17/c...

read this just saying "oh no Oh no oh NO OH NO" at increasing volume www.thenational.scot/news/2594810...

They said that after the recent budget more than half of workers in Scotland would pay more tax than if they lived in other parts of the UK. They now admit 55% of Scots will pay less. Last year BBC Scotland had to correct more errors than all the other BBC branches combined.

Aaaand more good news for Subway users! Changes will see trains run past midnight on a Friday and Saturday nights with a 12.30 am closing time. Sunday service will start at 6.30 am and run until 11.30pm. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2594329...

UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach and that the deal proposed by Iran was surprising Two days after the talks ended and after a date had been agreed for a further round of technical talks in Vienna, Donald Trump and Israel launched the attack www.theguardian

I guess the jungles of Vietnam were not inside the Vietnamese cities either - do these people never learn?

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

The stuff that dreams are made of for Bowie

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Since we appear to be arguing about whether there should be animals on banknotes, and if so which animals, I'm going to point out that this is the five-pound note issued by the Dundee Banking Company in 1845, and it had dragons on it.

The fire chief on scene completely demolished these arguments and said Sarwar was trying to politicise a tragedy There were ample appliances on scene and the high ladder appliance was there in 19 mins It wasn't needed for a further 2 hours www.heraldscotland.com/news/2593241...

Well I don't find this Royal Bank of Scotland note depressing at all!

Hedgehogs can hear high‑frequency ultrasound – that knowledge could help save them! New paper out: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 📷 Danmarks Pindsvin WWF Denmark

This was true in the UK. Until the mid 1940s, women teachers and government workers were forced to give up work when they married, by the Marriage Bar. Some institutions, such as the UK Foreign Service, maintained these restrictions until 1973. My mother had to stop working when she married.