Last weekend. #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/11/a-wa...

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

A rather wet and windy trip! youtu.be/ua663W25hYY

Trump pardons trail runner convicted after taking shortcut during record run | Sport | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/11/l...

Have Reform UK Ltd’s county councils delivered on their promises? A six-month review of Reform-led county councils explores how effectively they have delivered what they promised to their electors | Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, September 2019 “I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.” (Ansel Adams) #MountainMonday #landscapephotography #photography #Colorado #careforcreation

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

The more I think about, the more I realise that the attack on the BBC really is terribly thinly veiled - and listening to @newsagents.bsky.social’s episode today, you can see just how dangerous things are right now. A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.

Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference" Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin" "We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

The Guardian view on Scottish land reform: vast estates remain feudal in scale | Editorial | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I would love to do this. I can't tell you how good getting away from a desk and being outside most of your week feels.

A wet few days on the Burma Road/Kinrara Estate. Not much in the way of views high up but some dramatic clouds over Strathspey from lower down. #Strathspey #cairngorms

She left her desk job and walked 3,541 miles from Mexico to Canada: ‘Give yourself permission’ | Walking | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s been bonkers recently in Dunkeld really noticeably busy This is backed up in the stats for the hermitage ‘NTS, which manages the site, estimates 350,000 people have visited in just 8 months this year – compared to 88,000 in all of 2023’ Think it’s Insta/Tik Tok 🤷‍♀️ news.stv.tv/north/dunkel...

What's in the latest TGO magazine www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/11/a-lo...

The mild autumn & the gorgeous colours continue. #autumn #trees #cairngorms #strathspey

Lovely. 👏👏👏

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar? I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...

Autumn is fading into winter but there is still a last glorious flourish of colour on the trees. #autumn #trees #cairngorms #strathspey

Two figures involved in a Brussels think tank linked to Nigel Farage and his partner have been convicted of misusing EU funds leftfootforward.org/2025/11/two-...

The number of times I've driven from the Dornoch Bridge to Ardgay and wondered what that beautiful area of woodland on the north side of the firth was. Well yesterday I finally made a point of finding out 🙂

Time for headlamps! #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/11/a-lo...

NatureScot says "decision in next few weeks" on whether to impose General Licence restriction in relation to shooting & killing of golden eagle Merrick raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...

Windfarms vs Wilderness - the destruction of Coignafearn (guest blog by Fred Rutter) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/w...

Pinched from the Anti Reform group on Facebook. Which I recommend! 👍

BBC News - MSPs pass land reform which could force break up of huge estates www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is deeply disappointing from Starmer. The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯 How embarrassing for the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres. Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime | Grateful Dead | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Trailblazer Patti Smith on influencing artists like Taylor Swift - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP: “While national climate plans have delivered some progress, it is nowhere near fast enough, which is why we still need unprecedented emissions cuts in an increasingly tight window, with an increasingly challenging geopolitical backdrop."

This is going to cause so much internal conflict for some people.

The 5 brutal stats that blow Reform’s austerity plans out the water We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Dictators don’t like math—because math insists on reality. We’re still trying to work out how this math maths. Is he suggesting people are crossing illegally out of the US into Mexico and Canada? Math exposes the lie, but when reality is inconvenient, the authoritarian will simply demand a new one.

A look at headlamps youtu.be/iHorG849bHk

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Brighter today, so everything looked vibrantly alive 🙂 Beautiful of course, but in sharp contrast to yesterday it was profoundly, unpleasantly warm...to the point where it required t-shirts, suncream and sweating 😭 Yep, 16C in Sutherland.....in November. Lovely stuff.