"You think they’re staying up nights worrying about working people and how this technology will impact those people?” Sanders said. “They are not. They are doing it to get richer and even more powerful.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Ark anyone ? ... #climate www.earth.com/news/antarct...

Song Thrush - this bird is newly-arrived in the garden today - perhaps coming over from the continent. Such markings - what a gorgeous bird. @bto-gbw.bsky.social #ukwildlife #birds 🦉

"... this new research shows the importance of exposing Farage’s foundational myth: namely, that Reform isn’t a grassroots rebellion; it’s a vehicle bankrolled by the financiers who crashed the economy in 2008 and the austerity-obsessed corporate vandals who have profited ever since."

🚨PSA🚨 Brassed Off is available to watch on the Channel 4 app. Nothing more festive than a film about Maggie Thatcher savaging mining communities. It is such a good film- empathy, humour and righteous fury. Pete Postlewhaithe's best performance and that is saying something.

Cushion Bracket, Phellinus pomaceus. On an ornamental plum tree in Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, today. #Fungi #FungiFriends

It is a day for spending with friends and family, so we make it impossible to get to them without a car.

Launch an investigation into GB News for its recent biased and one-sided President Trump interview, which was full of lies and misinformation. 38d.gs/xubx

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 480 sole occidente, Silvius et Fusca corvicula in arboris insident (As the sun sets, Silvius and Dusky the young crow perch in a tree). nolite bacas crataegi gustare, amiculi - amarae sapiunt (Don't try the hawthorn berries, little friends - they taste bitter)!

Today, ecologist Matias Hernandez and I found THIS! A gigantic desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) like a sunbeam in the sand. To see a specimen like this in full bloom is magic💫

I can't get over those cartoon eyes. Those delicate, translucent 'leaves' (cerata, as I've learned). Those supernatural, otherworldly vibes. That Pixar-cum-Ghibli creature appearance... And eyes drawn by Gary Larson. I can't.

Stinking Earthfan,Thelephora palmata. A fungus with the pungent scent of rotting garlic. Norfolk Brecks, October 2025. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Scarlet Elfcups (Sarcoscypha austriaca) to brighten a rather grey day. www.first-nature.com/fungi/sarcos... (Photos from February 2017.) #Fungi #FungiFriends

Slime mold, Arcyria obvelata. This cluster of sporangia is about 1.5cm wide. NWT, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Climate disasters cost the world more than $120bn (£95bn) in 2025, with the true toll is far higher as the deadliest events in poorer countries were largely uninsured and undercounted www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

2025 the first year in which more power was generated worldwide from renewable energy, including wind and solar, than from coal. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The café that started a climate movement over a cup of tea www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shameful! Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff

Possibly Humaria hemispherica #fungi on a hedge bank in my garden today.

Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better. @greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very" ... which is why Starmer and Trump don't like it and why it's important.

2025 summary of my local Striped Shieldbug population: adults seen 25 April-10 Nov, max of 86; nymphs seen 21 July-27 Oct, max 37. Numbers much reduced at Fishers Green, but several good populations now in Waltham Abbey, especially Abbey Gardens and Ninefields. #EssexWildlife #UKBugs

A Boxing Day romp of Otters on Vatersay. After a couple of lean years, their numbers seem to have recovered in 2025.

Four flowers from my mother-in-law's garden, this Boxing Day.

Why Britain has a deer problem - leaving damage that costs millions... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cladonia lichen with Polytrichum piliferum moss looking kinda like a giant cactus and palm trees. The lichen is approx 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte

"Human thinking is messy and full of errors, but it forces us to debate, to doubt, to test ideas against one another – and to recognise the limits of our own understanding." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israeli soldiers celebrate Christmas by shooting a machine gun randomly into homes in the West Bank. Even at Christmas they don't stop committing War Crimes.

A Christmas message from Zack Polanski leader of the Green Party (England/Wales) who recently spent time with people in the Calais camps, France ‘Christmas is a story of migration’ ❤️

A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts. 1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack. 2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit. 3) join.greenparty.org.uk Merry Xmas! www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Christmas Eve viewing.

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

A fungus I’ve wanted to see for a while - the Scarlet Caterpillarclub, Cordyceps militaris. Glowing orange amongst the moss in Sherwood Forest.

The metachromatic hymenocystidia of Strobilurus esculentus in brilliant cresyl blue are the only festive lights I need. Merry non-denominational, culturally ambiguous winter-themed end-of-year celebration period! Ho, ho, ho! #fungifriends #microscopy #mycology #mushroomsky #shroomscrolling

Happy Christmas! Looking back to a hot day in July 2025 when I was ferrying cans of water in a wheelbarrow from the water tank to my allotment plot. A male Purple Emperor butterfly settled on the allotment track next to the water tank, where water had been spilt. #Allotments #Butterflies

🎄 Celebrating Christmas Eve's #InsectAdvent order: #Strepsiptera, bizarre & brilliant parasites, and RES mascot since 1833. Their morphology & history mean they’re rarely seen. Many entomologists describe them as one of the strangest insect orders. 🔗 buff.ly/U7pmiwX

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites that are spread by fecal contamination

BREAKING: Allianz stop insuring Israel's biggest weapons company, Elbit Systems. This 🎉WIN after intense pressure from the movement. #BoycottBloodyInsurance continues to call for orgs to boycott Allianz as they continue to insure F-35 suppliers and other deadly companies.

Today's frog is the New Mexico spadefoot toad.

Still a few things in flower on the verges on yesterday's bike ride (22nd December 2025). Flowers included Yarrow, Hogweed, Common Ragwort, Field Scabious and this Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris). #WildFlowerHour

More Maroon Brittlestems, Psathyrella bipellis, on yesterday's bike ride to Old Buckenham. On the edge of a wood at Wattlefield, Norfolk. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Pavement Mushroom, Agaricus bitorquis. Found on my walk into Norwich city centre this morning. A nice pre-Christmas bonus. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Norwich ghosts.