On this day in 1897 Nye Bevan, the founder of our NHS, was born in South Wales. Today let's remind ourselves of the struggle to create our NHS and reinvigorate our determination to defend it 👏

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 214 32°C is in or around the upper limit of temperatures at which #bumblebees will tend to forage - a temperature that many species in the Northern Hemisphere will experience more and more as #climate breakdown really kicks in. #bees #nature #science

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Four days apart. Genuinely staggering how they keep doing this

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.  🧵1/3

Found an unexpected house guest this winter? 🦋🏠 Five butterfly species spend the winter as adults in the UK: the Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Peacock and Red Admiral. See our advice for what to do if you find an overwintering butterfly 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

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The most insightful discussion I seen on the Loeb and his insertion into the 3I/Atlas apparition: tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

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So much for Reeves claim that she'd be Britain's "first green chancellor". This, together with her support of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and the third runway at Heathrow, just confirms she's a liar, a fraud and an utter hypocrite who's not fit for office. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New report shows people don’t want new homes to be built at nature’s expense www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

"Housing secretary Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down an amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction" This dire government continue its assault on British nature www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lesser evil my derriere They haven’t helped people, the environment or nature. Just themselves, their donors and their corporate buddies

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The fascists are on the horizon and this lot are plotting & secretly briefing over who gets to rearrange the deckchairs

Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

These guys live in a Pemberley of the mind, where protocol, parlour games & etiquette are of the utmost import. If Mr Darcy came in roaring about how he'd executed the cook for spoiling the lark soup, that would be a far lesser crime than having his shirt untucked & using the wrong spoon at dinner

Oh, it's the SQUABBLING that's the final straw with Sir Keir, not, for example: - Plunging pensioners into poverty - Keeping children in destitution - Actively supporting genocide - Mainlining reactionary rhetoric It's the fact that your boys are shanking each other with toothbrushes in public

We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.

NOTE: Lords amendment 130 is now amendment 40 in the Commons. It is vital this amendment is passed. If you have already contacted your MP, please do let them know of the change of name. If you haven't, please use our easy to use webpage to contact them today act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...

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📢 Rare parasitic wasp found in #Carlisle 😮 Check out this ichneumon wasp that was found by one of our volunteers, Jane Orgee, in an oak tree at our Gosling Sike site. 👀 #Cumbria #LakeDistrict (1/3)

As it stands, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will undermine species protection. Write to your MP today, it takes less than 2 minutes act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp... Thank you to everyone who has already spoken up for #bats 🦇. Please share widely

📣 MPs vote TOMORROW on Amendment 130. The Planning & Infrastructure Bill could be disastrous for wildlife without key protections. Nature needs your voice! Amendment 130 is a vital fix. 🗳️ MPs must back it & they vote tomorrow. 📨 Please email your MP today 👉 action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301

Is it “tell the racists how very right they are” this week, and “wring your hands over them“ next, or the other way round? I get so confusicated

This man won one of the largest majorities in UK electoral history, is a white guy who was a prosecutor and prior to the election was beloved by basically all sections of the press. The fact he's been unable to use any of this to achieve anything is incredible.

What's up indeed...?

Wasn't expecting The Times to turn on Kate Middleton like this

Wes Streeting the guy everyone hates from left to right with a 528 majority

What a coincidence!

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/

Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

FFS!

A Firecrest this morning at Shapwick Car Park

I think whoever replaces Starmer will just be more of the same, from the same ‘sensible’ sect of the party, no bold ideas/solutions, so not much will change. These are desperate times with Reform on the march and the current Labour leadership is not rising to the challenge, at all. Gormless bunch.

So rather than replace the hugely unpopular Starmer - plus the equally tainted Reeves, Streeting, Cooper & Lammy - the 'adults in the room' would rather alienate the electorate still further & pretty much guarantee a Reform government. Absolutely unforgivable. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's weird watching old establishment figures do a better job of standing up to the right-wingers who are destroying the world than the current government. Heseltine, Patten, etc. I mean, great, but it does show how pathetic the current government is. They just bend to Farage and Trump.

Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report. Learn more: https://scim.ag/43kl3np

The BBC should tell him to fuck off. And then proceed to immediately broadcast a compilation of every lie, every smear, every moment of incoherent gibberish the mendacious, bullying twat has ever uttered. And don't forget his deranged social media posts too... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So multiple resignations result from bellyaching by a mendacious, fascist twat whose deluded social media posts read like a deranged cheese dream. Yet Newsnight's editing of Corbyn's hat drew a mere shrug of indifference. Leftwing bias at the BBC, my arse! www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Since 2015, planning permission has been granted for over a million homes that developers failed to build as it's more profitable to hoard land. Labour, once again, fail to address the real issue due to coziness with big business that's tantamount to corruption. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Camouflage level: expert