Arctic-bound waders, cross-country Long-tailed Skuas and Fair Isle Bluethroats - find out about that and more in our latest migration blog #ukbirding www.bto.org/our-work/new... Bluethroat, by Edmund Fellowes / BTO

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Carol Vorderman brands Reform candidate 'little coward' in a letter delivered by HOPE not hate, to 6,000 women in Makerfield. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

A good reminder that even vast wealth can't buy good taste. #WhiteTrashWH

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

The official fund for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is empty and the organisation is stuck in a legal and political limbo that has held up projects to rebuild Gaza. Member states pledged $7bn for the board’s Gaza “relief package”, and Trump promised a further $10bn in US fundin... TAT: [Corruption]

ah the Peace President

Shameful. We must stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewppqgr81no

The work to improve the space around the King’s Theatre is now complete. We’ve worked with the King’s Theatre to create step free access through the main entrance as part of their ongoing refurbishment plan. We’ve also increased pavement space to make it easier for pedestrians to get around.

We’ve completed major maintenance work on Balgreen Road and Saughton Crescent to make it easier for everyone to get around. The work included 13,500 square meters of road resurfacing and 100 square meters of pavement resurfacing. A big thanks to the residents for their patience.

Our new Reform council leader has started wanging on about asylum seekers. Mate, you're in charge of the bins.

The perpetual tone of “Phew! What a scorcher!” should have shifted to “oh shit, this is what we were told” years ago.

Whereas John Major has become more statesmanlike and interesting after leaving office, Blair is the opposite. I don’t buy the line that he was a Tory in office, but he’s certainly one now if not Reform adjacent in some respects…😕

How do you turn people off the green transition and deliver them to the far right? Through #ClimateAuthoritarianism. The government seeks to coerce, not to persuade. And it's turning a planning system based on consent into one based on decree. This week's column.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Politicians discussing global warming,” street art in Berlin by Isaac Cordal.

⚠️ And to think that Reform uK want to create a UK version of ICE... This kind of politics and intimidation has no place on our streets.

#memories 😊

Campaign win! Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to “double the extent of duchy-managed Atlantic rainforest on Dartmoor by the early 2040s” This means Black-a-Tor Copse, as well as Wistman’s Wood! A first step towards doubling rainforests across Dartmoor’s commons www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Farage doesn’t care. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia… Reform can go for it. It didn’t make any difference in America. Trump boasted about his own toxicity and won. Farage is hoping he can do the same here. Just disgraceful that he stands a chance. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"The end of the war is near" Cartoon: Marian Kamensky (Austria) #Iran

We are hearing reports of the first baby bats (known as pups) being born. Bats only have one baby a year, occasionally twins, and the pup is completely reliant on it's mum milk for the first 4-5 weeks before they begin to fly and start catching insects themselves www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/a...

🚨 NEW: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon previously claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want” He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am”

📣 Nature Champions News! 📣 @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social is the #NatureChampion for the Capercaillie! Emma will be working with @rspbscotland.bsky.social to champion these rare birds in the Scottish Parliament. Find out more: www.scotlink.org/species/cape... 📸 CCBY4.0 ScotParl

A day off the isle for Papay's away match against Holm. Back in the pub... "Dave, we've had this weird bird around the green..." gives description "Aaagh, that sounds like a Bee Eater, when did you last see it?" "About 20 minutes ago" "I'll be back!" 15 minutes later... #BirdingOrkney

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

New research by the University of Leeds and the RSPB reveals that moorland burning exposes millions to unsafe air pollution. Find out more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Read this and be very afraid. And this is just my area. Stop moaning about Labour and mobilise, you factionalist twats. These people are the real enemy. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/politic...

And another below... bsky.app/profile/hope...

Petition to the Leader of #Birmingham City Council: "Request for the Removal of Divisive Flags from public lamp posts in Birmingham, UK" Close to 50,000 have already signed!

A pair of Razorbills high on a cliff today out on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve. They looked genuinely delighted by the arrival of their egg. #Birds 🪶🦉 #Nature #Photography #Nikon @seabirdcentre.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

NEW: Net migration has fallen to 171,000 in 2025- lowest level since 2021 and covid pandemic. Down from 944,000 peak in 2022-23. Use of asylum hotels down by a third since peak.

This is good. I've also listened to Part 2 and will comment more at some point. My one big comment is it is *about Rowling*; it is not about 'the trans debate' even though that is (regularly) touched on. But because it's touched on, it's only partly explored. Interesting passing comments had me...

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

Horse, meet stable door.

1/ The latest Winter Gull Survey revealed that over the two decades since the last count, the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has decreased from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million! 📉 #Ornithology #Seabirds 📖 Read the report www.bto.org/WinGSReport#Ornithology#Seabirds

Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 say Trump's slush fund violates the Constitution's rules around aiding insurrectionists.

Romance, bromance and the realities of geo-politics. My take on Vladimir Putin's visit to China.

Why does this keep happening in the Reform party? And if this is what happens in a high-profile by-election, just imagine who might slip through the net at the next general election ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

“Farage is happy to talk about almost anything but Brexit. And where his money comes from and how it’s spent. The man who can’t be bought but used to do Cameos at £80 a pop for Hugh Janus can’t even admit the Boriswave was a direct result of Brexit.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in BEYOND THE ROCKS, the only time they were paired onscreen. Thought lost for years, a print showed up in the Netherlands.

The Trump theft is coming thick and fast now. Trying to take as much as possible before the midterms potentially put some checks back in play.

There was a coherent argument made here that you start it in the north Wouldn’t have had to tunnel through the chilterns and disguise air vents as farms or whatever it was they did

Reform's dodgy Makerfield candidate. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

in 2010 ministers said phase 1 of High-Speed 2 (from Old Oak Common to Birmingham) would be finished by 2026 now the completion date has been pushed back to between 2036 and 2039 with the final leg to Euston not set to be finished until as late as 2043 price tag up from £80bn to £103bn

A Reform UK councillor has resigned 10 days after the local elections because her "business commitments have expanded rapidly". So utterly unserious. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clypzeyjzpdo

How in Satan's ballbag do you get your account permanently suspended from X these days? Reform's candicate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, is not off to a great start...

I finally figured it out. Trump took a challenge: Can you commit one impeachable offense every day and get away with it? Any money raised does not go to charity.

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.