This series of seminars are free for all. If you have an interest in animal welfare, it’s a must. I promise to be equal parts informative, entertaining and provocative.

Apart from blistering incompetence, there is one attribute common to all privatised services: the unfailing ability to deflect the blame onto someone else. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s... "You can sell your event as a unifying force, a tool for peace. Or you can allow it to become an advertising space for a regime that has (according to a United Nations commission) committed a genocide. But you can’t do both."

Wigan Reform candidate in HMO 'hypocrisy' row

If our governments refuse to isolate and shame Israel, then it is up to the citizenry to do it on its own. More, please. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing! This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England… bsky.app/profile/wain...

The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing... The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social) #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

Why is the UK prime minister hosting the president of a terrorist state? Herzog needs to be arrested, prosecuted and jailed - not entertained.

The UK’s biggest charlatan….

Last November Farage told Sky News: “I’ve just exchanged contracts on the house that I’ll be living there in – is that good enough?… *I’ve bought a house in Clacton* What more do you want me to do?” Oh, I dunno Nigel. Tell the truth? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NFG last night: Pale Eggar. Came to actinic light, VC5.

The angriest I've ever seen anyone was an older nurse who had seen multiple children die (before the vaccine was widely available) furious at anti vaxxers because "the sound of a child dying with whooping cough is the worst sound you can imagine and I don't have to imagine it"

Alpine Marmots, Grossglockner, Austria, June 2025.

Bt kind courtesy of @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social, I saw my first Striped Hawk Moth at the end of the last moth. Marvellous.

Israeli politicians are not welcome in the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sorry for the miserable post.

It’s 100 years since efforts to control bovine TB began & 50 since badgers got the blame. Review after review after review & still the #WarOnWildlife continues. We need a new approach - one which manages risk rather than one which seeks to eliminate the hazard. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@stuartreeves.bsky.social @jameslowenwild.bsky.social

Misleading: BBC website users reading this headline would worry that the UK's native woods were under threat. In fact the Spruce Bark Beetle feeds on different kinds of Spruce, as the name suggests. There are no native species of Spruce in the UK. Headline should read UK's spruce plantations.

Post a movie from the year you were born.

What happened to your bonfire of the regulations, Nigel? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Call to Activism - Joe Gallina “Holy shit. Lisa Kurdrow did an impression of every Republican and it’s absolutely perfect. This needs to go viral.”

Pearly Underwing, Olive-tree Pearl and Dark Sword-grass to light VC5. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Beavers are back 🦫 For the first time in over 400 years, wild beavers will return to the northwest Highlands. Today, the Scottish Government gave the green light for six beaver families to be reintroduced to Glen Affric and Abriarchan forest. 🧵1/2

Netanyahu aspires to emulate Genghis Khan. And succeeds: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Snares are inherently inhumane: full stop. Accordingly, there is a prohibition in Wales, Scotland and most of continental Europe. Why is the Westminster government still dragging its feet? How much louder do we have to shout?

📢 The UFAW & AWRN seminar series: Influencing for Impact – Translating #AnimalWelfare Research into Law & Policy, returns on 18 September. Dr Benjamin Lecorps and Dr Eugénie Duval will discuss: “Trials and Errors in Bridging Animal Welfare Science and Policy.” 🔗Sign up here ➡️ lnkd.in/eS8cK3PQ

Great work from an actual, genuine 'partnership' working on bird of prey conservation in the Peak District. Well done National Trust, Peak District National Park Authority, RSPB, Peak District Raptor Study Group 👏👏 #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/19/s...

Millions of 'Ghost' Pheasants Go Unregistered as Shooting Estates Flout Rules www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...

Join our team as an Education Officer! We’re on the lookout for a passionate and engaging individual to extend our educational outreach work, already underway, into communities in Scotland and northern England. Your mission will be to inspire young minds & strengthen their connection with nature.

Dark Sword Grass and Bordered Straw (both NFG) came to actinic light 16 August, VC5; south Somerset. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth

What is it about ‘country folk’?Challenge their behaviour and they seek to deflect the blame onto ‘them townies’. This is typical from Marnie Lovejoy, Deputy Director of Conservation at BASC on BBC R4 Farming Today and quoted by @raptorpersuk.bsky.social

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

You can follow Democrat Josh Turek here @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social and here is his actblue page for those in a position to support him

The grouse shooting industry's grotesque distortion of reality laid bare on Rod Liddle's radio show. And as for Andrew Gilruth: What a deeply unpleasant man. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/12/t...

Great work Netanyahu 👏👏👏 “ISRAELI NOT WELCOME” 📍Milano, Italy

Identifying terrorists the IDF way: women, men, children, doctors, nurses, journalists, drivers, paramedics, hospital patients, the less able, etc, etc. In fact, anyone with a pulse. How else can you maintain a war with your neighbours for 80 years?

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem

Fron The Guardian, 10 August: Israelis are feeling ‘uncomfortable’ in Greece. Try dying of starvation or being shot while try to feed your family. That’s ‘uncomfortable’.

Have they tried the lingerie section

@stuartreeves.bsky.social Wowser!

Glad to have signed this deeply thought-through letter. It often feels there’s little we can do, yet we can’t let what we witness on our screens & in print numb or paralyse us. Until the civilians of Gaza are safe & given adequate food, water, medical aid & relief. TY @horatioclare.bsky.social

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

One of two Palpitia vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl that came to light, VC5, 6 August. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth