A busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Guterres is right. Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points. Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴‘Mistrust is Populism’s Weapon’: Lord Puttnam on the Death of Public Trust – and How to Resurrect It The former Labour peer warns that Britain’s democratic crisis is rooted in a collapse of trust – and in the stories politicians tell to exploit it www.bylinesupplement.com/p/mistrust-i...

More on Mamdami. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two retired men I know can't spend their pensions fast enough as their pots keep going up in value. But they'll still moan about Rachel Reeves and potential tax rises/new taxes on them while pondering voting Reform next time. A Mail reader and a Telegraph reader.

Kingfisher on the river Stour. By a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.

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. 🧵

Nigel Farage finally met a force he couldn’t shout down - the bond market. You can’t outdrink a spreadsheet, and you can’t gaslight a Bloomberg terminal. Round one: he lost.

For millions of Americans, today will bring the chance to be heard. If there's an election where you live, then you get to send a message on the policies and leadership you believe in - and begin changing the trajectory of this country.

Sorry about the wobbles. 4x slomo Kingfisher on the river Stour. By a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

I wonder if his "friend" was American? Yesterday they had 3 mass shootings, 11 injured 1 dead. The day before 2 mass shootings 9 injured. massshootingtracker.site/data/?year=2...

white Brits are famously never charged with serious crimes /s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We interrupt this butterfly broadcast, for an orchid post... Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.

I had to read this several times to believe it - in 34 states, child marriage still legal; in 4 states, with NO minimum age- provided one parent and a judge consent. Usually girls. Often, for pseudo religious reasons, including to avoid an abortion after rape 😡😡😡. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

So close. #Kingfisher on the river Stour. A busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

We live on a planet on the brink of disaster This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos By Brian McHugh

If you go down in the woods today… Fly agaric mushroom, beech leaves, and other fungi. RSPB Blean Woods @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

We're trying to make legal history: we are asking the High Court to find for the first time ever that a defamation claim brought against @danneidle.bsky.social is a SLAPP under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. goodlaw.social/raiz

White racist terrorist given kid gloves treatment by media. Quelle surprise.

Authoritarianism comes fast, Governor J. B. Pritzker told @markleibovich.bsky.social. “And if you’re not willing to stand up and push back while it’s happening in the early days,” Pritzker added, “it gets a lot harder later.”

We've had enough of numerous channels and wider media, pussy footing around and giving oxygen to this vile stuff and thereby further legitimising the bile. At last from Matt, an excellent piece, calling it out and deftly exposing the deceits that we've been fed.

This is how feudalism ran centuries ago. Privately funded armies. It’s not democracy.

Corruption in plain sight

Everything about his body language whenever a question is asked about the Russian bribes speaks of panic. Farage is vulnerable on this.

Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."

#Kingfisher , grey heron & grey wagtail on the river Stour. A busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY. If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people. Listen to his inspiring words from primary night.

Very interesting analysis of pro-Reform Facebook activity around the Caerphilly by-election by Nation.Cymru As the article says, "bots can't vote", but they can try to shape the talking points of local voters nation.cymru/opinion/refo...

A reminder that this is the same Rishi Sunak who when he was Prime Minister raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years

And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.

Real British values

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

That's racism. Plain and simple. No other word for it. It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.

“The truth is that Reform UK – who have vowed to use every lever to block new wind, solar and battery projects – and now the Conservative Party, are waging a war against jobs by standing against climate progress.” 🎯 https://bit.ly/42Uza2C

Grey wagtail. From a busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. River Stour. #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

Our local #fox in Canterbury

The world is not moving quickly enough to achieve global goals to reduce methane emissions by the end of the decade, a UN report found.

Slow-motion (4x) Kingfisher. A busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. Just 6m away, so I had to zoom back, no camouflage. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The soy from freshly deforested Brazilian land is used in Europe to feed livestock - to produce meat, dairy, eggs and farmed fish. By shifting to plant-based or plant-rich diets we can have a direct beneficial impact on this and other planetary harms.

What beggars belief is that the perpetrator of this act of national self-harm sees himself as our next prime minister.

Brexiter Andrew Rossindell complains about the consequences of his own actions, gets owned by Hilary Benn, and then publishes the exchange on his own Youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw4f...

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Forget Big Tech — about one-third of real global wealth is tied up in ownership of the ground beneath our feet on.ft.com/4nTYiyO