The few of you that were following my attempt to see 200+ species of bird in the South-East this year may be pleased to know that there's an account of this odyssey, illustrated with my pix, in the new Bird Watching magazine - available in WH Smith, bigger supermarkets, etc ...

Villagers say Jabo, which was one of the cities Trump ordered a strike on in Nigeria, is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

The few of you that were following my attempt to see 200+ species of bird in the South-East this year may be pleased to know that there's an account of this odyssey, illustrated with my pix, in the new Bird Watching magazine - available in WH Smith, bigger supermarkets, etc ...

I think it’s extraordinary that generals were threatening coups and Royal Marines were shooting effigies of a prospective UK Lab PM, and yet there were absolutely no consequences for anyone

I wish I was wrong. My parents are pensioners, my daughter has to grow up and live here. I’ll live here all my life, as will Mrs R. I wish I was wrong, I wish I was hysterical and our leaders were better than this, less self-indulgent, less focused on what they want at our expense. But they are not.

You might think the US president being a paedophile sex beast whose victims were murdered by their pimps, who were his friends, would be an issue.

No. 5 in our Top 10 highlights of wildlife seen on our 2025 tours - this nursery pod of Pilot Whales in Mousa Sound. Some of the calves were tiny and looked just a few weeks - if not days - old. Footage by @hughharrop.bsky.social #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

In my wildest dreams, I like to pretend that The Roches had actually heard of me ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jd7...

TL:DR - Get ready for PM Nigel Farage because if it comes to a choice between that and any kind of government involving the Green Party, then that is not even a choice to the people who have always been holding all of the microphones.

In my wildest dreams, I like to pretend that The Roches had actually heard of me ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jd7...

A Dallas church has swapped the traditional stable for chain-link and barbed wire, forcing a raw look at what a modern-day Nativity really looks like.

Apparently this is ‘Brussly’, the tutelary spirit/personification of Brussels Sprouts

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Imagine the Reform Nativity.. Violent protesters outside the inn. Mary would've been deported. The gifts would've been siezed as a bribe and myrrh rebranded as 'british'. The angels would've been dismissed as woke nonsense. And there certainly wouldn't have been any fucking wise men.

A pro migration message? During CHRISTmas? The holiday about a dude whose parents sought sanctuary to have their Palestinian baby? Hardly appropriate. 🙄

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄

Let's keep everyone company this year. I'll be around on christmas day with #joinin whether you need fun or a bit of support or a rant. No-one should feel alone on christmas day.

Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I know #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is fun and raises money for charity but it also gets me emotional. Like, it's so important for us to be with our loved ones that we will sleep on kitchen floors and also those bonds are strong enough for us to say "oh you're ok with the broken camp bed, yes?" ♥️

Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, epic scale Snow Drawings - Briancon, France, 2014 #womensart

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Everyone’s grievance is right on Festivus, no matter what side of the line you fall on.

“I could care less“ means the opposite of what you think. What you mean is you *couldn’t* care less, ie you care so little that it’s impossible for your concern to be any smaller

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

Grimly amusing here: a bullshit PR campaign supposedly created because an MP was murdered by a Nazi, that was instead used to stoke terror of ordinary punters correctly calling right wing Labour MPs Tories and bullshit artists, now being sanctioned by America’s white supremacist crackpot rulers.

I called up Chicago show taper Aadam Jacobs about @archive.org preserving his immense collection of live recordings with the @ajc-project.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Always the most daunting part of recording ...

Judge throws out anti-semitism case against Reginald D Hunter

Always the most daunting part of recording ...

Cultural enshittification continues in real life as well as online as developers ruin London's creative lives and avoid building real social housing. The MOTH CLUB is an amazing venue for performers and audience alike – we can't let another iconic space be wiped out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5w...

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

I've despised the Tories with every fibre of my being since the moment I was born. But this is the worst govt of my lifetime.

Well, it’d be very Britain for this to be the country where she gets imprisoned for terrorism, and not anywhere else.

Good news lads, we’re on the cusp of a new paradigm in sensible regulation and valuing human creativity, and all it’s going to take is uh an almighty financial crash www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cultural enshittification continues in real life as well as online as developers ruin London's creative lives and avoid building real social housing. The MOTH CLUB is an amazing venue for performers and audience alike – we can't let another iconic space be wiped out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5w...

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty” - Jessica Mitford

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Had a listen to ESS from the ‘96 show and it sounds fantastic so I’m in. Both concerts downloaded to be burned to good old fashioned cd and played tomorrow.

A well-recorded, downloadable, full set of Moonshake live at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, in August 1996 has emerged. You might like to listen to it. Also on the bill were Ultra Bide, New Kingdom and Run On: archive.org/details/ajc0...

Met police agree to pay £7,500 to woman arrested over Gaza protest placard Exclusive: Force to pay damages to Aisha Jung, who was put into a police van and held until 4am www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yes, this was always the plan; all the po-faced politicians finger-wagging you about the two-state solution fully understood it was bullshit, and that the actual goal was “get rid of the Palestinians by any means necessary”.

Cheerful seasonal scene: Saint Nicholas discreetly tosses gold through window to save three girls from prostitution. From the predella of the Pisa Altarpiece by Masaccio, who was born OTD in 1401.

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

Plenty of gems coming out in the Aadam Jacobs collection

Director of the Free Speech Union, a widely promoted wingnut PR campaign. This is just how Britain is, I’m afraid: it is like this for the benefit of people like this absurd, malicious little twunt.