Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

Q: What do Barganders, Puets and Squalders all have in common? A: all species known to Sir Thos Browne in mid-17th century Norfolk. * Bargander - shelduck. * Puet - black-headed gull. * Squalder - a sort of cnidarian.

Are there any other Lepidopterists out there who get excited when they see a social media post in their timeline from the Green Party Deputy Leader Mothin Ali?

This month I'm sharing my Botanical Advent Calendar - a plant a day til Xmas, which have helped make my 2025 an amazing year botanically! As I'm a day late kicking off, here are two species of samphire at Aberlady Bay - Yellow Glasswort and Purple Glasswort. Guess which is which! #wildflowerhour

The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted. RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wed's trip to SW Shrops turned up a big surprise - tiny larvae of the Land Caddis, Enoicyla pusilla. Britain's only terrestrial caddisfly, it is confined entirely to the Wyre Forest area. This discovery is a long way west of that & v. unexpected. So small (<2mm) we nearly missed them. Amazing.

So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin. Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten? It is Profumo on stilts

Quick check on the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles today, in 60 mph winds. Extremely proud that this important ancient site is now fully community owned. #Orkney 🧪🏺💀

Winter gives no fucks

🦋 🧬 Feature review @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social: "Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social : reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe", with @erebiologa.bsky.social and @entomoprofessor.bsky.social from @universidadoviedo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Exactly the same as the new Met Office website in the UK. #changeitback www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nathan Gill's social media bio... They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope. He was the head of Reform in Wales. How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?

It’s all a big joke for Farage

For sale - £20 inc P&P Rohan Icelander fleece-lined trousers. Dark blue. In very good condition. Medium = W32 and L32. Not worn since I moved to Westray as I only wear waterproof trousers here. So these are surplus to requirements so someone else may as well get some use out of them. #BirdingGear

They made nature out to be an enemy of housing, with the rivers still open sewers and fly tipping an epidemic. All the while ruminating daily on migrants.

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 👇

Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread. #Ornithology #UKBirding raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...

I don’t remember the disgusting human dustbin apologising for this, amongst many lies about the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…

The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too go.nature.com/3JVLhGk

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’

“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com

Two highlights at Pease Bay yesterday both patch firsts for me: Cuckoo Ray - sadly dead - but not commonly reported at the shore otherwise as it is a deeper water species. Little Egret rockpooling with me 😁

Why is Farage openly siding with a foreign power against Britain? Surely this is TREASON.

Who is Michael Prescott - the so called ex independent advisor to the BBC? Former political editor of the Sunday Times, Boris Johnson appointee and currently works for Hanover Communications. Funny there is NOTHING online about Prescott and/or Hanover’s clients. Funny that - a large rat is smelt.

Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2

An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application. www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...

Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?" Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"

'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .

If you can , please help fund their legal battle at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todri...

'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.

No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days. The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.

Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES

Overheard conversation as a very high tide covered the saltmarsh this morning... 'Wow - look at that!' 'I've never seen the water so high!' 'No! And yet there's still a hosepipe ban. It's just ridiculous!' 🤦🏻

The millionth example of why UK governing bodies and legislators at all levels need to get off of X and the UK Government needs to seriously consider how to deal with the threat Musk and his companies pose to British democracy.

Good to see a proper sentence for this criminal. If only our judiciary would do the same!

#RachelReeves Yes Prits! Apart from cocking up Covid, Implementing Brexit, Partying whilst people died, Cutting local Govt funding by 40%, Running down public services And increasing levels of poverty. We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!

Gorgeous, and a first for me, Spiny Puffball (Lycoperdon echinatum) at Hopetoun House foray with ELFE. Uncommon in Br & Ire. It has a short stipe & spines in groups of three converging at tips. Spines wear off and leave a net-like pattern on skin @britmycolsoc.org.uk @edinburghnats.bsky.social

Inevitably, Kemi Badenoch has now sided with Donald Trump’s team against the BBC. Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.

WALL OF THORNS: On the west coast of Scotland, facing out across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran, stands the only functioning salt-making tower in the world. @countrylifemag.bsky.social

Tucked into a clough, an original stone pinfold. Built next to a running water source, a place to keep stray farm animals until their owners were notified. Dating from around the 18c. I love our history, hidden in plain sight. #Slaithwaite

A Reform UK Government would have him deported, and Reform UK gave that racist ghoul Lucy Connolly a hero's welcome and standing at its annual conference recently.

Have you ever wondered what the Jarrow Slake looked like before it was filled in ? Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵