🚨Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker. A profile of Jonathan Gullis. "You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Over £500,000 of public money spent on a doomed attempt to "reintroduce" European hen harriers to the UK. It seems Natural England will do anything to avoid confronting the landowners, hunters, farmers and game keepers who persecute these birds. They also go to great lengths to avoid transparency.

I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?

Our government tried to let racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans rampage on Birmingham's streets. They smeared those opposed to this as being driven by hatred of Jewish people. Now listen to what the West Midlands Chief Constable told MPs. What a scandal.

There's no line Trump and Hegseth won't cross to ensure this happens. Would they commit Perjury? Yes. Would they destroy evidence? Yes. Would they engage in backroom threats? Yes. Would they hide the existence of certain military operations? Yes. Would they let scapegoats go down for them? Yes.

Lololololol This is exactly like Brexit. Fuckwits appeal to dim fuckwits with baseless claims and “speaking their language”. Once getting what they want they realise they’re extremely out of their depth, stupid and don’t understand shit. Making everything considerably worse. We deserved Durham

The current blizzard of coverage on Rachel Reeves vs. the leeway granted to Boris Johnson.

UK transport faces growing risks from storms, flooding & extreme heat. New Transport Hazard Summaries from Met Office & Department for Transport help operators build resilience. Learn more 👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Bill Gates Epstein Files latest From the new Private Eye, out now.

While Russian asset Steve Witkoff is helping Putin, not Zelensky, with Trump's money-grabbing peace deal, let's not forget about Benny Johnson He received millions of $$ in what the DOJ said was a Russian gov't propaganda op 1 yr later, granted special access at highest levels of the Trump regime

youtu.be/X8yiutAAodo Irish birders may recognise folk. Also me @pilning.bsky.social Billy Low and my brother Ian. Serious business! @helsinkibirder.bsky.social

My mind moth trap caught: Frodsham Apron, Gauging Eyebrow, Splendid Phlegm, Smeared Arrow, Alder Dross, Brindled Cleat, Tethered Pinion, Grey Gusset, Triple-spotted Snifter, Gentle Ribbing #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #UKwildlife

Follow the roubles…..

And theres no thanks From the loading bay ranks #fallfriday youtu.be/N8bjJf3Q5mE

WHY LET KIDS GO HUNGRY. ENERGY BILLS SOAR, SCHOOLS CRUMBLE, YOUTH CLUBS SHUT DOWN, RENTS SKYROCKET AND WAGES FALL, WHEN YOU COULD JUST TAX BILLIONAIRES? — anonymous billboard, Armley, Leeds.

Introduce yourself with 5 acts you’ve seen Smiths Slim Gaillard Discharge Clash Go Betweens

Why did @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Sarah Davidson call their new publication The Nerve? They tell @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com here: prospectmagazine.sub...

Why this matters: Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru: "Wales is Reform’s next big target… if they [win the Senedd next May] it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash." (quote from @thenerve.news) Reform run Kent has already disappeared £40 million. Wales would be much more.

Classic. Hands up who had Oxford bags and a starry tank top back in the day. Take a look at this video, 'where have all the boot boys gone'

Never in its history has the United States been led by someone whose choices produced such a convergence of catastrophe: mass death, institutional collapse, and a documented decline in global democracy occurring at the same time. (free article) theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-said...

Read Ukranian political scientist Anton Shekhovstov’s opinions on current Russian influence and subscribe: www.thenerve.news/p/anton-shek...

“The state needs to be prepared...this is no longer a cold war - it’s an actual war that is being waged against Europe, against democracy.”

Genetic confirmation of an “uncommon mourningthroat” (Geothlypis philadelphia  ×  G. trichas): A rare but persistent hybrid warbler | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

I’m so jealous. Must be nice having a functional high court.

NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference. Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.

Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics. I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem. Sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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When is a traitor not a traitor? (Just asking questions.) youtu.be/CHRkLeVGmV4?...

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Of course the Kremlin preferred “Trump’s original proposal.” They wrote it.

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

Laura Kuenssberg has just managed to host an hour long political programme, without a single mention of one of the main parties being implicated in a Russian bribery scandal How is that even fucking possible? #bbclaurak #bbcbreakfast

I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since. Hope you enjoy it too! youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...

Ooh look, a short film about that nice Mr. Gill, Farage’s man in Wales. #Reform #Russia #FollowTheMoney www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

As Ukraine marks Holodomor Remembrance Day, mourning millions of victims of Stalin's genocidal famine, it feels as though the Trump administration is happy to give Putin another chance to finish off what Stalin started. Europe should do everything in its power to help Ukraine & defeat Russia.

Ireland’s first stranded #narwhal washes up on Donegal beach www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The Conservatives & Johnson were compromised by Russian money & influence over years. Reform obviously are. Is Labour too? Could that be why Starmer won’t investigate? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...

12 arrests so far after savage, sociopathic behaviour filmed by @huntsabs.org.uk in Cumbria. Illegal hunting has recently been announced as a UK wildlife crime priority (welcome news, long overdue). If arrests turn into charges, these will be interesting test cases. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Full stop, Trump is a spy. He needs to be removed from office, arrested and sent to prison for the rest of his life.

NEW: Important thread from @thenerve.news. See key WhatsApp evidence & videos from Nathan Gill hearing now sentenced to 10 & half years in prison 👇

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

#Reform traitors

Sigh. Putin continues to try and destabilize UK after Brexit, aligning with popularist Reform politicians. In other totally unrelated news, Aaron Banks wife is Russian www.spectator.co.uk/article/x-mi...

The media recently has been very keen to tell us all how Nigel Farage and Reform are primed to form the next govt in The UK Let's hope they're as vociferous in letting the world know about the Nathan Gill Russia bribery story, and how tainted this party is It may well run much deeper...