Yet another area where the Labour government are currently just cutting their own legs off. Still time to course correct before they crash and burn themselves and the country.

‘A silent majority’: Politicians strongly underestimate support for green policies, study reveals - From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus Research by Lisa-Maria Tanase et al Story by me #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I disagree it’s meaningless. It means that so much of business behaviour is based on emotion, nostalgia, rather than any cold logic or hard information, rather than any kind of strategic analysis.

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

I was once nearly under this sort of winter cliff collapse. Bizarrely it was a rare case of being saved by not wearing a hard hat. I’d left my hard hat down the beach by mistake after being distracted by a fox. A small lump hit my bare head, so I walked back to my bag. Then the cliff slumped.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

The world didn’t realise in 2016 that when the Access Hollywood tape was released and we heard Trump saying you could do whatever you wanted, he wasn’t just talking about women, he was talking about the world. The man is molesting an entire planet.

There are only two ways to view Farage’s comments here. Either he’s an idiot, so can’t be trusted to lead our country, or he knows what he’s saying is entirely untrue, in which case he can’t be trusted to lead our country.

Dear British farmers - Nigel will screw you and your industry, and he’ll screw you hard, just as he did the British fishing industry. Don’t make that mistake.

This was the plot of a South Park episode about twenty years ago and culminated in Stan’s dad trying to turn himself into a dolphin.

Also interesting that Farage is against his voters here.

These figures need to be quoted every time the Countryside Alliance start claiming how important hunting is.

Is Nigel suggesting deporting himself? “Farage said in a letter to Mahmood: "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK,"” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So Trump has had a lovely chat with Putin and now he’s going to meet Zelensky in front of a room full of journalists? What could possibly go wrong?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Do you have to be born with no sense of shame, to behave this way? The Tories give the guy British citizenship, spend years lobbying for his release, and are now condemning Labour for celebrating his release, calling for citizenship to be revoked. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the decades to come, we’ll regret not seeing this for the parable it was.

If young Brigitte Bardot was breaking through today, Saturday Night Live would do a sketch making fun of her teeth.

“This theme led to another of the year’s motifs: the whining self-pity of powerful men” Never mind 2025, that will be the defining feature of this century, and very possibly fatal.

It’s a moronic question. Of course Labour, or indeed any government, prioritises urban issues. 85% of the population are urban. But banning the fraud of ‘trail hunting’ isn’t ‘prioritising urban populations’, it’s correcting a mistake. And only happening because the perpetrators can’t be trusted.

It goes without saying that I adore The Muppets Christmas Carol… But one thing always bothers me. At the end, everyone is there, everyone, even random background people. Except Clara. Nephew Fred is there, but his wife is entirely absent. It’s very strange.

It goes without saying that I adore The Muppets Christmas Carol… But one thing always bothers me. At the end, everyone is there, everyone, even random background people. Except Clara. Nephew Fred is there, but his wife is entirely absent. It’s very strange.

Also, lest we forget, Jesus was the son of economic migrants.

Song thrush giving it some welly and cowslips in flower. What month is it again?

Old school eugenics in a modern setting,

Considering they claim to be following these pre-laid trails, they spend an awful lot of time trespassing on other land. Bonner and the CA can get stuffed, they’ve been trying away with this for twenty years. Good for Labour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Christmas Eurypterid just got mentioned on BBC 6 Music by Radcliffe and Maconie! That’s the best Christmas present ever!

“Trump said he was honoured and surprised at the change he insisted on” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t know how Americans get up in the morning. Every day their president finds new depths, new ways to demonstrate he is a pathetic, thin skinned, venal, childish, cowardly, embarrassing bully.

Been great to have this wintering blackcap hanging around. Interestingly he’s really addicted to pyracantha berries, and has fattened up on them.

Weirdly it took me ages to see the forks, which I assume is what you’re supposed to see in the first place.

Ministers ‘break word’ on protecting nature after weakening biodiversity planning rule

Priceless

In a strong field, Donald Trump once again marks himself out as the worst human being alive.

Rob Reiner was responsible for at least three films - This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride - that would be contenders for my all-time favourites list. And to be honest I really enjoy A Few Good Men too. Absolutely gutting.

I’m far more of a Christian than Robinson/Yaxley-Lennon, and I’m an atheist. He is something that begins with a ‘C’ but it’s not ‘Christian’.

I hadn’t really thought of this angle before. MPs and journalists that are active on Twitter/X are getting a completely skewed view of what the public really think. 30% of their constituents become 100% of their audience. That would explain a lot.

They wanted them thrown out into poverty. Instead, in part thanks to something the Mail campaigned for, they are leaving of their own accord because they can do better elsewhere. It is indeed a damning indictment of our self-inflicted decline.

There has been a strong reaction to the antisemitism allegations levelled at Nigel Farage - except from those you might have expected to condemn it most loudly. My piece for @jewishnews.bsky.social on a strange silence www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...

An excellent thread highlighting the myth of a culture war, and the way sections of the media manipulate data to mislead.

The BBC have made a policy of appeasing the worst of our society, the people who hate them and want them gone. They think this will save them. Instead it lifts and empowers those evil siren voices, speeding their own demise. And taking the country down with them.

This is insidious. The headline starts with blaming wildlife. The actual article makes it clear that is, at best, 25% of the overspend. And even that is disputed. So an accurate headline would highlight incompetence and poor planning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice piece, quotes one of my team @yorkswildlife.bsky.social (Although if I’m being picky his name is Jon Traill with a double ‘ell’)

I realise I have been appallingly negligent on displaying the Christmas Eurypterid this year. You may well be worried about the implications for the rising of the sun. He’s actually been up for about a week, so all is good.

Northern Ireland continues show off just how broken UK counter-terrorism law has become...

Not terrorism, just an intention to "cause fear and distress … in order to achieve a sectarian aim of stopping the GAA using public pitches" The last year has taught me that I no longer understand what terrorism is.

How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

This is what people do when they have no rational or coherent argument. Utterly pathetic. I don’t think the Lords realise that defying democracy in this way only speeds their own demise. It is, ironically, an act of unassisted suicide.

Let’s be clear. When Trump says he’ll be personally involved in the decision, he’s saying “Make it worth my while”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quentin Tarantino doesn’t understand subtlety and never has. His criticism of Paul Dano is based on him not understanding that his performance in There Will Be Blood is supposed to be ‘weak’. That’s the character. Tarantino can only respond to big, showy performances. He’s an idiot.