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Make America Bankrupt Again: Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs - The Washington Post

As China and the EU go green... "Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast. The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments." This will hurt for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

"We have to have it", says Trump about Greenland. The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.

⭐🎄We're open on Christmas Eve until 5pm. From 4pm you can join in the carols on Moss Parrock and drift in for your last minute presents. After that, we'll be back open again on Saturday 27th December at 10am!🎄⭐

Chatting all things writing & #GhostsoftheFarm. An interview with the wonderful Penny Locke from @pennypostwb.bsky.social (whose weekly local news is always an extensive, positive, informative joy to read) www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/n... @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind ⁦‪Bill Bailey‬⁩ thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to [email protected] & [email protected]

If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.

Anyone in the Cabinet listening?

This is excellent

Welfare cuts, oh yes of course that is why we voted for them

I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which Václav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook. Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants Promise to reduce workers's rights Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education. Power grab by dividing society.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. 🤔

continuing a tour of Norfolk churches.Following in the footsteps of an ancestor who wrote a book on all of them.Which sadly was not published and is now lost. Here St Margaret’s Antioch near Felbrigg Hall.Where the old village used to be ..here in autumn golden sunshine after a tiring day. Bliss.

74 MPs have signed the EDM for swifts. WOOHOOO!!!!! If yours hasn’t, email [email protected] for a template you can send to them. It’s so easy & also vital. And they can represent your view in about 2 minutes.

He’s a disgrace

Worth reading then thinking about ..

Read and be transported.

Shame on us all

Oh wonderful

Just a week until I’m at Toppings Books in Ely! Couldn’t be better: Ely cathedral and it’s old marshes is on the front cover of #thecuckooslea! Details and tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/w... #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Essential reading

One to seek out.

Russia’s war is escalating, not ending. We must raise the cost on Moscow, strengthen support for Ukraine, and invest in Europe’s defence. The EU plays a major role and we will support initiatives like the Eastern Border Shield defence line. (2/2)

Me, in The Guardian, wanging on about kingfishers (and other things). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To make your feed a bit more beautiful today: A view of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

why aren’t we helping to fight to save this…harder and faster!

Tomorrow!

Would it give your readers a quiet pause or a deeper glimpse into Ukraine beyond the war? Does it say something, even if small, about life, land, or people? Then yes, publish it. My new letter shares a story from the Carpathians. Available for Patreon supporters www.patreon.com/posts/136303...

“From this height, close up, A spider’s web is like the rigging of a shop..”. 💫

Maybe the correct headline is: Maybe Mamdani is the answer the Dems need and the future the country needs: www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/p...

Could the tide be shifting? 🤔 “Democratic strategist Max Burns told the Washington Examiner Obama’s support for Mamdani could reveal something changing within the Democratic party. ‘If he’s comfortable letting his name be linked to Mamdani so directly, … (1/2) www.theroot.com/obama-offers...

Mark your calendars for Sept. 30! @nicolawriting.bsky.social's GHOSTS OF THE FARM is highly anticipated as: ⁠ "a Nan Shepherd of our time"—@themarshtit.bsky.social "exquisite prose"—@authorrhysbowen.bsky.social "heartening, haunted & beautifully written"—@robbiecowen.bsky.social #BookSky

Right wing coup = profits for corporations. Services privatised. Adult social care, profit margins of up to 42%. Privately owned cataract surgeries, profit margins 32% - 43%. Children’s care homes average profits of 23%. Public money buys less. Higher taxes to pay for corporate profits.

Pockets picked Big pharma made £12bn excess profit from just 10 NHS drugs; profit mark-ups up to 23,000%. Energy companies £514bn operating profit since 2020. England Water companies £85bn in dividends, dump sewage in rivers. Govts subservient to corporations. Abuses continue. Wither democracy.

I play out Wimbledon 2025 with the classic BBC Wimbledon theme ‘Sporting Occasion’ by Arnold Steck.

The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe. 🔥 No barbecues or campfires 🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly 📞 If you see a fire, call 999 With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

If you find a grounded swift, it needs expert & urgent help. Please contact me so I can link to rehabber. These birds can’t easily take off from the ground & in hot weather, chicks who 👀 like this aren’t quite able to fly & often are pushed or jump out of their nests.

Oh, now That’s Fun And Rather Fine Check it out 😎

Cute Swift fact: Swifts' Latin name 'Apus apus' comes from the Greek 'a pous' which means 'without foot'. Their legs are so short it was believed they didn’t have any feet! 😭 💚 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

I’m always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrow’s welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2

Happy to be in Armenia and meet President Khachaturyan. We discussed deepening of EU-Armenia relations, EU support to reforms and building resilience and prosperity. It is key to ensure peace and stability in the region.

Emotions. I just finished reading and replying to all the words under my latest letter. Thank you! Recently, I was accused of being greedy - of thinking only about money - when I thanked my Patreon supporters. The truth is, my supporters help me do something truly important: write about Ukraine.

The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...