This video encapsulates 2025 for me. I must've watched it 100 times already. It just gets better.

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

Just when you think Trump can’t sink any lower… Rob Reiner and his talented wife Michele were friends of ours. We collaborated on projects. Brad and I are devastated. We are in shock and grief. Sure, Rob opposed Trump, but this is so beyond the pale.

🚨Hoylake beach update🚨 After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.

The IKEA thing is so batshit. When I was in America it was considered college student furniture or like basic stuff you buy when you are renting why is the PM there. Our country is so painfully parochial sometimes it hurts. Please find some dignity please I beg it’s a corporation. Please.

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

That's why they call him a false number 9.

Next Halloween, I will go in fancy dress as "60 year old nhs dr trying to use Cerner EPR during strike days"

Thought for the day….

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 👇

Encountering this godwit always makes me think about the changes we have both seen in the 29 years since we first met, especially the planting of non-native trees all over Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...

Record breaker! The story of the oldest Black-tailed Godwit in Britain/Ireland is told in a @washwader.bsky.social blog: wwrg.org.uk/blog Ringed when John Major was PrimeMinister! #UKbirding

Longevity record! Last night, @washwader.bsky.social recaught this Black-tailed Godwit, first caught and ringed 29 years ago. The metal ring was wearing thin (and was replaced) but the bird is still going strong. Blog about longevity of waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... #ornithology

I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

No Kings Cleveland lump in throat...

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

I wish more people could understand what Noam Chomsky was saying to Andrew Marr in 1996. What most people think is reality, is far from it, and on the whole it's based on what a handful of very rich, very powerful men, want you to believe, predominantly to make themselves richer & more powerful.

“Hey, c’mon now! … You two were made for each other!”

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social get to the bottom of this “This weekend, we not only revealed that Reform’ Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of Kremlin bribery – was one of Farage's closest aides” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/nostoneuntur...

Really looking forward to speaking in Wiltshire tomorrow about the impacts of climate change on UK butterflies & moths butterfly-conservation.org/events/wilts...

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry. 🔥

Well done Moldova - you've won a bright European future! Lucky bastards! Love, Brexit Britain

This is wonderful 💚 Real Betis invited 11 of the club’s oldest members to be mascots this weekend, celebrating their long-held support and International Day for Older Persons 👏

Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to eight bribery charges while an elected member of the European Parliament. The charges relate to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money during his time as a member of the European Parliament.

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

Interesting discussion on political funding at Lib Dem conference. Transparency International point out that South Australia has now banned private donations to political parties for state elections, while federally Australia introduced a £25,000 annual donation cap for the next fed. election.

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

I will repost this EVERY TIME I SEE IT 🐅❤️

Carl Sagan.

In 2020, I learned how to walk again and my breakthrough moment was walking from my hospital bed to the loo without using a stick. To inspire me I sang to myself 'Search for the hero inside yourself'. Today, on camera, I met Heather Small to thank her.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIv... Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, Senator Sanders is the grown up in the room here

Lots of #ConservationScience🌍 in ten years of WaderTales. I'm building a thread to celebrate some of the cool stories in the blogs: bsky.app/profile/wade...

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

Looking at centuries-old headstones in an old cemetery, I am struck by not only how many children died, but also young women of childbearing age, & whole families who died within a week or two of one another Improvements in medical science & sanitary engineering brought us far Let's keep 'em, OK?