A deep-seated culture of entitlement exists in Great Britain’s landowning class. This enables them and their serfs to indulge in criminal behaviour that the rest of us wouldn’t dream of. That these crimes are wrought against OUR birds is indicative of the contempt in which the rest of us is held.

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

A major new YouGov poll of 2,600+ people shows: 78% favour solar 63% support onshore wind 70% back offshore wind And 70% would support a solar farm near their own home. That’s a landslide.

Latest Greenland White-fronted Goose population estimate: 13,303. Now 13,302 (that we know of). I dread every ringing recovery that lands in my inbox - another bird lost to illegal shooting in Iceland. We can’t afford to lose any more. 📸David Dinsley

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

I walked the line of HS2 from London to Birmingham. This is what I found: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... More widely, the scale of construction going on outside Birmingham was epic. All this striving for... no economic growth. The model isn't working anymore.

Realism about so-called AI and robotics: "“In 4 years, a child has seen 50 times more data than the biggest LLMs" www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

his name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s married and a father of 2 children. he owns a fruit shop. he saw something bad happening and he did what he could to stop it. he was also shot twice in the arm by the second shooter. i hope he heals well, physically and mentally

Glad to have been one of the campaigners with a Brexitometer. The feeling that Brexit has been a strategic and practical failure is widespread.

Would that we were hearing such realism from the UK government www.politico.eu/article/dani...

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

Today MPs voted in favour of the 10 minute rule bill on a new UK-EU Customs Union. A new arrangement would help reduce economic burdens and create a more reliable system for exporters. With the economic pressure increasing, Parliament needs to act.

🚨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐄𝐔 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬! The EU law-dismantling proposals published today mark a dangerous turn toward weaker rules and increased public health risks. Read our full press release: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12... #HandsOffNature

This should be a wake up call to Keir Starmer. Trump is not a reliable ally. Trump wants to weaken Europe and carve up Ukraine while cosying up to Putin. Britain and our allies in Europe must stand together against his threats and bullying.

New analysis from Peter Kellner suggests the UK now has a clear pro-Rejoin majority — driven by generational change and millions of Leave voters switching sides.

Just part of the chemical cocktail to which we are subjecting our bodies and the more-than-human world on this #PoisonedPlanet nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

Post-Trump Justice: Prosecute the Criminals open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

In an interview with Sadiq Khan last month, I asked the London mayor why he thought that London - and him personally - had become such a target for Donald Trump and his supporters "London is the antithesis of everything they stand for," he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone. The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.

Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour. Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife. Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.

Southampton: 2 LBAM, 2 RDP, December moth and more interesting - Scarce Umber. Seems to be new to here #teammoth

After Elon Musk lashed out at the EU, calling for its dissolution and accusing the Commission of strangling Europe with bureaucracy, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski fired back: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship on Nazi salutes there.”

Trump's National Security Strategy - interfere with democratic Europe and trade without judgement or principles with the rest of the world #Security #Geopolitics #Democracy

One more way in which the neoliberal university model is failing us

They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...

Green Party London Assembly Members stand strong against the Home Secretary’s cruel new asylum plans.   Migrants aren’t the cause of inequality, the housing shortage or cuts to services, and they shouldn’t be treated as scapegoats.   We reject reforms that replace compassion with conditionality.

We need immigration. 🚨 “For decades, nurses and midwives from around the world have brought invaluable skills to the NHS. It would be a disaster to lose that contribution to vital services." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/collapse-in-number-of-overseas-nurses-coming-to-uk

It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

We have been here before - damaging the economy by undermining science www.nature.com/articles/d41... @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 🧪

Brexit was our Nemesis. Starmer knows it, writes Peter Thurlow So why can’t he say what everyone else already sees? Is he terrified of the only path out?

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

If EU auto-manufacturers succeed in delaying the planned 2035 phase-out of internal combustion engines, they'll fall even further behind. They must look to the future, not cling to the past!

This table from the new UK Biodiversity Indicators is particularly stark, bleak, and awful. Almost every major group of UK birds is doing badly in the long- and/or short-term. None are showing sustained recovery, most have been declining for 50 years. Awful. #ukbirding #ornithology

Here's a more technical yet still quite accessible overview of the climate. Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.

The interaction of #biodiversity loss and the #ClimateEmergency have huge and deadly consequences phys.org/news/2025-12...

Artificial so-called intelligence. Not "in the cloud",but trashing the Earth. All for "AI slop"? www.thetimes.com/business/tec...

My letter in today's Financial Times #DisabilityRights #Discrimination #Equalities @disabledgreens.bsky.social

#ClimateEmergency "We are anticipating that things are only going to get worse from here on." phys.org/news/2025-11...

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat. Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

WhatsApps reveal Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements and that Gill’s handler took orders from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close Putin ally. It's a complex, detail-heavy story. So we went back to journalism's roots and made a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey.

In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-... www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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?