Prof Dorling has a game he plays with Labour audiences in England. He asks them to name the one country in Europe that 
has reversed child poverty over the last 16 years . . Nobody ever gets it. He has to tell them. It’s Scotland. The British press has never really told them. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2

Hareholme & Waterfoot (Rossendale & Darwen) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 37.7% (+9.2) ➡️ RFM: 34.5% (New) 🌹 LAB: 19.2% (-27.9) 🌳 CON: 6.8% (-17.6) 🔶 LDM: 1.8% (New) Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2024.

[happy slide whistle noises] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic. And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic. #DavidFosterWallace

I am not one for conspiracy theories but you do begin to wonder if Putin really does have something on Trump.🤔

Well that makes a change!

Hegseth fired Army General Randy George & is seeking to replace him with “someone who will implement their specific vision for the Army” Very peculiar timing considering we’re mid-conflict, but if you had to venture a guess, it’s likely bc he refused to carry out an illegal order — subpoena time

❗️Austria has blocked US military overflights since the start of the Iran war, citing its constitutional neutrality, rejecting all requests and aligning with a broader European trend limiting support for US operations. #Austria

Goodnight. Moonlit wagtail, Tom Wood, 2018.

Great news.

Utterly fantastic…. #lepidoptera #science 🧪🧪

Part 3 - Moth trapping; Casa Athene, Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz Province, Andalucia, Spain on the 28th of March 2026 - Highlights included; Arctia angelica & Tawny Shears - Hadena perplexa. - see alt button for photos #teammoth #spanishmoths www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Monster fishing vessels are hoovering up whole ecosystems in UK waters that are supposed to be protected. I just signed a petition calling on the new government to save our seas from destructive fishing, by banning supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas. Will you join me? act.gp/47MTYKR

All the evidence points to Defra having been completely captured by the NFU under Labour.

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

Oh fuck off.

Congratulations Graham! Massively deserved for everything you've done for BOU and ornithology (and continues to do as @wadertales.bsky.social) and much wider than the hugely important role of Treasurer he did so brilliantly. He was one of my rocks when I ran BOU for which I'll always ve grateful.

"By directing decisionmakers to give ‘substantial weight’ to the economic benefits of livestock intensification, the proposal will effectively give a green light to megafarm expansion, despite well-documented damage to rivers, air quality and rural communities.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The King is one of the richest men in the world - a billionaire monarch who costs the country £500m a year. Why is he given a free pass from paying taxes? Scottish Greens will end the King’s tax breaks and perks in Scotland and make the super-rich pay their fair share.

Hurrah! www.wwt.org.uk/about-us/new...

Evidence of the harm these plans would do is overwhelming. That's why they were opposed by every expert organisation involved in the application. The people of Scotland have rejected them time and again. We can't be worn down. We'll always fight to protect Loch Lomond.

Oh yeah, right!

The tripping forecast?

Bluesky introduces Attie, a new AI slop app that lets users vibe-code their own social feed Launched yesterday, it has overnight become the SECOND-MOST blocked account on Bluesky, behind JD Vance at 180,684 blocks. Attie has 138,880 blocks in 24 hrs. You can block it here: bsky.app/profile/atti...

Attie has only 2,000 followers, meaning roughly 70 times more users have blocked it than followed it. The backlash is being read as a rebuke of Bluesky's leadership for introducing AI to a platform whose identity is largely built around being a refuge from that. techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/b...

Seattle never lets you down!

A micro moth from last summer. The striking Hedge Beauty (Albania geoffrella) AKA Geoff. These tiny beauties, with a wingspan of around 20mm, can be seen in May/June in the UK. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #macrophotography #ukwildlife

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

Left: President Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, "Our nation was founded 250 years ago on Christian values" Right: Article 11 of Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams, "The government of the USA is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

The Geneva Convention says it’s a war crime to target journalists, even if they work for an enemy organisation. It’s also a war crime to target medical workers. After the killing of 3 Lebanese TV journalists last week, several medics coming to help them were killed as well. #journalismisnotacrime

Bravo

❗️Poland refused a US request to send a Patriot air defense battery to the Middle East, with Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz stressing the systems are reserved for national defense and NATO’s eastern flank. #Iran

Spot on.

Integrated ticketing is already normal across Europe. It allows people to use one ticket to travel across different buses, trains, trams, subways and ferries. Our ScotCard would allow Scotland to do the same, using a 'tap-on, tap-off' system with daily price caps. 🚌🚆⛴️

"Dear Diary Bit disappointed that our new candidate for Mayor of Croydon resigned two days before the big announcement. Still, not as bad as when we announced the first candidate last year, only to find she had died six months earlier."

Moth trapping; CIMA, Tarifa, Cadiz Province, Andalucia, Spain on the 29th of March 2026 - Highlight was the amazing Giant Peacock - Saturnia pyri! - see alt button for photos #teammoth #spanishmoths www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Israel's downard spiral continues.

Britain’s sanctions watchdog has fined a subsidiary of Apple £390,000 for payments it made to a Russian streaming platform.

Mocked by birds. 😜

Bravo

Well I never, who'd have thought it?

Nigel Farage was very recently talking up Dubai as a place we should seek to emulate - especially its approach to “crime”

What’s been largest march in Scotland this year? Y’days Believe in Scotland Indy march in Edinburgh. But nowt on BBC Sunday Show today. Prog also missed the National from its newspaper review - would have been easy way to provide coverage. Poor.

Labour, the Conservatives, AND the Greens are all currently polling at 17.7%... electionmaps.uk/polling/vi