I have yet again asked the Government to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This is now the sixth time I have raised this issue in parliament. Thousands of Iranian citizens are being killed; the Government must take action now.

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Valentine's Day had nothing to do with love. ❤️❌ No romance. No flowers. No love letters. For over a thousand years, it was just a saint's feast day. Then one British poet changed everything. 🇬🇧 Not Hallmark. Not America. Not the Romans. A man in England, 1382, wrote a

A THIRTEEN-year-old girl was bought for FIVE POUNDS. The journalist who exposed it was the one they sent to prison. The men who sold her walked free. His name was W.T. Stead. Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. In 1885, the age of consent in Britain was thirteen. A bill to raise

Most people in Britain carry DNA that traces back over four thousand years.🇬🇧⌛️ Before the Romans. Before the Anglo-Saxons. Before the Vikings. Your ancestors were already here. And scientists just proved what they built. In 1999, two men pulled something from a German

An English miller with one year of school rewrote the laws of physics. Nobody noticed. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧑‍🔬 George Green. Nottingham. 1828. He taught himself mathematics in the back of a windmill. Published a paper on electricity and magnetism. Fifty-one people bought a copy. Most were

Pirates stole an entire Irish village. A hundred and seven men, women and children. Taken from their beds. Sold in North Africa. Only two ever came home. It was 1631. And it was normal. For thousands of years, the sea belonged to pirates. Barbary corsairs enslaved over a

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive

Things Keith has eaten that are classified as invasive or problematic scrub species in managed Devon pasture: - Bramble ✓ - Thistle ✓ - Dock ✓ - Nettles ✓ - Coarse rank grass ✓ - Woody shrub encroachment on the eastern border ✓ - A section of blackthorn that had no

Doris is a four-year-old Texel ewe on a fell in the Lake District. Doris is, according to several recent opinion pieces, destroying the planet. Let's check in on Doris. 6:30am - Doris began grazing. The fell she is grazing is semi-natural upland grassland. It has existed in

A gardener designed the largest building on Earth. He got the idea from a lily pad. 1851. Joseph Paxton, head gardener at Chatsworth House, designed the Crystal Palace. 1,848 feet long. 293,000 glass panes. Built in eight months. The largest enclosed space on Earth. He

🇬🇧 Magna Carta had a twin. It was law for 754 years. You've never heard of it. After 1066, the Normans claimed the forests of England. Not just the trees... Villages, farmland, rivers. One third of the country. Land ordinary people had farmed for centuries. Taken. Hunt a

I've signed this Gov-e-petition. Please do the same: "Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office." Total Common sense to sign this one, but it's still happening in Birmingham Basil the Great June Slater Danielle Tousi Dan Wootton

They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The most spoken language on Earth. Born on this island. Fifteen hundred years ago, three tribes crossed the North Sea. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. They brought words we still use today. Earth. Water. Fire. Love.

The word British is older than Rome. 🇬🇧 Before England.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Before Scotland.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Before Wales.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A civilisation lived on this island. They had kings. They worked metal. They traded with the ancient world. They called themselves Pritani. The painted people. In 325 BC a Greek

"We're wasting food on cattle that could feed billions of people." Gerald eats the following, in a standard week on a British beef farm: Grass. Fresh in summer, preserved as silage or hay in winter. This grass grew on land that cannot be cropped. Clover. Nitrogen-fixing. No

Doris's week on the fell. Monday: Doris was in Brian's field. Brian logged it at 6am. The gap was, as far as Brian could tell, in a section of wall that had been repaired three times. Brian stood at the wall and looked at the repair. The repair was intact. The mortar was dry.

Somewhere in the last seventy years, the conversation got inverted. The ruminant that builds soil, sequesters carbon, requires no inputs, and produces complete nutrition from inedible grass became the environmental villain. The monoculture system that destroys topsoil at ten

One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️ The entire global pencil industry. There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain. Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the