Labour & the left need to face up fast to an uncomfortable & existential truth: Brexit will make radical, progressive politics extremely difficult in the UK. Here's why. (A short thread) 1/7

If you plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence, it could help hedgehogs, hoverflies, bats, dunnocks, bumblebees, moths, coal tits, butterflies, dormice, blackbirds, frogs, fieldfares, beetles, robins, solitary bees… 🐝 Here’s how: bit.ly/40YAjG7 #nature

🔥 The Treasury Has Buried the Batters Farming Review 👉And We All Know Why 🔥 Sunday Times reveals the Treasury has locked away minette batters farming report until after the Budget. Why would any govt hide a review they commissioned themselves? 🔥 Because it tells the

Cool and calm

🗣️ "Technique has almost become a dirty word in English cricket over the last 10 years or so." mark butcher on England's failure to execute the basics in the first two Tests ❌ 🤝 Timothy Taylor's Brewery #Ashes

This is what bringing Nature to people looks like! Tens of thousands of birds, 4 feet from a public car park What’s not to like

At Nobel Peace Prize dinner in Oslo with Ana Corina Sosa Machado, daughter of Nobel Peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who gave the most beautiful acceptance speech on behalf of her mother. The people of Venezuela want freedom, not dictatorship and this family will bring it

Beautiful and timeless song, nothing short of brilliant. I absolutely love it. They don’t write them like this anymore.

Has anyone else noticed an absence of field fares and redwings this autumn / winter? We’re in West Berks and fruit on the trees which they usually love (sloes, crabs, apples) is uneaten. #bbowt #rspb #fieldfare #redwing

King Charles says he can "share the good news" his cancer treatment will reduce in the new year bbc.in/3MA5HWr

This is a place Putin claimed to have conquered three weeks ago

The Government must stand firm on Biodiversity Net Gain - if they don't the losses for people and nature will be catastrophic.

George Osborne can you ask them to stop training on people’s copyrighted work without permission? (asking for millions of creatives around the world)

🗣 "Give him his pillow!" 🛏 Deserved plaudits from Michael Vaughan for Jofra Archer after a fine display of fast bowling on day one at Adelaide. 🔥 #Ashes #BBCCricket

I was watching the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" from 1947! They talk about cases of diphtheria..losing hearing to an ear infection..a death from influenza..in just one scene! All a normal part of life...disastrous infections everywhere...a time before vaccines!

As the Arctic ice sheet melts and it becomes easier to extract minerals in Greenland, it’s strange that POTUS continues to deny climate change, given that is his underlying motivation for wanting to own that country.

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/

Brexit has made the 🇬🇧 economy lose 6-8% of its GDP according to new studies. That’s three times defence spending. Huge loss.