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DEFINITIVE MAP OF ENGLAND'S CHALK STREAMS IS HERE. You will all remember that the very wonderful @srbuss volunteered to create a map of our chalk streams based on WWF UK's list. Here it is. It's fantastic. 😀 Thank you so much Steve, you're a star. (1/2)

Coldplay fans don’t forget to take a selfie at the vomitorium

USA under Donald J. Trump is clearly renouncing WTO principles (and has crippled the appellate process by blocking appointments). It's time for the rest of the World to move on and form WTO 2.0 without USA, with fresh commitment to free trade excluding fortress USA. 1/x

Did RTHK just re-hire their old social media team?

We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison. Because, as I have

‘At a training session in Beijing, museum directors are told they should focus on documenting that “border regions” such as Tibet and Xinjiang were always Chinese’. bitterwinter.org/china-mobilize…

With a cacophony of birdsong from our avian residents, including about twenty starling fledglings, Bert & mini Bert turn up for raisins Bert feeds a few to junior, before junior gets nervous & heads to his bush cover. Bert collects more raisins & joins junior

La preciosa ermita románica de Santa María de Tiermes (Soria), que hoy 31 de mayo se viste de gala para recibir a cientos de romeros procedentes de todos los pueblos de la comarca en su tradicional romería anual. ¡Feliz Día! #BuenosDias #FelizSábado

Thank you, BBC News 中文 - some old footage in there that I didn't know existed! youtube.com/watch?v=YNXVtf…

Sanctioned MPs told they CANNOT ATTEND discussion between 🇨🇳 officials and MPs organised by tax-funded quango “Great Britain China Centre”. An appalling insult to parliament and to lawmakers targeted by Beijing for raising #Uyghurs and #HK thetimes.com/article/f9cb86…

A cherry picker was positioned to block the view of a screen displaying an image of a lit candle at the Canadian embassy in Beijing on June 4, 2025, the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Photo: Greg Baker/AFP.

#AdoorableThursday Norman west door for this medieval church restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott Melbourne, St. Michael and St. Mary church, #Derbyshire

Ancient Sumerian being written on a clay tablet

A quick post about what some of the government’s comms people have been doing regarding the 🇨🇳 mega-embassy cabling risk story. Worth knowing about this, as I believe several ministers will be unaware. 1. After Richard Holmes 🕵🏻‍♂️ broke the story late last year about the security

Not good enough. Non stunning slaughter must stop. When did cruelty become a choice?

Quite the statement from the NATO Secretary General

Serge Gainsbourg & Haydée Politoff / Ne dis rien Le petit dimanche illustré 22.10.1967 Suis-moi jusquʼau bout de la nuit🌌 Jusquʼau bout de ma folie🌀 Laisse le temps, oublie demain🕰️ Oublie tout, ne pense plus à rien🌫️ #SergeGainsbourg #HaydéePolitoff #FranceGall #MireilleDarc

Ukraine's intelligence services say they caught two alleged Chinese spies trying to steal secrets of a Ukrainian missile that sank Russia’s flagship euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/09/ukr…

The Odishika Remix of Chains & Whips. Enjoy 🎧 youtu.be/fnI7eHfSnOk?si…

For a whole year I shared a riverbank with a male mute swan Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved This year he brought his new family to see me