The journalist who has written a book about Britain’s exit from the European Union on what he has learned about power.

🗣️ Harry Lambert 🌻 meets Tim Shipman newstatesman.com/politics/polit…

Hedgehog Society The irony of you showing an image of a hedgehog out in the day, normalising this sight, for Hedgehog Awareness Week, is incredible.
Please stop and think.
Remove this UNNATURAL harmful image.x.com/HedgehogCabin/…

Ministers have decided to scrap Now Teach - a route into teaching for high-flying career changes. In the middle of a recruitment crisis. My quote:

This week saw me witness a magical wildlife spectacle which left me feeling depressed.

If you didn’t know, elvers glow green in UV light. That night the water under my UV torch was a dazzling display of thousands of glowing elvers. Simply breathtaking. The problem - a 🧵1/

A thread: I have only read this article and NOT the book from which it derives, but as the author of the standard biography of Anthony Blunt, I feel inclined to comment. The main contention is that not only was Blunt spying for the Soviets, but that he was/

It’s nearly time to ‘say yes to #NoMowMay and Jun - Jul - Aug’ , a #NoMowSummer as some have highlighted so unplug the mower , silence the strimmer and get the T shirt to celebrate leaving nature to thrive chrispackham.store/product/no-mo-…

🌱🐈🐈‍⬛🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️Sarah🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔 Oh Next please remove this from sale, your buyers have been conned. Please don't pass that mistake onto your customers.
This is a wicker basket.
It offers zero insulation
Zero predator protection
Zero weather protection
It has no floor - really a very basic requirement…

Want to learn how to paint like a Renaissance Master?

How to paint like Raphael-

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1. Contrary to popular belief, Raphael, like most masters, would begin with a preparatory drawing, called a cartoon.

This sweet boy turning his bath water into tea is Ambrose.
Suffering from starvation and teeming with roundworm and deadly lungworm, he collapsed by a front doorstep, desperate for the residue heat from the house to keep his dying body warm.
The house owner saw him there in the…

Alastair Campbell has repeatedly boasted how he’s never done any housework his entire life. He expects women to make the world pleasant for him. Now he expects us to sacrifice our privacy & safety so he can have a cleaner piss. What a socialist hero.
#therestispatriarchy

Hadley Freeman Private Eye Magazine Hadley Freeman Helen Joyce Keep Prisons Single Sex Rosie Duffield MP Maya Forstater - please show some extra love to The Yorkshire Post for publishing 9000 women's words today.
yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/l…

Every single media outlet that covered the story of the man in Cheshire, who threatened two women with a samurai sword, described his as a 'mum' or 'woman' in their headline Ofcom

England really perfected the medium-sized family home and then made building it illegal

Please stop cutting the grass without clearing the litter first. Shredded cans make sharp bits of metal, dangerous for kids, pets and wildlife! ❌

The Govt’s behaviour in relation to swifts has been distressing on numerous levels.
The tiniest measure, one supported across the board - incl by the industry itself- could make the difference between survival and the disappearance of this iconic bird species in the UK.
Michael…

We face an existential environmental crisis & the one Party that theoretically exists to address it is choosing to die on this hill -defending amputation, mutilation, medication (with largely untested life changing drugs) of confused &vulnerable young kids apple.news/AC8dOuL4BQHmvi…

Caught on camera 🎥 - hopefully!
John Read, our founder, setting up a surveillance camera in a litter and fly-tipping hotspot. If we catch someone, we’ll show you the footage. 😡

The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.

After this vandalism last Spring, the council rightly apologised and planted a large patch of wildflowers on the estate to make up the incident which were just starting to come up this week.

This morning they mowed down the wildflower they themselves had planted. Words fail me.

Wednesday