Dr John Peters

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

A view of the distant Malvern hills, under a blue sky, with mist shrouded fields in the middle distance. The fluffy heads of ‘old man’s beard’ cover the hedge in the foreground.

The Shire, shrouded in mist this morning.

A hummingbird hawk moth siting on a rock.

Nice to see this buzzing about #Blackhousewood last week. Sorry not to get a photo in flight but nice to get one for identification! @WorcsWT

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

Oh no; this is terrible! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

Clause 39, Magna Carta, June 1215

“The past is never dead. It's not even past"
William Faulkner

YouTube video by CjamPhotography Marion Montgomery & Dudley Moore - "Close Your Eyes"

That’s wonderful, hadn’t seen it before. Also love this and not sure how Marion Montgomery kept a straight face towards the end.

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YouTube video by The Nostalgia Machine Dudley Moore Little Miss Britten.

As Dudley Moore would have been 90 today, here is a piece of genius. youtu.be/KdmoxlqQQ4c?...

I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...

YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains The Great Big Pseudoarcheology Debunk (Graham Hancock, Dan Richards, Jimmy Corsetti)

this video is the clearest narrative that tells about the last year of my life. from the debate on joe rogan to the harassment i've faced in the aftermath. plus I cameo at the end

any boosts greatly appreciated!

youtu.be/JK4Fo6m9C9M?...

YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains The Great Big Pseudoarcheology Debunk (Graham Hancock, Dan Richards, Jimmy Corsetti)

Amazing video by Professor Dave about Graham Hancock, Joe Rogan, Jimmy Corsetti, Dan Richards, and me

Please share far and wide!

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Yellow sunburst of a flower, its petals are long and thin, radiating out from a pointy closely packed centre. The petals are thinner and more rounded at the tips than yesterday's yellower flower.

A dandelion.

Bright golden yellow flowers made up of many long oblong petals around a tight centre, the petal with jagged saw tooth ends.

Not a dandelion.

Four stems of toothwort - looking like towers of molar teeth abandoned by the tooth fairy - at the base of a hazel coppice

A veritable forest of toothwort at the lower entrance to #Blackhousewood. @worcswt.bsky.social

A Small Tortoiseshell butterfly perched on a yellow flower.

The latest data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has shown that 2024 was the worst year on record for the Small Tortoiseshell, with a steep 86% decline in abundance since 1976. 📉

📷: Iain H Leach
#ButterflyEmergency @ukbms.bsky.social

This.

Green fields, hedgerows, a cherry tree in white blossom, and the ‘blue remembered hills’ beyond.

Another frosty, then misty start to yet another beautiful spring day in the Shire. 🤗

📷 Mark Searle

Time to dive into the 2024 @ukbms.bsky.social results. Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) had its worst year since monitoring began. This was also the case in each of the 4 UK countries separately. It’s had 10 below average years in a row now and has declined by a staggering 86% since 1976.

The count today included 7 peacock, 3 large white, 3 comma, 3 orange tip, 2 red admiral and 3 speckled wood! 🙌 #blackhousewood @worcswt.bsky.social

Giraffe coloured, brown with yellow patches, butterfly on bright green wood spurge

First Speckled Wood of the year! 🥹 #blackhousewood @worcswt.bsky.social

Small tortoiseshell butterfly on meadow chaff.

By no means the greatest photo but, given that I didn’t see a single small tortoiseshell butterfly last year, still worth celebrating!

A peacock butterfly in the leaf litter.

10 Peacock butterflies, 2 red admirals and a Brimstone on the way round #blackhousewood today @worcswt.bsky.social

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Busy day of media interviews spreading the news of the @ukbms.bsky.social officially dreadful year for UK butterflies in 2024. 51/58 species declined, with common species having their 2nd worst year on record butterfly-conservation.org/make-your-pr... 🌍

Nearly 40% of the world’s dirty money flows through London.
But which institutions are profiting from it – and why has Britain become so central to the global kleptocracy?
Tom Mayne joins @seththevoz.bsky.social on The Bunker to follow the money.

Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

​​Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract

The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.

*Nothing* was planted here.

"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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Comma butterfly, glowing orange and brown, by a twig in the leaf litter

Two commas and a brimstone on the way round #blackhousewood today @worcswt.bsky.social