Dementia may make him less dangerous β¦
03.03.2026 22:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@milesking.bsky.social
Now at tail end of a long career in UK Nature Conservation - nature reserves, SSSIs, policy work, lots of reports - and 10+ years of blogging. Currently run @poundburynatureproject. Cellist. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.
Dementia may make him less dangerous β¦
03.03.2026 22:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sharia Courtsβ¦. In the North Seaβ¦ indigenous peopleβ¦. Illegal immigrationβ¦stupid islandsβ¦ windmills ruining the fieldsβ¦ Open Up The North Sea
03.03.2026 22:19 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1Season 4 of Industry hasnβt pulled any punches.
03.03.2026 22:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He is undoubtedly stupid, vindictive and narcissistic. But they wonβt have changed over the course of his life. Even since last year his ability to construct sentences seems to be declining. And as for his decision making, impulsivity, emotional regulation. Theyβre Are all going out of the window.
03.03.2026 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0dementia is setting in
03.03.2026 19:17 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites and Common Whitlow-grass Erophila verna. Happy as Larry on this old wall in Winchester, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
03.03.2026 19:00 β π 46 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Seen 3 Brimstones and a Peacock today. Still mowing brambles. #signsofspring
03.03.2026 14:14 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Today on the site: @matthewmshaw.bsky.social bids farewell to People Need Nature, the charity that has been promoting natureβs emotional, sensory and spiritual value since 2015 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/a-tr...
02.03.2026 18:12 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2This is what climate change looks like for UK winters.
03.03.2026 08:32 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0
Winter second wettest for Dorset since records began in 1836. Only surpassed by Winter 2013/14. I recorded 635.2mm in Dorchester this Winter, and 646.1mm in 2013/14.
I remember 2013/14 as being much stormier (windier) here, than this Winter. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
thanks Gruff.
03.03.2026 07:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Matt x
02.03.2026 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"British values" are whatever the incumbent Government want them to be, that will help them to persuade the country that what they are doing is for the best.
02.03.2026 20:26 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fortunate that this senile old man isn't in charge of anything important.
02.03.2026 20:19 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Stewart Lee's latest bit for @thenerve.news (belated) www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
In which Lee compares/contrast policing of anti-Gay protestors in Oxford St (they were stopped) with anti-Muslim protestors in Whitechapel (they were not), while musing on the limits of political theatre.
Farage rants about "family voting" & postal votes being "a rich seam for fraudsters to mine" without any evidence whatsoever.
He's silent on the far more dangerous problem of money flowing into UK politics from billionaires abroad. Given how much of Reform's cash comes this way, perhaps that's why.
Another ironymeter explodes
01.03.2026 11:56 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I imagine Ukrainian arms industry reps are making their way rapidly to Middle East Defence departments in their droves.
01.03.2026 11:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is the calculus no-one in the Labour cabinet seems capable of understanding. Our economy, as well as our society, is entirely dependent on, and massively benefits from, inward migration.
01.03.2026 11:30 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Let's face it, if Farage/Reform get into power by democratic means, they will waste no time in destroying the capacity of the electorate to kick them out again.
01.03.2026 08:54 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1Limited temp stats I'm afraid, as my temp sensor had become inaccurate. Oregon Scientific has stopped making replacement sensors, but fortunately I purchased a spare a couple of years ago so things should be back to normal for March. Max temp was 15.8Β°C (25th) and min 0.2Β°C (17th).
01.03.2026 08:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy St David's Day! February in Dorchester was exceptionally wet with 172.2mm of rain. Coming after a very January means we have had 433.2mm of rain so far in 2026, while the Winter (Dec-Feb) saw an astonishing 635.2mm of rain. Wettest day was 26th with 55.4mm and widespread flooding. β¬οΈ
01.03.2026 08:46 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Voters: βWe hate celeryβ
Labour: βclearly we need to offer more celery.β
just another example of projection from Reform. They are the sectarians.
28.02.2026 11:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5
28.02.2026 10:14 β π 280 π 145 π¬ 20 π 29
Wellβ¦.Dirty Business (channel 4) is excellent.
Hopefully it will make people very angry.
Not just Kruger. Goodwin was also recently arguing that childless women were ruining education, and that women/girls should have babies as soon as they were fertile.
27.02.2026 18:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0