British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind Bill Bailey thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk
28.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 149 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1
If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.
24.10.2025 11:08 — 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Anyone in the Cabinet listening?
26.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quite lyrical, Andrew..lovely
26.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is excellent
16.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Welfare cuts, oh yes of course that is why we voted for them
16.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which Václav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.
14.10.2025 06:56 — 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’
This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
11.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
Laughable ..
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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.
Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled
Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.
Power grab by dividing society.
11.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 551 🔁 283 💬 36 📌 19
great place to skulk and lurk..
07.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We still seem to be bereft of any of our feathered chums, from early until breakfast when the trusty Wood Pigeons flip-flop down into the garden #Firstbirdofmyday
23.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A phalanx of WP’s on aerial manoeuvres ..Splendid.
22.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We should be in London this week..but we are here in the autumn chill and sunshine. First to
appear the trusty Wood Pigeons #Firstbirdofmyday
22.09.2025 10:27 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Slow start for me and the birds..developed into a stunning morning..eventually a flight of Wood Pigeons passed by..#Firstbirdofmyday
21.09.2025 12:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have Guest bell Ringers here blasting out a peel of bells..no goldfinches here but the Doves were startled into the air ..#FirstBirdoftheDay
20.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At last after hours of nothing in he sunshine, a Wren..#Firstbirdofmyday
19.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
74 MPs have signed the EDM for swifts. WOOHOOO!!!!! If yours hasn’t, email thefeatherspeech@gmail.com for a template you can send to them. It’s so easy & also vital. And they can represent your view in about 2 minutes.
17.09.2025 09:44 — 👍 93 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
He’s a disgrace
16.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More high powered winds here today, yesterday they blew everything away. Today though a Sparkling Jay darted across a country lane on the way into town.#firstbirdofmyday
16.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fabulous
15.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worth reading then thinking about ..
15.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read and be transported.
15.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Such a fabulous article. Took me straight there, as I know I’ll never get there now this was a joy, thank you.
15.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TheSwallows and the martins here are gone but in unexpected bright light the Wood Pigeons were up bright and early today # Firstbirdofmyday
14.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Wood Pigeon army gathered here early for manoeuvres, goodness they were noisy #Firstbirdofmyday
13.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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