From the MV in Belper last night. Tawny Speckled Pug NFY, Yellow-barred Brindle, Rush Veneer NFY and Pale Prominent @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @derbysnottsentsoc.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social #teammoth

Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we l...

Violent, lawless, broken Britain?

The facts tell a different story

The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we live in

Now you realise why the power people wanted to be away from the E U.

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

UK is on track to miss water cleanliness targets it would have had to meet if it was in the EU

Experts have said that the country is in danger of becoming the “dirty man of Europe” again as it falls at the bottom of the leaderboard for bathing water which is free of bacterial contaminants

Clunts kill things for fun.
Clunts also allow it.

I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again.

These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration.

He has to go.

Green Freeports, Black Holes in Democracy: How Kate Forbes Helped Hand Scotland Over To A Corporate Governance System When the Scottish Government announced with fanfare in 2022 that two "Green Freeports" — Inverness & Cromarty Firth and Forth — would anchor Scotland’s transition to a “clean energy future,” the headl...

My latest Substack article is free to read, and focuses on Kate Forbes of the SNP's signing off on 2 Scottish 'Green' Freeports with Michael Gove in 2022.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

A re-evaluation of manner of death at Roman Herculaneum following the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius Destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, Herculaneum is one of the world's most famous Roman settlements. Exactly how the victims died during the eruption, however, remains unclear.

The eruption of Vesuvius also destroyed the nearby town of Herculaneum. Research in the #AntiquityArchive explored the fate of those who lived there:

🔗 from 2020 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Cumberland Council will divest finances from companies that deal with Israel Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories

Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories | LDRS Press release
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/world/c...

Ceremonies are sacred. Water is sacred. 

They are powerful. Fundamental to life.

👰‍♂️🤵Extinction Rebellion are holding a World Water wedding, bringing us into deeper emotional connection with the nature around us.

An exciting month of actions, happening near you.
🌊🐠💒Sign up now: xrb.link/a9FP9y

Once again, I remind the scientific community that I have direct debits coming out next week, so if they could make their minds up, I can plan accordingly.

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights?

I’m just waiting for either the @greenparty.org.uk or @libdems.org.uk to pick up the #Rejoin baton and make it a major proactive time-lined policy.

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? centralbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Reform send Parliamentary candidates 'for psychiatric testing' Reform UK are reportedly sending their parliamentary candidates for psychiatric testing as part of the party's vetting process.

Bets on Nige having Narcissistic personality disorder?

Reform send Parliamentary candidates ‘for psychiatric testing’

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

The EU, UK or Japan should buy it.

Actually, make that the European Space Agency- which the UK is part of.

Quite simply he's a Cnut's Cnut. A walking clusterfuck who will do & say anything in order to keep his job.
Just like any other unprincipled politician who has had their seat on the Westminster gravy train. A total bellend of a liar.
#BritainsMostDangerous #CareeristPoliticians #WestminsterElite

Mabel brings this year’s offspring - Doris and Bert- to meet the family #PigeonSky

If politicians want to talk about NHS inefficiency, let’s start by talking about private management consultancy firms🚨
www.instagram.com/reel/DNFyB8g...

Brexit benefits (beneshits?)

GPs are being progressively paid less for the work they do

Example: 2019 Care home Direct Enhanced Service was £120pa to provide enhanced care, recognising the health care needs of residents

The payment in this year’s enforced contract was …£120pa

Inflation CPI should have meant £153 payment

Fragment of an ancient patterned cloak made of lime bast, brown with lighter beige woven designs. The textile is worn and partially damaged, with frayed edges and missing sections, displayed flat on a light gray surface.

For #FindsFriday a rare fragment of a #Neolithic patterned cloak made of lime bast, dating 2700-2500 BC. Found in Maur-Schifflände, Switzerland.

On display at Landesmuseum Zurich.

📷 me

#Archaeology

Scottish city that was named 'most dangerous' with highest crime rate There were more than 52,000 crimes reported in the city over the past year.

More 'Pishy headlines' from The Daily Rectum. They don't half love a good scare story about how shite it is to be Scottish.
Are we to believe that Glasgow has more crime than London?

I doubt that very much.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...

Rupert Lowe, absurdly mistaking charity rowers for "illegal immigrants"

I am the very model of a modern coast guard general
I've information migratory, nautical yet mythical
I know the fash in England and I invent facts hysterical
From migrant boats to climate too, in manner unforgivable

Rubbish government.
All greedy selfish politicians to blame.

GP UNEMPLOYMENT

No record of employment in GP practices
19% of 2018/2020
27% of 2021
31% of 2022
33% of 2023
46% of 2024

6900 qualified GP in are either back in hospitals, locums, left UK or unemployed - such a waste of training

Graphic from 2018-2025

digital.nhs.uk/binaries/con...

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Changing your mind is a virtue, not a weakness.

The story goes that John Maynard Keynes was accused of changing his mind about economic theory over the course of his life. He retorted simply: 'When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?'

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

Good luck everyone.

Today the Protect the Wild team went to Downing Street to hand in the 175,000+ strong petition for a proper ban on hunting.

We are not going anywhere until British wildlife is properly protected and all hunting with hounds is ended for good.

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