Nick Moyes (Peat free)

I cannot believe that the Whitehouse says "It doesn't really matter " that Russia is helping Iran target US military personnel. Is there anything, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, that Putin can do where Donald Trump will criticise him?
He would rather see US troops die than upset his boss!😡😡

“Labour was built on the belief that justice must never belong only to the powerful. Today MPs vote on restricting jury trials. For Labour MPs it’s a test of principle. The poorest & most marginalised depend on juries. Today we’ll see who remembers why they came into politics”
Rob Rinder

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians

SHAKESPEARE: what's your name, scribe?

SCRIBE: Yorick. I use that as my alias.

SHAKESPEARE: it's not a very good alias is it, Yorick?

As they'd say in #America:
"THAT'S ONE DUMB MOTHERF*CKER!"

Luckily, I only have to watch from the sidelines as America turns itself into a joke country, albeit a very dangerous one.

It shouldn't have to though, should it?

Let's hope for that reporter's sake that Trump doesn't use the Putin window technique on them.

The Justice Secretary - a former barrister - suggests that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee” in order to justify undermining and restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy. The most absurd argument yet

a picture of leaves falling with the words stop falling Alt: a picture of leaves falling with the words 'stop falling!'

Watching the drama/thriller #Gone on ITVX, and it's unsettling to the naturalist in me to see leaves on the trees in one shot, then bare winter branches in another scene, then leaves again, then bare trees.
They even have David Morissey sweeping crispy brown autumn leaves off his lawn in mid-summer!

By continuing to insist that the school in Minab was hit by a stray Iranian missile, Trump is doubling down on his belief that his supporters are stupid and gullible.

Seven bombs hit, not one. The impact marks match those of US munitions designed to penetrate then explode.

Up and running - a new nest box for 2026! Webcam view inside the new "tower top box" This week, we finally completed work on the construction of our brand new peregrine falcon nest b...

A fresh blog post just dropped about our new nest box and webcam.
(Someone even described it as having "Scandi sauna vibes"!)

View the Nest Cams here: derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/p/our-webcam...

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#DerbyPeregrines
#DerbyUK
#DerbyCathedral

Letter sent!

#Gone

Certainly more caring than giving her some Tesco beef at a Mother's Day discount!

"Freedom panels gives you wings"

Russia has proven that it has no culture worthy of preserving.

So no huge loss, really.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

“By removing trial by jury, Keir Starmer & David Lammy are abolishing the ultimate guarantee of independence in our criminal justice system, & are placing extraordinary, unprecedented & untrammelled power into the hands of whichever politicians come after them”
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...

No. The hard part is finding a bloody pen that works properly, or a pencil that isn't still waiting to be sharpened.

I completelyagree.
Noddy's prefect.

Racist, xenophobic flag-shaggers, the whole pathetic lot of them.
And their supporters.

Graham Eardley, the Reform councillor suspended for behaving aggressively towards a female volunteer, has defected to Restore Britain, no doubt attracted by Rupert Lowe having been accused of bullying two female members of staff.

This is going to happen in the UK soon.
Instead of filing a tax return online for free, #HMRC plans to make us pay annually for software just to pay a couple of £k in tax.
Disgusting.

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

Typical!

Well done Megan McCubbin and Dr Amir Khan for showing the Cottesmore Hunt just do not care!

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

This Wednesday, come and join us for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. Info below. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social @moorsforthefuture.bsky.social

🚨On Tuesday the Prime Minister will order MPs to vote to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury. It’s a move that will set us on a path to toward authoritarian justice.

MPs must step up and tell him NO

Russian tech found in drone that hit RAF base in Cyprus As Moscow declares it is ‘supportive’ of Iran, the first evidence of Kremlin equipment in the war can be revealed

Russian tech found in drone that hit RAF base in Cyprus

As Moscow declares it is ‘supportive’ of Iran, the first evidence of Kremlin equipment in the war can be revealed

www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Currently doing exactly that with Tolkien's The Silmarillion.