Newton also scored ten but was mainly playing midfield in that season.
Of course if you count Newby as a left wing back…
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Newton also scored ten but was mainly playing midfield in that season.
Of course if you count Newby as a left wing back…
This is an utterly wonderful and extraordinary thread. There is something so quintessentially British about the whole thing.
John MacPhail with 10 in 1983/84?
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a *single* oil price shock
& will insulate UK against future shocks
Meanwhile Reform UK & Tories want to scrap net zero targets on the grounds of 'cost' - so either foolish or doing donors' bidding
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Definitely plenty back in the country
Okay, cool, I’ll sue you as it annoys me that I get new You’re Dead to Me episodes in my feed that turn out to be radio edits. That cool?
😉
Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders.
Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/
Also, all these people saying there need to be catalogues, but none of them offering funding to enable it.
There seems to be an assumption here that “human remains” mean “bones and mummies”. But having fully catalogued human remains in museums, everything counts, including slides of tissue samples in medical collections.
The risk is that people read this and reach the wrong conclusion - that agriculture has increased biodiversity and rewilding will have the opposite effect. Neither are true, when properly understood in context.
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The goal of all in conservation should be to make themselves redundant. But the changes required to ever reach that point are vast and will take decades of intervention first.
So what the study here shows doesn’t surprise me. Quite the opposite. It confirms what we already expect.
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When people talk about ‘rewilding’, too many people hear that as ‘close the gates and walk away’. But that only creates a different artificial landscape that is still not ‘wild’
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So in the article you are not abandoning those fields into a functional ecosystem, and there is no active mechanism for bringing that healthy functional ecosystem back. So low biodiversity woodland and scrub is inevitable.
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An abandoned farmed field has a number of artificial constraints, including the seed bank, the nutrient load, and the lack of the wider ecosystem services provided by large herbivores, keystone species including predators.
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There is a reason conservation organisations have to devote so much time to land management. And it’s not because it’s fun or because we like the (minimal) grants. It’s because we are already working in a denuded, low biodiversity, world.
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It’s a really interesting study, but essentially the results are exactly what an ecologist or conservationist would predict. Nobody advocates that abandonment with no other intervention will result in anything other than low biodiversity scrub and woodland.
But why? 🧵
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I’m increasingly in support of the idea political parties should get public money, and nothing else. Close out all other money.
The single best thing Labour could do would be spend the next three years dramatically reforming our political systems.
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
When the political right in the UK complain about Net Zero - remember, they want your energy bills to remain highly volatile.
It’s interesting, but I think it’s important to account for this being abandonment in spaces that had high nutrient load, and lacked the wider ecosystem components (large herbivores, predators) necessary to add controls and create habitat diversity.
Once again the BBC synonymise ‘Bempton Cliffs’ with the Flamborough and Filey SPA. Bempton is a fantastic, but small, part of the whole. There are not 3000 puffins at Bempton.
Another sign of spring this morning with the first chiffchaff.
Still got the redpoll gang hanging around with the occasional siskin.
Toads starting to appear in their maternity ponds.
Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.
The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Salma Yaqoob @SalmaYaqoob Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism In fact it's evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering. And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms. The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.
Totally this.
The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.
That it’s only a two point drop for the LDs suggests it’s a seat they just don’t target.
No more insane than most, and far less insane than some e.g. the United States
What the f***?!
Mills and Boon exploring their new archaeological range?
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I’m starting to wonder if this could be a breeding year for redpolls in York. Our winter flock is very persistent, males are moving into breeding plumage, and obviously they used to be a more widespread breeding bird, including in York. @yorkbirding.bsky.social