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Contemporary British landscape artist. Nature, coasts & islands, wildlife.

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A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

07.03.2026 08:19 👍 1245 🔁 406 💬 164 📌 70
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

05.03.2026 08:46 👍 3883 🔁 2108 💬 101 📌 186

The cuckoos are on their way! #ornithology #cuckoos

03.03.2026 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 25 February · 1h 31m

🆕 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. 📦

Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4E7j...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

25.02.2026 10:46 👍 124 🔁 39 💬 15 📌 27

It's Bruegel, but not as you know it...

More than 450 years ago, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created a series of six paintings of the seasons to hang in the dining room of an Antwerp merchant. Now, Sussex artist Emily Allchurch has used photographs of the English landscape to create an updated view.

28.02.2026 09:21 👍 51 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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Waitrose suspends sale of mackerel because of overfishing Supermarket chain says it will point customers to herring and other species to protect threatened Atlantic stocks

👏 By suspending mackerel sales Waitrose has stepped up in the fight to safeguard UK seas 🐟

🚨 Scientists now urge a 70% cut in mackerel catch - “a clear warning that we are risking the total collapse of this population.” Our director, Hugo, in @theguardian.com 💬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

26.02.2026 17:07 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Tell the UK Government to End the Destruction of Our Marine Havens Bottom trawling is one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices. By dragging weighted nets along the ocean floor — some up to 240 meters wide — bottom trawling devastates coastal habitats, ki...

Enough is enough. It’s time for a ban - starting yesterday.

Take action with us, @bluemarinef.bsky.social & Only One to save UK seas. Email the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, telling him to BAN bottom trawling in marine protected areas. 🚫✊

💥 ACT: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 👈👈

20.05.2025 07:36 👍 26 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1

😱 shocked I tell you!

22.02.2026 16:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Predominantly yellow primroses clustered on bare earth in open woodland

Predominantly yellow primroses clustered on bare earth in open woodland

Primrose, Sweet Violet, Wood Anemone (1957)
Artists: Edith Hilder,
Rowland Hilder

21.02.2026 08:13 👍 300 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 2

This has been maddeningly true for ages.

21.02.2026 08:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Loved it! I’m going to watch it all through again just so I can take in all the detail. ❤️

20.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s really encouraging!

18.02.2026 22:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lovely to see the greenfinches, the garden was full of them, but sadly no more😢

18.02.2026 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 👍 35904 🔁 16636 💬 1297 📌 2470

Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.

15.02.2026 21:36 👍 513 🔁 158 💬 6 📌 2

I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die

15.02.2026 20:28 👍 432 🔁 130 💬 9 📌 6

Love her.

15.02.2026 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Add your name to call for a cap on political donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

12.02.2026 23:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today

11.02.2026 07:05 👍 3255 🔁 1624 💬 69 📌 312

“Time for coffee”

08.02.2026 09:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From last night. An appropriate snippet of Midlake to mark the occasion.

07.02.2026 20:13 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 👍 32281 🔁 13862 💬 589 📌 1595

#resistance

05.02.2026 08:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Steve Rosenberg on the tightrope of reporting from Russia on Ukraine war The BBC's Russia editor reflects on the difficulties of working as a British journalist in Moscow.

“We still haven't destroyed London or Birmingham…We haven't wiped all this British scum from the face of the earth."
We haven't kicked out the goddamned BBC with that Steve Rotten-berg. He walks around looking like a defecating squirrel…he's a conscious enemy of our country!"
@bbcstever.bsky.social

02.02.2026 08:42 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I was there last May - just heaven!😍

01.02.2026 23:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can smell those stacks #lovelibraries

30.01.2026 09:35 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ha, I just worked out it must be Tom….
What a puzzle.

25.01.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the first name - Maybe ‘Martin’ in a bit of a jumble , and ‘Combers’? 🤷‍♀️

25.01.2026 13:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sad to hear this news. #Tully

Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do

25.01.2026 12:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love the herbiness!

24.01.2026 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0