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Oh yes, Ants BK and I are doing this again in 2024. Our wild writing weekend in the Black Mountains, inc. swimming in waterfalls and drinking rum round the fire. June 14-16. Come and join us. All deets here: loispryce.com/teaching/writi…

Thank you @deborahlong - so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for posting x

Many of us feel furious about the state of the UK's rivers––but also powerless. Now King's Legal Clinic have launched a 130-pp toolkit for change. Citizen science, FOIs, reporting, legal remedies: it's all here. It's brilliant. Read it, share it, fight back! kcl.ac.uk/legal-clinic/a…

Lovely to be included in this list of best books about female solo travel. Thank you so much 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩Fiction 📚🧳 #travelbybook! And what esteemed company I'm in - Dervla Murphy, Isabella Bird, Lois Pryce, @CherylStrayed. Go ladies! x

This is wonderful, and gives such hope. I'd love to see more of this here in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park. #rewilding

Navalny's wife Yulia at the Munich security conference: "If it's true, I want Putin, his entourage, Putin's friends and his government to know they will be held responsible for what they have done to our country, my family, and my husband. And that day will come very soon."

Russians in Moscow are lining up to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at a memorial to Gulag victims outside the FSB headquarters. Given the extent to which the Kremlin has suppressed all dissent since invading Ukraine, this is a not insignificant crowd.

Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what impact is it having in Western Kazakhstan? To find out listen to Assignment BBC World Service presented by Ants BK Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and produced by me. and on R4 Crossing Continents at 2100 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Last month I travelled to Kazakhstan to find out why the Caspian Sea is shrinking at unprecedented speed. To hear the full story, have a listen to today's episode of Crossing Continents, The Caspian Crisis, on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight. Caroline Bayley bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In my shed, recording a story for this Saturday's episode of From Our Own Correspondent. Hopefully listeners won't be able to hear the male blackbird that likes to sing the Game of Thrones theme tune from a hazel tree outside my door. BBC Radio 4 #Kazakhstan

Superb reporting by Quentin Sommerville, about Myanmar, on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent just now. My story about the Caspian Sea on in a few minutes.

Thanks so much Joanna Lillis, and what a concidence you're in Aktau now. It's pretty eerie being there, and seeing quite how far the sea has receded.

75 of the over 36,000 Palestinians killed over the past 8 months in Israel's genocide of Gaza. Humanize them. Their lives were as intricate and important as yours.

Well, so much for a gentle morning's writing. Instead I've been fretting about this lone blackbird fledgling, digging up worms for it from the veg patch and patrolling our garden for unwanted cats. To love nature is to be constantly anxious about it

A few months ago I started a Substack newsletter - a place to write about the things I really want to write about. My latest post, out today, is a meditation on writing, and life. I hope you enjoy it. antoniabolingbrokekent.substack.com/p/why-i-write

We owe it to them: all our female ancestors who were denied that democratic right. Patriarchal forces still attempt to hold us back by pushing apathy, telling us that “politicians are all the same”. They’re not - and you have the right to choose, to vote from the heart, for our

In case you're still on the fence about who to vote for tomorrow.... #voteforchange

Six months ago I started a (free) monthly substack. My latest post, just published, is a story from the mountains of the Indo-Myanmar border; a border Modi now plans to build a 1021-mile fence along. bit.ly/3MSPngg

Met US journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr outside Tbilisi's Parliament Buildings this morning. A week to go until Georgia's most important election in decades.

Protests starting up on Tbilisi's Rustaveli Ave, in front of Georgia's parliament building. Thousands here already for what promises to be a pivotal night in Georgian history.