NEWS: St.Pancras station unveiled its Christmas tree today! We know, but it is a beauty. It's covered in books and there are cubby holes around the bottom where you can sit and read.

It’s early #November: it’s cold, it’s snowy, and polar bears are waiting for the sea ice to form. It’s #PolarBearWeek! Did you know? A polar bear's skin is actually black! Less than 2% of hunts are successful Scientists can extract DNA from just their footprints #polarbear

In autumn, help amphibians by removing decaying plants and leaves from garden ponds! This material produces gases which can poison hibernating frogs and other wildlife if the pond freezes over in winter 🍂🐸💦

Let's not call them weeds. Wildflowers such as dandelions, thistles and clover can really boost biodiversity – and for pollinating insects, such as butterflies and bees, they can be a lifeline. So let's give them a chance to grow! More: bit.ly/40i9RVt

The The Times and The Sunday Times did an absolutely cracking roundup of their Clean It Up campaign. 👏👏👏 "Campaigners must not relent. It is high time the dreams of clean rivers ignited during the dark days of the pandemic came true". Well I'm not for giving up. You?! thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti…

Last week CNN asked me how I explain the downturn in the news industry: big layoffs, scant investment, no recovery in sight. A list of factors is not an explanation, I said. But that is what I have. So here's my thread. None of it should be news to people in the business. 0/

Good morning. Please enjoy this article about a woman who rescued a baby hedgehog and nursed it over night, only to discover it was the bobble off a hat. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Planning your garden? Think like a pollinator! 🐝

There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝

Please don’t mow or spray the dandelions. They are a lifeline for pollinators including bees, butterflies, hoverflies. They support over 50 insect species. Our little film shows the life in a small patch 🐝 More: bit.ly/428s34x

Ladybirds are lovely! They help maintain a healthy ecosystem in gardens and green spaces - so to support them, grow nectar-rich plants, and don’t use pesticides 🐞 More: bit.ly/3w7NpUI #nature #biodiversity

Please say no to pesticides and herbicides. Cocktails of these chemicals in fields, gardens, parks, verges, community spaces are poisoning wildlife including bees, birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, beetles, frogs, damselflies, and polluting our rivers. Let's restore nature 🐝

My column on the general election theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BREAKING: Understand that British Airways IT systems have failed with planes unable to take off, phone lines down and pilots in the dark ✈️ - Source says queues building at Heathrow Terminal 5 #aviation #BA #travel

Thames Water shows two fingers to customers. Having spent decades ram raiding customers bank accounts for billions £, loaded the company with £19bn in debt, demanding another £3bn in debt, dumped billions of litres of sewage into rivers, over abstracted chalk streams they’re now

Energy network owners have made £3.9bn ‘excess profit’ from higher bills, says report 😡😡😡 theguardian.com/business/2025/…

My column on the TOP! SECRET! White House Signal group theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Men who’ve finally woken up to the fact that women might have had a point when they pointed out their rights were being stripped away from them have arrived to tell those who won without their assistance to compromise. Thanks, lads. Women would never have thought of that.

They weren’t just acting as a taxi service for a paedophile, they were lending him protection and status. When a man like Ireland gets this cosy with police (qv Savile) the general presumption will be that he is beyond reproach and his sense of being untouchable is bolstered.