Long career in U.K. Nature Conservation, especially plants & grasslands. Live in Dorset. Occasional cellist. HSP. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.
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Heathrow will be confident a Reform Govt will roll back all action on climate, if they get in. Still a big if. Although in reality almost nothing has been done by Governments of other stripes, to curtail the climate impact of aviation. Heathrow just want its cake and to eat it.
No doubt Reform will find some way to blame them. Even though they don't believe in the climate emergency.
sickening.
Hottest Summer on record confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #climatechaos
They had a shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, who was having those conversations about root and branch tax reform. Starmer sacked her and installed Rachel Reeves. IMO Dodds would have been a much better chancellor.
For the Summer over all, mean Temp was 18.6°C, just a shade cooler than 2022 (18.7°C), with rainfall at 176.5mm compared with 51mm for 2022. Again the total is very skewed by those 4 days at the end of August. Interestingly (for me anyway) at no point did we breach 30°C, unlike 2020, 21 & 22. 4/4
83.5mm rain fell in August, with 81mm falling in 4 days 27-30th. Wettest day was 28th, when 61.2mm fell in a tropical downpour in the early morning. 40mm fell in 1.5 hours (see graph - green is mm/hr). Otherwise it was a very dry August with 20 dry days (same as 2022), with 6 days of <1mm rain. 3/4
Nights were warm (mean minimum 13.8°C) with a minimum dropping below 10°C only once - 9.2°C on the 22nd. Warmest night a sticky 18.2°C on the 15th. A very warm & dry spell (0.2mm rain) from 11th-17th saw maximums of 28.1, 29.4, 21.6 (but only dropping to 18.2 at night), 25.8, 27.5, 24.7, 24.5°C. 2/4
Happy September! Weather stats for Dorchester. August was notably dry & warm until the last 5 days. Mean Temperature up to the 20th was 19°C, but a cooler end to the month saw the Mean drop to 18.3°C, with the hottest day the 12th at 29.4C. Only one day (30th) failed to reach 20°C, at 19.4°C. 1/4
It was second class
"i've got access to the kids, but they don't wanna see me"
Badenoch lying on her CV?
any sign of the seeds?
yup
These 2 park racists have now been arrested. Sadly those that you mention, who are fanning the flames, are still walking free.
No question Carswell would have been a Blackshirt in the '30s.
⚒️ COYI! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
definitely.
they can afford to move away from the disaster zones.
rich pickings for disaster capitalists
Take a burner phone if you're going to the USA
"Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest" comes to mind.
Aka Doodlebug, hence the nickname given to the V1 cruise missile.
I've tried that before Guy. Never get anywhere.
Misleading: BBC website users reading this headline would worry that the UK's native woods were under threat. In fact the Spruce Bark Beetle feeds on different kinds of Spruce, as the name suggests. There are no native species of Spruce in the UK. Headline should read UK's spruce plantations.
Exhibit A www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
it's a choice. No one is forced to work at the HO. It appeals to some though.
Wallace is a long standing member of the Tufton Street brigade.
The problem here goes beyond Labour's humiliating pandering to the far right that we've seen in relation to Asylum Seekers, and immigration more broadly. The Home Office is institutionally racist, regardless of who is in Government. This was probably an old HO proposal gathering dust, until now...
If "mass unrest" ever happens, that will be an important news story. But this fevered speculation every week on what *might* happen is downright irresponsible. It's misleading, it's fear-mongering & it makes the press look like an apocalyptic cult, gathering every Friday for the end of the world.
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
Mark Twain?
isn't this just a typical late silly season story, given steroids by social media?
we're all wearing eye liner now.
Do you see parallel with the Radical MPs of the mid 19th century?
@richardbaxell.bsky.social
thanks - that's very interesting.
he's a former presenter from Top Gear.
We can expect more "enemies of the people" headlines from the RW media tomorrow. But in the intervening 9 years, the mood of the country has darkened substantially and I wouldn't be surprised if there are actual attacks on the judiciary following this judgement. Starmer is horribly out of his depth
But it can't have possibly have been made in the 7th century as that's the middle of the Dark Ages.
don't stray into the wild west of ...Weybridge.
do you differentiate between the radical right and the far right?
Will there be a second edition?
I agree it's lost some of its old world charm since Ritchie took over, but the last time I was there the food was good and lots of planes to watch, including I think it might have been 3 converted Spitfires. Didn't know the Asil Nadir story. There should be a plaque to commemorate it.
and if you're really lucky you get a Spitfire flying over your head, from nearby Compton Abbas airfield. Come to think of it, the grass airstrips of the chalk, and their role in the evolution of aviation, would make a nice story. Tragically the Old Sarum WW1 hangars burnt down recently - arson.
Massive fire on North York Moors covering 200ha - of Grouse Moor. NASA image of fire, from firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2025-... Google earth image from 2023. It somewhat undermines Grouse-shooting enthusiasts' claims that controlled burning err reduces the risk of uncontrolled burning.
Before yesterday's showers we had 2.2mm in August. Now 68.1mm. Will be interesting to see how far it has penetrated into our desperately dry soils.
Great obituary for Mathew Frith, a true champion for urban nature, and key figure in the UK conservation movement. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biblical rain here overnight - 50mm in 3 hours, with 2/3 of that falling in half an hour. Rainfall per hour in green - up to 90mm an hour.
It might have something to do with the guns. Just a wild theory.
Why a basic understanding of grammar is useful.
Vote Farage if you want to eat chlorinated chicken (please steal my images)
they're far too busy attacking Net Zero to be bothered by actual climate science research.
Will the AMOC collapse throwing western Europe into deep freeze winters and disrupting rainfall patterns for billions of people? Definitely a FAFO moment. "Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sounds dangerously subversive to me Graham. The boys in blue will be round to inspect your bookshelves.
they seem pretty small beer. More likely to be Britain Remade - a Tufton St offshoot obsessed with mythical bat tunnels and fish discos. Or the Centre for Cities, almost as rabid.
The growth cult cannot be challenged or questioned in any way.
but the "rush to net zero" is bankrupting the country according to the mailyexpressograph!
fair
if they've painted George crosses on them (with Dulux vinyl emulsion), then yes.
it's way higher than that.
I"m worried about facism. People shouldn't be judged by their faces.
Is this an official Policy Exchange dictum on the Dark Ages? Looking forward to others on eg Phlogiston, the Four Humours, Martian Canals, the Music of the Spheres. And the Pythagorean prohibition on eating beans.
There's only one Taylor Swift, whereas 65 million US households own a dog. A dog fed on wet food emits ~ 6.5 Tonnes CO2e/year, while one only fed dry food comes in at 0.83 Tonnes/yr. So US pet dogs emit between 54M & 423M Tonnes of C02e/ yr. Globally, private jets emitted 15.6MTCO2e in 2023.
New data paper out: Ammonia doesn't often make the headlines – but it’s one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss and air pollution in Europe, harming ecosystems and our health. > 90% of it in Europe comes from one source: agricultural fertiliser and manure 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is the crunch fact. As the birth rate drops, and people live longer, we desperately need immigrants to keep society, and the economy, running. Has any journalist asked Nigel Farage about this? asking for a country.
the complexities of data ownership and permissions (and monetary value) have dogged the NBN project since inception.
In 2023 HSBC UK closed 114 branches, forcing its customers to use online banking or the app instead. HSBC UK made £4.1Bn profits (after tax) last year. Would it be too much to expect HSBC UK to have banking systems that function?
invite him on Strong Message Here and challenge him to say..... something beyond "I'm just asking questions"
Has anyone put it to Nigel Farage that his two main policies have been Brexit and Donald Trump?
The UK's new normal is here: hotter and drier summers. The summer of 2025 will almost certainly be the warmest on record (we'll get confirmation next week). As this @metoffice.gov.uk graph shows, it looks set to break the record by a big margin too www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
What could be done in practice with a Reform majority in the House of Commons would have no constitutional limits, short of either refusal of Royal Assent to a Bill or the courts impugning the sovereignty of parliament.
oh no. Nothing like that. But there's nothing new there. The Corbyn era brought many new members to the party, but they had precious little influence over the PLP - and they've now gone.
I'm assuming this response was signed off by the PM.
Could Labour have done a worse response to Farage's fascism?
Labour has simply substituted Nigel Farage for Gillian Duffy
spot on Steve. Only the post-Brexit world is far away from, and much further to the right, than 2010.
Its a ‘No News Day’ - only propaganda.
perhaps that's the plan. Invite Farage to become the new Labour prime minister....
they couldn't even get the flag right in Dorchester. It's the T of St George
and now the traffic queues stretch for miles through the town and round the bypass. Plus ca change. Not so many radiators needing water these days, but I suspect more accidents, as drivers see a tiny stretch of open road and put pedal to metal.
that must have been pre-bypass
probably the same ones
Some half-wits in Dorchester have painted one of our mini-roundabouts with the cross of St George. Except they only managed three of the four lines, so it's the T of St George.
"right-wing socialism" is fascism.
bleach futures just went stratospheric.
I do wonder whether this was the outcome of the Trump/Putin bromance in Alaska. Putin may well have made some "suggestions" about what Trump might like to do next, to silence opposition groups and suppress legal forms of protest/demonstrations.
more of a Brown line, but yes. Looking from here, Red Lines were crossed quite a long time back.
In unrelated news, Covid levels in wastewater are really ramping up across the USA, particularly the south-east, south and south-west. More info here datawrapper.dwcdn.net/s0Yt3/1/
Specialized units to deal with public order issues.
Hard to believe he was a Labour parliamentary candidate in 2001, unless he was Blue Labour before Glasman invented it.
Blunkett was always a terrible authoritarian. And legally it wouldn’t work anyway.
If something this big and powerful can go electric, farmers have no excuse for converting to electric tractors.
I remember when the Union Flag was used by the National Front & others, in a vicious & violent campaign against non-whites; those coming to the UK from the Commonwealth (and refugees from eg Uganda) in the 60s and 70s. This flag waving and violence is all too familiar. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
I can't watch or listen to it any more Ann. It's bad for my blood pressure.
It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.
Interesting thanks
It was General Jodl who signed the surrender on behalf of the new Nazi leader Admiral Donitz. But Jodl was also executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity.