Reuben Singleton
@bordersnaturalist.bsky.social
📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 30 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
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Two highlights at Pease Bay yesterday both patch firsts for me: Cuckoo Ray - sadly dead - but not commonly reported at the shore otherwise as it is a deeper water species. Little Egret rockpooling with me 😁
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two highlights at Pease Bay yesterday both patch firsts for me: Cuckoo Ray - sadly dead - but not commonly reported at the shore otherwise as it is a deeper water species. Little Egret rockpooling with me 😁
Why is Farage openly siding with a foreign power against Britain? Surely this is TREASON.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Why is Farage openly siding with a foreign power against Britain? Surely this is TREASON.
Who is Michael Prescott - the so called ex independent advisor to the BBC? Former political editor of the Sunday Times, Boris Johnson appointee and currently works for Hanover Communications. Funny there is NOTHING online about Prescott and/or Hanover’s clients. Funny that - a large rat is smelt.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Who is Michael Prescott - the so called ex independent advisor to the BBC? Former political editor of the Sunday Times, Boris Johnson appointee and currently works for Hanover Communications. Funny there is NOTHING online about Prescott and/or Hanover’s clients. Funny that - a large rat is smelt.
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Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application.
www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application.
www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
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Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
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'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.
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How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
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Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .
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If you can , please help fund their legal battle at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todri...
Save Todrig from Sitka spruce plantation
Campaigning to protect nature and communities around Todrig from proposed Sitka spruce plantations, and to save the Southern Uplands.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If you can , please help fund their legal battle at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todri...
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'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.
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No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.
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Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Another session working with Ronald Morris’s rock art archive in the HES search room. There are probably 5,000 to 7500 individual archive items pertaining to 2000+ rock art sites across Scotland. All uncatalogued & unscanned. Huge research potential! Images all (c) HES
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Overheard conversation as a very high tide covered the saltmarsh this morning...
'Wow - look at that!'
'I've never seen the water so high!'
'No! And yet there's still a hosepipe ban. It's just ridiculous!'
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'Wow - look at that!'
'I've never seen the water so high!'
'No! And yet there's still a hosepipe ban. It's just ridiculous!'
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November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Overheard conversation as a very high tide covered the saltmarsh this morning...
'Wow - look at that!'
'I've never seen the water so high!'
'No! And yet there's still a hosepipe ban. It's just ridiculous!'
🤦🏻
'Wow - look at that!'
'I've never seen the water so high!'
'No! And yet there's still a hosepipe ban. It's just ridiculous!'
🤦🏻
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The millionth example of why UK governing bodies and legislators at all levels need to get off of X and the UK Government needs to seriously consider how to deal with the threat Musk and his companies pose to British democracy.
Elon Musk's AI tool Grok apologises after calling SNP MP 'rape enabler'
Pete Wishart said the allegation on X was ‘shocking’
www.scotsman.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The millionth example of why UK governing bodies and legislators at all levels need to get off of X and the UK Government needs to seriously consider how to deal with the threat Musk and his companies pose to British democracy.
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Good to see a proper sentence for this criminal. If only our judiciary would do the same!
4 Northern Bald Ibis were killed with an air rifle in Extremadura in 2019. Covid caused issues with the police investigation, but they continues & last month the guilty party was sentenced, 1 year prison term, banned from hunting & fishing for 3 years & a 20,000Euro fine. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Good to see a proper sentence for this criminal. If only our judiciary would do the same!
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#RachelReeves
Yes Prits!
Apart from cocking up Covid,
Implementing Brexit,
Partying whilst people died,
Cutting local Govt funding by 40%,
Running down public services
And increasing levels of poverty.
We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!
Yes Prits!
Apart from cocking up Covid,
Implementing Brexit,
Partying whilst people died,
Cutting local Govt funding by 40%,
Running down public services
And increasing levels of poverty.
We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#RachelReeves
Yes Prits!
Apart from cocking up Covid,
Implementing Brexit,
Partying whilst people died,
Cutting local Govt funding by 40%,
Running down public services
And increasing levels of poverty.
We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!
Yes Prits!
Apart from cocking up Covid,
Implementing Brexit,
Partying whilst people died,
Cutting local Govt funding by 40%,
Running down public services
And increasing levels of poverty.
We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!
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Gorgeous, and a first for me, Spiny Puffball (Lycoperdon echinatum) at Hopetoun House foray with ELFE. Uncommon in Br & Ire. It has a short stipe & spines in groups of three converging at tips. Spines wear off and leave a net-like pattern on skin @britmycolsoc.org.uk @edinburghnats.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Gorgeous, and a first for me, Spiny Puffball (Lycoperdon echinatum) at Hopetoun House foray with ELFE. Uncommon in Br & Ire. It has a short stipe & spines in groups of three converging at tips. Spines wear off and leave a net-like pattern on skin @britmycolsoc.org.uk @edinburghnats.bsky.social
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Inevitably, Kemi Badenoch has now sided with Donald Trump’s team against the BBC.
Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.
Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.
“The BBC is not an American broadcaster, and it doesn’t owe any obligation to shareholders determined to close deals and make profits. Its clash with Trump is a chance to show the advantages of being a public broadcaster by standing up for the truth. It should seize that opportunity.”
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
Trump faced impeachment over the riots, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Inevitably, Kemi Badenoch has now sided with Donald Trump’s team against the BBC.
Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.
Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.
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WALL OF THORNS: On the west coast of Scotland, facing out across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran, stands the only functioning salt-making tower in the world. @countrylifemag.bsky.social
'One of the most amazing things in terms of food in this country' — How a tower of thorns makes salt
Made with wind, sea and thorns on the wild west coast of Scotland, Blackthorn Salt brings surprising health benefits, as well as being a unique example of sustainable craftsmanship.
www.countrylife.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
WALL OF THORNS: On the west coast of Scotland, facing out across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran, stands the only functioning salt-making tower in the world. @countrylifemag.bsky.social
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Tucked into a clough, an original stone pinfold. Built next to a running water source, a place to keep stray farm animals until their owners were notified. Dating from around the 18c. I love our history, hidden in plain sight. #Slaithwaite
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tucked into a clough, an original stone pinfold. Built next to a running water source, a place to keep stray farm animals until their owners were notified. Dating from around the 18c. I love our history, hidden in plain sight. #Slaithwaite
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A Reform UK Government would have him deported, and Reform UK gave that racist ghoul Lucy Connolly a hero's welcome and standing at its annual conference recently.
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A Reform UK Government would have him deported, and Reform UK gave that racist ghoul Lucy Connolly a hero's welcome and standing at its annual conference recently.
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Have you ever wondered what the Jarrow Slake looked like before it was filled in ?
Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵
Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵
March 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Have you ever wondered what the Jarrow Slake looked like before it was filled in ?
Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵
Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵