Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social
Now at tail end of a long career in UK Nature Conservation - nature reserves, SSSIs, policy work, lots of reports - and 10+ years of blogging. Currently run @poundburynatureproject. Cellist. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.
Pinned
Happy Samhain! Weather stats for October in our part of Dorchester Dorset. October was an averagey month. After a wet and very windy start (Storm Amy) we had a long spell of high pressure up to the 18th, before a succession of lows including Storm Benjamin (977mb) through to the end of the month. ⬇️
For #wildflowerhour Field Pennycress found on disturbed ground in the bit of Poundbury they are still building, & Common Ramping fumitory. In amongst a nice array of arable weeds - what would have previously been fallow land. Apologies for the out of focus flowers! I was focussing on the “pennies”.
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For #wildflowerhour Field Pennycress found on disturbed ground in the bit of Poundbury they are still building, & Common Ramping fumitory. In amongst a nice array of arable weeds - what would have previously been fallow land. Apologies for the out of focus flowers! I was focussing on the “pennies”.
Not now, Bird Flu.
We still haven’t got over the last pandemic.
We still haven’t got over the last pandemic.
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Not now, Bird Flu.
We still haven’t got over the last pandemic.
We still haven’t got over the last pandemic.
F*** the ecomodernists
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
F*** the ecomodernists
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Fly-tippers bury field in 'shocking' mountain of waste - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high" - even in our dark times, this is one of the most appalling things I have seen recently
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Fly-tippers bury field in 'shocking' mountain of waste - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high" - even in our dark times, this is one of the most appalling things I have seen recently
As day follows night, Trump will apply tariffs to things he links to the BBC.
Daleks
People with mockney accents
Ballroom but especially Latin dancing.
Tellytubbies
The Archers (including people who are archers)
Professor Brian Cox (any mention of Succession will be expunged from all US websites)
Daleks
People with mockney accents
Ballroom but especially Latin dancing.
Tellytubbies
The Archers (including people who are archers)
Professor Brian Cox (any mention of Succession will be expunged from all US websites)
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
As day follows night, Trump will apply tariffs to things he links to the BBC.
Daleks
People with mockney accents
Ballroom but especially Latin dancing.
Tellytubbies
The Archers (including people who are archers)
Professor Brian Cox (any mention of Succession will be expunged from all US websites)
Daleks
People with mockney accents
Ballroom but especially Latin dancing.
Tellytubbies
The Archers (including people who are archers)
Professor Brian Cox (any mention of Succession will be expunged from all US websites)
Stewart Lee's latest offering to @thenerve.news covers the BBC scandal. Lee invokes The Golem, a gak Pogle (?), and the slightly nauseating image of Robbie Gibb as a squatting "toad made of farts". The lol moment for me was his description of a Premier Inn at 1am. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
I may seem like an unlikely candidate. But at least I understand that the first step to facing down the organisation’s malevolent opponents is to stop appeasing them
www.thenerve.news
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Stewart Lee's latest offering to @thenerve.news covers the BBC scandal. Lee invokes The Golem, a gak Pogle (?), and the slightly nauseating image of Robbie Gibb as a squatting "toad made of farts". The lol moment for me was his description of a Premier Inn at 1am. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Reposted by Miles King
Reposted by Miles King
"We do not yet know how Trump and lawyers will react to this sensible, measured response. He may well file suit, for the sake of demanding more. But even if he does, the BBC response so far places the broadcaster in the best position for dealing with any claim" @davidallengreen.bsky.social
The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
By apologising, the broadcaster has taken the sting out of Trump's excessive attack
www.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"We do not yet know how Trump and lawyers will react to this sensible, measured response. He may well file suit, for the sake of demanding more. But even if he does, the BBC response so far places the broadcaster in the best position for dealing with any claim" @davidallengreen.bsky.social
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Today our podcast guest is the artist Jeremy Deller.
Matthew Shaw chats with Jeremy about the triumph of art, about ancient sites, rave culture, brass bands, steel bands, ancient sites, art as magic and so on, have a listen and let us know what you think.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
Matthew Shaw chats with Jeremy about the triumph of art, about ancient sites, rave culture, brass bands, steel bands, ancient sites, art as magic and so on, have a listen and let us know what you think.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Today our podcast guest is the artist Jeremy Deller.
Matthew Shaw chats with Jeremy about the triumph of art, about ancient sites, rave culture, brass bands, steel bands, ancient sites, art as magic and so on, have a listen and let us know what you think.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
Matthew Shaw chats with Jeremy about the triumph of art, about ancient sites, rave culture, brass bands, steel bands, ancient sites, art as magic and so on, have a listen and let us know what you think.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
Dropped the teapot lid yesterday which broke. Superglue do your work.
Memories of making many plastic model kits and being covered in glue. Already managed to superglue the phone to the newspaper but fortunately realised in time. More or less!
Memories of making many plastic model kits and being covered in glue. Already managed to superglue the phone to the newspaper but fortunately realised in time. More or less!
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dropped the teapot lid yesterday which broke. Superglue do your work.
Memories of making many plastic model kits and being covered in glue. Already managed to superglue the phone to the newspaper but fortunately realised in time. More or less!
Memories of making many plastic model kits and being covered in glue. Already managed to superglue the phone to the newspaper but fortunately realised in time. More or less!
Serious concerns were raised when Tory stooge Robbie Gibb (whose brother was a Tory minister duh) was appointed to the BBC board in 2021.
Do politicians, their SPADs and staff not bother to read beyond the headlines? I thought it was their job to know what was going on....
Do politicians, their SPADs and staff not bother to read beyond the headlines? I thought it was their job to know what was going on....
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Serious concerns were raised when Tory stooge Robbie Gibb (whose brother was a Tory minister duh) was appointed to the BBC board in 2021.
Do politicians, their SPADs and staff not bother to read beyond the headlines? I thought it was their job to know what was going on....
Do politicians, their SPADs and staff not bother to read beyond the headlines? I thought it was their job to know what was going on....
Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
A fabulous advert for @helleborezine.bsky.social
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Latest piece from @chrisgrey.bsky.social is up to his usual excellence in analysing the last fortnight's news. Covering Farage's tax u-turn, and the culture war attacks on the BBC et al
Brexit & Brexitism: Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
Brexit & Brexitism: Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Latest piece from @chrisgrey.bsky.social is up to his usual excellence in analysing the last fortnight's news. Covering Farage's tax u-turn, and the culture war attacks on the BBC et al
Brexit & Brexitism: Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
Brexit & Brexitism: Stasis, sanctimony, and the liberal paradox chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
Cold weather still projected for next week
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Cold weather still projected for next week
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Can we have that chaos with Ed Miliband now please.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Can we have that chaos with Ed Miliband now please.
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Can we have that chaos with Ed Miliband now please.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Can we have that chaos with Ed Miliband now please.
Once upon a time in space is excellent.
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Once upon a time in space is excellent.
Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Unseasonably warm today, up to 17.3°C here.
A Brimstone butterfly was confused enough to fly around briefly, before roosting under this bramble leaf.
Good camouflage!
A Brimstone butterfly was confused enough to fly around briefly, before roosting under this bramble leaf.
Good camouflage!
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Unseasonably warm today, up to 17.3°C here.
A Brimstone butterfly was confused enough to fly around briefly, before roosting under this bramble leaf.
Good camouflage!
A Brimstone butterfly was confused enough to fly around briefly, before roosting under this bramble leaf.
Good camouflage!
Are there two opposing teams in number 10 briefing against each other? Certainly looks that way.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Are there two opposing teams in number 10 briefing against each other? Certainly looks that way.
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Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life.
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life.
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
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"The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into Westminster-based think tank Policy Exchange, after concerns were raised last month by the Good Law Project".
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity-commission-opens-case-into-policy-exchange.html
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity-commission-opens-case-into-policy-exchange.html
Charity Commission opens case into Policy Exchange
www.civilsociety.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into Westminster-based think tank Policy Exchange, after concerns were raised last month by the Good Law Project".
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity-commission-opens-case-into-policy-exchange.html
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity-commission-opens-case-into-policy-exchange.html
The Pearson Effect. Anything Allison Pearson says is the reverse of the truth.
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Pearson Effect. Anything Allison Pearson says is the reverse of the truth.
Blink if you are being held against your will.
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Blink if you are being held against your will.
Compulsory Housing Orders.... but not for Pheasants.
Compulsory housing orders across England, Wales & Northern Ireland to combat 'significantly elevated threat' of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/c...
Compulsory housing orders across England, Wales & Northern Ireland to combat ‘significantly elevated threat’ of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
Compulsory housing orders have been introduced across all of England, Wales and Northern Ireland in a bid to combat the ‘significantly elevated threat’ of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influe…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Compulsory Housing Orders.... but not for Pheasants.
As the indicators of rapid and disastrous climate change (such as polar ice loss) are flashing red, and with the world meeting at #COP30 to thrash out more urgent action.... oil and gas prices drop dramatically today.... because of a worldwide production glut.
Hell and Hand Basket come to mind.
Hell and Hand Basket come to mind.
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
As the indicators of rapid and disastrous climate change (such as polar ice loss) are flashing red, and with the world meeting at #COP30 to thrash out more urgent action.... oil and gas prices drop dramatically today.... because of a worldwide production glut.
Hell and Hand Basket come to mind.
Hell and Hand Basket come to mind.