Peter Fiennes
@pfiennes.bsky.social
Latest book, 'A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical & Modern Greece'.
Now happily lost in France. Maupassant, Sartre, Colette and others. #books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
Now happily lost in France. Maupassant, Sartre, Colette and others. #books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
Just printed out the final proofs. One last (or 12 more) anxious read(s)…
Out May 2026!
Out May 2026!
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Just printed out the final proofs. One last (or 12 more) anxious read(s)…
Out May 2026!
Out May 2026!
Pretty sure this is a Van Morrison song.
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Pretty sure this is a Van Morrison song.
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
If you own a Kindle, you might like to buy my books 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty' for a ludicrous 99p each.
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you own a Kindle, you might like to buy my books 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty' for a ludicrous 99p each.
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
My lifelong love of Harrison Ford has just leaped to another level.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My lifelong love of Harrison Ford has just leaped to another level.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The production of 'The Maids' at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social is brilliant. An absolute thrill. And the acting from the three characters is phenomenal - such power and speed!
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The production of 'The Maids' at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social is brilliant. An absolute thrill. And the acting from the three characters is phenomenal - such power and speed!
Sounds grim.
🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨
The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.
Our reaction 👇
The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.
Our reaction 👇
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sounds grim.
Brilliant
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Brilliant
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Just over £13k still needed to save 112 acres of nature-rich land amid the dairy pastures of Devon. Please chip in if you can, or share this widely.
PLEASE SAVE BEER MILL FOR NATURE
Help us save 112 acres of rare, species-rich land in Devon for nature
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just over £13k still needed to save 112 acres of nature-rich land amid the dairy pastures of Devon. Please chip in if you can, or share this widely.
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Exciting!
#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time
More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy
www.independent.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Exciting!
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Very glad to hear the Pope call for action against climate change. If you oppose urgent action, it's probably because you have your snout in the trough (Trump, Farage, Badenoch).
In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
October 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Very glad to hear the Pope call for action against climate change. If you oppose urgent action, it's probably because you have your snout in the trough (Trump, Farage, Badenoch).
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A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity" - Oceanographic
An historic treaty to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas, the High Seas Treaty, will come into force in 120 days.
oceanographicmagazine.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...
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How - given the facts and the news - can climate change 'scepticism' be rising? And given what Starmer must know, how can he possibly not speak out? Isn't that what leaders are meant to do?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate change scepticism is rising. Will Starmer hold firm or buckle?
Attacks from Donald Trump and Reform UK – plus a cost of living crisis – have created a politically tricky conundrum
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
How - given the facts and the news - can climate change 'scepticism' be rising? And given what Starmer must know, how can he possibly not speak out? Isn't that what leaders are meant to do?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I saw 'Constellations' last night, as part of the Wanstead Fringe, and it's absolutely brilliant. I thought (after having seen it in the West End a few years ago) I didn't even much like the play - but this is gripping, in-the-round theatre.
Last chance to see it!
wansteadfringe.org/series/const...
Last chance to see it!
wansteadfringe.org/series/const...
Constellations – WANSTEAD FRINGE
wansteadfringe.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I saw 'Constellations' last night, as part of the Wanstead Fringe, and it's absolutely brilliant. I thought (after having seen it in the West End a few years ago) I didn't even much like the play - but this is gripping, in-the-round theatre.
Last chance to see it!
wansteadfringe.org/series/const...
Last chance to see it!
wansteadfringe.org/series/const...
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Although some people say that Sam Johnson's birthday is (or was) TODAY!
Happy Birthday (probably!) to Dr Sam Johnson, compiler of the first English dictionary and subject of the world's greatest biography (James Boswell's 'Life of Johnson').
'The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken' indeed...
'The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken' indeed...
September 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Although some people say that Sam Johnson's birthday is (or was) TODAY!
You can buy 'A Thing of Beauty' for your Kindle for 99p at the moment. It's absurd, of course - but if you don't want a print version (from your local bookshop!), then I guess fair enough. And I'd be thrilled to have people read it.
amzn.eu/d/ciXTcys
amzn.eu/d/ciXTcys
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
September 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
You can buy 'A Thing of Beauty' for your Kindle for 99p at the moment. It's absurd, of course - but if you don't want a print version (from your local bookshop!), then I guess fair enough. And I'd be thrilled to have people read it.
amzn.eu/d/ciXTcys
amzn.eu/d/ciXTcys
If you haven’t seen it, THIS is what is being allowed - in Marine Protected Areas.
youtu.be/eLxmUbQESAU?...
youtu.be/eLxmUbQESAU?...
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
If you haven’t seen it, THIS is what is being allowed - in Marine Protected Areas.
youtu.be/eLxmUbQESAU?...
youtu.be/eLxmUbQESAU?...
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If you are in Corfu at the time of the Literary Festival there are some fantastic events. Or just make time and go! It’s magical.
www.corfuliteraryfestival.com
www.corfuliteraryfestival.com
Corfu Literary Festival, 8th – 14th September 2025
The Corfu Literary Festival is a celebration of literature, culture and the arts, held in Corfu, Greece. The 2025 festival runs from 8th to 14th of September.
www.corfuliteraryfestival.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you are in Corfu at the time of the Literary Festival there are some fantastic events. Or just make time and go! It’s magical.
www.corfuliteraryfestival.com
www.corfuliteraryfestival.com