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.
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As the clock runs down until Wednesday's budget, the farming and landowning sectors are once again working themselves up into a lather over the already announced changes to Inheritance Tax exemptions for agricultural property and businesses; claims of a collapse in food production at the fore 🧵1/x
Epic epic Epic Hans Zimmer at the O2. Totally Epic . Did I mention it was EPIC?
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Epic epic Epic Hans Zimmer at the O2. Totally Epic . Did I mention it was EPIC?
Brexit wins again.
Everyone loses.
Everyone loses.
Really bad news. And completely irresponsible given where we are.
Can’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us.
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Brexit wins again.
Everyone loses.
Everyone loses.
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Really looking forward to Saturday’s British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25. I’ll be part of a panel discussing the use of AI in botany. Apparently, this is what AI thinks we look like, so I expect everyone to dress entirely in green (with a weird BATHIMAND logo) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Really looking forward to Saturday’s British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25. I’ll be part of a panel discussing the use of AI in botany. Apparently, this is what AI thinks we look like, so I expect everyone to dress entirely in green (with a weird BATHIMAND logo) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Not sure what's the most shocking aspect of this story of waste being dumped to a depth of 2m across 0.6ha of SSSI..
that the fine was a paltry £15000..
that it took 3 years for NE/EA to stop the dumping..
Or that the judge actually believes the SSSI can be restored!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
that the fine was a paltry £15000..
that it took 3 years for NE/EA to stop the dumping..
Or that the judge actually believes the SSSI can be restored!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Landowner to pay £31,000 for landscaping Cornish SSSI with waste
Martin McAnulty has to undo the damage he did to a habitat-rich Site of Special Scientific Interest in St Dennis, Cornwall.
www.gov.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Not sure what's the most shocking aspect of this story of waste being dumped to a depth of 2m across 0.6ha of SSSI..
that the fine was a paltry £15000..
that it took 3 years for NE/EA to stop the dumping..
Or that the judge actually believes the SSSI can be restored!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
that the fine was a paltry £15000..
that it took 3 years for NE/EA to stop the dumping..
Or that the judge actually believes the SSSI can be restored!
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The latest @thenerve.news piece by Stewart Lee... I had reread several of the sentences, with a disconcerting feeling my brain was turning inside out. I hope that was the intended effect.
The question is put: does Farage still coddle the fascism of his youth?
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
The question is put: does Farage still coddle the fascism of his youth?
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: I’ll tell you one thing: it wasn't Jeremy Corbyn who went around whispering ‘Gas the Jews’
You would think the alleged indiscretions of the youthful Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just and impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The latest @thenerve.news piece by Stewart Lee... I had reread several of the sentences, with a disconcerting feeling my brain was turning inside out. I hope that was the intended effect.
The question is put: does Farage still coddle the fascism of his youth?
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
The question is put: does Farage still coddle the fascism of his youth?
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Did somebody say Pigeon?
a cartoon dog wearing a helmet and goggles is standing with his arms crossed .
ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a helmet and goggles is standing with his arms crossed .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Did somebody say Pigeon?
Not forgetting the racist justification for exterminating the indigenous peoples of North America.
Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Not forgetting the racist justification for exterminating the indigenous peoples of North America.
Badenoch will next claim that Christ feeding the five thousand is err unchristian. Skivers!
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Badenoch will next claim that Christ feeding the five thousand is err unchristian. Skivers!
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
“The details are dribbling into the public domain” This is No laughing matter. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most UK men, experts expected to say
The UK National Screening Committee is due to say only men with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, aged between 45 and 61, should be offered regular testing.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The details are dribbling into the public domain” This is No laughing matter. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Incredible how influential this man is over Labour policy. #BlueLabour
🔴 NEW - Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture
The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture.
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The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture.
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Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture
An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are a “benefit to the planet”. Lord Maurice Glasman...
www.desmog.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Incredible how influential this man is over Labour policy. #BlueLabour
Today's post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social covers a range of topics, explaining clearly how so many of this country's problems stem from Brexit. I think "enshittification", initially created to describe the internet, applies well here. Brexit reminders chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
Brexit reminders
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Today's post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social covers a range of topics, explaining clearly how so many of this country's problems stem from Brexit. I think "enshittification", initially created to describe the internet, applies well here. Brexit reminders chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
Trio number 1. They are both sublime
Meanwhile on Radio 3, Schubert’s utterly sublime Piano Trio.
It’s the World at One-egraph
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Trio number 1. They are both sublime
Meanwhile on Radio 3, Schubert’s utterly sublime Piano Trio.
It’s the World at One-egraph
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meanwhile on Radio 3, Schubert’s utterly sublime Piano Trio.
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
It’s the World at One-egraph
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It’s the World at One-egraph
Chancellor confirms that unused £1m of relief from inheritance on farmland can be transferred to the surviving spouse using the spouse nil rate band. So the estate has £2m of relief to apply at the death of the surviving spouse. #2025budget
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Chancellor confirms that unused £1m of relief from inheritance on farmland can be transferred to the surviving spouse using the spouse nil rate band. So the estate has £2m of relief to apply at the death of the surviving spouse. #2025budget
Introducing vehicle tax to electric cars while freezing fuel duty for polluting vehicles immediately after COP30? 🙁 #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Introducing vehicle tax to electric cars while freezing fuel duty for polluting vehicles immediately after COP30? 🙁 #budget2025
Anyone who thinks sidling up to a jewish schoolboy and singing "gas 'em all" ... is "banter" or not meant to "hurt anybody" is either a liar or a sociopath. Or both.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Anyone who thinks sidling up to a jewish schoolboy and singing "gas 'em all" ... is "banter" or not meant to "hurt anybody" is either a liar or a sociopath. Or both.
All the "nobody understands my special take on science" bros, virtue-signal their support for each other, while playing the victim.
This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
All the "nobody understands my special take on science" bros, virtue-signal their support for each other, while playing the victim.
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As well as the moral case for lifting children out of poverty, there’s a powerful economic case for abolishing the two-child cap. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Abolishing the two-child benefit limit would be a great investment | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Abolishing the Two-Child Benefit limit and overall Benefit Cap is good policy not just for ethical reasons but because investment in children pays off.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As well as the moral case for lifting children out of poverty, there’s a powerful economic case for abolishing the two-child cap. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...