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Miles King

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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. HSP. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Middle Farm Way Poundbury, looking very dry July 2025

Ramparts at Maiden Castle, Dorchester. July 2025

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 23m

Hamza’s hidden wild isles is excellent.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10d

Drum roll… the return of Stewart Lee!

The Nerve team is delighted to have signed Stewart as our first weekly columnist.

Here he is on how ‘consequential culture’, formerly cancel culture, works.

#TheNerve #TheNerveNews #StewartLee

Black and white image of Stewart Lee collaged with CMYK coloured dots (The branding of The Nerve) THE NERVE is the headline, and underneath it reads ‘Your new weekly columnist’ and ‘Stewart Lee’ set against a bright yellow background.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent to see the musings of cultural commentator/historian/comedian Stewart Lee, gone from the pages of the Observer, have now reappeared on @thenerve.news. Bravo to the Nervers (nervous?) for giving him a platform. Lees' latest piece on burning flags is here www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

Are the Qataris providing Trump's Praetorian Guard?

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

A tricked out $400 million Qatari plane and a Qatari Air Force facility in Idaho. Someone’s planning on never leaving office.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

wait till they find out about Misericords, especially Sheela-na-gig 🤯

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

Leafblowers: an invention for a problem which didn't exist.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

About effing time.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Source
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

was that the only Afghan aroma that evening?

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

On BBC sounds near the end of WATO.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Trump as King Lear.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic interview about Shakespeare, between Richard Burton and a young Bill Turnbull on WATO. Recorded in 1984, just a few weeks before Burton died.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Not even a joke www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Svalbard goes to Defcon 1.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 2d

another day in very normal times

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 2d

First they came for Brexit..

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7d

The British Conservative Party plans to create a new force to detain and deport people who entered the UK through irregular channels, modeling the agency on the US’s immigration enforcement team ICE.

UK Conservatives plan US-style deportation force

The “Removals Force” would work closely with British police to conduct regular immigration checks.

www.politico.eu

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

I guess so. That rules-based international order we see rapidly receding in the rear view mirror did at least make some effort to tackle this sort of thing. Oh well.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Jeez you would think something with that level of danger would be tracked post its useful life ? Falling into the wrong hands it could be a very nasty weapon.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 3d

Could Labour do worse than in 2019 and get < 200 (ie halve their MPs)? possible but unlikely.
Libdems have 72, could get 100 maybe more.
Tories could well get less than 100.
SNP had 50 in the last Parliament, could do again.
Greens could get 20+ by targeting consitutuencies.
Reform may get 150.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 3d

it's way too early to be thinking about the next General Election, so seat projections based on polls are even more meaningless than normal. But also, with a five horse race, the smaller parties will focus their efforts on a small subset of constituencies. And they could get 200 seats between them.