And if you’re wondering who Labour is listening to? “Reeves boasted she hatched plan to rip down our nature protections over a “smoked salmon & scrambled eggs breakfast” with corporate lobbyists”. While Starmer’s resolve to kick down planning rules are result of his “conversations with leading CEOs”

A story in three parts

Oh, that’s very good.

Trying to remember who described him as a pair of compasses.

Goldfinches, whinchats and life-giving cattle on the moor in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @calmandfearless.bsky.social.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Excellent to see Labour MPs call on the government to leave Elon Musk's hate-filled X. Doing so would spark an exodus of journalists & public bodies.

Thank you @bengoldsborough.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk @alexballingermp.bsky.social

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

What do you do with a democracy that refuses to serve the demos – the people?

For 75 years now, following Nepal’s short-lived experiment with democracy in 1950, each generation has had to answer this question anew.

My view on where Nepal stands now:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b6403fe...

Obvs, leave X, because it's mad. But also, is one of the differences between the hard left and right the amount of drugs being hoovered up? Tiny Tommy and his coke rages, Elon and his k-holes, Nige and his anxious fag breaks.

From producing cars that catch fire, to trying to burn down democracies.

UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂

Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.

Mind you, Ant Middleton was always a twat.

Nepal has its first female prime minister, in her 70s, but a former chief justice who will be a big advance on the men in their 70s who were throttling the country. nepalitimes.com/news/madam-p...

Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates

The world produced enough calories in 2020 to feed 15 billion people – but only 50 per cent of those calories ended up reaching people's plates.

www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Such a complicated issue but I’m with Ruth Tingay here. If you put 60 million pheasants and partridges into the countryside, foxes will do well. And curlews won’t. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The empire as expression of psychopathy.

😬

Completed in 1908, it was built by Chandra Shumsher Rana, then the prime minister, who immediately sold it to the Nepali state. Chandra, a hardliner, replaced a reformist regime in a coup, ushered into power by his mate Lord Curzon...

If it goes wrong there's always the option of being raised from the dead?

Yeah, that was bollocks. The scandal in the home ministry and the lack of resignations was infuriating.

Astonishing to see Singha Durbar burning in Kathmandu. Symbol of a systemic failure of government.

More excellent news: UK government bans burning on deep peat in England – Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/09/m...

I love hearing them chat to each other.

Great footage and a mesmerising bird.

Me looking at seals looking at me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...