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
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This is sad news.
Admired British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is sad news.
My mum was neither an entrepreneur, a high earner nor a skilled frontline worker. She brought up 2 children, and through voluntary work, helped create the playgroup movement, ran adult education programmes, and a wonderful music charity.
Had she applied to enter her UK now, she would be rejected.
Had she applied to enter her UK now, she would be rejected.
December 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My mum was neither an entrepreneur, a high earner nor a skilled frontline worker. She brought up 2 children, and through voluntary work, helped create the playgroup movement, ran adult education programmes, and a wonderful music charity.
Had she applied to enter her UK now, she would be rejected.
Had she applied to enter her UK now, she would be rejected.
Hopefully not delivered by a drink driver.
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hopefully not delivered by a drink driver.
Blue Labour always was and continues to be a Euro-sceptic party.
Will Labour MPs defy the party or will Starmer stick to one of his promises and put Country before Party?
This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Blue Labour always was and continues to be a Euro-sceptic party.
The same place all the other "surprise" Beavers came from.
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The same place all the other "surprise" Beavers came from.
Big flooding on the Frome at Dorchester
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Big flooding on the Frome at Dorchester
Kremlin reveals new strategy to destroy UK from the inside "one delayed train at a time"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - BBC News
Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Kremlin reveals new strategy to destroy UK from the inside "one delayed train at a time"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists
The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists
Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping? www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le... Lee cogitates on the risk of AI destroying humanity, while unable to discern a single LP from a double album. He also introduces the Haugbúi-Gullis to us.
Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?
If a leading scientist is right, we have five years until we’re being sextorted by smart kettles and facing the ‘ultimate risk’ to our existence – and yet AI can't recognise an album format. It almost...
www.thenerve.news
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping? www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le... Lee cogitates on the risk of AI destroying humanity, while unable to discern a single LP from a double album. He also introduces the Haugbúi-Gullis to us.
A lot to unpack here.
15% response rate. GPs who believe in over diagnosis may have responded more than GPs who don't.
No extrapolation possible, so it's just the views of 752 GPs.
Only 24% felt MH over diagnosed "a lot".
Still mixing up MH with neurodiversity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
15% response rate. GPs who believe in over diagnosis may have responded more than GPs who don't.
No extrapolation possible, so it's just the views of 752 GPs.
Only 24% felt MH over diagnosed "a lot".
Still mixing up MH with neurodiversity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A lot to unpack here.
15% response rate. GPs who believe in over diagnosis may have responded more than GPs who don't.
No extrapolation possible, so it's just the views of 752 GPs.
Only 24% felt MH over diagnosed "a lot".
Still mixing up MH with neurodiversity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
15% response rate. GPs who believe in over diagnosis may have responded more than GPs who don't.
No extrapolation possible, so it's just the views of 752 GPs.
Only 24% felt MH over diagnosed "a lot".
Still mixing up MH with neurodiversity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Yes you read it right. If the EA clears up an illegal waste dump & sends the waste to a legal landfill, it has to pay the Landfill Tax on the waste. So of course it's not clearing it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Yes you read it right. If the EA clears up an illegal waste dump & sends the waste to a legal landfill, it has to pay the Landfill Tax on the waste. So of course it's not clearing it.
Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste
Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Environment Agency faces landfill tax bill worth millions to clear illegal waste
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Yes you read it right. If the EA clears up an illegal waste dump & sends the waste to a legal landfill, it has to pay the Landfill Tax on the waste. So of course it's not clearing it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Yes you read it right. If the EA clears up an illegal waste dump & sends the waste to a legal landfill, it has to pay the Landfill Tax on the waste. So of course it's not clearing it.
You know what to do
It’s at 11,000 now, lol
Best thing about this is Trump being ratioed on the BBC Sports live page
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You know what to do
Jake is right, but it’s worth recalling that the reverse ferret on splitting the post Brexit agriculture budget 3 ways, with 1/3 going to Landscape recovery started almost as soon as the policy was announced. Labour are continuing the long back track, which probably started when Gove left Defra?
"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jake is right, but it’s worth recalling that the reverse ferret on splitting the post Brexit agriculture budget 3 ways, with 1/3 going to Landscape recovery started almost as soon as the policy was announced. Labour are continuing the long back track, which probably started when Gove left Defra?
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"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can’t think what reminded me of this John Heartfield artwork
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can’t think what reminded me of this John Heartfield artwork
More of Dorset’s archaeological heritage lost. @tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
More of Dorset’s archaeological heritage lost. @tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Labour: We're on the side of the miners, not the blockers.
Scientists: “The study shows… technologies for harvesting are too damaging.”
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Labour: We're on the side of the miners, not the blockers.
this is a scene from Industry, right?
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
this is a scene from Industry, right?
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Corbyn And Sultana Barred From Leading 'Your Party' As Members Will Front It Themselves www.politicshome.com/news/article...
two people kneeling in the grass with the words we don 't have a lord
ALT: two people kneeling in the grass with the words we don 't have a lord
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Corbyn And Sultana Barred From Leading 'Your Party' As Members Will Front It Themselves www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Cloudfare down again?
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Cloudfare down again?
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Not for the first time, I’m being told that attacking Farage for his boyhood racism is futile. The opposite is the case, as you can see from how rattled he is by it.
And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.
And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Not for the first time, I’m being told that attacking Farage for his boyhood racism is futile. The opposite is the case, as you can see from how rattled he is by it.
And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.
And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.
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