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
Just your regular reminder that there are no illegal ways for people who claim asylum to enter the U.K.
That’s the law.
That’s the law.
Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry is arguably in breach of both Articles 31 and 34 of the Refugee Convention, fundamentally underming the very principle of international refugee protection.
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
Victory thought to be first under new policy that normally refuses applicants such as refugees who entered illegally
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just your regular reminder that there are no illegal ways for people who claim asylum to enter the U.K.
That’s the law.
That’s the law.
Deep dive? No. Firstly no mention at all of the impact of Covid on children either in the school system or entering it after 2020. This has been a huge factor driving need for additional classroom support.
Secondly fails to mention historic underdiagnosis of ASD in girls; only now being remedied.
Secondly fails to mention historic underdiagnosis of ASD in girls; only now being remedied.
Brave deep-dive on the rise of special needs, by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.
Increasing across the advanced economies and highest rate of increase among children of the better-off.
www.ft.com/content/8252...
Increasing across the advanced economies and highest rate of increase among children of the better-off.
www.ft.com/content/8252...
How redefining special needs rocked education
Broadened criteria are benefiting the better-off, harming those facing greatest difficulty and straining the system
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Deep dive? No. Firstly no mention at all of the impact of Covid on children either in the school system or entering it after 2020. This has been a huge factor driving need for additional classroom support.
Secondly fails to mention historic underdiagnosis of ASD in girls; only now being remedied.
Secondly fails to mention historic underdiagnosis of ASD in girls; only now being remedied.
Highest rate of increase among children of the better-off because they can afford to have private diagnoses, instead of waiting for years to be seen in the NHS. Not because there is any difference between rates of child/adolescent mental health problems/neurodiversity between different social groups
Brave deep-dive on the rise of special needs, by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.
Increasing across the advanced economies and highest rate of increase among children of the better-off.
www.ft.com/content/8252...
Increasing across the advanced economies and highest rate of increase among children of the better-off.
www.ft.com/content/8252...
How redefining special needs rocked education
Broadened criteria are benefiting the better-off, harming those facing greatest difficulty and straining the system
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Highest rate of increase among children of the better-off because they can afford to have private diagnoses, instead of waiting for years to be seen in the NHS. Not because there is any difference between rates of child/adolescent mental health problems/neurodiversity between different social groups
Labour's ceaseless yet baseless attacks on Nature and the Environment are not going unopposed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months
Exclusive: Catherine Howard’s exit comes amid disagreements at top of government about how far to push deregulation agenda
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Labour's ceaseless yet baseless attacks on Nature and the Environment are not going unopposed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
just add it to the list of policies Badenoch doesn't understand.
There will inevitably be calls for the UK to align with the EU’s delayed ban on petrol & diesel cars. But this line suggests Badenoch doesn’t understand what’s happening here. China is making cheap EVs. It’s delaying the transition that helps China cement its dominance.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
just add it to the list of policies Badenoch doesn't understand.
And it's no coincidence that the 0.001% are using their power, influence and resources, to ensure that media coverage of sustainability focusses on the global population of humans, and not the Trillionaires' own vast resource consumption.
60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
And it's no coincidence that the 0.001% are using their power, influence and resources, to ensure that media coverage of sustainability focusses on the global population of humans, and not the Trillionaires' own vast resource consumption.
Brian knocked off the top of the news by his brother - again
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Brian knocked off the top of the news by his brother - again
Latest Stewart Lee post for @thenerve.news casts an eye over our (British) position between old enemy Russia, & new enemy the USA. Lee also makes 2 badger references and a third oblique one (striped paint). The coded message is the badgers will not save us this time www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Remember when America used to destroy democracy in style? Those were the days
The CIA once promoted abstract expressionism as a tool of regime change. Now we have AI videos of Trump bombing people with faeces
www.thenerve.news
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Latest Stewart Lee post for @thenerve.news casts an eye over our (British) position between old enemy Russia, & new enemy the USA. Lee also makes 2 badger references and a third oblique one (striped paint). The coded message is the badgers will not save us this time www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
I think the BBC has accidentally created a new force in political commentary by bringing together @aiannucci.bsky.social and Stewart Lee on Strong Message here. Either that or it’s a cleverly baited trap set by ICE to fast track deportation of US listeners to some concentration camp in El Salvador.
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I think the BBC has accidentally created a new force in political commentary by bringing together @aiannucci.bsky.social and Stewart Lee on Strong Message here. Either that or it’s a cleverly baited trap set by ICE to fast track deportation of US listeners to some concentration camp in El Salvador.
Only a matter of time before one of these Russian (sponsored) drone incursions causes military or civilian deaths.
What then?
What then?
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Only a matter of time before one of these Russian (sponsored) drone incursions causes military or civilian deaths.
What then?
What then?
The far right want to infiltrate the Anglican Church?
They could be lost in there for decades, possibly centuries.
They could be lost in there for decades, possibly centuries.
Stephen Yaxley Lennon Tommy Robinson is holding a carol service today billed as “Britain belongs to the British People.”
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The far right want to infiltrate the Anglican Church?
They could be lost in there for decades, possibly centuries.
They could be lost in there for decades, possibly centuries.
A misty morning in Birmingham city centre
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A misty morning in Birmingham city centre
Ah.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ah.
Thank you. This person (using multiple accounts) has been stalking and harassing me and a few other targets for months now and apparently, behind a double block, is still at it.
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This explains a lot
December 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This explains a lot
Reposted by Miles King
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
Reposted by Miles King
Chris's blog is not remotely "bonkers". It just doesn't agree with you. It's rarely wise for any of us to confuse those two things.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Chris's blog is not remotely "bonkers". It just doesn't agree with you. It's rarely wise for any of us to confuse those two things.
Facebook itself projected $16 billion of its 2024 revenues derived from scams and ads for prohibited items inc threatened species and fake medical products.
Is Facebook now akin to a historic Empire or trading company like the East India company, plundering the earth’s riches for profit.
Is Facebook now akin to a historic Empire or trading company like the East India company, plundering the earth’s riches for profit.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Facebook itself projected $16 billion of its 2024 revenues derived from scams and ads for prohibited items inc threatened species and fake medical products.
Is Facebook now akin to a historic Empire or trading company like the East India company, plundering the earth’s riches for profit.
Is Facebook now akin to a historic Empire or trading company like the East India company, plundering the earth’s riches for profit.
Reposted by Miles King
OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
Congrats to Specialist Journalism winners @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Jenna Corderoy and Lucas Amin of Democracy for Sale #BJA2025
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In his last blog of the year from @chrisgrey.bsky.social asks whether, finally, the political tide is turning on Brexit; and also explores the civilisational threat from Trump/Putin/China, that could (should) bring the UK and EU closer together. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
Is the tide turning?
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In his last blog of the year from @chrisgrey.bsky.social asks whether, finally, the political tide is turning on Brexit; and also explores the civilisational threat from Trump/Putin/China, that could (should) bring the UK and EU closer together. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
....and fake charity...
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
....and fake charity...
very much looking forward to seeing this on Digging for Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
very much looking forward to seeing this on Digging for Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I gave this to my mum in 2002.
And she gave it back to me today 😀
And she gave it back to me today 😀
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I gave this to my mum in 2002.
And she gave it back to me today 😀
And she gave it back to me today 😀