Peter Fiennes
@pfiennes.bsky.social
Latest book, 'A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical & Modern Greece'.
Now happily lost in France. Maupassant, Sartre, Colette and others. #books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
Now happily lost in France. Maupassant, Sartre, Colette and others. #books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
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And this is a lovely book.
Read all about her (lovely!) life in Footnotes.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/foot...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/foot...
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
uk.bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
And this is a lovely book.
It's a fond hello to Enid Blyton, who died on this day in 1968, aged 71. Author of 100s of books (even she lost count), including the utterly thrilling Famous Five adventures. Excluded by libraries, banned by the BBC, clunky, parochial, hated by one daughter, loved by the other. And yet, and yet...
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's a fond hello to Enid Blyton, who died on this day in 1968, aged 71. Author of 100s of books (even she lost count), including the utterly thrilling Famous Five adventures. Excluded by libraries, banned by the BBC, clunky, parochial, hated by one daughter, loved by the other. And yet, and yet...
Trees and wine! The dream team.
France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show
MONTPELLIER, France — As the world warms due to climate change, winemakers are struggling to maintain the quality of their product. But in the home of wine, agroforestry researchers are showing that g...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trees and wine! The dream team.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
This is true
In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is true
Essential reading.
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Essential reading.
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The petrostates really want you to hate environmentalists. Don’t fall for it.
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
Ermittler vermuten Russland hinter Bauschaum-Attacken auf Autos
Hunderte Autos wurden vor einem Jahr in mehreren Bundesländern mit Bauschaum beschädigt. Die Ermittler gehen derzeit davon aus, dass damit die Grünen vor der Wahl diskreditiert werden sollten.
www.n-tv.de
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The petrostates really want you to hate environmentalists. Don’t fall for it.
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Trump, war, attention deficit: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield in which they took place
Jonathan Watts in Belém
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield in which they took place
Jonathan Watts in Belém
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump, war, attention deficit: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield in which they took place
Jonathan Watts in Belém
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield in which they took place
Jonathan Watts in Belém
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Happy Birthday to the amazing Beryl Bainbridge, born #OTD 1932. Author of 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'According to Queeney' and a slew of great novels.
I wrote about her travels around England in 'Footnotes' - which is today selling for a ludicrous 99p on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
I wrote about her travels around England in 'Footnotes' - which is today selling for a ludicrous 99p on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy Birthday to the amazing Beryl Bainbridge, born #OTD 1932. Author of 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'According to Queeney' and a slew of great novels.
I wrote about her travels around England in 'Footnotes' - which is today selling for a ludicrous 99p on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
I wrote about her travels around England in 'Footnotes' - which is today selling for a ludicrous 99p on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
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One of my favourite episodes of Radio 4's #Ramblings, ever!
Anjana's knowledge and passion for all things 'rock' are hugely inspiring, and this episode is an absolute delight. Listen again via link below, and follow Anjana here: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Anjana's knowledge and passion for all things 'rock' are hugely inspiring, and this episode is an absolute delight. Listen again via link below, and follow Anjana here: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Whispering Rocks with Anjana Khatwa
Clare joins earth scientist Anjana Khatwa in Dorset to explore the landscape she loves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
One of my favourite episodes of Radio 4's #Ramblings, ever!
Anjana's knowledge and passion for all things 'rock' are hugely inspiring, and this episode is an absolute delight. Listen again via link below, and follow Anjana here: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Anjana's knowledge and passion for all things 'rock' are hugely inspiring, and this episode is an absolute delight. Listen again via link below, and follow Anjana here: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Just printed out the final proofs. One last (or 12 more) anxious read(s)…
Out May 2026!
Out May 2026!
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Just printed out the final proofs. One last (or 12 more) anxious read(s)…
Out May 2026!
Out May 2026!
Pretty sure this is a Van Morrison song.
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Pretty sure this is a Van Morrison song.
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😢
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
😢
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
If you own a Kindle, you might like to buy my books 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty' for a ludicrous 99p each.
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers eBook : Fiennes, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you own a Kindle, you might like to buy my books 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty' for a ludicrous 99p each.
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Footnotes-Jo...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
My lifelong love of Harrison Ford has just leaped to another level.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My lifelong love of Harrison Ford has just leaped to another level.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The production of 'The Maids' at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social is brilliant. An absolute thrill. And the acting from the three characters is phenomenal - such power and speed!
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The production of 'The Maids' at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social is brilliant. An absolute thrill. And the acting from the three characters is phenomenal - such power and speed!
Sounds grim.
🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨
The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.
Our reaction 👇
The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.
Our reaction 👇
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sounds grim.
Brilliant
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Brilliant
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Just over £13k still needed to save 112 acres of nature-rich land amid the dairy pastures of Devon. Please chip in if you can, or share this widely.
PLEASE SAVE BEER MILL FOR NATURE
Help us save 112 acres of rare, species-rich land in Devon for nature
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just over £13k still needed to save 112 acres of nature-rich land amid the dairy pastures of Devon. Please chip in if you can, or share this widely.
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Exciting!
#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time
More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy
www.independent.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Exciting!
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Very glad to hear the Pope call for action against climate change. If you oppose urgent action, it's probably because you have your snout in the trough (Trump, Farage, Badenoch).
In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
October 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Very glad to hear the Pope call for action against climate change. If you oppose urgent action, it's probably because you have your snout in the trough (Trump, Farage, Badenoch).