Imagine this, and places just like it all across Ireland, once again covered in its natural habitat of *wildly* species-rich, spellbinding, rainforests.

By simply making it worth farmers' while to remove their few sheep, we could so easily magic wand them back into existence.

Voters’ anger is largely focused on asylum, and perhaps on low-skilled immigration.

The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.

This will not end well.

This article is well worth a read.

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

And, per @jdportes.bsky.social, the more friction/uncertainty you put into the immigration system the higher the likelihood that you dissuade higher skilled migrants from coming/staying because they have options. It’s self-defeating and doesn’t work as signal cause the rhetoric ratchet goes one way.

🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!

M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.

Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.

Golden autumn leaves

Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...

An autumn morning in our local park

My friend Jerry came by for a visit 🥰 #CTShoreline #swans #FallFoliage

🇬🇧 The charm of October in the Babolovo Park of Tsarskoe Selo
📷 Tsarskoe Selo, Katerina Novak
🇷🇺 Очарование октября в Баболовском парке Царского Села
#photohour #stormhour #worldheritagesite

“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder~
Today, find some time to do something you really enjoy. Happy Wednesday everyone.🦋

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

The awkward teenage years.

A Cygnet growing up fast at our local park.

#nature #photography #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #ColorADay #BWFri #Ireland

Local by election in my town council ward yesterday… we have had Reform chucking money at it, and the “Sussex Patriots” group putting flags everywhere…and…too many for Reform, but no Tory candidate, so it’s been tense! 🎉🎉

Happy Saturday! #BirdOfTheDay #ukbirds #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin

Lovely story about Quaker the horse on #r4today

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Multiple reports from Israeli, Arab and US sources that a ceasefire deal in Gaza could be imminent, with the hope that Phase 1 is signed today or tomorrow and hostage releases would begin almost immediately.

Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus): This is a 20cm (7.9in) species of sparrow that has a chestnut brown head and nape, white cheeks and collar with a contrasting black cheek spot. Nice photo taken by Paul Morton in the UK. #sparrow #treesparrow #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #tweet #uk #bsky

Action Janie! #dog #dogs #labrador #lab #labradorsofbluesky #yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky #labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.