@derekirvine.bsky.social
🏴🇪🇺🎸 wildlife, music, motorcycles and being outdoors.
Notoriously grumpy old man.
Servant/bed for two Siamese cats.
Notoriously grumpy old man.
Servant/bed for two Siamese cats.
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Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Rest of UK has so far resisted calls to make it mandatory for developers to install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
Swift bricks will be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after the Scottish parliament voted in favour of a law to help endangered cavity-nesting birds.
The Scottish government and MSPs across the parties backed an amendment by Scottish Green Mark Ruskell to make swift bricks mandatory for all new dwellings “where reasonably practical and appropriate”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
USA take note.
S Korea’s former PM found guilty of insurrection, given 23 years in prison https://aje.news/plnhoe
January 21, 2026 at 8:32 AM
USA take note.
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Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament
Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox
Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox
January 20, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament
Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox
Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox
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It is a 19th-century mindset in a 21st-century world: territorial ambition framed as national security.
America - Russia
America - Russia
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
It is a 19th-century mindset in a 21st-century world: territorial ambition framed as national security.
America - Russia
America - Russia
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If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
January 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM
If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
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Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
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Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.
More detail on the 'missing' White-tailed Eagle in south Scotland raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/18/m... is very disappointing.
More detail on the ‘missing’ White-tailed Eagle in south Scotland
Further to the news yesterday (here) that three White-tailed Eagles have ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances, one in England, one in Wales and one in Scotland, Police Scotland has…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
More detail on the 'missing' White-tailed Eagle in south Scotland raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/18/m... is very disappointing.
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"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
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Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
America, you really need to send this fucker to prison.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
America, you really need to send this fucker to prison.
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The OG Simon's Cat film!
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The OG Simon's Cat film!
If he isn't impeached/jailed for this immediately, then you really "won't have a country ".
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If he isn't impeached/jailed for this immediately, then you really "won't have a country ".
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After a year of sucking up, the PM can’t even get Donald Trump on the phone as he tries to destroy one of our most important institutions, the BBC.
Was the state visit really worth this?
Was the state visit really worth this?
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After a year of sucking up, the PM can’t even get Donald Trump on the phone as he tries to destroy one of our most important institutions, the BBC.
Was the state visit really worth this?
Was the state visit really worth this?
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Well said @peteregan46.bsky.social on the video of the hideous Coniston Hunt dig-out:
We couldn’t agree more 👇🏽👇🏼
We couldn’t agree more 👇🏽👇🏼
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Well said @peteregan46.bsky.social on the video of the hideous Coniston Hunt dig-out:
We couldn’t agree more 👇🏽👇🏼
We couldn’t agree more 👇🏽👇🏼
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At what point does the name change to the Trump files?
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At what point does the name change to the Trump files?
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In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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Damn right! Good piece in the Rutland Times!
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Damn right! Good piece in the Rutland Times!