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Miles King

@milesking.bsky.social

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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. HSP. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy September! Weather stats for Dorchester. August was notably dry & warm until the last 5 days. Mean Temperature up to the 20th was 19°C, but a cooler end to the month saw the Mean drop to 18.3°C, with the hottest day the 12th at 29.4C. Only one day (30th) failed to reach 20°C, at 19.4°C. 1/4

Middle Farm Way Poundbury, looking very dry July 2025

Ramparts at Maiden Castle, Dorchester. July 2025

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 41m

If only Badenoch had followed through with her degrees in engineering and law, and made some valuable contribution to society and the economy, instead of wasting her life becoming a failed politician in a dying party.

There’s still time to rethink Kemi!

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 6h

They know that a more educated electorate is less likely to vote Tory.

odbof85 @odbof85.bsky.social · 7h

The Tories, and Badenoch in particular, still think that education for the masses should be no more than vocational training.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 19h

Reform is telling us what they want to do to the UK

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 1d

Even Lord Sumption was flummoxed by racist boy Jenrick’s rabbit hole conspiracy drooling

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

They really aren’t good Stephen. They are both bad for development and very bad for nature. But yes they won’t yield results in time for the next election anyway.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer and Reeves seem intent on leaving a legacy that makes Cameron's "Greenest Government Ever" claim now seem plausible.

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

www.theguardian.com

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent news

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

www.thenerve.news

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 4d

another defector to Reform?

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 4d

Ukraine wins the strategic air war, while Russia continues to bomb civilians, children, first responders, even foreign embassies ....hoping to achieve what?

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 4d

Ukraine’s drones have knocked out nearly 40% of Russia’s refining capacity, leaving 20 regions — from Crimea to Siberia — short on fuel.

🗺️ We published an interactive map that shows just how deep the crisis runs.

How Ukrainian drone campaign created Russia’s nationwide fuel crisis

Energy-rich Russia now imports refined fuel for the first time in years.

euromaidanpress.com

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 4d

is this the same Suffragettes that organised a bombing/assassination campaign between 1912 and 1914? They were branded a terrorist organisation at the time, and they did carry out terror attacks.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5d

Caroline Lucas at a Green party panel on protest rights: "I think it is clear that if the Suffragettes were around today, they too would be branded a terrorist organisation"

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Labour merged into Labour Together, which installed Starmer as Labour leader and now PM. Politically they are pretty much adjacent to the RCP/LM/Spiked brigade.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 5d

Here's something I wrote for Lush Times, at the time anewnatureblog.com/2019/01/25/s...

Some thoughts on the EAT-Lancet report and the anti-vegan backlash against it

We already know that globally, human diets are seriously out of balance. We spend far too much effort growing cereals like wheat – much of which ends up being fed to animals – and nowhe…

anewnatureblog.com

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 5d

Brexit & Brexitism: Has Labour woken up? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-... The latest post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social reviews the last fortnight's developments in Brexitland; Labour's continuing contradictory stance on immigration, and the resultant confused messaging.

Has Labour woken up?

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 5d

It's worth thinking back to when EAT-Lancet was first published (2019) & the conspiracy theories that swirled around it at the time, to the point where it was effectively discredited in much of the media

No surprises that the intensive meat industry was conclusively found to have been behind them.

Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 5d

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries.

“EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors.

www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

The figure shows how much global food systems contribute to pressures on all nine planetary boundaries.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 5d

It's taken nearly 10 years, but the Great British (yes NI voted remain) public now appreciates the advantages we had when we were members of the EU.

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 5d

Really interesting by @hannecl.bsky.social and Jon Stone. It was always the case that the 'Singapore on Thames' lot were totally out of touch with the views of them majority of Brits. We are in fact quite European in our attitudes on regulation www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 5d

The not-quite-correction is really funny. “A lot” rather than “a majority”.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 7d

Ed Miliband: keep your nose out Elon Musk.

Also Ed Miliband: of course I have to stay on the Nazi hellsite weaponized by Elon Musk.

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 7d

somewhere I have the rainfall figures for all England stations in 1976. I can email it to you if you're interested.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7d

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.

A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service

And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.

This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

www.judiciary.uk

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 7d

And 1976?

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely. The equivalent is much more expensive now. I have replaced several of the sensors but I am getting more data drop outs recently. So may have to get a new one.