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
I really want this to be good…
The Odyssey trailer is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2... so that's at least two visits to the IMAX to see it this summer then, probably three.
The Odyssey | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I really want this to be good…
I signed this... 38d.gs/2auv
Donald Trump has filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC over a Panorama documentary! 🚨 If he wins, our national broadcaster could be wrecked - and license fee payers could be stuck with the bill. Stand...
Donald Trump has filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC over a Panorama documentary! 🚨 If he wins, our national broadcaster could be wrecked - and license fee payers could be stuck with the bill. Stand...
38d.gs
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I signed this... 38d.gs/2auv
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Excellent thread.
If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in TRUMP v. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BBC STUDIOS DISTRIBUTION LIMITED, BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION. Filing fees $ 405.00 receipt number AFLSDC-19044737, filed by DONALD J. TRUMP. (A...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Excellent thread.
Can't speak for the rest, but Joanna Pocock's 'Greyhound' is a scintillating and poetic book.
Congratulations Ian Penman and @joannapocock.bsky.social! Both ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE and GREYHOUND have been longlisted for the 2025 NBCC Awards: www.bookcritics.org/2025/12/15/2...
2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Criticism - National Book Critics Circle
Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025, by A.S. Hamrah (n+1) Authority: Essays, by Andrea Long Chu (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time,
www.bookcritics.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Can't speak for the rest, but Joanna Pocock's 'Greyhound' is a scintillating and poetic book.
I love old sweet chestnut trees.
Richmond Park Dec 2025.
Richmond Park Dec 2025.
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I love old sweet chestnut trees.
Richmond Park Dec 2025.
Richmond Park Dec 2025.
The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc. Missing since 1945 - but out there somewhere.
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc. Missing since 1945 - but out there somewhere.
Good news! The snowdrops of Hyde Park have decided it’s spring already.
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Good news! The snowdrops of Hyde Park have decided it’s spring already.
The great James Baldwin died in France #OTD 1987.
He was 63.
‘No people,’ he wrote, contemplating the French and
their history, ‘come into possession of a culture without having
paid a heavy price for it.’
He was 63.
‘No people,’ he wrote, contemplating the French and
their history, ‘come into possession of a culture without having
paid a heavy price for it.’
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The great James Baldwin died in France #OTD 1987.
He was 63.
‘No people,’ he wrote, contemplating the French and
their history, ‘come into possession of a culture without having
paid a heavy price for it.’
He was 63.
‘No people,’ he wrote, contemplating the French and
their history, ‘come into possession of a culture without having
paid a heavy price for it.’
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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
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...