Thanks Doug and great to see. I was part of the team (a small part in my case) that got this mural commissioned as part of the We Are The Possible initiative. I often use this image in talks, like iin Elgin on Friday at the Moray Climate Action Network greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/our-impact/w...

Trust me to be giving a talk at the Moray Climate Action Network Climate Conference on the day a severe storm arrives in the area. I'll be talking about the influence of climate change on storms in this part of Scotland as well as my experiences with climate change denial. www.moraycan.org.uk

This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Lovely to see the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting my old school today (Churchtown Primary) and the school my cousins went to (Farnborough Road) after the tragic events of last summer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

I'm doing an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass tomorrow evening (Tuesday) where there'll be some fun writing exercises and I'll talk about some of the tips I've picked up on writing for a general audience and about getting published. Still time to join!

www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

You're not alone! Was struck by this from Russell T Davies "What we will do in Elon Musk’s world, that we’re heading towards, is what artists have always done, which is to meet in cellars, and plot, and sing, and compose, and paint, and make speeches, and march.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I noticed painted bollards as well yesterday (red cross on white square). I think I'm pretty mainstream patriotic and pro British flags where appropriate but I don't like the message of this eruption of flag-ism: immigrants (like my wife as it happens) are not welcome here....

Driving past here on the way from my home to the Lake District (up the M6) was a part of my childhood!

"Once the official road markings have been replaced, the drains have been unblocked, the hedges have been cut, the weeds have been dealt with, and any offensive graffiti has been removed, I will ask the relevant team to remove the flags and repaint the roundabouts. But not before."

I asked my local councillor (elected as Reform) about flags illegally placed on lampposts and painted on roundabouts locally - he replied "Removing [a flag] from any location will always be my absolute lowest priority"

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Final stats after the end of the month, but with the current stats and forecast, a new warmest UK summer is almost certain

Weather in Devon a bit meh today thanks to smoke from fires in the over-heated continent turning what would have been a nice sunny day (like yesterday) into a rather drab murky affair. Another impact of climate change...

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The irony with the winning essay of course is that I never did get to go to America and it was only several years later, as an undergrad student, that I travelled round America on a greyhound bus and found out whether it really was as bad as it was made out to be.

general audience aimed at people from an academic background wanting to find a place for creativity in their writing. So as I'm starting to plan the session I'm thinking back to my English teacher and the opportunity he gave me all those years ago. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

well and truly in. But maybe the luckiest thing of all was that I had Mr TB Johnson as my English teacher as he encouraged me to take creative writing seriously and to have fun with it as well. Next month I'll be tutoring an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass on writing non-fiction for a

and founder of Miss World, and Billy Butlin of Butlin's Holiday camps, hence it was that I travelled to Bermuda with a load of serious bingo players so it was quite funny that on the final night party - with bingo obviously - I got to win the first line at my first ever bingo session. So my luck was

however, just before we were due to sail, there was a fire on the QE2 which meant we never made it to New York but instead flew directly to Bermuda on a Jumbo Jet that was mainly full of lucky winners at Bingo at Mecca Ballrooms. The essay competition had been sponsored by Eric Morley, boss of Mecca

in my age category, which meant I got to go and get a silver cup from the then Prince of Wales at St James's Palace and I also won for me and my family and my English teacher and his wife (he having subbed the £1 entry fee) a trip on the QE2 to New York followed by 5 days in Bermuda. Unfortunately

us all to write an essay on the subject of "Why we would like to visit America". He chose to enter my essay, which began "I would like to visit America to see whether it is as bad as it is made out to be", into a national essay competition, putting in £1 of his own money as the entry fee. It won,