Ed Douglas

Handy starter pack for outdoor writers. go.bsky.app/6JQo2Ro

Your reminder that Elon Musk’s dad recently chummed up with Tommy Robinson in, er, Moscow.

With friends like Clive Betts, who needs enemies? Kudos to Nat Zimmermann for speaking up for Sheffield cycling in the face of @labouruk.bsky.social hostility. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honest Bob increasingly looks like Poundland Vance.

Curious, that @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social will at least attempt to clean up the city's air with an emissions charge for SOME vehicles, but not bother grouse moor owners setting fires upwind.

Watching Celeb Traitors, it's hard not to feel that THIS IS WHAT HE'S LIKE. A bit... folded wrong.

According to legend, it’s 31 years to the day since the Financial Times killed one of Britain’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and the day before they’d bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox. A glorious story, but is it true...?

Given how little we learned from China about the recent landslide on the Tibet-Nepal border, and the destruction of Rasuwagadhi, it will be interesting to see what emerges from the latest significant earthquake to hit Tibet.

Sally Rooney forced to pull books from the UK, meanwhile the far right can schmooze former prime ministers and, apparently, hire contract killers with impunity.

Blimey, the state of America. Murdering kids in a playground in Kharkiv one day, a humanitarian the next.

Among Keir Starmer's worst deeds were his legislative and rhetorical attacks on nature protection. In those two wasted years, we spiralled backwards, even from the Tory legacy. At this week's biodiversity summit, the Burnham govt should pledge to turn that round. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

I guess Clinton couldn’t imagine a Russian asset in the White House.

There are more Americans in Celebrity Traitors than there are people from the north of England. Typical BBC. We need a Celebrity Whippet edition now!

Mean Girls 3 seems worth a watch.

Will this make Nigel the Chief Organ?

Amazing how triggering wildlife can be.

the caption that tells you everything you need to know

Another major landslide flood in Nepal. Five people missing. It has also disrupted the Tsum valley trekking route, now getting towards peak season. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Natural England's new boss Neil Hornby blogs about his vision for the troubled and wounded organisation. The blog contains zero mentions of NE's vital role as regulator. So Hornby continues in Marian Spain's footsteps, as NE continues to self-destruct its regulatory functions. SSSIs? Tumbleweed.

Just to interrupt the doomscroll

Very drole. And likely accurate.

When you consider that Russia has killed a bunch of children while Donald has been helping Russia get money to fund Russia doing it more, you can understand why Donald is so upset he didnt get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Good column from John Harris. Living within our environmental means has been mocked by the grifting right as woke and naive. But it could transform the lives of the majority. Time to say this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very autumnal today. Time for a thicker duvet. Or follow these guys south. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I try to get directions from a poet every day. They don't always know where they're going, but they know how to get there.

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Good grief. Barbaric.

Monbiot is spot on here. Was just up on my local moors looking at smoke from burning on a grouse moor. That smoke will soon be toxifying central Sheffield. Meanwhile an emissions charge in the city has alienated the population by penalising van drivers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For some reason, I didn't clock she was murdered on Putin's birthday. This year he's celebrating by murdering Ukrainian kids.

Wildfires are STILL burning on Kilimanjaro and a third route up it has now been closed by park authorities. www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/sustaina...

I hope she never gets near power, given her proposed assault on the the environment, and the madness of the Britannia Dome, but she deserves a nod for this.

Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tell Paddington to stop calling.

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Kemi’s got a crush on the waxed jacket brigade. Thinks nature is for losers.

Restoration ecologists have long known that many ecosystems are so degraded that simply leaving them to recover naturally will not work Dispersal limitation, damaged substrate, excess nutrients, altered hydrology, etc mean active intervention is needed to recreate rich ecosystems in a timely way

Blimey, if your aircraft struck a zebra taking off, you'd remember that one. (I mean, the aircraft taking off, not the zebra. The zebra died.) theaviationhub.co.uk/zebra-strike...

The New York Times just sent me an email saying 'your cat is a picky eater'. I don't have a fucking cat. My son does. Bother him. Or else, say 'Cats are picky eaters.' What's wrong with them?

I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.

“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.

I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election.

Came across this excellent radio show last night by chance doing the washing-up. Kathleen Jamie on the 'third person' phenomenon of the Poles and high mountains. Altitude and exhaustion turn the mind tricksy. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sixteen mountain workers in Nepal died in one avalanche recently but there’s been little coverage because none of them were famous or foreign. Luckily Ben Ayers has been digging into the reasons why. www.facebook.com/share/v/1GXu...

Part of this is the volume of rage against perfectly normal behaviours online and local papers, including mine, can’t resist that ‘reader engagement’.

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

Sheesh, the plod with the camera in her face. Meanwhile masked thugs can close Dover with impunity.

Made it Ma! Top of the world.

Compared to Xi, Trump looks like a rank amateur: an incurious and ill-informed improviser who is guided by his own gut and whims, writes columnist @hofrench.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/x...

Two climbing routes on Kilimanjaro closed as fire breaks out again. www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business...

Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."