Miles King

Miles King

@milesking.bsky.social

Winding down long career in UK nature conservation. Always interested in History - and now enjoying archaeology. Running a small urban wildlife project (@poundburynatureproject). Enthusiastic Cellist. Living with Chronic vestibular migraine. Personal a/c

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Adam Rutherford
@adamrutherford.bsky.social

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Luke Turner
@luketurner.bsky.social

Barely have time to go to National Trust places these days but remain a member in part to vote in the AGM and keep the Restore Trust arses out. VOTE! VOTE!

Miles King@milesking.bsky.social

It's that time of the year again when the @nationaltrust.org.uk membership elects new Council members. It's vital that all NT members use their vote (online) to keep the Restore Trust Reform-adjacent entryists off the Council & away from any decision making. Vote online by 30th October - Friday.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

It's that time of the year again when the @nationaltrust.org.uk membership elects new Council members. It's vital that all NT members use their vote (online) to keep the Restore Trust Reform-adjacent entryists off the Council & away from any decision making. Vote online by 30th October - Friday.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

It looks like the NT has made the process very easy by using a QR code on the front of the AGM booklet. I"m not going to name the Restore Trust candidates, but you can see who they are on the restore trust website. At least two have stood previously and failed to get elected.

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Guy Shrubsole
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comLandowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warnProposed lifting of paywall would reveal who owns vast majority of land in England and Wales
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Still being broadcast live uninterrupted by the GBBC news.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

and people still think Russia wasn't influencing UK politics in the run up to the Brexit referendum? come on.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🔴 NEW The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit By Sergei Cristo Read below. ↓

bylinetimes.comThe Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on BrexitA 'diplomat' who launched the 'Conservative Friends of Russia' group has now been identified as a Russian intelligence officer involved in an attempted European disinformation campaign
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Ah ensign Chekov. 😢

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

It used to be that the BBC news set its coverage by what was on the Daily Mail front page. Now it's just following whatever GB News is covering.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Robert Saunders
@robertsaunders.bsky.social

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Leaving aside the legal niceties of what constitutes "reasonable force" or "fair protection", who is the villain in this AI-slop image that the Restore Britain fascists have created? He has a flat cap & a gilet on, & appears to be wielding a patio weeder. Is he a murderous landscape gardener?

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Peter Geoghegan
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

Wow. Vučić has conceded Serbian election. Massive moment for the entire Balkans

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Tommy Greene
@tommygreene.bsky.social

Lula's win a stunning comeback and historic victory: a fourth term as president and the first ever candidate to overturn a first-round loss in Brazil's democratic history. Also a major blow to Trump's US and its attempts to exert influence across the Americas www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2026/1...

www1.folha.uol.com.brLula vence em 13 estados, com virada histórica em Minas e avanço no Rio de JaneiroFlávio Bolsonaro venceu em 13 estados e no Distrito Federal
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

thanks to Map Tap for introducing me to the extraordinary work of Hilma af Klint. wow. www.guggenheim.org/video/hilma-...

guggenheim.orgHilma af Klint | The Guggenheim Museums and FoundationHilma af Klint produced strikingly original paintings just after the turn of the 20th century but has been long under recognized for her innovative art.
Miles King@milesking.bsky.social

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maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

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EssJay
@marineresteve.bsky.social

Marvellous stuff from SL , as usual.

Miles King@milesking.bsky.social

Latest offering from Stewart Lee for @thenerve.news, noting that 9 stand-up comics generate the same employment as the Jackdaw gas field. But has Lee Missed something? Perhaps the Jackdaw field is itself a piece of art, holding up a mirror to our burning world. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

thenerve.newsStewart Lee: ‘Burn Them’ Burnham is going to set the world ablaze. But at least he’ll create 27 jobsThe prime minister’s new, remote-controlled Jackdaw gasfield will generate less employment than nine standup comedians going on tour – and is considerably more likely to be hacked

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James Dyke
@jamesgdyke.info

The students have won in Serbia, turfing out 12 years of right wing authoritarianism. Lula has just produced an extraordinary victory in Brazil. Trump's numbers are underwater. And they are pedestrianising Oxford street!

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

“Former Tory candidate suspended over contract killer claims was adviser in Kemi Badenoch’s office” This is Jack Ross, “COO” of Turning Point UK, the spin off from Charlie Kirk’s far right Turning Point USA. What’s crazy is he’s Tory, not Reform or Restore. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comFormer Tory candidate suspended over contract killer claims was adviser in Kemi Badenoch’s officeSources close to Tory leader say Jack Ross, who faces party investigation after undercover report, worked as social media consultant
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

20% is still twice what Reform should really be polling.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 32% (+5) CON: 24% (+3) RFM: 20% (-3) LDM: 9% (+1) GRN: 8% (-5) SNP: 3% (-1) RES: 3% (=) Via @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, 15-22 Oct. Changes w/ 10-15 Sep.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Interesting article in the new @britishwildlife.bsky.social magazine about gardens & wildlife. Unless I missed it, there wasn’t a single mention of gardeners’ use of peat. Surely this is one of the most important issues for wildlife-friendly gardening; not destroying a globally important habitat?

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Reform bubble hasn't so much burst as has been squashed under the weight of sleaze, sleaze, more sleaze, misogyny, sleaze and racism.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Two major polls today putting Labour back into the thirties. This one puts Reform firmly in third place and would give Labour a majority of around 134

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Peter Geoghegan
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billionsThe Ministry of Defence asked the controversial US tech firm how to fix its procurement rules. Its answer? Fewer obstacles for companies like Palantir

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Peter Geoghegan
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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As Burnham decides whether to end Palantir’s £330m NHS contract, the questions about its access have never been more vital Read the full investigation, and the documents: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p... Democracy for Sale is reader-funded. If you value this work, please subscribe 😊

democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billionsThe Ministry of Defence asked the controversial US tech firm how to fix its procurement rules. Its answer? Fewer obstacles for companies like Palantir
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

TIL that Tufton Street's Centre for Social Justice former CEO Christian Guy runs Princess Kate's Royal Foundation centre for early childhood. Latest thing is about getting kids out into nature. Is Guy is aware of the King's Harmony Project, which is also about nature's role in child development.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Latest offering from Stewart Lee for @thenerve.news, noting that 9 stand-up comics generate the same employment as the Jackdaw gas field. But has Lee Missed something? Perhaps the Jackdaw field is itself a piece of art, holding up a mirror to our burning world. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

thenerve.newsStewart Lee: ‘Burn Them’ Burnham is going to set the world ablaze. But at least he’ll create 27 jobsThe prime minister’s new, remote-controlled Jackdaw gasfield will generate less employment than nine standup comedians going on tour – and is considerably more likely to be hacked
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

It’s nothing new either. LM/Spiked was working with UKIP even before Brexit. They found common ground back then over climate denialism, amongst other things. Cant believe this is 12 years old. anewnatureblog.com/2014/04/09/a...

anewnatureblog.comA political blog: the unholy alliance between UKIP and the Marxist Libertariansthe cheeky chappy   Last week I forced myself to watch a Channel 4 documentary “Nigel Farage: who are you?”, made by self-styled “fashionable left-wing film-maker turned wick…
Miles King@milesking.bsky.social

The new Reform newspaper is edited by (drumroll) Mick Hume. He of the Revolutionary Communist Party/Living Marxism/Spiked brigade.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

An ancient fence panel also met its Ragnarok but I didn’t think it merited a photo. I lashed it together with bits of old clothes line and duck tape.

Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

In some ways the coming together of the RCP/Living Marxism/Spiked brigade, with Reform, does remove potential confusion. Or should do. This far-right/right libertarian/contrarian nexus is Glasman’s territory anyway, and one of the others, Lady Malalieu, is chair of the Countryside Alliance.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Three Labour peers have been criticised by one of their party colleagues after speaking at the ‘Battle of Ideas’ festival It's sponsored by a Reform mega-donor and last weekend partnered with a far-right bookshop, which sells books by Joseph Goebbels and Oswald Mosley and demands "remigration now"

bylinetimes.comThree Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor - And Which Hosted a Far-Right BookshopLabour MP Phil Brickell says “no respectable person” should be associated with the event and accuses his colleagues of "legitimising" Reform's billionaire crypto donor
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

Season 2 of “steal the vote” starts November 3rd. Monstrous villain Tonalt Drump is back in this hilarious and terrifying drama. Spoiler alert. Watch Tonalt send his shock troops in to polling stations where they stuff thousands of newly discovered votes - for him! - into the boxes, at gunpoint.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 HERE WE GO AGAIN: Trump's DOJ has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's Senate election if Democrat Mary Peltola defeats Republican Dan Sullivan.

meidasnews.comHere We Go Again: Trump DOJ Moves to Block Certification of Alaska Senate Election if Republican LosesIn a new lawsuit, the Trump regime is laying the groundwork to challenge a Democratic victory in Alaska, reviving concerns about Trump's efforts to interfere with election certification.
Miles King
@milesking.bsky.social

“Free Speech Union hit by internal allegations of racism and sexually inappropriate remarks” In other news, Reform councillors used racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and sexist language…. In other news Nigel Farage “wasn’t even listening” while glugging oysters. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comFree Speech Union hit by internal allegations of racism and sexually inappropriate remarksExclusive: Key figure in campaign group accused of saying she would ‘never hire a black person’, and second figure discussed Sydney Sweeney’s ‘assets’