Few months ago a young lad called Toby messaged me on instagram and asked if I’d follow him back, I jokingly replied .. I will if you come and spend the day out in the field with me, rather than all this through the screen stuff.
He did it, his mum brought him at 5am to spend the day at @Bempton_Cliffs with me.. I used his little vlog camera to make him a video that he can share.
He is a little legend, with a foot ailment that made it difficult to walk or stand for long, with a true passion for photography and determination to spend the day with me, it was unreal.
He also had his dad’s old camera with manual focus and none of the gimmicks we all have in our silly cameras .
All these photos are his.
#wildlifephotography
While arguing that Next can't afford to pay 16-24 year olds the minimum wage, CEO Lord Wolfson forgot to say that for the fiscal year ending January 2026, Next reported an operating profit of £1.236 billion, marking a 13.4% increase from the previous year. #r4today
In 2010 my retirement age went from 60 to 65 it’s now 67… unfortunately I’m ill health retired recently. Dismissed from my Nursing Career for catching Covid at work unprotected by inadequate PPE, now disabled I worked for 46. No lovely retirement for me #LongCovid
The boss of Tesco pays himself nearly eleven million quid a year while up to half his staff are so badly paid that they have to claim in-work benefits. Then politicians wonder why people are so pissed off these days.
Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss.
He pays himself £10,800,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland.
Yet he complains that 'costs' are too high so he can't afford to pay his workers.
Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
@declassifiedUK I hope Steve and the crew are ok.
Israel continuing to use the same tactics as they did in Gaza. Murder reporters, civilians, children, medics. Destroy hospitals, infrastructure and civilian property.
Dr Elaine is the UK’s first deaf/blind doctor. She is under multiple specialists in London. She is on 24 hour LTOT.
Her request to be pre-allocated to London was declined and was allocated Dorset.
This is a catastrophic failure by the @UKFPO, who simply isn’t hated enough.
I landed in Havana today. Trump’s fuel blockade is choking the life out of this city. Havana is near silent, empty streets, empty markets. Not because there’s no food, but because farmers can’t get fuel to deliver it. Trump is trying to starve 11 million people into submission. This is a crime against humanity, unfolding in plain sight. Night falls and the city struggles to keep lights on, in total defiance after 66 years of economic war. The world must stop looking away. Let Cuba live!
Why do @BBCNews@SkyNews and others have to repeatedly quote Trump’s demented rantings, no doubt encouraged by Farage, as if they are scripture?
Credit to @Keir_Starmer for not responding in the same manner
Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.
Never seen the right wing press more out of touch with public opinion than slavishly falling in behind Trump & his war with no plan against the Prime Minister
History lesson for Trump:
In 1939, Churchill asked America for help to fight the Nazis. America refused.
Churchill continued to ask in 1940 & 1941 as Europe fell.
Not until Pearl Harbour did America jon Britain in WW2.
*Then they leased us food & armaments*.
We paid until 2006.
Delete “humiliated,” insert “sought to humiliate.” 1. The right wing rags will push Farage and Badenoch to echo the Orange Man Boy and think this is a great blow to Starmer. 2. It’s not. It’s not good for the US UK relationship pro team for sure. But it is hopefully liberating for UK to pursue a sensible legal policy, and time to understand under Trump the US not a reliable ally in the way we have generally assumed.
You may think me terribly old-fashioned, but I think heads of State talking about another head of state in this way shows extraordinary appalling manners.
It’s beyond lack of diplomacy. The world gets used to it, but Trump is a truly horrible man.