Tory Wiklund

History, education, travel & nature… with a bit of occasional silliness thrown in too… Opinions all my own.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Goldfinch in the meadow! 😍😊🐦

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Governments tell us to cut eating red meat to ‘save the planet’ while they ram through hundreds of massive data centres that consume vast amounts of energy and water…

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’

All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report.

‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’

‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’

It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls.

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[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

This is utterly heartbreaking- what is wrong with developers?
The swifts are seen trying to return to their nests and the nests are no longer there

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[Tory Wiklund @ToryWik]

@GardenBrocante How funny - I dashed out in the rain this morning to rescue a battered lone peony, a rose and some honeysuckle and popped in a rose jug I bought from you last year 😊

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Heart-wrenching.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Ok, the Environment Agency is really taking the mick now.

The photograph they are using below is of the Stapleford Tawney illegal waste site, next to the River Roding near Epping. They were informed about this site in February 2025, but did absolutely nothing and allowed illegal waste dumping to continue for a whole year. It was only in February 2026, when I organised a petition & got the media down to the site that they even bothered to close off the entrance & get a legal closure order.

So the EA apparently want members of the public to report serious waste crime so they can sit there & do naff all about it? Even now, they aren’t doing any testing to see if the site is contaminating ground water & the River Roding. They have also given no commitment to clearing up the site whatsoever. Will the EA agree to remove all of this rubbish that they allowed to be dumped on this site next to our river, or do they just plan to leave it there forever to rot?

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

But what about James Anderson?

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

We checked @AldiUK chocolate labels for palm oil… and so many products marketed to families and kids contain palm oil.

But here’s the thing: Aldi also sells chocolate without palm oil. Which proves they CAN make better products when they choose to.

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[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Prominent German drag queen Mario Olszinski, aka Jurassica Parka, convicted of possessing child pornography in 2023, and now charged again.

After he was already convicted once, taxpayers footed his bill to go to Tokyo and play with children at a Pride event.

He was also named the "Queer Berlin" ambassador and featured in a July 2024 promotional video published by the government's Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth.

The German government has since deleted this video.

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

Happy Birthday, @stevesmith49 👋

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

The biggest part of this rape story by gypsy boys in the UK was completely overlooked.

Two attacks by three boys from the “traveller community” (aged 13-14):

1. In November 2024, a 15 year old girl arranged to meet a boy for a date. Or so she thought. The girl was ambushed and raped three times. The assault was filmed and video shared on social media, showing the boys laughing as they raped her.

2. On January 17, 2025 a 14 year old girl (“Olivia”) was threatened with a knife, taken to a field in Fordingbridge and overpowered by a groups of boys. One boy raped her while it was recorded.

They were convicted of 10 rape charges at Southampton Crown Court and in May 2026 they were sentenced to Youth Rehabilitation Orders (otherwise known as counselling) and walked free from the court.

They had to pay the standard £26 surcharge.

This case was talked about this week because of the surcharge (standard in all cases)) but there is a far bigger issue that was not mentioned.

One of the boys had been reported multiple times for sexual assaults and rape from the age of 10. He was still at primary school and raping girls.

There was another rape report about him just 10 days before the first attack above.

And yet, there was no custodial sentence given. Why not? What does a boy have to do to get more than a slap on the wrist in the UK?

Judge Nicholas Rowland said he wanted to “avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily” but why? They are criminals. If they are old enough to rape then they are old enough to face the consequences.

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

I called it. I opined the teenage r@pists would have a history of offending against girls. No one starts with r@pe. Just days before the r@pe, Hampshire Police were called - two of the boys assaulted two girls. One put his hands around the neck of a girl, the other put his hand up her skirt. One of the boys, who was 10 at the time, cornered a girl using his bike and said sexualized things to her. There’s more…one boy killed a duck, they’ve destroyed property and threatened people. This is likely just the tip of the iceberg. WATCH the video. Shout out to Sophie Wilkinson stellar reporting. Take action now:

✍️ SIGN the petition:
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✍️ WRITE to your MP, Justice Secretary David Lammy, PM Keir Starmer and AG Richard Hermer. Templates -do use them 🙏🏼
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[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Another man ready willing and able to take away women’s rights… how kind is that???

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Listen to every word from Henry Nowak’s father.

Its worse than we predicted.

He told police he was stabbed 4X and he couldn’t breathe 9X.

They cuffed Henry and let him die.

Police never cuffed Vickrum even after arrest.

Footage must be worse than imagined.

Must be released!

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

These are some of wild flowers sprayed with pesticide on Sheffield streets today by @SheffCouncil Harts tongue fern, Forget-me-not, Herb Robert. In a nature reserve we'd delight in seeing them. Why do we poison them on our streets? We need to rethink our relationship with nature

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey.

It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left.

Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season.

They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues.

This is a horrific disregard for nature.

(This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Ladies & Gentlemen I give you our Minister for Victims and Community Safety. What a time to be alive.

[morally grey @knowncougar]

imagine you’re raped at knifepoint and your rapist gets praised for good trial behaviour & you get told “he just had ADHD and low IQ🥺”