This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬 There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬 Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬 (Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

Please god people will listen and take David Attenborough’s most important warnings seriously. He is not exaggerating. We are in the most unimaginable trouble.

Isn’t it great that we’re celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday whilst ignoring the message he’s spent the last 20 years trying to get through to us:

“Thanks Martin, I found a lost pension from when I was 22, it’s now worth £45,000!” So can you do what Rose did? Martin shows you how to check… This is just a snip from the full Martin Lewis Money Show Pensions Special watch it on ITVX

Hi everyone! You can now pre-order my 2027 Birds and Puffin calendars! 😀 Calendars will ship by the end of May! For a short time, you can get 10% off by using the coupon code '2027CalendarPreOrder' at checkout! 🎉 You can pre-order them here; carlbovis.com/2027-birds-cal… 😊🐦🥰

Back in The Day.

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard. “The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

That fresh smell after rain is called petrichor. When raindrops hit dry soil, they release plant oils and geosmin from bacteria, creating that rich, earthy scent.

After watching this you will never look at stress the same again...

This is incredible..turn the volume UP!😍🐦🎶 How many sounds do you hear? This video is not mine, it belongs to Sarah Tidwell. She's not on Twitter, but gave me permission to share here, as I knew my followers would love it!❤️ #Starling

“I just want to go to the shop and it’s turned into a nightmare” Local reports of the chaos and distress the hunt that we are following in Dorset today cause. #OperationSmokescreen @ChrisGPackham @NDHuntSabs @HuntSabs

If you have ANXIETY, you need to watch this:

To cheer everyone up, here's a little Puffin going for a little walk. 😊😍🐦❤️

This is awful

I may have watched this 2134567 times so far today. I fully recommend you do the same… x.com/Yoda4ever/status/20125…

A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱

Why could Ben Myers find no expert witnesses to defend the insulin poisoning theory, whereas Mark McDonald has found plenty? Letby’s fate was effectively sealed at the pre-trial expert meeting, when experts on both sides agreed exogenous insulin had been given to two babies, alongside a theory as to how Letby might have secretly spiked nutrition bags. The jury never heard expert explanations of the unreliability of the tests, particularly in neonates, and the far more plausible causes for the prolonged hypoglycaemia in these two particular neonates. The judge knew about the expert agreement on exogenous insulin before the trial started, the jury found unanimous guilt on the insulin cases and were then directed by the judge to use this finding of guilt in making judgements on other cases. Even if the CCRC concludes there is reasonable doubt in the insulin cases, having been given very detailed experts reports that the jury never saw, Letby may not get an appeal because these experts could have given their evidence at the original trial. Which comes back to my first question. Why couldn’t Myers find experts prepared to challenge the insulin poisonings when McDonald can? My full report on the pre-trial joint expert meeting is below. Other reports at private-eye.co.uk/special-re…

When I first heard about Lucy Letby's case, I had no reason to doubt the allegations against her. I began following the case because, as a neonatologist with a further interest in risk management and patient safety, I felt I needed to understand how it could possibly happen that someone could murder or attempt to murder any babies on my unit without anyone seemingly noticing or doing anything about it. I worried - could this have happened to me and my colleagues? And I hoped if it had, we would have noticed and acted on it properly much sooner. As I followed the case via the media, I became increasingly confused by the medical evidence being presented. At first, I assumed the journalists simply didn’t understand the expert testimony and were not reporting correctly - surely no one could genuinely believe claims as medically absurd as babies being murdered by injecting air into a nasogastric (NG) tube? I had this conversation with many colleagues - Neonatal consultants, doctors in training and neonatal nurses. We were all really shocked by what was being reported. But I decided to wait until after the trial concluded before forming any real opinion as it was only then that enough information would become available that would make it clear as to what was actually said. After the convictions, like many of my colleagues, I sat down to watch the interview with aspiring TV star doctor Ravi Jayaram. My jaw dropped as I heard his appallingly misleading statements about extubation made on national television. I have still kept the messages I exchanged with Neonatal colleagues that evening. All of us who watched were saying - surely he didn't just say that the only possibility for a 25 weeker to have extubated was for it to have been done deliberately? I cannot even begin to explain how absolutely ridiculous that statement is. The sensational manner in which it was also delivered immediately made me ask myself - did I make a cognitive error in assuming no actual real doctors could have said the medical nonsense reported by the journalists? Is it possible that the experts and medical witness doctors involved really have said things that were so ridiculous in court and got the judge and jury to believe this nonsense? I then started looking through the information publicly available post-trial and I discovered that yes, this kind of flawed medical reasoning had indeed been accepted as fact. I was really shocked and decided to speak up, which I did as soon as the media gag was lifted. Thank you to Felicity Lawrence @guardiannews for making me feel safe to speak up. At the stage when I first spoke up, I still didn’t know whether Lucy Letby was innocent. What I did know, however, was that the medical basis of her conviction was deeply flawed. I also knew - but this is due to my law degree rather than me being a Neonatologist - that there were multiple legal reasons for why this conviction was unsafe as well. However, I wasn't as interested in this as I wouldn't want for someone's sentence to be quashed on legal grounds if they were genuinely guilty. It remained possible, as far as I could see, that Letby had harmed the babies. What was certain, however, was that if she did, she certainly didn't do it in the way that was claimed. However, it stands to reason that a serial killer could more easily operate in a unit where substandard care was the norm - when overall competence is low, people are far less likely to recognise when something is seriously wrong - something I know very well from personal experience of being a clinician dealing with risk, and having worked for the CQC and the Ockenden inquiry. After some time, I was instructed as an expert in the case. I took some annual leave and temporarily left the Ockenden review so I could give myself some time to properly look through everything. I then discovered many incidents of significantly substandard care with subsequent lack of insight by the clinicians involved and an almost complete absence of meaningful learning from mistakes. Unfortunately - neither of these are uncommon events in maternity and neonatal care these days. And neither is scapegoating someone. However - what was truly stunning in this case, and was definitely new to me at that point in time, was scapegoating via the criminally convicted serial killer route (usually people are just bullied out via employment tribunals, GMC/NMC and occasionally via the criminal courts for Gross Negligence Manslaughter route). For one year now, I have lived with the knowledge that a committed hard working competent nurse is in prison for crimes that never happened, whilst the doctors responsible for very poor care remain celebrated as “heroes” and continue practising without consequences. And the medical experts also continue to practise with no consequences. Putting this out here for the record. Not much else I can do. Thank you so much to @drphilhammond for continuing to expose this disgraceful MoJ. @drphilhammond @legalmarkmc @DavidDavisMP @DavidRoseUK @PeterElston1 @Michelehal7344 @reasonoverfear @DOckendenLtd @wesstreeting @PrivateEyeNews @Jeremy_Hunt @MartynPitman @Voice4theDead

The benefits of Brexit. If only somebody had warned us all before the referendum. Oh....they did

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.