Day. Made. x.com/frankcottrell_b/status…

Yep they'll still be phone orphans from their parents.. #wato

Exactly. Pay attention. Is the greatest advice ever. #wato

He sounds terrible. Which is encouraging. #wato

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors. There is a process, obviously. Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir. Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy. And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent. So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass. Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite. Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

Jo Cox day........ Incredible that it has been 10 years What lessons did the UK learn? Nothing - we let populist idiots determined to create division who thrive on targeting small demographics to thrive. It is time to emd such division and come together as people not live in a bubbling toxic divide

Humans really are the scum of this planet. All whale hunting should banned, forever. There is ZERO justification for it. Bad enough that commercial fishing devastating krill stocks in Southern oceans. #climatecrisis #japanesewhaling #whaling #biodviversitycrisis #r4today #wato

Iran not stupid, roping in Israel and Hezbollah. Makes it far less likely to work though. #r4today

Funny. A superficial peace deal is exactly what it sounds like he's got. #r4today

Which less safe, less regulated services are these exactly? Twitter, facebook couldn't BE less regulated. #r4today theguardian.com/media/2026/j…

This sneaked out last week. Question is, what news experience does he have. #bbcpm bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/b…

No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.

The Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) just set a new record daily high for the 16th day in a row. The current Nino 3.4 SST is higher than any day of any year on record, with the exception of a few days late in 2015 at the start of the last super El Nino. Stay tuned!

Someone tell sleepy John. Lloyd that injuries have already risen hugely. And it's not because of best of 5. The two week Masters have a lot to answer for. #bbctennis

We do know he'll survive the week Henry. 🙄 Any leadership challenge won't see him step down, given he's said he won't quit. #wato

Why wouldn't they take it for judicial review. #wato

Are there more harmful platforms? 🥴 #socialmedia #wato theguardian.com/media/2026/j…

Fucking bullshit. #wato #palestinaction theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

"We are trading the health of our world’s ecosystems for the right to upgrade our smartphone every year; the futures of our children and their children so we can wear clothes just once then throw them away; and a functioning climate so we can nip on a plane whenever we wish"

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

Michael Grade clearly watches GB News. A less appropriate attitude for the leader of a media regulator would be hard to find. #r4today #ofcom theguardian.com/media/2026/j…