Nadhim Zahawi is stepping down as MP for Stratford-on-Avon. His tax returns were perhaps the finest works of fiction produced in that constituency since 1616.

Dear Mr Sunak, There is a limit to how many times people can stand you saying “The plan is working”, “We are delivering for the British people” and “Nobody wants a general election.”

And we are far, far beyond that point.

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Rishi Sunak: “The plan is working.”

A week of what works (& doesn't) for me as a freelancenaturewriter.com (mostly R&Ded under the tutelage of inspirational Stephen Moss & writing the monthly #30MinuteBirder column for Bird Watching 💚). Here's a 1st🧵for Mon to Wed...

Hi Mike, There’s this bloke who accessed the very highest levels of UK government & spent a lost weekend with a ‘former’ KGB spy currently sanctioned in Canada for being a member of Putin’s inner circle. He even put the ‘former’ spy’s son in the House of Lords! DM me for his name

4 days in a row on the hills and on the 5th the 61 yr old legs said ‘Let there be rest’. And lo there was rest, at beautiful Ariundle. No shortage of willow warblers. Listening hard for wood warblers and redstarts, but no joy yet. 🌿🎶

A service to celebrate the life of Andy Clark Andy Clark will take place at:

St Andrew’s Church,
Kirk Ella,
Hull
HU10 7TL

Tuesday 7th May at 2.00pm

🚙 Parking and wake afterwards at Hull Golf Club, Packman Lane, Kirk Ella, HU10 7TJ (2 min walk from church)

If you haven’t been to one of these wonderful sessions before, and you’re within reach of St Albans, don’t hesitate to sign up. 🌿✍️

Thanks ⁦GB News⁩ ⁦Bev Turner 🌸⁩ for caring about swifts' existence when the ONE man who has the power to ACT - Michael Gove is NOT. Swift bricks are urgent, vital & there's no objection. Check out the quote from ⁦Zac Goldsmith⁩ on the tv banner⬇️🪶🧱

SWIFTS ARE ARRIVING HOME!
Celebrate your first swift sighting by posting on here and tagging me & Michael Gove - if he knows how many of us are DELIGHTED by their return, maybe he will act & greenlight the ready-and-waiting proposal to secure their essential nesting habitat!

18 swift sightings reported from around the country on the BirdGuides app yesterday.

75 today.

Great to see you there! Everyone in the room felt wind in their sails from the inspiring words of Hannah Bourne-Taylor 🪶🌿. Time for politicians to demonstrate in their decision-making that they understand what’s at stake.

In response to our swift brick campaign the conservation world is UNITED in support. Check out the letter&signatures😍
To be flanked by members of Wildlife and Countryside Link feels ACE!ThankYou!
Dear Michael Gove EVERYONE is urging you to act. Sincerely, Hannah Bourne-Taylor & the birds (👁️the🐦‍⬛)

Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down

Looking forward to speaking at Kennington, Oxfordshire this Saturday 20th April about….. SWIFTS and the swift and finch from my nature #book #Fledgling 🪶Would be great to see you 🪶

Still time to secure your ticket for this event on Saturday April 20th!
Hannah Bourne-Taylor Interesting Talks Oxford BBO Wildlife Trust Wytham Woods RSPB Otmoor RadleyLakesTrust

A treat to be able to attend yesterday’s poetry workshop led by Penny Boxall at Wytham Woods . We looked at Elizabethan springtime poetry. My quick-fire warm-up effort below. Nature, meet Classics… 🌿✍️ Amanda Tuke Stephen Moss

#FirstBirdOfMyDay ? One of the garden’s mighty wrens, weaving a way through its jungle in hunt of morsels. And there’s finally a hint of a warm spring morning. 🪶

Nick Boles sums it up perfectly.

A letter written in the weeks following the disaster, by my mum, and found recently tucked away in a notebook.

#JFT97 #YNWA