Bananaquit from Brazil earlier this year

Searching for reasons why Wanstead Flats gets burned to a cinder each summer...

How can that be a Tapaculo if you can see 100% of it?

The sycophantic nature of the US administration is extremely worrying. Truth and intelligence cast aside to feed ego.

Approaching peak Telegraph I'd say

The clash of the egos, long foretold, has started.

I swear he wakes up in the morning and thinks "what shall we burn today?"

Well that's one way to snub Vance

All weekends should be four days long.

Fresh in. Love migration.

"This is one of the greatest days in American economic history we have had" Peter Navarro, US trade advisor.

These people are imbeciles.

Ah so Trump blinked. Hopefully more people (people with votes) now realise what a fool he is. In other news I saw a Sand Martin.

If I was 25 years old I wouldn't be especially concerned. But I'm not!

Since last Thursday, so in 3 days, my pension fund has lost the equivalent of the last 4.5 YEARS of contributions. It's as if I haven't put in even £1 since 2020.

People in Ohio saying "Hell Yeah!!"

I mean what a total bellend

The man child has bitten off more than he can chew but he is too fucking dumb to realise this so we are all screwed.

Anyone see Xi backing down? No, me neither.

Moving towards 12000% tariffs.... who will blink first!!

See it, say it, win it Well this is almost unprecedented. Not since 2017 have I managed 50 blog posts by the end of March. And yet here we are. Antipathy is somewh...

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Truss found out the hard way, Trump will too.

Anyone who says "stick to birds, we don't need politics" needs their head examined.

25 years of pension contributions down 18% as at the end of last week, will probably be 30% by the end of this week. Thanks Mr President.

Are there any adults in the US Government?

I can't help thinking it would be nice if some Democrats turned up.

Wheatear disappointment I think I mentioned recently that I blew my chances in the annual Wanstead Wheatear Sweepstake by failing to turn up to choose my dates at t...

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Well Vance is a little shit isn't he?

Mid-February updates Somewhere near Flagstaff Writing, you may have noticed, has taken a back seat. This is not because the flow has slackened but because there ...

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I've gone off social media