Malcolm Nicholson

Explanations for the UK’s worsening health overlook a key factor: decades of relatively low public spending, compounded by austerity bmj.com/content/393/bm…

Monday motivation from Wharfedale 🌿 Looking over Cray in Wharfedale, where rolling hills and quiet valleys remind us to slow down and breathe. 📸 Wendy McDonnell | #YorkshireDales #MondaMotivation

Wheatear, Quendale Bay - by wildlife artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper @LisaHooper20 More of this artist's fabulous prints, here: hoopoeprints.co.uk

@BootsUK Online Doctor is not a doctor it's a pharmacist - which makes sense for "Boots the Chemist" - but is misleading and against the 1983 Medical Act Worse than that messages from @BootsUK Online Doctor are more commonly pure marketing messages - which is bad in many ways but especially as the marketing and clinical messages are indistinguishable when they arrive Do better @BootsUK

Starmer builds the party, takes it out of the ashes, makes it electable. Takes it from a devastating loss to a landslide. Two years later, in arrive 2 chancers & traitors who fancy their chances at playing PM & want to steal what was hard won. No credibility. Contemptible.

@MalcolmFincken Tens of thousands have emailed their MPs to keep Starmer as PM and you must be blind if you can't see the support all over Social Media - including from non Labour voters.

I love how these ewes love this particular tree as a hiding place for themselves and their lambs. Thankfully all is well this morning

The lovely Columbine Meadow Rue, thalictrum aquilegiifolium

Good morning and welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in 🧡

Illustrations from 'The Lost Words'(2017) by artist/author Jackie Morris who created the book in collaboration with Robert Macfarlane #Womensart #IllustratorArtWeek 🖊

The morning light yesterday on Ben Nevis. Observatory Gully (photo 1) stretches from the summit plateau of the Ben all the way down to about 2,800 feet, giving 1,600 feet of unbroken, deep snow. Carn Mòr Dearg (photo 2) is the Ben’s wee brother, and can rival its sibling’s looks in the right light. Yesterday was such a day. Photos by Alistair Todd. facebook.com/share/p/1EPqpg…

Russia’s overnight attack on Dnipro and the region lasted more than six hours. A missile strike damaged an apartment block, with other civilian infrastructure also heavily hit. The attack also targeted energy facilities and residential buildings across the region. Drones struck Odesa as well, and one of the UAVs hit a vessel owned by China. The Russians could not have been unaware of what vessel was at sea. Overall, destruction was recorded across eight regions, and as of now, dozens of people across the country have been reported injured, including children. In total, the Russians used 524 attack drones and 22 missiles of various types in this strike – both ballistic and cruise missiles. Air raid alerts remain in effect across many border and frontline communities, but our services are operating wherever the security situation allows. Russia relies on ballistic missiles to strike people, and that is precisely why we in Europe must do everything possible to ensure reliable protection against this. Europe must have its own anti-ballistic systems and be self-sufficient in the face of these threats. We repeat once again: we need our own anti-ballistic capabilities and stronger Ukrainian air defense right now. This week will be focused on working with our partners to strengthen the protection of lives. I thank everyone already working on this together with Ukraine.

What the Russian papers are saying about the massive Ukrainian drone strike: one paper calls it “audacious”, another: “one of Ukraine’s largest aerial attacks.” “It’s increasingly difficult to cut the flow of weaponry to the Ukrainian army,” concedes another. #ReadingRussia

Plas Brondanw’s new brochure with photographs by moi 😃

Night night from the lovely Theodore

Polish architect turned artist Maja Wronska There’s a few artists I post who used to be Architects and Maja is one if them Now she creates Watercolours of famous buildings

We knew this would be a good breeding season for Barn Owls but.... The first brood we ringed this year was our largest ever, with an amazing EIGHT owlets!!!

This attack on Breakfast Clubs from a Reform council leader is ignorant. Breakfast clubs aren't just about nutrition, they mean the child is more ready for formal classroom learning as they have already been in a school environment for c45 mins. They enable working parents to get to work earlier and earn more. And having visited some in my constituency it is obvious the children enjoy being there!

Lucy it’s not a huge by election. It’s a completely unnecessary by election. And one that Labour do not deserve to win. You of course have a job to do and should be focused on helping the country. Not your mate.

Ian Ramsey Born in Farnborough in Kent he spent his early years in Britain and Canada eventually settling in America ( Utah) In 1979 he left architecture to become a full time Watercolours painter in the traditional style These are two of his Marine paintings