Charlotte Boyle

‘Tis the season to be mindful about the things that are going right in the world. Amid the gloom, there have been many rays of light in 2022. And as Christmas approaches, we’re launching our #PositiveCountdown to celebrate them.

Mars is at it's closest to Earth. Here's a photo I captured of it last night using a 14" telescope. You can clearly see the northern polar ice cap! I'm working hard to learn to overcome the challenges of planetary photography to bring you the best images of Mars at opposition.

Thanks to Harvard University, you can now virtually enter the Great Pyramid of Giza in 3D and 360º Tour: buff.ly/3sBqStP

If you think we don’t need to codify in law that women have a human right to choose to have an abortion, Jacob rees-mogg just argued against women who are victims of rape or incest having a right to have one. Women deserve equal rights. Whoever is in government. #trustWomen

Choreographer Sadeck Waff & students from Bird College perform a “human murmuration.” The beauty that birds create when moving as one serves as a metaphor for world leaders working together to produce a global plan to save nature! Find more at: urgentconversation.org #CBDCOP15

The smallest bird in the world is the Zunzunito, also know as the bee bird.

“Ireland’s poorest have a standard of living that is two-thirds higher than the poorest in the UK”according to a Financial Times analysis.

Memories of Cumbria. Wandering the edge of Edenhall woods in Autumn

I’m in the Retained EU Law Bill Committee where we’ve been pressing the Tories to give guarantees on the protection of workers’ rights. Predictably they refused and among other important rights ……

On a serious note, the rapid downward spiral of Twitter should be a massive red flag for all of us. Twitter is part of the historical record. There is literally evidence of war crimes & human rights violations that might not exist anywhere else. And it could just…disappear.

For those questioning whether anything has changed. This is from a few weeks ago Saudi Prince Alwaleed Becomes Twitter’s Second Largest Shareholder via @forbes forbes.com/sites/mattduro…

incredible chart from @business in the context of the current energy crisis

BREAKING 🚨: A new image from the James Web Space Telescope has dropped

Simply staggering numbers in OBR report. Real Household Disposable Income per person to fall more than 7% over next two years. Biggest fall on record. Taking incomes down to 2013 levels.

A new study into the origins of cats - reveals they were domesticated around 10,000 years ago, spread into Europe with early farmers, spread around more by Romans, and became even more popular in late medieval period. Thanks @ChrisStringer65 for sharing! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Northern Europe in mid November....has *never* been this warm in recorded history... #ActOnClimate

Under proposed UK Government reforms to the Official Secrets Act, journalists could be jailed for up to 14 years for publishing stories that 'embarrass' the UK Government - that would be pretty much every honest news story about the UK Government then.

A rare snow leopard roaming on Mount Everest at 18,000ft, photo published in @thetimes today by Kittiya Pawlowski. What a shot!

Rishi Sunak's government has published the list of acceptable ID required for people to vote in the UK. Six of the Government-approved IDs are specifically targeted at older people, while several forms of ID widely carried by younger people are excluded. bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/vot…