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PR & Events Strategist. Historian. Journalist. Author. Founder of the Exmoor Food Fest which turns 10 in Feb 2025 🎉 Proudly woke. Proudly European. 🌍Exmoor UK https://www.elkekoessling.com https://www.exmoorfoodfest.com https://www.exmoor4all.com 🧶📚🇪🇺🐾🐕
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“A fabulous amble from Malmsmead.” By Chris Berry. #Exmoor

Good morning from Exmoor 💛 “Yesterday morning’s commute was held up by the school run. 🤣🤣🤣 Lovely to see.” By Tracey Martin.

Exmoor stag in velvet. Photo by Rosemary Barnes.

Bluebells and wild garlic on Exmoor. Photo by Roger Shattock.

Good night from Exmoor ✨ Sunset walk on the South West Coast Path. Photo by Lewis Winter.

Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks. But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof. They were held in prison for 3 days then deported. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

Around Church Steps in Minehead. Photos by Paul Sparks. #Exmoor

This is hilarious 🤣

"Light" Quantock hills just after sunrise. By Anthony Rossfallon.

Schon auch witzig.

Sounds like a plan

Freue mich, meinen Lieblingscartoonisten @ralphruthe.bsky.social hier auf Bluesky gefunden zu haben. (Dieser Cartoon wurde von Facebook gelöscht…)

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

I will remind everyone that without Rupert Murdoch you would never have had President Donald Trump.

It's got zero to do with negotiation or indeed with any sense of logic. The tariff rates are the product of minds which are functionally insane, doing fantasy mathematics at scale. We're all lost in a hall of mirrors pretending that a compass will help us find our way out.

Wirtschaft & Sicherheit hängen zusammen. Heute ist für die USA kein Tag der Liberation, sondern der Inflation - für Europa aber Unity-Tag. Wir haben eine starke Toolbox, um auf Zwangsmaßnahmen zu reagieren. Wir wollen keinen Handelskrieg, bleiben für Gespräche offen. @abaerbock.diplo.de

The penguins of Heard Island strike back at Trump’s idiotic ruling to apply 10% tariffs to Heard Island (and a few other non-counties):

I just finished the audiobook “Politics On The Edge”, entertainingly read by the author Rory Stewart. Intelligence, a moral compass, humility plus a sense of humour are rare attributes amongst politicians. #ukpolitics #rorystewart #conservatives #audiobooks

Absent for years on full pay for a personal matter, this shadow foreign minister David Coleman now wants us to take him seriously — when the Chinese wdn’t even return Morrison’s or his ministers’ calls — that the LIBs can be tough with the USA/Trump tariffs. Absolute failures.

As personal as reasons might be for LIB David Coleman MP (dumped assistant IMMI minister by Morrison) to have been absent from parliament for several years on full pay, the public deserve an explanation. Especially in light of this unresolved scandal: michaelwest.com.au/liberal-party-…

High tide this morning on Porlock Marsh. Photos by Paul Sparks. #exmoor

Good morning from Exmoor! “Red Hind and calf in the morning sun on Exmoor. Hinds will often look rather tatty in late March as the moult begins soon, although perhaps especially so for this hind which reared what looks like a rather late born calf through the winter. 20 March 2025” Jochen Langbein.

"Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It almost destroyed civilization itself. That didn’t happen because Germany took in too many migrants. It happened because the German people fell for arguments uncomfortably close to JD Vance’s."

It’s been absolutely freezing today… Yesterday the wind wasn’t any warmer, but at least there was some blue sky!

Some harrowing stories about overseas tourists getting detained trying to cross into the US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...

Robert Morris—the televangelist who “spiritually advised” Trump during his 2016 campaign—has been indicted by an Oklahoma grand jury for indecent acts with a 12-year-old girl beginning in the 1980s.

Im RBB gibt es erste personelle Konsequenzen nach der fehlerhaften Berichterstattung ßber Grßnenpolitiker Gelbhaar. Der Chefredakteur und die Programmdirektorin mßssen gehen. Der Schritt ist richtig, und kommt doch Wochen zu spät.

Views from County Gate this morning. Photo by Martyn Knight. #Exmoor

Good morning from Exmoor 💛 Yesterday’s sunrise over Holdstone Down. Photos by Andy Savin.

Spotify removes Andrew Tate 'pimping hoes' class after employees complain. 🔗 www.404media.co/pretty-vile-...

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Do you not worry that voters who are skeptical about Trump are going to start expecting you to stand up to him at some point?" Liam Byrne, "Absolutely, but.. We just don't have the same tools to our disposal that the European Union has"

If in a Labour constituency & you disagree with this policy, please email your MP to say as a result of this, you will vote Lib Dem next It might get their self-interest involved (plenty of Labour MPs seem genuinely angry about this policy but Cabinet needs to get it)

UK’s poorest households now worse off than poorest households in Slovenia Analysis shows if wage growth continued in line with the pre-2008 trend, the average worker in the UK would be earning £12,000 more per year today, Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

Great to see the deer making the most of the sun. Photo by Steve Webber. #Exmoor

What a shame… said no-one ever…

Prem might be the most important journalist in America right now, the only person covering this story with the urgency it needs. Absurd that there isn't wall to wall coverage of this.

What she said.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Live by the meme. Die by the meme. Use social media to pump your stock price. Watch while social media dumps it #Swasticar

Confirmed: Massive DDOS attack by #Anonymous sec #DarkStorm which caused major disruptions across Twitter for the last four hours Expect more

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Good morning from Exmoor 💛 Bright and early at Porlock Weir. Photo by Donna Cox Alsoomse.

The human rights situation in Georgia is alarming. 🚨🇬🇪 Today marks 94 days of pro-democracy protests against government repression. The UN is offering grants for local NGOs. If you know one, share this so they don’t miss out! ⚖️💙 #HumanRights #Georgia #Democracy 🔗 www.undp.org/georgia/news...

I wrote this before the Oval Office performance, but really, there is nothing to add. It's all still true.