7 h. ago Chris Packham accuses government bill of being a ‘licence to destroy nature’

The Nature Restoration Fund came under the microscope during a talk at the 2025 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts

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14 h. ago ‘It set me on a new path’: the book that empowered me, by Yulia Navalnaya, Elif Shafak and more

Chris Packham, Katherine Rundell, Kehinde Andrews and other authors speaking at this year’s Hay festival reveal the books that inspired themChosen by Katherine Rundell, author Continue reading...

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21 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: In 55 years of covering politics, I've never accused any UK government of routinely telling untruths. But Starmer & Co have taken lying and gaslighting to a deplorable level

How can you tell when politicians are lying? Their lips are moving. It's a hoary old joke but it can still be guaranteed to raise a rueful chuckle among British voters disillusioned with the political process.

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61 h. ago Springwatch presenter Chris Packham addresses ‘disagreements’ with co

‘We don't have to agree about everything. We just move on,’ presenter said

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3 d. ago Humza Yousaf describes Gaza as 'hell on earth' and accuses Israeli Government of trying to 'starve the population'

The former SNP leader accused Israeli leaders of wanting to make Gaza "uninhabitable" by destroying all of its buildings and infastructure.

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3 d. ago South Africa’s Ramaphosa expected to take golf stars to Trump meeting

Ernie Els and Retief Goosen reportedly part of delegation as president seeks to reset ties after white ‘genocide’ claimsThe South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is expected to take the golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen with him to meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, as the government attempts to reset relations with the US amid Trump’s accusations that it is fomenting a white “genocide”.Ramaphosa’s appeal to Trump’s love of golf, with the potential inclusion of Els and Goosen reported by South African local media, is part of his efforts to avoid a public dressing down of the kind Trump gave to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in February. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago BBC Springwatch's Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan admit they 'disagree' on set

Springwatch is back on our screens and to celebrate 20 years of the show, Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan will be presenting three weeks of wildlife from the National Trust's Longshaw Estate

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4 d. ago Scots fishermen given '12 years of certainty' thanks to UK Government deal with EU

The SNP, Reform UK and the Conservatives all criticised the deal and accused the UK Government of selling out fishermen.

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1 week ago Chris Packham says poodles stopped suicide saying 'I was in a really dark place'

Telly legend Chris Packham is famed for his love of the natural world. Now the BBC Springwatch host opens up about his pet pooches - and how they've got him through some of his darkest times

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1 week ago Inside Our ADHD Minds review – Chris Packham’s revelatory show couldn’t be more crucial

Packham refutes harmful anti-woke ideas about the overdiagnosis of neurodiversity by meeting people like Henry, who finds day-to-day life a severe struggle, and Jo, who has spent years constantly being told she’s ‘too much’Inside Our ADHD Minds is a follow-up, of sorts, to Chris Packham’s memorable 2023 documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds. In that earlier film, the wildlife and nature presenter used his own experience of neurodiversity to help other people explore and demonstrate the impact of autism on their lives, for the benefit of their family, friends and a wider TV audience. Inside Our ADHD Minds uses the same formula – Packham walks through woodland as he explains something important, anecdotes about his own life, informative chats with experts, and art therapy in the form of expressive short films – to dig deeper into the condition, and, in the following episode, dyslexia.The result is a beautiful and revelatory programme which feels educational without being didactic; Pa...

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1 week ago TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Channel 4's Virgin Island proves the point that not everything should be on TV

From a gritty four-parter with Robson Green to a radical retreat for virgins and an insight into ADHD from Chris Packham, our TV columnist Sara Wallis picks tonight's best telly

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1 week ago Chris Packham hits out at Trump administration promise to ‘eliminate’ autism

The conservationist says autistic people “are not broken”

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1 week ago Chris Packham says autism does not need a cure: ‘We are not broken’

The conservationist said he does not want a cure to autism following US Health Secretary RFK Jr’s pledge to find the causes of autism by September.

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1 week ago Attorney General ‘raised no issue’ with services ban with Israeli settlements

Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman accused the Government of ‘kicking the can down the road’.

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1 week ago Shooting industry is destroying British countryside with 'irreversible consequences' warns TV presenter

A new report by Animal Aid and Chris Packham warns the shooting industry and the release of millions of pheasant and partridges each year is killing the countryside and "the time to act is now"

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2 w. ago Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka released after arrest at Ice jail protest

Mayor’s wife accuses government of targeting her husband as video showed him being placed in handcuffs by officialsThe mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for alleged trespass at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in New Jersey on Friday and released after several hours.Baraka was released shortly after 8pm and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world warThe former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has launched a blistering attack on Israel, accusing its government of committing genocide in Gaza and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination”.Borrell, a former Spanish foreign minister who served as the EU’s top diplomat from 2019 to 2024, and president of the European parliament from 2004 to 2007, also criticised the bloc’s failure to use all the means at its disposal to influence Israel, saying expressions of regret were simply not enough. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Irish Government accused of ‘false ignorance’ on shipments of Israeli arms

A ‘robust’ probe is being carried out into claims that weapons were being flown through Irish skies unknown to the Irish authorities.

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2 w. ago Government accused of ‘running scared’ over bid to block sentencing guidelines

The Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reporters) Bill has received its second reading in the House of Lords.

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2 w. ago Conservation groups hit out at ‘unfulfilled promises’ over Scotland’s seabed

The Open Seas coalition accused the Scottish Government of having ‘systematically neglected’ the country’s seabed.

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