RT @NeilPHauer: Protests starting up on Tbilisi's Rustaveli Ave, in front of Georgia's parliament building. Thousands here already for what…

Met US journalist @terrelljstarr outside Tbilisi's Parliament Buildings this morning. A week to go until Georgia's most important election in decades.

Six months ago I started a (free) monthly substack. My latest post, just published, is a story from the mountains of the Indo-Myanmar border; a border Modi now plans to build a 1021-mile fence along.

In case you're still on the fence about who to vote for tomorrow.... #voteforchange

RT @theAliceRoberts: We owe it to them: all our female ancestors who were denied that democratic right. Patriarchal forces still attempt to…

A few months ago I started a Substack newsletter - a place to write about the things I really want to write about. My latest post, out today, is a meditation on writing, and life. I hope you enjoy it.

RT @omarsuleiman504: 75 of the over 36,000 Palestinians killed over the past 8 months in Israel's genocide of Gaza. Humanize them. Their li…

Well, so much for a gentle morning's writing. Instead I've been fretting about this lone blackbird fledgling, digging up worms for it from the veg patch and patrolling our garden for unwanted cats. To love nature is to be constantly anxious about it

Thanks so much @joannalillis, and what a concidence you're in Aktau now. It's pretty eerie being there, and seeing quite how far the sea has receded.

Superb reporting by @sommervilletv, about Myanmar, on @BBCRadio4's From Our Own Correspondent just now. My story about the Caspian Sea on in a few minutes.

In my shed, recording a story for this Saturday's episode of From Our Own Correspondent. Hopefully listeners won't be able to hear the male blackbird that likes to sing the Game of Thrones theme tune from a hazel tree outside my door. @BBCRadio4 #Kazakhstan

Last month I travelled to Kazakhstan to find out why the Caspian Sea is shrinking at unprecedented speed. To hear the full story, have a listen to today's episode of Crossing Continents, The Caspian Crisis, on @BBCRadio4 at 9pm tonight. @CarolineBayley

RT @CarolineBayley: Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what impact is it having in Western Kazakhstan? To find out listen to Assignment @…

RT @maxseddon: Navalny's wife Yulia at the Munich security conference: "If it's true, I want Putin, his entourage, Putin's friends and his…

RT @maxseddon: Russians in Moscow are lining up to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at a memorial to Gulag victims outside the FSB h…

This is wonderful, and gives such hope. I'd love to see more of this here in @BannauB. #rewilding

RT @RobGMacfarlane: Many of us feel furious about the state of the UK's rivers––but also powerless. Now @kcllegalclinic have launched a 130…

@ethelcrowley2 @TripFiction @Journeywoman @LoisPryce @raynor_winn @CherylStrayed Ah! Lovely! Thanks for pointing this out @ethelcrowley2. I am a very rare visitor here these days so would have missed it otherwise xx

Lovely to be included in this list of best books about female solo travel. Thank you so much @TripFiction! And what esteemed company I'm in - Dervla Murphy, Isabella Bird, @LoisPryce, @CherylStrayed. Go ladies! x

Thank you @deborahlong - so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for posting x