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Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
Here's a great opportunity to play an important (and interesting and fun!) part in a great organisation working for animals, people and the planet. Please share - and do apply if you have the right skills.
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Charles and Williams take tens of millions of pounds out of the Duchies each year, despite having no right to it. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #DitchTheDuchies
Did Niko have a poorly foot?
So powerfully put - and terrifyingly accurate. We no longer hear the truth, because the truth is deeply inconvenient & because it poses a direct challenge to vested interests - and as a result, our lurch towards climate catastrophe accelerates
Thank you! You may be aware that it's not unknown for some to post unsubstantiated claims on social media
What's the source, please?
the plutocracy wins again. time for radical change
@bjennings90.bsky.social with a powerful cartoon to commemorate 20 years since the 7/7 bombings.
Terrorism will never win. Diversity is our strength and we shall never be divided.
He's wrong on the politics and wrong about your hair. Oh, and wrong on the abusive noun also
Good for you, well done. We need fearless, radical action on climate, inequality and democracy.
1. The Tories knighted Kier Starmer for his work as Head of CPS in prosecuting grooming gangs.
2. Tories had 14 years to instigate an inquiry.
3. Starmer had instigated a rapid review AND instigated an inquiry in 10 months.
4. Grooming gangs are all Kier Starmer’s fault says Badenoch.
5. FFS.
@adamthompsonmp.bsky.social: "I came across an awful case the other day.
A 61 year old man who believed he'd counted up £7 billion of public spending when there was really only £27 million. What can we do for people like the leader of Reform UK?"
🤦♂️Flaky numbers, fake news, false promises.
Very fair clue, less challenging than much Boatman work
Proud to be one of so many @wildlifebcn.org volunteers
I thinkminsawnone last time I was there. It was such a fleeting view that I couldn't be sure. The woodland was full of beautifully noisy song thrush
🥳Our junior ambassador, 11-year-old @naturetasticwh.bsky.social & his friend James have just completed an amazing challenge for wildlife – the pair took part in the first ever Fenathlon, travelling 36 miles between 3 of the area’s most important wetland nature reserves by bike, kayak and foot.
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Please respond to the consultation. It takes less than 20 minutes, if you like Mark's answers. I do.
WTF? Indeed. Vote Green not Labour
✍️ Those thrilling days – Brexit revisited
Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, specifically to June 2016 – to Brexit or not to Brexit, that was the question
By J 'Masharubu' Strauss
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
My first visit to @wildlifebcn.org Totternhoe Nature Reserve. A wonderful spot, good flowers and top place for butterflies
Conor Jameson writes on the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of a memorial to eminent conservationist, W.H. Hudson.
Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/19/g...
#rspb #hydepark #birds #conservation
Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !
Great article, thanks @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Abolish the monarchy. Improve our democracy. Change the country for good. That's it. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
Support for Republic Day from MPs Sian Berry and Bell Ribeiro-Addy! Together, we will change the country for good. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #RepublicDay
A delicious drop of Summer Lightning today reminded me of my brilliant @plantlifeuk.bsky.social colleagues sharing stories and knowledge in a Salisbury pub
If @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social is going to pose power in four years, he ,qy as well do something useful. And protect out environment
