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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 2h

Labour is a massive disappointment in its attitude towards nature. Really sad. Thought/hoped they would be better than this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 2d

BBC & HMG deciding Gaza’s (for how long?) peace is all due to the unique style of Trump

Really?

Any US President could surely have pressed this on a war-weary Israel. Potentially earlier

In 1956 Eisenhower said a firm “stop” & Israel stopped www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...

Message to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion Urging Withdrawal of Israeli Forces in Egypt. | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 3d

The tragedy of industrial fishing strikes another species off the list. It would appear that this will only end when there are no fish left to catch.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Once 'sustainable' mackerel stocks are drastically declining

While overfishing is the main problem for mackerel stocks, climate change has been having an impact too

www.irishexaminer.com

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 3d

📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park

You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 3d

From the grifter who is literally poisoning people’s mind on race 🤡 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8d

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

If you liked Brexit, you’re going to love what the Conservatives want next | Polly Toynbee

Leaving the ECHR could mean higher food prices and an even bigger blow to trade. The Tories’ new proposals will end the party for good, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall dies, the Pope condemns climate deniers, and Kemi Badenoch decides today is a good day to say she’d scrap the Climate Change Act.

Economically bonkers, morally bankrupt, out of step with public opinion

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11d

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 11d

This media and political obsession with immigration is beyond appalling. Meanwhile climate change….#r4today

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12d

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 12d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 13d

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds

European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm

www.irishtimes.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16d

This man has left his nation in a state of total isolation. He is disaster for Israel's international standing and security.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16d

Brilliant from @kevinclimate.bsky.social as always - making abundantly clear the inconvenient truth this Govt is forever trying to duck & dodge: expanding aviation capacity is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s climate obligations

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16d

Gatwick expansion blows another huge hole in the UK Government's already perforated climate commitments.

New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social

climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...

Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored

Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of

climateuncensored.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16d

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17d

Thus isn’t a perfect policy but it is a good thing and definitely better than the status quo. Universal ID offers many benefits.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 17d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17d

A massive dereliction of leadership and duty, if true. A few years ago, Starmer branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top #climate conference as a “failure of leadership”. He was right then - he must do the right thing himself now #COP30

Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil

Final decision has yet to be made amid ‘big fight inside government’ over trip by prime minister

www.ft.com

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