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Norfolk’s wildlife mystery of the year. A beaver has appeared in the wild on the River Wensum for the first time in 400 years. Somewhere there is a breached beaver enclosure, but none of the nature reserves admit to losing one! Here's the intriguing story ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Beaver ‘escape artist’ mystery
A mysterious beaver has appeared in Norfolk, prompting excitement and an investigation into which enclosure it escaped from
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Whatever happened to Labour?
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:

"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."

All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Sangita Myska is, of course, absolutely right. And you have to ask, does the indifference of powerful cis white men like Wesley Streeting ('police streets not tweets') speak mostly to how little he is affected?
"She said the position of people of colour in public life in Britain was 'becoming harder by the day', in part due to an 'unbelievably toxic environment in which anything goes' that became normalised during the Brexit campaign in 2016." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online
Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillor
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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(the exchange which made me realise that it was not just an issue of resources and capacity, the British civil service really does have some serious problems of competence)
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"What's the plan, Nigel?"
"Just try not to look incredibly evil."
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Yet another crime in a 'national park' renowned for raptor persecution

endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/peregrine-...
Peregrine shot in the Peak District National Park
Yet another crime in a 'national park' renowned for raptor persecution
endbirdshooting.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
#Woodmouse 🐭& #hedgehog 🦔🤪
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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FML - this fawning before the over-sensitive king is embarrassing for the world.

Many countries have fought revolutions (and in the UK a civil war) against monarchs & tyrants in order to get away from this ridiculous kind of self-abasement before egos of foolish leaders.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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It’s really simple…

- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting

…that’ll do it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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"Bankole, 54, an engineer, said once his 'existence as a target was established', Farage 'would wait at the lower-school gate, where I was dropped off for school, so as to repeat the vulgarity'." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Reform in a nutshell. £49,000 on a bunch of flags, and another £16,000 just to put them up.

Local services will keep eroding, but hey, we've got some flags on poles.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK council's £75,000 flags project begins
A total of 164 union jack flags will be displayed in 82 locations under the scheme.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#Woodmouse 🐭🤪🍄& #hedgehogs 🦔🦔😛😝
December 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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this story isn’t going away

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Is that £9million… Russian money?
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Short-fused racist has tantrum at BBC for asking him about being a racist bully at school. Then tries to claim that Reform was given £9M by crypto billionaire, Harborne, for “absolutely nothing in return”.

That’s all that sorted then.
Racist *and* corrupt.

news.sky.com/story/politi...
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#Hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I was four years old when I came to the US. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to have been ripped apart from my family and detained by strangers. This makes me want to scream.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM