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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
Had fun spotting some wildflowers in Malham Tarn bog this week. Not the best photos, but the best I could do from the boardwalk and with two pesky children hurrying me along! I was very happy to have spotted the tiny round-leaved sundew. #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge
Round-leaved Sundew Early Purple Orchid Globeflower Marsh Lousewort
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
A charming postbox in the Yorkshire Dales.
May 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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annamazz.bsky.social
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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tanjabueltmann.net
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.

They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.

It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.

Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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goodlawproject.org
What my various inboxes are full of. 👇🏻

Screw the so-called Labour Party; screw the so-called EHRC; and screw the so-called Supreme Court: you've not made even one woman safer but you're causing great cruelty to tens of thousands of people leading blameless lives.
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
Suicide hotline calls are surging as disabled people face devastating benefit cuts. The cruelty isn’t a side effect – it’s the point.

Charlie Hallam reports
#DisabilityJustice #PIPcuts ##MentalHealth
Welfare changes: how to lose points and money
Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided? Soon, that won’t qualify you for help.

1.3 million disabled people face losing support. Read that again.

Charlie Hallam reports on #WelfareCuts & #PIPChanges
Welfare changes: how to lose points and money
Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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dinfontay.com
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Farage’s ReformUK was targeting donors in the oil and gas sector who were “very disillusioned”, party treasurer Nick Candy said

A party of climate deniers bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry

www.ft.com/content/b133...
Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy
Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’
www.ft.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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garrykasparov.bsky.social
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
jimsciutto.bsky.social Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
I'm with Ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
#uksnow 3/10 NN15 not settling
January 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
#uksnow NN15 0/10. It's just rain here 😔 I was looking forward to a bit of snow!
January 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
I'm very sceptical that Phil Stocker, head of the National Sheep Association, can tackle Dartmoor's nature crisis. But I'm encouraged he's now stated that "we have to start with [Dartmoor's] SSSIs" & accepts there's an overgrazing problem on the moor.

Words we'll be holding him to!
December 30, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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lgspace.bsky.social
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🌿 Nature
🌳 Trees
🐝 Bees
🍏 Orchards
🐸 Ponds
🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg
🚄 Sustainable public transport
🌍 Climate action
🐞 Insects
🌊 Clean water & air
🦊 Wildlife
🦋 Hedgerows
🌻 Wildflowers
♻️ Waste reduction
🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers
Wildflower meadow with red clover, buttercups and long grasses in the foreground
December 16, 2024 at 11:35 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
A lovely start to the day with some tree planting in my local park! Organised by the Kettering Natural-Ise group in partnership with the council.
A line of newly planted trees.
December 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
Who had a beautiful sunset this evening? #bluesky #orangesky
December 15, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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tracychevalier.bsky.social
Thanks Nick Rennison for choosing The Glassmaker as a Top 10 Historical Fiction 2024!

www.thetimes.com/article/0eb3...
The 10 best historical fiction books of 2024
Kevin Barry reinvents the western, Tracy Chevalier plays with time, Robert Harris tackles a political affair and more, in our pick of the year’s historical fiction
www.thetimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
My brain’s not well at all atm but small creative routines can help so I’m going to try to post a (hopefully dopamine-boosting) photo for you every day through till🎄. Some small wreaths bc I really like twiggy circles 🌿:
Small wreaths made using twigs from several different trees and shrubs 🌿
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 PM
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social
Wow! This sounds wonderful.
nation.cymru/news/crowdfu...
Crowdfunder launched to rewild 1,000 acres in Wales
Stephen Price An environmental group supported by Iolo Williams has launched a crowdfunder to rewild 1,000 in acres in Wales – a campaign they call ‘Wales’ largest ecosystem restoration project. Tir N...
nation.cymru
November 29, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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kernowconservation.bsky.social
Another roe deer on the camera trap from the summer, this time a female/doe just going for a nice walk in the river!
November 24, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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rforestvision.bsky.social
Lots more about this amazing woodland by Carolyn Church here - a full year's diary describing working and living in the wood. Well worth a read!
www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/blog/categories/rawhaw
hannahcarpenter.bsky.social hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · Nov 22
Last week I visited a wonderful independently owned coppice woodland. Third photo shows their award-winning 'dead-hedging' that keeps the deer off the young hazel growth, but naturally degrades just as the hazel is old enough to withstand the nibbling! Very clever stuff!
November 23, 2024 at 12:10 PM