Lucy Siegle
@lucysiegle.bsky.social
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
Writer/broadcaster/host been on the case of this beautiful planet (nature and climate beat) since 2000.
Writer/broadcaster/host been on the case of this beautiful planet (nature and climate beat) since 2000.
A little flex there toward Shein/Temu. Reeves saying she will
Close de minimis duty loophole they exploit. Wonder if this means she won’t let them IPO? #budget
Close de minimis duty loophole they exploit. Wonder if this means she won’t let them IPO? #budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A little flex there toward Shein/Temu. Reeves saying she will
Close de minimis duty loophole they exploit. Wonder if this means she won’t let them IPO? #budget
Close de minimis duty loophole they exploit. Wonder if this means she won’t let them IPO? #budget
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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That final point is absolutely crucial.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
That final point is absolutely crucial.
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Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
British media has lost the plot. The BBC ‘coup’ stuff is so wild. Somehow Newsnight turned into Dallas. I will never understand how Robbie Gibb was handed power. Today’s issue of the News Agents definitely worth listening to too.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
British media has lost the plot. The BBC ‘coup’ stuff is so wild. Somehow Newsnight turned into Dallas. I will never understand how Robbie Gibb was handed power. Today’s issue of the News Agents definitely worth listening to too.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
A friendly reminder that Spotify is running ads for ICE recruitment
A baby girl was pepper-sprayed in the face by Department of Homeland Security agents as her parents drove her home from a weekend family shopping trip.
Baby Pepper-Sprayed by DHS Thugs During Family Grocery Trip
Parents say an agent fired an irritant from a moving car.
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A friendly reminder that Spotify is running ads for ICE recruitment
I absolutely hate it when Farage (rhyme with Carriage) is having a good day. The toady (who coincidentally resembles a toad) is determined to deliver his master the BBC on a platter. 🤮
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I absolutely hate it when Farage (rhyme with Carriage) is having a good day. The toady (who coincidentally resembles a toad) is determined to deliver his master the BBC on a platter. 🤮
It’s such a coincidence that all the issues that a bloke called Michael Prescott - a PR reputation spin doctor guy has highlighted in his dossier that has apparently caused the BBC to implode - are right wing shibboleths. I feel like I’m actually going mad.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s such a coincidence that all the issues that a bloke called Michael Prescott - a PR reputation spin doctor guy has highlighted in his dossier that has apparently caused the BBC to implode - are right wing shibboleths. I feel like I’m actually going mad.
I don’t believe anybody resigned over this? Just a misguided edit that upset the Orange Fuhrer then is it?
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I don’t believe anybody resigned over this? Just a misguided edit that upset the Orange Fuhrer then is it?
Those of who believe in the necessity of a public broadcaster with editorial standards were sold Tim Davie as a necessary bulwark to the right wing agenda of dismantling the bbc. Was he some sort of sleeper cell? In a world first I agreed w Craig Oliver & Nick Robinson just now.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Those of who believe in the necessity of a public broadcaster with editorial standards were sold Tim Davie as a necessary bulwark to the right wing agenda of dismantling the bbc. Was he some sort of sleeper cell? In a world first I agreed w Craig Oliver & Nick Robinson just now.
Lovely man. Will be missed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68
The presenter and campaigner was described by his family as a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Lovely man. Will be missed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I didn’t think this night could get any better.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I didn’t think this night could get any better.
I’m really sorry to ask this, but I live near a farm and the sheep in the field seem incredibly listless. One is now struggling to breathe and at least two have died already. Farmers tell me sheep are prone to keeling over, but this seems more than previous years.
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m really sorry to ask this, but I live near a farm and the sheep in the field seem incredibly listless. One is now struggling to breathe and at least two have died already. Farmers tell me sheep are prone to keeling over, but this seems more than previous years.
‘America gave Donald Trump a bloody nose’. Waking up to the best news in a long time.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
‘America gave Donald Trump a bloody nose’. Waking up to the best news in a long time.
‘Human-induced climate change increased wind speeds and rainfall from Hurricane Melissa, according to a new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution’ but Bill (Gates) wants us to cool it on climate. Bit expensive. open.substack.com/pub/theweath...
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
‘Human-induced climate change increased wind speeds and rainfall from Hurricane Melissa, according to a new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution’ but Bill (Gates) wants us to cool it on climate. Bit expensive. open.substack.com/pub/theweath...
This is an unfolding climate tragedy. Offers of help after the storm, ok, but what was needed was global alliance slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Due to lack of action, Jamaica has experienced dangerous sea level rise, making storm surges deadly. This is a climate cost. Right now.
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is an unfolding climate tragedy. Offers of help after the storm, ok, but what was needed was global alliance slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Due to lack of action, Jamaica has experienced dangerous sea level rise, making storm surges deadly. This is a climate cost. Right now.
Beyond crazy. Trump’s administration trolling the White House ‘major events’ timeline. Absolutely batshit.
I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Beyond crazy. Trump’s administration trolling the White House ‘major events’ timeline. Absolutely batshit.
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Our Special Little Boy tore down half the White House. What a scamp.
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our Special Little Boy tore down half the White House. What a scamp.
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The new Pentagon Press Corps will include conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website Infowars.
It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.
It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.
October 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The new Pentagon Press Corps will include conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website Infowars.
It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.
It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.
No doubt.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No doubt.
This made me wonder this morning. It’s ok. The full title is ‘addressing the invisibility of menopausal women. As you were.
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This made me wonder this morning. It’s ok. The full title is ‘addressing the invisibility of menopausal women. As you were.
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'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
I am delighted to report that Su Pollard was at the airport this morning which is how all Thursdays ought to start. Hi-de-hi!
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I am delighted to report that Su Pollard was at the airport this morning which is how all Thursdays ought to start. Hi-de-hi!
So many questions that reform should be asked tonight. Will they be asked any of them though?
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
October 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So many questions that reform should be asked tonight. Will they be asked any of them though?