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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 7d

Robert Jenrick lives in Eye Manor, a Grade 1 listed building in rural Herefordshire bought in 2009 for over £1 million. I wonder whether he’s making an effort to integrate with his neighbours, especially poorer people?

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 12d

In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 18d

As if it couldn’t get worse.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18d

MSF forced to suspend activities in Gaza City:

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
www.msf.org/msf-forced-s...

MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

www.msf.org

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 19d

Oh yes - I knew about the communist connection but whether the bakery was run on socialist principles, I don’t know!

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 19d

Loved meeting you John. Thank you.

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 20d

Huge thanks to the wonderful @salthepoet.bsky.social for letting me write about her and her work on Ruskin and the communists

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for this John! Great to meet you and tell you about this 19th century experiment and mine from the 20th!

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 20d

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield.

dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

The commune on the moors

A spectre is haunting Sheffield • The spectre of Communism • And Coronation Street

dispatch-media.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29d

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Sep 11

Oh yes to that. It’s even worse when you can’t remember where you put the charging cable.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I need to read this dear John! Thank you.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fascinating programme about Orwell and how far Animal Farm reflects the way real mixed farms and farming in general was changing in the 1940s. Intriguing to an old anarcho-socialist grower like me, born not long after in the early 1950s. #farming #orwell

Artworks - The Farmer's Guide to Animal Farm - BBC Sounds

Why George Orwell's political satire also reveals his commitment to agricultural debates.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s a dog’s life.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oh I love Choughs! Thank you.

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Aug 7

Glad to have signed this deeply thought-through letter. It often feels there’s little we can do, yet we can’t let what we witness on our screens & in print numb or paralyse us. Until the civilians of Gaza are safe & given adequate food, water, medical aid & relief. TY @horatioclare.bsky.social

Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott

More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Aug 8

An important, uplifting piece from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on the hope that springs from ‘a good year for wildlife.’ It proves the resilience of nature, & encourages those small, grass roots, ‘local’ efforts, despite the constant pummelling from government & many industry leaders…

Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · Aug 7

I hope this summer's wildlife spectacles show more of us the wonders of (relative) abundance, and why it's worth fighting for. I wrote this for the Guardian comment pages... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This summer brought an abundance of butterflies and birds. Nature is ready to spring back – if we let it | Patrick Barkham

The recent hopeful surge of some wildlife isn’t down to us. But in an era of climatic decline, it shows the resilience of our fellow species, says Guardian nature writer Patrick Barkham

www.theguardian.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Aug 6

Will we finally see action taken to address the hidden scandal of rampant farm waste dumping - aka slurry spreading. www.farminguk.com/news/defra-t...

Defra tightens rules to tackle farm pollution after legal pressure

Defra has issued tougher new guidance to clamp down on agricultural pollution following a landmark legal win by environmental campaigners.

www.farminguk.com

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 2

Latin dance! Is there no end to your talents Nic!

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Aug 2

I was reading it this morning and was so pleased to find you there! Xxx

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oh that’s just great dear Nic. ❤️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 20

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

www.theguardian.com

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Jul 19

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/tinderbox-th...

Tinderbox: the fire risk growing on Sheffield’s borders

“It’s dry,” he says. “There is no Ringinglow Bog.”

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our annual public swift walk for Swift Awareness Week. We’ve found around 50 nests on this small 1930s estate and there are certainly more. Managed to see 3 into nests tonight despite the cold wind.

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Jul 1

The folk horror is real, where there’s a shoot. It brings the predators in. A gruesome & strange danse macabre for my @theguardian.com Country Diary today. ‘A jewel-bright partridge’s head, tops the beads of its neck vertebrae like an umbrella handle’ & someone is playing curious games..

Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester

North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · Jun 30

The villagers are here! 'Village', my new non-fiction prose book, is available to buy. Witches, wheelbarrows, cheerful survival... The villagers dictated the blurb in the image. To buy, please see LINK IN COMMENTS.

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