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Rachel Reeves tells private equity bosses she plans to shut down more regulators

Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Sep 10

Deregulation is massive self harm for negligible gain. Have the government learnt nothing from recent expensive examples of regulatory failure, such as the collapse of Carillion, the Grenfell tower fire & cladding scandal, or our water pollution situation? 🤦‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chancellor stopped short of saying which regulators were in government’s crosshairs

Beauty, broken and rescued: 150 years of equine welfare

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Sep 1

From Great Yarmouth to the world: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty broke new ground in 1877 and inspired change in animal welfare. 150 years on, the fight against cruelty continues, with rescue centres still needed across the region | Kate Moore

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social

The legacy of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty reminds us: cruelty to any creature is everyone’s concern

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jul 25

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‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature

Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness

‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · Jul 1

Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland
Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Jun 30

"The Govt has no plans to ban driven grouse shooting..."

A disappointing (but not unexpected) conclusion to the @wildjustice.bsky.social petition debate just now from Labour Minister Daniel Zeichner.

No hint of licensing either: @rspb.bsky.social policy must shift

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 29

Two orchids from two local parks today. Pyramidal (a new record for the park) and (I think as still out and not checked) common spotted x southern marsh hybrid (one of many).
#wildflowerhour

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 29

This grows on the hill behind my house, which isn’t a floodplain but does get pretty wet in the winter.

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 29

Not speeded up, just a very hungry bat! (Common pipistrelle)
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle

Manchester fire: Residents evacuated from tower as blaze spreads

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · Jun 23

The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Residents are evacuated from a tower block after embers from a major fire at Hotspur House spread.

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 22

Biting stonecrop, Peak District

Biting stonecrop on rocks with fields behind

Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 22

Saw many small tortoiseshells along the Derbyshire lanes today

Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 15

A couple of the great plants I’ve seen this week :)
#wildflowerhour

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 15

My favourites from this week - large skipper, marbled white, six-spot burnet & ringlet.

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 15

Two of Leicestershires hard rock quarries - Cliffe Hill and Croft. Surprised to see lots of southern marsh orchids in very dry places at Cliffe Hill.

Wild Justice presses ahead with legal challenge against the government's Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hot off the press!

wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...

PRESS RELEASE: Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has issued a legal challenge to the government’s claim that the new Planning […]

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 11

Marbled white, South Notts.

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 11

Some of the meadow buttercups in a field near me have interesting white & yellow colour combos

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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill will be a disaster for nature.

Britain's wildlife is a source of pride for millions - voters will not take kindly to its destruction.

There will be electoral consequences.

The Government must accept my proposals before it's too late.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 9

Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot

Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Why a bat in the attic could see home improvement costs go through the roof

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 8

Another bat-bashing article, fitting nicely with the governments anti bat & newt rhetoric, on the eve of the P&I Bill report stage.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

As Labour plans an overhaul of planning rules on the preservation of bats, Alex Ross finds a system met with frustration and defence by homeowners and conservationists alike

www.independent.co.uk

Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 8

My two wildflower stalking views. Not much of a helper.
#wildflowerhour

Rough hawkbit & ox-eye daises in a field

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 8

More of my local park. With pepper-saxifrage, great burnet, knapweed, ox-eye daisy and rough hawkbit.
#wildflowerhour

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Sarah Postlethwaite @sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social · Jun 8

A few faves this week from my local park (and local wildlife site). Lots of southern marsh, common spotted orchids and their hybrids, plus grass vetchling (1000’s live in the SUDs basin), adder’s-tongue ferns and pepper-saxifrage.
#wildflowerhour