StuartSW
@stuartsw.bsky.social
Head of Campaigns at Angling Trust, environment activist, politics, ideas, democracy. Dad & slave to Aubrey the dog. Views are my own.
The fact #Reform are an aggressive climate denying party defines them as being anti nature to their core. Why would you even contemplate this for a moment @bengoldsmith.bsky.social
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Reform UK enlists Boris Johnson ally to write party nature policies
Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories
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January 30, 2026 at 8:44 AM
The fact #Reform are an aggressive climate denying party defines them as being anti nature to their core. Why would you even contemplate this for a moment @bengoldsmith.bsky.social
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Sorry, @rory-stewart.bsky.social but while your hope for a new beginning for the #Tories was admirable, and I wish it were so, once again, your judgement as to where your former party is and your hopes for #ProsperUK seem to be way off.
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Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
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January 28, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Sorry, @rory-stewart.bsky.social but while your hope for a new beginning for the #Tories was admirable, and I wish it were so, once again, your judgement as to where your former party is and your hopes for #ProsperUK seem to be way off.
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Always good to see an audience that reflects the diversity of modern Britain.
January 26, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Always good to see an audience that reflects the diversity of modern Britain.
Seems the #WaterWhitePaper is an exercise in allowing water companies to continue to pollute by removing fines when they break the law. The polluter pays principle is being disapplied and the victims (customers & the environment) will continue to pay.
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Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul
Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry
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January 20, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Seems the #WaterWhitePaper is an exercise in allowing water companies to continue to pollute by removing fines when they break the law. The polluter pays principle is being disapplied and the victims (customers & the environment) will continue to pay.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@therestpolitics.bsky.social Given the contents of the US National Security Strategy & Trump's comments in his Politico interview, calling European leaders weak while leaning into the great displacement theory. Isn't it time we started treating the US as the threat it is? Stuart TRIP+ member Reading
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social Given the contents of the US National Security Strategy & Trump's comments in his Politico interview, calling European leaders weak while leaning into the great displacement theory. Isn't it time we started treating the US as the threat it is? Stuart TRIP+ member Reading
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In Europe, a division is emerging: the south and south east grow drier, including parts of the UK. Meanwhile, the North and North East, including parts of the UK, are growing wetter:
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In Europe, a division is emerging: the south and south east grow drier, including parts of the UK. Meanwhile, the North and North East, including parts of the UK, are growing wetter:
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And yet, and yet, the govt pushes on with water hungry data centres exactly where we have no water.
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And yet, and yet, the govt pushes on with water hungry data centres exactly where we have no water.
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Political leaders have turned away. Not only via this COP. I attended a regional fisheries meeting this year with the US refusing to approve any mention of climate. This week a council in the Midlands supported a school's climate conference but would not allow mention of CC.
Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon
President of talks urges ministers and high-ranking officials to find common ground as conference nears its end
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November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Political leaders have turned away. Not only via this COP. I attended a regional fisheries meeting this year with the US refusing to approve any mention of climate. This week a council in the Midlands supported a school's climate conference but would not allow mention of CC.
The government promised a water White Paper this autumn. Where is it? Are they having second thoughts?
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Has the government got cold feet over fixing our broken water system?
In July, the Independent Water Commission, more commonly known as the Cunliffe Review, published a series of recommendations – 88 in all – on what was needed to fix Britain’s broken water sector. Whil...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The government promised a water White Paper this autumn. Where is it? Are they having second thoughts?
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"The Prescott memo [...] has not been transparent or robust in design or approach. The analysis itself falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands."
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"The Prescott memo [...] has not been transparent or robust in design or approach. The analysis itself falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands."
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
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Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
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November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I agree, but how? If we all shout individually, our voice will be but a whisper. If we raise our voices together, then it will be a chorus of support. How do we organise against this right-wing, self-serving mob? @theguardian.com @restispolitics.bsky.social
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If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I agree, but how? If we all shout individually, our voice will be but a whisper. If we raise our voices together, then it will be a chorus of support. How do we organise against this right-wing, self-serving mob? @theguardian.com @restispolitics.bsky.social
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Yep, he really should do it.
How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Yep, he really should do it.
How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
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Interesting to note that Paid won the Caerphilly bye election and Reform lost. So who is the @bbc Today Programme interviewing? Oh it's Reform. I see their love affair is not diminished.
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Interesting to note that Paid won the Caerphilly bye election and Reform lost. So who is the @bbc Today Programme interviewing? Oh it's Reform. I see their love affair is not diminished.
The government constantly talk of a win-win for growth and nature yet once again portray protecting a SSSI as a "blocker" to development. The more the government say the less we can trust.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Developers encroach on 2,000-year-old Devon wetland citing ‘blockages’ to Labour’s housing plans
According to planning conditions, Wolborough Fen in Newton Abbot must be protected as groundworks are prepared for 1,200 homes
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October 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The government constantly talk of a win-win for growth and nature yet once again portray protecting a SSSI as a "blocker" to development. The more the government say the less we can trust.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Watching the Tories this week, it seems they have learnt nothing in defeat. Their slogan "stronger economy" they trashed the economy, "stronger boarders" they opened them post Brexit. Abolish stamp duty, they destroyed many people's chance to buy a house. Shamless!
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Conservative Party would abolish stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch tells conference - follow live
She says
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October 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Watching the Tories this week, it seems they have learnt nothing in defeat. Their slogan "stronger economy" they trashed the economy, "stronger boarders" they opened them post Brexit. Abolish stamp duty, they destroyed many people's chance to buy a house. Shamless!
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Sad to see this government, just like the last, has been bought. Clearly the developers said jump and Reeves said how high.
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Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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October 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sad to see this government, just like the last, has been bought. Clearly the developers said jump and Reeves said how high.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Total political failure to protect one of the most important fish in the marine food web.
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Mackerel Meltdown: Industrial Greed Pushes Stock to 20-Year Low
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has delivered today shocking advice: commercial catches of Northeast Atlantic mackerel must be cut by 77% in 2026 if the stock is to sta...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Total political failure to protect one of the most important fish in the marine food web.
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Brilliant. Let's have many more of these. Would be a good addition to Labour's planning reform. For once showing they improve rather than trash the environment.
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‘You could drink from that pond’: the city digging for a solution to toxic runoff
A project in Brighton to stop harmful chemicals from seeping into a chalk aquifer could set an example for managing such pollution
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September 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Brilliant. Let's have many more of these. Would be a good addition to Labour's planning reform. For once showing they improve rather than trash the environment.
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For too long, we have known this is coming, and yet we do nothing to prepare and ensure our environment is resilient. Instead, we penny-pinch and fail to invest in nature.
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Hedgehogs, salmon and birds at risk after dry summer, says Natural England
Loss of spawning pools, insects and marshy habitats has had ‘catastrophic effect on our flora and fauna’
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September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For too long, we have known this is coming, and yet we do nothing to prepare and ensure our environment is resilient. Instead, we penny-pinch and fail to invest in nature.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I utterly condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk. But the way the hard right in the US & around the world have been quick to weaponise it, use it to double down on authoritarianism, culture wars & intolerance is scary. This marks another moment when democracy & enlightenment values slip from our grasp.
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I utterly condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk. But the way the hard right in the US & around the world have been quick to weaponise it, use it to double down on authoritarianism, culture wars & intolerance is scary. This marks another moment when democracy & enlightenment values slip from our grasp.