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President Zelinski and Prime Minister Carney met in Halifax today. Two of the finest national leaders in today's world. Now President Zelinski is heading south to meet with the worst.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
President Zelinski and Prime Minister Carney met in Halifax today. Two of the finest national leaders in today's world. Now President Zelinski is heading south to meet with the worst.
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Hunting is completely impractical, causes immense damage to farming, benefits nobody and is very cruel indeed.
No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.
No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.
It’s the Boxing Day Hunt, Nigel Farage thinks packs of hounds should chase a fox and tear it to shreds.
December 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hunting is completely impractical, causes immense damage to farming, benefits nobody and is very cruel indeed.
No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.
No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.
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Gianni Infantino’s decision to award a phoney peace prize to Donald Trump was far from the first time he has fêted a strongman leader.
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December 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Gianni Infantino’s decision to award a phoney peace prize to Donald Trump was far from the first time he has fêted a strongman leader.
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A whole world in less than a foot of branch: mealy pixie cup lichens, mosses, and polypody fern.
*This* is rainforest.
*This* is rainforest.
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
A whole world in less than a foot of branch: mealy pixie cup lichens, mosses, and polypody fern.
*This* is rainforest.
*This* is rainforest.
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I'll be on Times Radio from 9am, talking Trump and the royals, unions and conditions for workers, drink driving and broader road safety
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
Times Radio | The Times and The Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
www.thetimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'll be on Times Radio from 9am, talking Trump and the royals, unions and conditions for workers, drink driving and broader road safety
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
www.thetimes.com/radio/live
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First bird of my day: a pigeon doing one of their extraordinary clap-dives. (You know, when they flap their wings hard once together and it makes a clap, and then they fall deliberately). It made the dull view very cool for a second. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
December 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
First bird of my day: a pigeon doing one of their extraordinary clap-dives. (You know, when they flap their wings hard once together and it makes a clap, and then they fall deliberately). It made the dull view very cool for a second. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
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Don't forget those not yet arrested
December 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Don't forget those not yet arrested
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This festive season spare a thought for those who are locked up for taking bribes from the world leader I admire most.
December 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This festive season spare a thought for those who are locked up for taking bribes from the world leader I admire most.
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Happy second anniversary of the Tory government’s announcement that pints of wine could be stocked on Britain’s shelves for the first time ever thanks to Brexit.
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy second anniversary of the Tory government’s announcement that pints of wine could be stocked on Britain’s shelves for the first time ever thanks to Brexit.
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Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades:
Snowy Owl declared extinct in Sweden after decade without breeding
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct after no breeding records since 2015. Climate change, declining prey and shifting ecosystems are believed to have driven the iconic Arctic owl from the country.
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades:
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My year in review from the #HouseofLords, from school visits to APPG meetings, and lots of legislation: trying to make it less bad for nature and young people in particular
2025: A Green year in the House of Lords
Being a peer involves a great deal more than working on legislation and questioning the government
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Being a peer involves a great deal more than working on legislation and questioning the government
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
2025: A Green year in the House of Lords
Being a peer involves a great deal more than working on legislation and questioning the government
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My year in review from the #HouseofLords, from school visits to APPG meetings, and lots of legislation: trying to make it less bad for nature and young people in particular
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My letter in @thetimes.com today: what is the economy for?
#PublicHealth #Wellbeing #Environment #Inequality
#PublicHealth #Wellbeing #Environment #Inequality
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
My letter in @thetimes.com today: what is the economy for?
#PublicHealth #Wellbeing #Environment #Inequality
#PublicHealth #Wellbeing #Environment #Inequality
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The benefit cap is £22,020 for a couple and just £14,753 for a single person.
December 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The benefit cap is £22,020 for a couple and just £14,753 for a single person.
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99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word:
CAPITALISM
CAPITALISM
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word:
CAPITALISM
CAPITALISM
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.
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Book your birding getaway in 2026 with BirdGuides Travel.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/493cijA
#bgtravel #birds #birding #birdtour
Find out more: https://bit.ly/493cijA
#bgtravel #birds #birding #birdtour
December 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Book your birding getaway in 2026 with BirdGuides Travel.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/493cijA
#bgtravel #birds #birding #birdtour
Find out more: https://bit.ly/493cijA
#bgtravel #birds #birding #birdtour
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Foreign doctors/nurses shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric, rising racism have created “a hostile environment”.
Successive UK govts have failed to provide local supply, raided other countries.
Without immigration UK economy/services will decline. Still no honest debate.
Successive UK govts have failed to provide local supply, raided other countries.
Without immigration UK economy/services will decline. Still no honest debate.
Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
Exclusive: UK now an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Foreign doctors/nurses shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric, rising racism have created “a hostile environment”.
Successive UK govts have failed to provide local supply, raided other countries.
Without immigration UK economy/services will decline. Still no honest debate.
Successive UK govts have failed to provide local supply, raided other countries.
Without immigration UK economy/services will decline. Still no honest debate.
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>>[His] illegal hacking of this website in 2021 has been placed front and centre in the national news after Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North when he can be bothered), chose to question someone else’s morality on Christmas Day.<<
(He'd previously hacked fellow Labour councillors.)
(He'd previously hacked fellow Labour councillors.)
"Reed being let loose as a Christmas Day attack dog shows how worried Labour have become about Polanski and the Green Party,”
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
MP Reed spent Christmas tweeting link to Inside Croydon
Housing minister’s attack against the Green Party leader may have back-fired, as the cabinet member flagged up reports linking him to the unlawful hacking of this website. By STEVEN DOWNES Th…
insidecroydon.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
>>[His] illegal hacking of this website in 2021 has been placed front and centre in the national news after Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North when he can be bothered), chose to question someone else’s morality on Christmas Day.<<
(He'd previously hacked fellow Labour councillors.)
(He'd previously hacked fellow Labour councillors.)
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Interesting to see the Labour Party now regularly attacking Zack Polanski. They are seriously rattled. Good!
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Interesting to see the Labour Party now regularly attacking Zack Polanski. They are seriously rattled. Good!
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Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski
https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski
https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK
Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and...
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski
https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski
https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK
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The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit.
Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.
Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.
Thousand of bulldozers on the way to flatten over 5 million acres of forest in West Papua and this is just one ship
Such is the rush that even the Indonesia army has been brought in to speed up the deforestation
A shameful day for Indonesia and the world
Such is the rush that even the Indonesia army has been brought in to speed up the deforestation
A shameful day for Indonesia and the world
December 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit.
Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.
Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.
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NO!!!!
West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months
Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
December 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
NO!!!!
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Attend Global BirdFair for FREE!
New members to BirdGuides or Birdwatch will receive a free day ticket worth £20
Claim yours here: https://bit.ly/4j5zrqv
#birds #birdguides #birdwatch #birding #membership #globalbirdfair
New members to BirdGuides or Birdwatch will receive a free day ticket worth £20
Claim yours here: https://bit.ly/4j5zrqv
#birds #birdguides #birdwatch #birding #membership #globalbirdfair
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Attend Global BirdFair for FREE!
New members to BirdGuides or Birdwatch will receive a free day ticket worth £20
Claim yours here: https://bit.ly/4j5zrqv
#birds #birdguides #birdwatch #birding #membership #globalbirdfair
New members to BirdGuides or Birdwatch will receive a free day ticket worth £20
Claim yours here: https://bit.ly/4j5zrqv
#birds #birdguides #birdwatch #birding #membership #globalbirdfair
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According to the UN, naturally regenerating forests cover 3.83 billion hectares. That's 92% of the world’s total forest area.
Why are we still getting industrial plantations in Ireland?
Instead of real forest *ecosystems*, which only nature can do?
Why are we still getting industrial plantations in Ireland?
Instead of real forest *ecosystems*, which only nature can do?
December 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
According to the UN, naturally regenerating forests cover 3.83 billion hectares. That's 92% of the world’s total forest area.
Why are we still getting industrial plantations in Ireland?
Instead of real forest *ecosystems*, which only nature can do?
Why are we still getting industrial plantations in Ireland?
Instead of real forest *ecosystems*, which only nature can do?