ForthWrite2
@forthwrite2.bsky.social
Scottish & European. Writer mostly, now; was lecturer. Love literature, culture, languages, natural world. Environment & climate issues. Fed up with X.
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Farage.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show
Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show | LBC
The Reform UK leader has filmed close to 2,000 fan videos in the last 12 months, which he sold on the US-based Cameo platform
www.lbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Farage.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
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Laughing all the way to the bank. English water companies can't fail to make money.
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Laughing all the way to the bank. English water companies can't fail to make money.
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
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Feel free to add your favourite #climate book that you read in the past year to the thread 📚 📖
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
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I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Feel free to add your favourite #climate book that you read in the past year to the thread 📚 📖
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
👇 🧵
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
👇 🧵
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Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
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A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
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So the UK Government can reduce electricity bills for data centres coming to Scotland, but it can't find a way to reduce bills for ordinary people?
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
Scotland to cut grid costs for AI data centres by GBP £24 per MWh
Scotland plans to slash electricity costs for AI data centres by GBP £24 per MWh, boosting competitiveness and green energy use without raising consumer bills.
itbrief.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the UK Government can reduce electricity bills for data centres coming to Scotland, but it can't find a way to reduce bills for ordinary people?
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
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Here's our attempt at clickbait to draw attention to our new report on Battery Storage and the Planning System ....
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
Is there Battery Storage Planned near you? - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
Our report published 3 December shows that there is already nearly three times as much Battery Storage with planning permission
aprs.scot
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Here's our attempt at clickbait to draw attention to our new report on Battery Storage and the Planning System ....
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
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“We are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in 1000s of yrs: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
December 3, 2018- David Attenborough on the end of civilisation - All Our Yesterdays
Seven years ago, on this day, December 3rd, 2018, “The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. “The na...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“We are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in 1000s of yrs: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
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📺 BBC’s latest Panorama dives into the hidden threats posed by #PFAS, the forever chemicals.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📺 BBC’s latest Panorama dives into the hidden threats posed by #PFAS, the forever chemicals.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
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Watch @itvnews.bsky.social tonight, as Martin Stew covers our joint report with @investigate-europe.eu on pollution from landfills in the UK + Europe - many so old they're not lined or filtered - in flood risk, coastal erosion or drinking water protection zones.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Watch @itvnews.bsky.social tonight, as Martin Stew covers our joint report with @investigate-europe.eu on pollution from landfills in the UK + Europe - many so old they're not lined or filtered - in flood risk, coastal erosion or drinking water protection zones.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
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Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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according to their rules, should Mason et al now all resign
So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason .....
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
UK Politics: OBR says Reeves did not mislead public over Budget forecasts
Fiscal watchdog faces Treasury committee after accidental publication of key report prompted chair to resign
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
according to their rules, should Mason et al now all resign
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Toxic Ground, our new investigation together with @watershed-i.bsky.social, is Europe’s largest-ever landfill mapping project, published with partners across the continent.
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Toxic Ground, our new investigation together with @watershed-i.bsky.social, is Europe’s largest-ever landfill mapping project, published with partners across the continent.
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...
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By compiling FOI data, government records and public sources, we located over 60,000 landfill and waste sites across Europe. Most were likely created before modern environmental regulations.
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
By compiling FOI data, government records and public sources, we located over 60,000 landfill and waste sites across Europe. Most were likely created before modern environmental regulations.
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Our mapping shows thousands of landfills lie within flood-prone areas, conservation sites, drinking-water zones and along eroding coastlines. In the UK alone, an estimated 80% of the population lives within two kilometres of landfill sites.
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Our mapping shows thousands of landfills lie within flood-prone areas, conservation sites, drinking-water zones and along eroding coastlines. In the UK alone, an estimated 80% of the population lives within two kilometres of landfill sites.
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In which Pakistan born Ben Habib supports some bigot who wants to ban people born in Pakistan from sitting in our parliament.
The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In which Pakistan born Ben Habib supports some bigot who wants to ban people born in Pakistan from sitting in our parliament.
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It’s like no one thought about it; just Economic Growth, with a disgusting disposable, unaccountable culture, that is still attached to it.
Change the economic system.
Change the economic system.
Mercury, lead, arsenic + PFAS: Europe's hidden historic landfills leaching chemicals into water, soil + ecosystems.
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems
share.google
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It’s like no one thought about it; just Economic Growth, with a disgusting disposable, unaccountable culture, that is still attached to it.
Change the economic system.
Change the economic system.
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ONE WEEK LEFT!
Emerging animators: AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short films for early 2026 (£500 each). Email [email protected] with CV, approach + 2–3 samples. Deadline 6 Dec 2025.
Emerging animators: AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short films for early 2026 (£500 each). Email [email protected] with CV, approach + 2–3 samples. Deadline 6 Dec 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ONE WEEK LEFT!
Emerging animators: AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short films for early 2026 (£500 each). Email [email protected] with CV, approach + 2–3 samples. Deadline 6 Dec 2025.
Emerging animators: AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short films for early 2026 (£500 each). Email [email protected] with CV, approach + 2–3 samples. Deadline 6 Dec 2025.
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You’re buying someone you love a book for Christmas. Or maybe you’re telling yourself you’ll give it to them but really you know it’s for you. I’m not judging. I am telling you that indie bookshops love you and Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Shop @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
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The Two Roberts
Check out The Two Roberts - <p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025</b><br /><b>A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK </b><br /><b>A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>, THE <i...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
You’re buying someone you love a book for Christmas. Or maybe you’re telling yourself you’ll give it to them but really you know it’s for you. I’m not judging. I am telling you that indie bookshops love you and Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Shop @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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Massive decline in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park Peregrine population linked to intensive grouse moor management.
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority, copy of the new report, & commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/30/m...
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority, copy of the new report, & commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/30/m...
Massive decline in Cairngorms National Park Peregrine population linked to intensive grouse moor management
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority (24 November 2025) PEREGRINE NUMBERS IN DECLINE IN CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK The last UK-wide survey of peregrines took place in 2014 and covere…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Massive decline in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park Peregrine population linked to intensive grouse moor management.
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority, copy of the new report, & commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/30/m...
Press release from Cairngorms National Park Authority, copy of the new report, & commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/30/m...
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
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You are right.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that UK media - including, unfortunately, the BBC - is busting a gut to make sure Farage gets in.
We all have to do all we can to make sure this does not happen.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that UK media - including, unfortunately, the BBC - is busting a gut to make sure Farage gets in.
We all have to do all we can to make sure this does not happen.
No , I do not, it’s relentless! They won’t be happy until they’ve destroyed the govt, & helped shoo in a Farage led administration… then we’re all in feckin trouble!!!
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
You are right.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that UK media - including, unfortunately, the BBC - is busting a gut to make sure Farage gets in.
We all have to do all we can to make sure this does not happen.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that UK media - including, unfortunately, the BBC - is busting a gut to make sure Farage gets in.
We all have to do all we can to make sure this does not happen.