@helise.bsky.social
Planet, wildlife, music. Let's all just get on, war is never the answer!
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David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-4.
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Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Helpful list of some of the people who, or whose families, Shabana Mahmood thinks should only have been allowed to stay temporarily
Famous Refugees
Famous or not, refugees bring much more than their belongings with them to their new countries.
Here's a list of public figures you might not know were
refugeeweek.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Helpful list of some of the people who, or whose families, Shabana Mahmood thinks should only have been allowed to stay temporarily
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
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Labour are delivering actions, not words. Here is PM telling you just a little bit of what they've done in the last week.
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Labour are delivering actions, not words. Here is PM telling you just a little bit of what they've done in the last week.
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🚨If you are one of nearly 14 million adults unable to access NHS dentistry in England sign this URGENT call for action to the Government, NOW
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🚨If you are one of nearly 14 million adults unable to access NHS dentistry in England sign this URGENT call for action to the Government, NOW
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
secure.cesvotes.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
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Don't listen to Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch's lies.
Migrants don't cost you anything.
Migrants don't cost you anything.
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Don't listen to Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch's lies.
Migrants don't cost you anything.
Migrants don't cost you anything.
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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
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It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
Awful wind noise in the original!
See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...
xeno-canto.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
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This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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What has the ECHR ever done for us?
Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.
Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What has the ECHR ever done for us?
Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.
Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.
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Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution.
Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.
UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation
Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.
UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation
Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
United Utilities underspent £52m on vital work to reduce sewage pollution, FoI reveals
Privatised water company criticised over efforts to connect private septic tanks to mains and cut pollution
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution.
Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.
UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation
Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.
UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation
Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
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We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
bestforbritain.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
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Should be required reading for the unsympathetic, sanctimonious councillors bereft of empathy at Hampshire County Council (and, I’m sure, elsewhere) who blithely handwave away concerns about flags and argue that most people don’t see them as political and that they’re about togetherness actually.
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
bestforbritain.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Should be required reading for the unsympathetic, sanctimonious councillors bereft of empathy at Hampshire County Council (and, I’m sure, elsewhere) who blithely handwave away concerns about flags and argue that most people don’t see them as political and that they’re about togetherness actually.
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⚠️ Women in the UK don’t need to be told what danger looks like — we live it every day.
⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023)
⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023).
It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.
⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023)
⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023).
It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.
September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
⚠️ Women in the UK don’t need to be told what danger looks like — we live it every day.
⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023)
⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023).
It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.
⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023)
⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023).
It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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"Food is incredibly expensive. It’s dangerous to go to aid drops where, on multiple occasions, people have been shot."
#Gaza
#Gaza
Two years of hell and there are those who think it’s not genocide
Alongside the bombs and shooting, starvation and disease are rife in Gaza, with most buildings now destroyed and temperatures soaring
bylines.scot
July 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Food is incredibly expensive. It’s dangerous to go to aid drops where, on multiple occasions, people have been shot."
#Gaza
#Gaza
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