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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 1h

Labour tearing up wildlife laws and appointing pro growth Defra SoS, greener No.10 advisors leaving - no wonder that Labour haemorrhaging votes to the Green Party - and when 16 YOs can vote the green vote will surge even more. People want to preserve wildlife and green spaces not build on them.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2h

Woahhhhhh.

A poll that shows the Greens surging to 15% - and just 2 points behind the Labour party.

Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 7h

Nice work

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 1d

We were up birding at Flamborough in East Yorks over the w/e and caught one up there - I was told it was 2nd for Flamborough (after one in 2023) and 7th for Yorks (been 5 at Spurn). Back home in Wiltshire I get 2-3 every year. Probably gradually spready north?

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent news. But any birds?

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 7d

A very select band of 7 moths in the trap this morning, but did include first black rustic (darth Vader) for the year, 3 white points and a beaded chestnut #ukmoths

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Adrian Gosling @digitalsunshine.bsky.social · 8d

If Chris Mason could manage to take a little break from wiping away the tears of Zia Yusuf & Nigel Farage at some point, maybe he could take the time to also ask them about:

- Tax returns
- Clacton House
- Russian bribery

#PoliticsLive
#Reform
#ReformUK

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 8d

Both Labour and Conservatives need to divest themselves of Friends of Israel funding - and govern in our country’s interest and not a genocidal rogue foreign state (needless to say Reform appears to be funded by Russia and acting in Putin’s interest).

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 8d

The Labour Chancellor declares herself an eternal friend of a state committing a live-streamed genocide.

We are ruled by moral disgraces who are criminally liable for aiding and abetting one of the worst crimes of our age.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.

It’s time for a public inquiry.

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

bylines.scot

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 9d

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10d

‘More than half of Reform’s donations in 2024 came from people with homes in low-tax jurisdictions or with offshore business interests; 40 per cent came from climate sceptics or investors in fossil fuels.’

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social at the Reform UK conference: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism

Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Mack @urielandme.bsky.social · 11d

After Steven Miller's speech there is no longer any question the GOP is a Nazi-Party, he voiced Joseph Goebbles rhetorics like it is Nuremberg 1938 applauded by the Republican Elite and their Congress.

This is not America, it's Anti-America, Anti-Progress and Anti-Humanity.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11d

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12d

How is this not front page news?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 13d

Cracking day across the headland with highlights of Siberian Stonechat, 2 Red-breasted Flycatcher, 4 Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Hen Harrier and Snow Bunting.
Full details here

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/25...

25th September 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

Perfect drift conditions, with sunny skies and a relatively light east-north-easterly wind; temperatures briefly touched 16 degrees C. A Siberian Stonechat at RSPB Bempton Cliffs headlined and was acc...

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 13d

I know

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 13d

I managed to see the one on Tresco, Scillies think it was '94. In a hedge and field with a little bunting. Would love to see another. Heading up to Flamborough 1st w/e in Oct - unbelievably in 40 odd years of birding and twitching never been there before! Crap. Looking forward to a rite good time...

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 13d

I pay close attention to each passing Swallow because this elegant flow will soon become a trickle and then they'll be gone, but for a memory of sleek, blue-glossed transcendence.
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
#birds
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 14d

LATEST: anti government carvings found ‘at hand level’ on Jesus’ cross according to MAGA shaman

Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 14d

Nice work

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 14d

His hard mates in Reform won't let him vape with them behind the bike sheds if he goes COP #COPout

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Darryl @darrylspittle.bsky.social · 14d

Starmer displaying his political nouse,… once again.
Hi @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social, could you inform your leader 89% of the UK population want to see action to address the climate emergency (see today’s Guardian).

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14d

Sir Keir Starmer has no plans to attend the UN COP30 summit in Brazil in November, despite having branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top climate conference a “failure of leadership” just a few years ago.

www.ft.com/content/5f8f...

Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil

Final decision has yet to be made amid ‘big fight inside government’ over trip by prime minister

www.ft.com

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 14d

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15d

Okay so let’s say a few countries may have the Epstein files or the blackmail: France, UK, Russia & Israel. The last two likely hung it over Trump’s head plus bribes; now enter the Ukraine war; the UK invites Trump over, shows him what MI6 has, he changes position again.

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