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NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
Mapping England’s Landscape Recovery Projects
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: West Penwith, Cornwall – one of over 50 Landscape Recovery pilots. Since Brexit, the UK Government has been engaged in lengthy reforms of farm payments &…
whoownsengland.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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Merrick was shot & killed as she slept, over two years ago. NatureScot has had all the evidence on its desk for over 18 months. Now we're being asked to wait "a few weeks" more. It's pathetic.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
NatureScot says “decision in next few weeks” on whether to impose General Licence restriction in relation to shooting & killing of golden eagle Merrick
The Scottish Government’s nature advisory agency, NatureScot, has been now been procrastinating for over 18 months on whether to impose a sanction on an estate in relation to the ‘shooting and kill…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Merrick was shot & killed as she slept, over two years ago. NatureScot has had all the evidence on its desk for over 18 months. Now we're being asked to wait "a few weeks" more. It's pathetic.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
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A society that doesn't support music education, at all levels, is a society with a massive cultural hole in it.
Starmer, a former music scholar at Guildhall School of Music, has to do more than offer platitudes. He has to allocate resources, ring-fund them within schools, colleges & universities.
Starmer, a former music scholar at Guildhall School of Music, has to do more than offer platitudes. He has to allocate resources, ring-fund them within schools, colleges & universities.
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A society that doesn't support music education, at all levels, is a society with a massive cultural hole in it.
Starmer, a former music scholar at Guildhall School of Music, has to do more than offer platitudes. He has to allocate resources, ring-fund them within schools, colleges & universities.
Starmer, a former music scholar at Guildhall School of Music, has to do more than offer platitudes. He has to allocate resources, ring-fund them within schools, colleges & universities.
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Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice.
The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.
The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.
Victorian attitudes towards birds of prey in the UK are fueled by sensationalist fear-mongering like this, published routinely by mainstream media.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/28/a...
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/28/a...
Absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles ‘snatched’ five Shetland ponies leads to inevitable call to ‘shoot eagles’
The absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles had ‘snatched’ five Shetland pony foals on South Uist hit the headlines at the end of August. A crofter / farmer named Donald Cameron said that…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice.
The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.
The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.
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Will a single Tory MP this week have the nerve state that ‘industrialised nations do actually need to reach net zero by 2050 to avert catastrophic levels of risk, and to pretend otherwise is utterly ridiculous’?
October 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Will a single Tory MP this week have the nerve state that ‘industrialised nations do actually need to reach net zero by 2050 to avert catastrophic levels of risk, and to pretend otherwise is utterly ridiculous’?
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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015
Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named ̵…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Another year I’ve not seen Hen harriers in the #YorkshireDales in breeding season. Dales habitat looks like successful Bowland habitat though.
No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021.
Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021.
Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Another year I’ve not seen Hen harriers in the #YorkshireDales in breeding season. Dales habitat looks like successful Bowland habitat though.
No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021.
Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021.
Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
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Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be a reckless and indefensible move, undermining the UK’s green economy and damaging our global credibility at a time of escalating climate risks.
@shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇
@shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be a reckless and indefensible move, undermining the UK’s green economy and damaging our global credibility at a time of escalating climate risks.
@shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇
@shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇
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Tory plans to rip up the UK’s world-leading climate plans are a “total betrayal” and risk “economic disaster”, Ed Miliband has claimed.
Miliband tears into Tories over plan to scrap climate act - 'economic disaster'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Tory plans to rip up the UK’s world-leading climate plans are a “total betrayal” and risk “economic disaster”, Ed Miliband has claimed.
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Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm🚨
It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱
That promise must not be broken⛓️💥
Read more👇
www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c...
#ClimateChangeAct
It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱
That promise must not be broken⛓️💥
Read more👇
www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c...
#ClimateChangeAct
Ripping up Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm
Ripping up Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm
www.wcl.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be an act of national self-harm🚨
It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱
That promise must not be broken⛓️💥
Read more👇
www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c...
#ClimateChangeAct
It inspired laws across the globe, billions in green investment, and a promise to protect future generations🌱
That promise must not be broken⛓️💥
Read more👇
www.wcl.org.uk/ripping-up-c...
#ClimateChangeAct
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As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
September 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Thank you to everyone who dropped by our stand at #WildSummitUK yesterday....we hardly had time to take a breather and have been overwhelmed with the level of support for our work. Our Phabulous Pheasant (shit)Show caused quite a buzz! Thank you 🙏
September 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you to everyone who dropped by our stand at #WildSummitUK yesterday....we hardly had time to take a breather and have been overwhelmed with the level of support for our work. Our Phabulous Pheasant (shit)Show caused quite a buzz! Thank you 🙏
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This Trump-ally billionaire's my neighbour. He's collecting estates: Conholt, Hippenscombe (of Ravilious fame) & Buttermere, & rents the one I live on, filling it with pheasants. A piece in the Telegraph seems to say locals 'mostly like' what he's doing. Not met one yet. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
American billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone & owner of the 2,500-acre Conholt Park shooting estate in Wiltshire, has been tankering in huge quantities of water from drought-struck Hampshire to fill up his lake (legally, but outrageously):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire's lake
Tankers taking water for US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman have been told to stop by Southern Water.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This Trump-ally billionaire's my neighbour. He's collecting estates: Conholt, Hippenscombe (of Ravilious fame) & Buttermere, & rents the one I live on, filling it with pheasants. A piece in the Telegraph seems to say locals 'mostly like' what he's doing. Not met one yet. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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In political terms, and combatting the rise of far right, a huge issue would have been if today's far right rally in London had been peaceful. They just can't help themselves though. Already attacking police, and violence liable to escalate. There's nothing "legitimate" about their "concerns".
September 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In political terms, and combatting the rise of far right, a huge issue would have been if today's far right rally in London had been peaceful. They just can't help themselves though. Already attacking police, and violence liable to escalate. There's nothing "legitimate" about their "concerns".
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Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
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A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨 SCOOP: Reform donor in breach of company law
Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
New Reform donor in breach of company law
Farage’s party took £50,000 from firm run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🚨 SCOOP: Reform donor in breach of company law
Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
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🔴 Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’
Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Labour deputy PM’s £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Labour deputy PM’s £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🔴 Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’
Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Labour deputy PM’s £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Labour deputy PM’s £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
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BBC News coverage of our successful legal challenge against a planning decision made by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pembrokeshire adventure centre plans quashed over environmental concerns
Wildlife campaigners won a legal case against the national park authority to quash planning permission for the adventure centre.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
BBC News coverage of our successful legal challenge against a planning decision made by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I don’t think any piece about Reform’s conference speakers should be published without mentioning that they’ve allowed an anti-vaccine conspiracy group to host a panel.
Sadly this story doesn’t flag it
Sadly this story doesn’t flag it
Rees-Mogg, Gove and pyrotechnics: what to expect from Reform party conference
With 12,000 expected to attend in Birmingham, Nigel Farage’s party hopes to present a more professional image
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I don’t think any piece about Reform’s conference speakers should be published without mentioning that they’ve allowed an anti-vaccine conspiracy group to host a panel.
Sadly this story doesn’t flag it
Sadly this story doesn’t flag it
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Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire
It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...
It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...
Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in t...
www.desmog.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire
It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...
It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...