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Kate Moore

@oscarwoofs.bsky.social

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Ran away to Norfolk seaside. Alll musings of an opinionated dog lover who writes for @BylinesEast about politics, nature & fairness. Pro EU centrist.

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 10d

Hedgerow cutting. There needs to be better education.

It will be a sad day if all the hedgerows recently planted are poorly managed - especially when there is sound advice from Nigel Adams out there

Hedgerows: the skill of balancing growth with need

As autumnal cutting starts debates arise over timing and technique. Is flailing harming wildlife and hedgerow health, or providing care?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 3d

With Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) funding scrapped, farmers face a stark & unwelcome choice: wildlife or economic survival?

We need policies that reward restoration – not just yield.

Rachel Fulcher reports

#Conservation

From silence to song: saving the farmland birds

Intensive farming silences the land – but a Suffolk farmer shows how she is creating a safe haven for birds

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 14h

A rare moth that mimics the appearance of a wasp has become the 10,000th species of wildlife recorded at Wicken Fen...

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Rare moth becomes Wicken Fen's 10,000th recorded species

The National Trust believes the site is the

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19h

Good news from Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, north of Cambridge.

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 23h

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 14h

Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory' | Aidan Baker

The lesson of the lost oak: why one Suffolk man’s mission matters

Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 2d

"You people.. " hmmm

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

Drones sowing wildflowers.
Hedgerows laid the old way.
Soil teeming with worms.

A farmhouse from 1433 and a future worth fighting for.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s conservation & innovation with roots. 🌿

Rachel Fulcher reports

From silence to song: saving the farmland birds

Intensive farming silences the land – but a Suffolk farmer shows how she is creating a safe haven for birds

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

Space - the final frontier...

But maybe not in the way you may be expecting...

Russia targets UK military satellites on weekly basis

Via BBC News

Russia targets UK military satellites on weekly basis

Moscow is attempting to collect information from UK spacecraft, according to the MoD.

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 2d

Feargal Sharkey in the other place makes a great point...

"It is difficult, if not impossible to combine the citizens' rights and interests and the private enterprise's interests, because the private enterprise aims at its natural and justified objective, the biggest possible profit."

#water

I was recently reminded that the New River Company, supplier of London's drinking water from 1619, along with a host of other water companies were all nationalised in 1902 simply because, as the former President of the Board of Trade Joseph Chamberlain put it:

"It is difficult, if not impossible to combine the citizens' rights and interests and the private enterprise's interests, because the private enterprise aims at its natural and justified objective, the biggest possible profit."

What changed?

With pic of Chamberlain

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 3d

It feels wrong to say it… but Britain needs the Conservatives to get their act together.

Why?

The Bear explains.

The Tories are not okay – and we urgently need them to be

The Conservatives’ collapse into outrage politics isn’t just their downfall – it threatens Britain’s democracy and stability too

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 3d

Thx. Yes that works

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Did you know..

- There were 2 VIP lanes for contracts during pandemic?
- ~£15 billion of taxpayer ££ was wasted on medical goods
- 1 million pallets of PPE has been burnt at cost to taxpayer of £8.6 bn.

Listen to 👇 wrt to the shocking scale, consequences & outcomes of VIP lane contracts.

bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 5d

"No other political party was able to refer a company onto the VIP lane and then go on to win contracts..."

Talking #PPE and the Tories crony contracts during the Covid era with @russellscott1.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn mor...

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 3d

Bedford play honours bravery behind 1930 R101 airship tragedy

See 🧵 for sad fate of those aboard the lavish floating hotel

Via BBC News

Bedford play honours bravery behind 1930 R101 airship tragedy

The play's director says the R101's story is one of love, loss and the enduring power of hope.

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 4d

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Labour’s first year: what has Starmer really achieved?

Labour’s first year in power has ended with humiliation over welfare reform. But has the focus on that issue drowned out some real achievements?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Leaving the ECHR will now be Tory policy.... due to issue of dealing with migrants.

But would we be throwing the baby out with the bath water & open door to a world of fewer freedoms?

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

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 5d

I would happily give feedback if the article allowed me to read it first.... but sadly it won't. Insists I rate it based on headline and date. Shame

Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 5d

"The American, British, Israeli and other governments seem to have tragically learned absolutely nothing from Versailles (1919), the end of the Cold War (1991) and the Iraq War (2003)."

You make valid points except isn’t the Board of Peace plan Tony Blair's work, & not Starmer's nor UK govts?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 6d

Terrible news 🦭

North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 6d

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths | Julia Mazza

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 6d

Appalling the division, hate & ill informed beliefs Reform rhetoric has engender..

Do they want to work in abbatoirs, pick cabbages & veg in all weathers, work in prisons, and do the oh so many jobs that employers can't fill with British workers?

1,271 Visa sponsorship jobs in UK | Page 1 | Find a job

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 7d

IMHO that's naive. Its for good of community at large. To facilitate inclusion everyone should speak enough English so not to be a burden on taxpayer translation services & to be able play their part in society

There will be exceptions. But if not prepared to learn English you will never integrate

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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 8d

Please also see Land Healer by Jake Fiennes #landhealer

Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 10d

Hedgerow cutting. There needs to be better education.

It will be a sad day if all the hedgerows recently planted are poorly managed - especially when there is sound advice from Nigel Adams out there

Hedgerows: the skill of balancing growth with need

As autumnal cutting starts debates arise over timing and technique. Is flailing harming wildlife and hedgerow health, or providing care?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 8d

Harold Wilson was onto something important when he said the Labour Party was a “moral crusade or it is nothing”.

Well, guess he's being proved sadly right.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 9d

Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times reporting exposes how Keir Starmer's chief strategist is driving a Labour Government towards defeat by the far-right

'The Most Powerful Individual in Britain' – Peter Oborne on Morgan McSweeney

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 9d

Garage is being parked as I write ✍️

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 9d

Agreed... except if by calling it weaponising you then shut down any discussion about it. And it's that polarisation and silencing that becomes dangerous.

Libertarianism is well and good in theory. But in practice, no. One needs laws & regulations for the benefit of the majority.

Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 9d

If you are referring to Welsh language etc then yes the countries that make up the UK have had their own language. But they have still required a unifying common language for their community at large. And that's my point.

Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely. Its about engendering a cohesive, multi racial country with individuals of different heritage and culture learning to live in harmony.