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Nature heals the spirit and brings peace to the mind. However, still struggling to tame garden, piano and watercolours but a committed Europhile. Don’t even mention housework too busy reading and walking ma petite chienne.
Nature heals the spirit and brings peace to the mind. However, still struggling to tame garden, piano and watercolours but a committed Europhile. Don’t even mention housework too busy reading and walking ma petite chienne.
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Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is a very special place for wildlife & this biobead spill is a nightmare. Please sign the petition to ban them
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
MP calls for ban on ‘biobeads’ at sewage works after devastating Camber Sands spillage
Exclusive: Use of toxic plastic beads in treatment works is unnecessary and outdated, say conservationists
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is a very special place for wildlife & this biobead spill is a nightmare. Please sign the petition to ban them
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cleaning up Southern Water’s bio bead leak.
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Cleaning up Southern Water’s bio bead leak.
Interesting that the MSM reporting a plummet in FTSE of 0.033% and a dramatic fall in the £ after the budget, neither of which appear to be true. But they printed it and of course it’ll be seen and re spouted by the credulous.
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Interesting that the MSM reporting a plummet in FTSE of 0.033% and a dramatic fall in the £ after the budget, neither of which appear to be true. But they printed it and of course it’ll be seen and re spouted by the credulous.
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“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Donald Trump seems to be embarrassed about the USA turning up late for two World Wars and intent on avoiding a hat-trick by starting the next one.
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Donald Trump seems to be embarrassed about the USA turning up late for two World Wars and intent on avoiding a hat-trick by starting the next one.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
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So Yaxley-Lennon is not guilty of terrorism offences but grannies holding Palestine Action placards are. Go figure.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
So Yaxley-Lennon is not guilty of terrorism offences but grannies holding Palestine Action placards are. Go figure.
Just wondering what benefits Free ports have brought to the economy and more importantly why are they still around?
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wondering what benefits Free ports have brought to the economy and more importantly why are they still around?
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Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future
And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening
This is horrific news
And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening
This is horrific news
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future
And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening
This is horrific news
And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening
This is horrific news
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Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
September 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
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How many does it take before #Reform have to change their name to #ThePartyFormerlyKnownAsConservatives ?
Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform www.bbc.com/news/article...
Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform www.bbc.com/news/article...
Former Conservative minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform
Caulfield lost her seat at last year's general election, after nearly nine years as the MP for Lewes.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
How many does it take before #Reform have to change their name to #ThePartyFormerlyKnownAsConservatives ?
Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform www.bbc.com/news/article...
Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Joe Bugner has died. He was a refugee from Hungary after his country was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956.
Bloody refugee coming over here and becoming one of this country's greatest boxers.
Bloody refugee coming over here and becoming one of this country's greatest boxers.
September 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Joe Bugner has died. He was a refugee from Hungary after his country was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956.
Bloody refugee coming over here and becoming one of this country's greatest boxers.
Bloody refugee coming over here and becoming one of this country's greatest boxers.
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If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
August 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
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Like most of us Mike Martin LibDem MP feels it inhumane to feed humans to wolves which is essentially what Reform propose
And to pay the wolves for eating them after they’ve ripped pieces out of them 🤦🏼♂️
And to pay the wolves for eating them after they’ve ripped pieces out of them 🤦🏼♂️
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Martin has written to the UK Home Secretary calling for an investigation into whether Reform’s Zia Yusuf has broken terrorism laws.
August 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Like most of us Mike Martin LibDem MP feels it inhumane to feed humans to wolves which is essentially what Reform propose
And to pay the wolves for eating them after they’ve ripped pieces out of them 🤦🏼♂️
And to pay the wolves for eating them after they’ve ripped pieces out of them 🤦🏼♂️
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I wonder would Lucy Connolly support someone who advocated burning down Peterborough Prison and all of the criminals in it?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lucy Connolly: Woman jailed for race hate post says she was political prisoner
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I wonder would Lucy Connolly support someone who advocated burning down Peterborough Prison and all of the criminals in it?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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RIP Anas al-Sharif.
They cannot survive evidence.
* credit to The Guardian
They cannot survive evidence.
* credit to The Guardian
August 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
RIP Anas al-Sharif.
They cannot survive evidence.
* credit to The Guardian
They cannot survive evidence.
* credit to The Guardian
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Often it is the law that is wrong.
July 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Often it is the law that is wrong.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.
Powerful video…
Powerful video…
June 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.
Powerful video…
Powerful video…