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adamvaughan.bsky.social
The biggest environmental pollution legal action brought in the UK will be filed in the High Court on Wednesday over alleged degradation of the River Wye. Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Biggest UK pollution case to be filed over River Wye
Thousands of people are seeking substantial damages and for the waterway to be cleaned of a ‘mountain of chicken manure’
www.thetimes.com
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
2/ More info on the threat to the Protected Landscapes Duty: www.cnp.org.uk/about/our-wo...

Here's the joint letter I've signed along with 170 other green groups & environmentalists: www.cnp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Steve Carver

guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
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maebhnif.bsky.social
Waste imperialism

"All EU plastic waste exports should be banned to anywhere outside the EU"

#ReduceConsumption

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
www.theguardian.com
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soweitsogut.troet.cafe.ap.brid.gy
Go #greens!
Under new leader Zack #polanski, Britain’s Green Party has become the fastest growing political party in #britain in terms of membership.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-walter-young-women-joining-green-party-conference-gaze-refugees?
Natasha Walter: Why young women are going Green
As politics becomes increasingly xenophobic, the Greta Thunberg generation is flocking to join a party with both a strong stance on Gaza and refugee rights
www.thenerve.news
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juanwild.bsky.social
Zack Polanski on The News Agents(video)..
#Britain..#Greens youtu.be/CKIohf-BSq8?...
Zack Polanski grilled on the News Agents!
YouTube video by Zack Polanski
youtu.be
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Steve Peers, Colin Murray , and 3 more

timeshighered.bsky.social
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places
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epgroningen.bsky.social
New commentary paper by our colleague @thijsbouman.bsky.social in @pnas.org on turning mass public support for proenvironmental goals into concrete actions:
"Limited environmental action may be explained by a lack of ability or opportunity, rather than a lack of caring"
@rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
Turning mass support for environmental goals into action | PNAS
Turning mass support for environmental goals into action
www.pnas.org
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers , and 5 more

barristersecret.bsky.social
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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hausfath.bsky.social
And here is the percentage of the world's land area setting a new all-time monthly maximum temperature record in each decade:
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hausfath.bsky.social
Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set: www.theclimatebrink....
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theguardian.com
Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams
Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams
The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
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by James Connelly

jamescon.bsky.social
The Conservatives can't even conserve spelling!
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instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Comment | Badenoch’s breaking of the climate consensus will have consequences

Kemi Badenoch’s decision to ditch the Conservative commitment to net zero will have implications for the costs of transition, argues @jillongovt.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/bade...
Badenoch’s breaking of the climate consensus will have consequences | Institute for Government
The Conservatives have lost their energy policy anchor.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
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oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social
Now what's she's done there is confuse freedom with toasted sandwich maker hasn't she ?!
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Daniela Gabor, Patrick Dunleavy , and 3 more

adambienkov.bsky.social
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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josiah.writes.news
If Michelle Mone has "no wish" to return to the Lords as a Tory peer, as reported this weekend, she should probably stop boasting about being a baroness
Her website landing page: Baroness Michelle Mone of Mayfair OBE
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wanderinggaia.bsky.social
Poison
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
www.theguardian.com
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tom-clark.bsky.social
Badenoch commits to leaving ECHR

Only 2 precedents exist: the Greek junta in 1967 & Vladimir Putin in 2022

Sharper response just to name them?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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by Alessandro Nai — Reposted by: James Connelly

alessandronai.bsky.social
stuff like this gives me and extremely high amount of joy
eladiobobadilla.com
Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 4d
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by Tim Bale — Reposted by: James Connelly

timbale.bsky.social
Yeah, I know fact-checking will convince no-one on her side of the argument, but kudos to the Grauniad for doing it anyway.
As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?
We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power
www.theguardian.com
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I was on Any Questions last night. I think it was a good discussion, which became quite fierce at times.
We debated the vile attack in Manchester, the right to protest, the Tories' crazy climate stance and how to rescue politics.
You can listen to it here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Any Questions? - Aphra Brandreth MP, Lord Carlile, George Monbiot, Emma Reynolds MP - BBC Sounds
Alex Forsyth presents political debate from The Square at Chester Zoo.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Jonathan Wolff — Reposted by: James Connelly, Tom Shakespeare, Christina Pagel , and 1 more

jowolff.bsky.social
Stick this in your oil pipe and smoke it Donald Trump.
drpauldorfman.bsky.social
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 5d
#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time
More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy
www.independent.co.uk
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
The steadily growing population of rare lesser horseshoe bats in the shed (roughly 100) attests to the level of flying insect life in the forest outside, since each bat catches around 3,000 per night.

Healthy nature depends on healthy, wild, functioning *ecosystems*.

Rewilding delivers that. 🌏
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Lesley A. Hall, R. M. Wilson

danielsohege.bsky.social
Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Ian Loader

donnachadhmc.bsky.social
Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..

www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
www.youtube.com
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Mapped: The areas threatened by Reform’s controversial pro-fracking agenda revealed

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Mapped: The areas threatened by Reform’s controversial pro-fracking agenda revealed
New analysis identifies parliamentary areas that could be vulnerable to development for fracking if Nigel Farage’s party were to get into government
www.independent.co.uk
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Mark Priestley, David Koepsell

mehdirhasan.bsky.social
If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism

And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.

It’s really that simple.

(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
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Reposted by: James Connelly, Dorothy Bishop, John R. Hutchinson

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
But, of course, the fuckwits.

Dame Sarah Mullally makes history as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sky news headline fails to name her but it’s ok, her husband is named.
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