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Posts by David Owen

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Sign the Petition Network Rail must remove bird netting under the bridges of New England Road, Brighton

#Bird #Netting used under rail bridge at New England Road #Brighton
Objections to this can be sent via #Change #Petition
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife
www.change.org/p/network-ra...

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"Not a whisper". Come on! No need to overstate the case.

19 hours ago 1 0 0 0
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Mortgaged the caravan.

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We should be learning from other countries...

4 days ago 30101 9652 934 584

That will be the clincher. Plus John Lydon starting a new band.

5 days ago 0 0 0 0

This is lunacy.

6 days ago 1699 536 40 12
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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

6 days ago 28241 8110 2074 994

1. Local elections will be in large part an anti-Starmer's Labour protest vote.
2. The hardcore minority have doubled down in their little englandism.

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Last month, Phil Walker travelled up to Sheffield for an exclusive sit-down interview with Joe Root. They chatted about the Ashes, parenthood, fame, unfinished business with England and much more for the latest issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoR...

1 week ago 4 1 0 0
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After expelling 120 families, Israeli settlers turn stream into holiday hotspot Hundreds of Vehicles Parked at the Entrance to Ein al-Auja During Passover Week Left No Doubt: The Nature Reserve Next to the Abandoned Homes of Residents Who Fled in Terror Has Become One of the Hott...

Hundreds of vehicles parked at the entrance to Ein al-Auja during Passover week left no doubt: the nature reserve next to the abandoned homes of residents who fled in terror has become one of the hottest destinations in settler tourism

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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So now the USA and Iran are BOTH blocking the strait of Hormuz?! What utter geniuses we are led by.

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Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms

Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

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I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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Yes!

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It's good, but doesn't quite knock Jack Hayward off his pedestal.

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Today in Russia (so far):
▪️Russian human rights group Memorial designated an "extremist" movement;
▪️FSB says former Russian freelancer for RFE/RL detained, accused of treason;
▪️Masked security officers searching Moscow office of Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

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Even Canada!

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Opinion: Hungary is a small country. But Viktor Orbán, its prime minister, is not a man of small influence. ft.trib.al/SIPYjtS

1 week ago 45 8 5 0

Don't forget Iranian men and women still tyrannised.

2 weeks ago 1 0 0 0
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My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face, says Llangrannog woman Philippa Gibson's great-aunt Violet tried to kill the Italian dictator in Rome on 7 April 1926.

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

2 weeks ago 16 5 0 4

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

4 months ago 6317 2587 42 149

Not to be pedantic, but this has to be a misuse of the word "average", or 50% of home teams would be getting nul points.

2 weeks ago 0 0 1 0
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Brexit reality

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The County Championship will showcase beauty in many forms - enjoy it while you can | The Cricketer If there was a plot to undermine the county game, it might well look much like this, with the season starting on April 3 and two rounds being staged between mid-May and mid-August

Here’s my season preview: The County Championship will showcase beauty in many forms - enjoy it while you can | The Cricketer www.thecricketer.com/Topics/count...

2 weeks ago 9 3 1 1

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

2 weeks ago 3713 1765 145 219

God, Hear, hear! And so sorry about how it has impacted you and the business you built.

2 weeks ago 10 1 1 0

Your occasional reminder that all of the trade deals struck since Farage's Brexit, all added together, have done sod all to offset the 4% to 8% GDP loss that the UK is experiencing, and will continue to experience for decades to come. Unless and until we join the EU.

3 weeks ago 10 9 1 0
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Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

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The Iran War energy supply turmoil reminds me how relevant the dark story of oil in Nigeria is today.

In A Swamp Full of Dollars, I wrote how Nigeria's experience showed the "arrogance of a fossil fuel-obsessed world".

Links:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/swamp-ful...

www.theguardian.com/books/2009/s...

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