Interesting that Karren Brady has left before the end of the season. Wonder what that was about.

Damning report into Natural England’s failure to designate any new SSSIs since 2023.

❗️“Ukraine is not looking for an alternative to joining the EU, but a union of Ukraine, Britain, Turkey, and Norway would make the EU the strongest in the world.” – Zelenskyy

Surely because of Trump’s best efforts at tanking the global fossil fuels economy

Judging by how Westminster politics has changed out of all recognition since 2016, literally anything is possible.

yes. Bizarrely, illegal payments to the Democratic party.

Trump's son in law Kushner is also the scion of another New York property developer dynasty, just like Trump. And Kushner's father has been given the job of Ambassador to France (and Monaco).

As they say, keep it in the family.

To drown their sorrows after losing their Orban slush fund money.

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If I were a government minister and I had a magic wand, I think 'make people more aware of pensions and how they work' is the thing that solves so many political problems.

It really isn’t. No fertiliser application, no insecticide or fungicides. No herbicides used at the field scale if at all. No reseeding or soil compaction from endless machinery use. Most solar farms sow wildflowers under the panels and between them, using sheep grazing to manage the awards.

agreed they aren't perfect wildlife habitat, but on balance much better than average farmland.

I think it depends on the solar farm, as to what they do under the panels. Some certainly have sheep grazing to avoid spraying. Security fences are an issue yes.

"she said she was opposed to "industrial scale energy infrastructure schemes" such as the East Pye"

From a landscape perspective I can see such a large Solar Farm could be considered detrimental to some. But taking 1000ha of Norfolk out of the 'industrial scale' agriculture it has been subject to for the last 70 years will certainly be good for wildlife, water quality & many other benefits.

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"By all means save the lovely glutinous snail, but it really isn’t worth telling anyone on the right of politics you are doing that & expecting not to be ridiculed in bad faith."

99.997% of UK biodiversity isn't a bird or a mammal.

Should all be silent of their plight to appease the Tory press?

Swarbrick focusses in on the Snail, making fun of its glutinous nature, and asks Creagh whether anyone really cares if this snail lives dies or goes extinct. by repeating the word Snail Swarbrick forces Creagh onto the back foot, unable to deliver her pre-planned policy messages of Doves & Choughs⬇️

Lee argues (I think seriously) that Labour shouldn't be asking its ministers to "step on to the linguistic garden rakes", eg by announcing funding to protect The Glutinous Snail, Europe's rarest freshwater snail. Lee describes an interview of Mary Creagh by former Tory comms person Tom Swarbrick ⬇️

Stewart Lee: A weak parent who couldn’t report their child to the police? Sounds like Queen Elizabeth II A mood seems to be growing on the right of politics to deport the relatives of serious criminals. But of course they don’t mean in every case

Stewart Lee's latest for @thenerve.news is "very much a game of two halves, Ron" starting with the very reasonable question as to why the late Queen shouldn't be expunged for protecting her pdf-file adjacent son - then segueing into a piece about obscure wildlife ⬇️ www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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But Starmer announced the appointment of the Dark Lord as US Ambassador before the security vetting had taken place. So it didn’t really matter whether he had been told whether the security vetting had been failed. Was he really going to reverse ferret and withdraw Mandelson as Ambassador? Nah.

And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats...

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Setting aside what a price cap without production subsidies would do to the Scottish food/farming sector, why have Bread Milk Cheese Eggs Rice and Chicken been chosen as the "essential foods"?

Food Standards Scotland advise a balanced diet from the 5 food groups: the first being Fruit & Veg!

Straight out of The Thick of It.

Today's offering from @chrisgrey.bsky.social covers all the expected news from the last fortnight - from Marmalade to Orban. But deeper chords resonate within, such as the failure of the Brexists to accept Britain has lost its "Global Power" status.
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Immensely stupid decision and he should mea culpa and deal with it. This embarrassing buck passing does not make him less unpopular

'Animal rights activist killed my crayfish', says Dorset restaurant owner Restaurant owner Sean Cooper believes the crayfish died after it was removed from a display tank.

Emma Smart. Doing what she does best, alienating people from environmental and animal welfare causes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

What a total screw-up: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...