Just watched first episode of this. Even if you've been close to the details this is pure cold fury. A crystallised portrait of the scandal which has been inflicted on us and our environment at the hands of corporate scam artists and their political enablers.
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Fund for nature friendly farming to be slashed! 🤬
Europe (including the UK) prepares to welcome scientists from across the Atlantic, as radical budget cuts cut swathes through US science - @philipcball.bsky.social in @theneweuropean.bsky.social
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/135577...
Image of twoleaf watermilfoil and text Have you seen this species Report it!
Most non-native species are harmless, but 10-15% are invasive. Prevention is key to stop their spread.
🌿 Twoleaf watermilfoil can form dense mats that choke waterways, crowd out native species and reduce oxygen availability.
⚠️ Recorded at a few GB sites but not yet established.
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“Despite all of these arrivals there are still 131,000 vacancies in care. The sector say there is no way they can fill these jobs with British workers”
The care sector is already on its knees and the government knows it
The Economist estimates that the annual cost of the Reform/Farage promises is £200bn and savings of around £100bn, due to cuts in public services and deep austerity.
Reform/Farage will promise anything to grab power, but will face the Truss moment.
Under scrutiny Reform will wriggle.
United Utilities in use 'less water' warning as reservoir levels drop.
UU has 205 criminal convictions. It loses 175bn litres to leaky pipes, built no new reservoirs, paid excessive dividends, neglected Investment.
Wants people to pay more for less.
No national plan for water security.
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Well that’s me depressed for the weekend. As Glen acidly observes this looks like a pretty transparent effort to shift blame for coming university bankruptcies onto the institutions. Good luck with selling that to whichever MPs are about to lose their constituency’s largest employer.
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98,280 signatures to end the Badger cull.
100k for a debate - let’s do this! Just days to go!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Back in 2023, Albrighton & Woodland Hunt received a police warning after hounds killed a deer and a fox. CCTV showed them out of control on private land. The warning remains in place until 2027.
Keep up to date with hunts causing havoc on our database👇
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43% of England universities heading to bankruptcy.
Staff sacked, depts closed, leading academics leaving.
Major exporter disabled by govt cuts, freeze on fees (most European countries don't charge), limits on foreign students.
Crisis manufactured by govts.
What chance of rebuilding economy?
We’re so close!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Did you know hunting hasn’t truly been banned?
Loopholes allow it to continue – legally.
📍Find your MP.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/endhuntingnow/
Let’s close those loopholes.
An animal caught in a snare can suffer for hours — terrified, bleeding, dying slowly.
This is still legal in England! It’s sick. It’s indefensible.
Sign the petition to ban snares now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/ban-snares/
Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK.
Replaced by less experienced or skilled staff, which had a knock-on effect for patients.
Brexit has done immense harm. No impact assessment was provided.
Farage/Reform still doing the same with their nationalist rhetoric.
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Adventurer, writer & Rivers Trust Ambassador @Al_Humphreys has a task for you this weekend: take part in the #BigRiverWatch.
This week we need 🫵your🫵 help to build a picture of #river health!
Get the app: theriverstrust.org/take-action/...
Our edited volume “How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond” has a Google Books page and will soon appear (in Open Access). You can see the first hundred pages here.
It’s a powerful argument for understanding authoritarianism/1
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Pay package of UK CEOs grown faster this year than those of their US rivals.
FTSE1 00 CEO median pay up 11%. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008.
Govts say wage rises for workers are inflationary; ignore rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
Its class war.
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👀Want to help to take care of your local river? Join the #BigRiverWatch by @theriverstrust.bsky.social
Last survey:
💩 1700 of you saw signs of pollution
👎 250 saw algal blooms
🗑️ 50% reported litter
Download the app and survey your river 25th April - 1st May
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And these are just the incidents that we know about over a small period in Devon!
www.okehampton-today.co.uk/news/over-30...
World’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again
Investigation by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social & others:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The badger cull is a brutal and unnecessary tragedy — over 230,000 badgers have been killed since 2013.
✍️ the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
It’s time to put an end to this senseless slaughter.
Help us reach 100k signatures by the 28th of May!
Caught in a springtrap , right next to the pairs two unhatched eggs – this is the true story of a hen harrier attempting to breed on the infamous Leadhills Estate in Scotland .
We must ban driven grouse shooting , add your name now govpetition.uk/700036
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
My Dad has done a fair bit of research and restoration on old cottages and says - Could be to control a flap on a chimney. When not in use the chimney is closed to prevent draughts.
We're nearing our goal of 100,000 signatures! Once we hit this milestone, our petition will be considered for a parliamentary debate.
Join us in making a change for badgers.
Sign now👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Celebre D’Allen is dead. And the jockey who ignored the horse’s suffering has been given a 10-day ban. Just 10 days.
Michael Nolan was suspended after “continuing to ride when the horse clearly had no more to give.” Those are the regulator’s own words.
