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We wrote to the Dept of Education and Youth today over school materials promoting Sitka Spruce Forestry while omitting ecological harm. The booklet by industry bodies is one-sided, ignoring biodiversity loss and water quality impacts. IWT calls for safeguards on school messaging iwt.ie/sitka_spruce/
Call logs, I would guess. Or just by whichever civil servant was Morgan McSweeney's private secretary being asked by a select committee 'how many times were you asked to chase the FCDO on this?' Something like that.
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Process for people like Mandelson
Vs
Process for people like Louise Haigh
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...
This is all so bad for our democracy and our country. Farage has lied and grifted his arse off to be where he is today and our media routinely fails to hold him to account on any of it. His Brexit ideology is a ruinous disaster and his mass deportation and leaving the ECHR plan would be even worse.
Nigel Farage: People tell me they've always voted Labour, but not any more The Reform UK leader is expecting a political earthquake' in the local elections next month — but insists the era of Tory defections is over Nigel Farage refused to rule out a confidence and supply deal with the Conservative Party if Reform fails to secure a majority at the next general election Steven Swinford, Political Editor Friday April 17 2026, 10.15pm, The Times
The Times seems to be backing their man in the run up to the local elections. Chummy, unchallenging ‘interview’ that reads much more like a Farage advert.
Free passes handed out on his racism, misogyny, corruption, Trumpism, Orbanism, useless councils, dire candidates, failed Brexit…
Really shabby.
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9pm Two #hedgehogs 🦔🦔
with their heads in the same bowl
in the hog cafe
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Next CEO pay rose from £4.9m to £7.4m, could hit £9.27m this year.
Company changed CEO pay formula because it didn't give directors enough.
Non-exec directors to get higher pay.
Most shop workers toil on/around minimum wage.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers but no curbs on fat-cattery.
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I love getting home now in daylight hours to appreciate the nature in our garden @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Prime real estate for kittiwakes. The ledge is starting to look busy.
🎥 Watch live online: durhamwt.com/kittiwake-cam
TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”
POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”
EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by Paul Lewis @direthoughts.com & me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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50 years of data reveal specialist butterflies disappearing across the UK, but the good news is that conservation efforts are making a real difference - helping butterflies isn’t complicated, we can all be part of the solution by making places butterfly-friendly 🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social
useful reminder from Private Eye
Trump threatens to end US-UK trade deal because UK won't join his illegal Iran war.
There is no special relationship. It is subservience to the US.
Don't make agreements with Trump. He doesn't honour them.
The King's visit should be cancelled.
UK must rejoin the EU, build alliances with others.
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Longshot I know but did anyone leave some elegant blue tortoiseshell framed prescription Specsaver (all the hashtags) glasses in a Limebike basket on Portland Place?
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
Siili kippuralla heinikossa.
Yksi meidän tontin vakioasukkaista on kömpinyt kolostaan esille.
The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground.
Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground.
War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.
In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money.
Their "patriotism" is always a con.
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A doctor costume, honestly, not Jesus…
Golden eagle in flight beneath headline announcing government backing for their return to English skies. Background photo credit: Alex Hyde
Let's talk about golden eagles 🦅
The UK government are backing their return to England's skies! A groundbreaking recovery programme — supported by £1 million in government funding — is now underway to restore this iconic apex predator to our northern uplands.
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Judge in Trump v BBC case should make same decision.
The name fooled a lot of people. For years, the BBC used Claire Fox as its "leftwing" voice on the Moral Maze, though her positions were clearly extreme right. The line-up was typically: hard right (Melanie Phillips etc), right, centrist and far right.
Which is more or less the BBC idea of balance.
