Reposted by Bryn TruscottHenry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference. 821789
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 10hTwo planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...foxglove.org.ukAndy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centresTwo planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out 012
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 12hTwo planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...foxglove.org.ukAndy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centresTwo planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out 0118
Reposted by Bryn TruscottTogether Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s hard to believe it’s been six months. From firefighters and teachers to politicians, trade unionists, and families — chanting, dancing and filling the streets with hope. The biggest anti-racist march in UK history. We must keep marching on. 14734
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The ongoing repression West Papua should be better known... www.freewestpapua.org/2026/09/23/i...freewestpapua.orgInterim President: UN must raise West Papua after six killed in new Indonesian massacre - Free West Papua CampaignOn behalf of the ULMWP and the West Papuan people, I wholeheartedly condemn the brutal massacre of six West Papuan civilians by the Indonesian military in Yahukimo. Ten Papuan gold-panners were shot a... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can only agree: "Governments must treat the climate as they would other threats to national security, such as sabotage by hostile states." Richard Nugee, a retired general and security expert. Why would such a report be suppressed? www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under StarmerEl Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers 115263
Reposted by Bryn TruscottRick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I just signed this petition calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to say NO to reviving the Keystone XL pipeline. Sign and share it too: act.350.org/sign/no-kxl-...act.350.orgNo pipelines on a burning planet. No to Keystone XL!Donald Trump is threatening to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, even as our communities are reeling from a summer of fossil-fueled heatwaves, wildfires and smoke. But Keystone XL was a bad idea when i... 001
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This week Natural England said salmon stocks in England have fallen to their lowest level since records began. 95% of the main salmon rivers don’t have enough fish to sustain their populations. Tomorrow we'll show the salmon some love and talk about their plight at the amazing Exe Salmon Run. 084
Reposted by Bryn TruscottTidelines @tidelines.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's tomorrow! Come and cheer the Salmon Runners and join activities along the route: Exmouth: 8.45–10am Exeter Quay 10–12.30 Dulverton 2.30–7pm 🐟🐟🐟 1104
Reposted by Bryn TruscottWeald Action Group @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026OUR FUNDRAISER IS LIVE! Methane pollution from UK onshore oil & gas remains poorly monitored and largely hidden from public view. We’re fighting to change that. Help us fight for real action to cut methane pollution. Donate & share: tinyurl.com/WAG-Fundraiser-CACF #CleanAirClearFuture 042
Reposted by Bryn TruscottAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ready for Farage saying he's never met Cooling "This is Stephen Cooling from Sutton Coalfield a member of Reform UK which portrays itself as “protectors of women & girls” Here's Stephen Cooling attacking a woman with his walking stick while a female companion pulls her hair out" via Mike F Shaw 61738377
Reposted by Bryn TruscottJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party. 191166432
Reposted by Bryn TruscottTidelines @tidelines.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fisheries scientist and Salmon Run alumnus @danosmond.bsky.social has written a book! Peace Trout & Understanding explores what it means to fish in a damaged world. Fishing yarns for anyone who has tried to peer through the murk of eco-anxiety. Buy your copy at www.peacetroutandunderstanding.com 042
Reposted by Bryn TruscottMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/09/2026A third runway at Heathrow risks higher emissions and greater impacts on local communities. That's the wrong trade-off for London and it's why I'll continue to vehemently oppose these plans. 1428959
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Vast data centres are using up massive amounts of resources and disrupting local communities. And the government doesn’t have a plan for how to deal with them. Tell the government to get a grip on data centres. @friends-earth.bsky.social foe.uk/38h0yfoe.ukStop data centres draining our precious resourcesAdd my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottMake Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026💥💥💥"The government's priority is a politics that works for all people in all places - not some people in some places. The Prime Minister remains committed to electoral reform." Great to hear this from Democracy Minister Florence Eshalomi 💯 But now it's time for action 👇🧵 55528
Reposted by Bryn TruscottPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/08/20264.4m UK jobs fall below the real Living Wage. Real Living Wage rate is £14.80 an hour for workers in London, £13.45 elsewhere. Statutory minimum wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 per hour. Neoliberals begrudge decent wages. Can't grow economy on the back of poverty. 21281126
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere! Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini... 12532
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Isles of Scilly is home to amazing marine life, but South West Water plans to pump untreated sewage straight into these protected waters. They deserve the best sewage treatment, not a cheap fix. Help protect this beautiful ecosystem and add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/gi...you.38degrees.org.ukStop untreated sewage polluting the Isles of ScillySouth West Water plans to pump untreated sewage into one of the UK's most protected marine environments. Add your name to demand the highest standard of sewage treatment for the Isles of Scilly and he... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottRichard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social, the Teesside shambles goes on: missed payments from businessmen who’ve cashed in on regeneration for £100ms of taxpayer’s money, undocumented loans, 8 figure errors in public body accounts. Available to read online - www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-backprivate-eye.co.ukPrivate Eye | Teesside: Plot twistersTHERE are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley (TVCA) Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation (STDC). 513369
Reposted by Bryn TruscottDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2026$900 million from a cancelled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor - “Stench of corruption” HT @carbonbrief.org www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.com$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donorThe Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump... 03418
Reposted by Bryn TruscottWuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton 378154044303
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our democracy. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...actionnetwork.orgDear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting systemDear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo... 010
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Changing Westminster’s voting system shouldn't be left to the politicians. An independent commission could get the public and experts together in one room to examine the evidence and build consensus for reform. Add your name today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral systemI ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led re... 000
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Billions of plastic pellets are still spilling into the North Sea. Sign Friends of the Earth's petition to demand an urgent clean-up foe.uk/9sf9wfoe.ukTell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disasterOne of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/08/2026Water companies are trying to hike your water bills AGAIN. Privatisation is not affordable. Andy Burnham must block these bill hikes. Let the water companies that can't survive without hiking our bills GO BUST. Then we take them into public hands for nothing. 12300299
Reposted by Bryn TruscottJohn ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Guardian piece - I couldn’t find it online. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social’s book titled The Lie of the Land is excellent on this & other related matters. 5217
Reposted by Bryn TruscottWildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This is absolute nonsense ... #justsaying 3172
Reposted by Bryn TruscottOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Governments responding to accelerating climate change and drought with - more licences for heatwave-hastening oil & gas - more water-guzzling data centres while advising - hosepipe bans - requests to stop use BBQs is beyond stupid, it's lethal criminal negligence 517187
Reposted by Bryn TruscottPhilip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yeah, so it turns out that @xrglobal.bsky.social and @juststopoil.bsky.social and @thunberggreta.bsky.social were right about everything… and we ignored them and laughed at them and put them in prison and carried on regardless… 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🔥🔥🔥💩💩💩 1105
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026We're asking the new Democracy Minister to make the Representation of the People Bill truly transformative for our democracy. Please sign our letter! secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/196341/...secure.unlockdemocracy.org.ukThe New Democracy MinisterWe're asking the new Democracy Minister to make the Representation of the People Bill truly transformative for our democracy. Please sign our letter! 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottTipping Point UK @tippingpointuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026As wildfires continue to burn, Shell today announced £7.4 billion in obscene profits. So we delivered your open letter to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social calling on her to #StopRosebank the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field. The reality of new oil & gas= our communities pay, Big oil profits. 23441
Reposted by Bryn TruscottJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately. 1613485893
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice: www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved... #ClimateJustice #PollutersPayoxfam.org.ukOxfam GB | Make rich polluters payI just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice. #ClimateJustice #Po... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottBDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is Israel’s deliberate policy of ongoing Nakba. To maintain business as usual with the genocidal state of Israel or any of its complicit companies and institutions is to be complicit too. We need you to channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action now. 15395308
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026112 MPs have called for special administration of Thames Water. Over 10,000 of us have signed the petition for you to bring it into public hands. You've even said this 'should' happen. Will you make good on your promise, @andyburnham.bsky.social? @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/AB-thames-promiseweownit.org.ukAndy Burnham: bring Thames Water into permanent public ownership 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th... 1215597
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSimon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Exvellent open letter to the PM on #Rosebank and #Jackdaw! "All signatories are members of the Tyndall Centre, based in the School of Engineering at the University of #Manchester, and all played a key role in the #climate research underpinning the GMCA’s 2038 carbon neutrality commitment." Bravo! 12111
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...actionnetwork.orgOpen Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MPOur new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young. All part of a right wing coup. Foreign money to spread Trumpism, subvert UK public choices. Puppets wrap themselves in the flag.theguardian.comTrump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby YoungExclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics 40413231
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Eunice Foote was the first person to establish, through experiments, that altering the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere would change the Earth’s temperature. As a mere woman she was not allowed to present her work at the relevant academic body. Her paper had to be read out by a man. 196
Bryn Truscott @beetrootbrownie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I signed this @friends-earth.bsky.social petition to ask Andy Burnham to clean up the water pollution crisis. Add your name too? foe.uk/n1lsxfoe.ukMake 2026 the year polluters clean up their actSign the petition Last year, the government promised to crack down on water pollution. But without public pressure, its plans could once again let big polluters off the hook. We should all be able to ... 000
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave Britain's JuriesJuries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries. 0810
Reposted by Bryn TruscottGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The cars on Britain's roads are getting ever-bigger and more dangerous to people as a result. 'Carspreading' has to be curbed. Good piece with some ideas for policies and campaigns to do so: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBritain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian WolmarLarger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar 912557
Reposted by Bryn TruscottAndreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Take a moment to think of the recent #heatwave in #Europe at 40+ C and then read this: Eurostar just ordered trains that can cope with 55C 😳 "Saudi summers". 34724
Reposted by Bryn TruscottWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/07/2026🚨The UK-US pharma deal with Trump will cost 229,000 lives in England. The deal is so bad that the editor of the British Medical Journal says it suggests "We’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”. Dear Andy Burnham, tear up this deal as Prime Minister. Thank you. 10327340
Reposted by Bryn TruscottDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants" 10796112616
Reposted by Bryn TruscottSurvival International @survivalinternational.org · 05/07/2026We protested outside the Lineapelle London leather exhibition. We’re campaigning to stop the annihilation of the Indigenous Ayoreo people, including their uncontacted relatives, by agribusiness. Now’s the time to stand up with the Ayoreo, for their survival: svlint.org/AyoreoB 053
![Inglorious Twelfth? Calls to outlaw grouse shooting to prevent wildfires
Helena Horton
Every year on 12 August, fans of traditional British cuisine flock to plush restaurants in London's Mayfair to dine on grouse served
with bread sauce and game chips.
But those hoping to find the small wild birds, sourced from the UK's moorlands, may be disappointed this year. Wildfires have been raging, burning habitats and incinerating wildlife, after record-breaking heat turned the landscape into a tinderbox.
The intensive management of grouse moors involves the draining of peatland and the burning of vegetation that grows on it. Experts say this creates the conditions for wildfires as dry peat acts as fuel and smoulders for extended periods, making fires almost impossible to extinguish.
Because of this, the Green Party
in Scotland, where there are a large number of grouse shoots, has called for the Glorious Twelfth - the start of the season, before which grouse cannot legally be hunted - and grouse shooting to be banned.
The climate crisis makes every heatwave more likely and intense.
The end of June heatwave was the most severe ever recorded in Europe. Richard Corrigan, who owns both Corrigan's and Bentley's oyster bar and grill in Mayfair, has always served grouse during his decades-long career. But this year, they are in short supply.
He said: "I was hoping to get something on the 12th, it's looking like it's running a week and a half late. They will be smaller and fewer, which is fine and it is a treat. The hot weather hasn't helped everything this year, that's
Corrigan will be finding it more difficult than some chefs to get birds because he has become more particular about who he buys grouse from. "We now insist [birds] come from small estates rather than the large shoots, where dozens are shot at a time. I am not too sure I agree with the large shoots. I would rather people shoot wild animals for the table rather than shoot for the sake of having a day out." He also re…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b3a5t3hq7ibv7f7bdepckt4c/bafkreiea2bxm54xw3wfm7q5pi5dupjxswcgfrwguzqwlt6b44z6pypc6ci)
