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Bernard Walton

@bernardwalton.com
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Wildlife and Documentary TV Podcast producer. Ex @bbc Liberty-Equality-Justice for all. PhD @tcd_NatSci Love sanity, all nature, good people, and our wonderful planet.

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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 16/09/2025
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Operation Crush All Dissent shifts into overdrive
And Trump files a $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 16/07/2025
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Tell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental Cooperation
Climate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen...
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 04/07/2025
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 27/02/2025
British film and TV is being wiped out by the powerful US global entertainment industries. What next?
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 27/02/2025
Democracy is being destroyed before our eyes. Has US the ability to push back?
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 25/02/2025
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
actionstorm.org
Sign the Petition
Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 21/02/2025
Nationalism and her and his faux patriotism leads to wars not peace. Learn from history please
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 13/02/2025
Has Trump just surrender to Putin’s aggression, and so weakening our precious civilisation? #trump #putin #surrender
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 13/02/2025
Has Trump joined forces with Putin to weaken our European civilisation? #trump #putin #ukraine #civilisation
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 11/01/2025
Free speech is being gagged.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 29/12/2024
Yes Please
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 29/12/2024
This time last year, we hadn’t even decided to open Bluesky to the public. Who wants more #invitecodes? Thanks for building with us, all ~26m of you 🥰
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The are 16 SEZs being installed across Norfolk and Suffolk. Local councils are being scrapped across England with plans to replace them with mega-councils, this is exactly what I said would happen as Zone Fever eclipses the entire UK. 1/2 newanglia.co.uk/enterprise-z...
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Enterprise Zones - New Anglia
New Anglia LEP and our local authority partners have negotiated City Deals for both Greater Ipswich and Greater Norwich. Both deals will help create new jobs.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Vince Cable on the sale of Royal Mail, "The main issue the government has to confront are the national security implications in relation to our national infrastructure" "My instincts would be to err on the side of caution, when you have a business interest with very close links to Russia"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Boris Johnson is terrified that we will ditch Brexit, rebuild the UK with the EU, do well economically and… …that will show him for the fraud he is.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 09/12/2024
Time to nationalise our corrupt British utilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Major water company uses accounting trick to inflate balance sheet by £1.68bn
A substantial Severn Trent Water investment is based on IOU notes - BBC Panorama finds.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Nigel Farage lied throughout Question Time last night, and embarrassed himself on Brexit. Here's a full reconstruction. #bbcqt youtu.be/FBmoJ7RJYpA?...
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Farage falls apart over Brexit on 38th Question Time appearance!
YouTube video by Femi
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 09/12/2024
This is a photo I took some years ago that’s used by WWF. #nature
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 09/12/2024
Can we introduce captive gorillas back to the wild? The extraordinary tale I got to make with some very fine people a few years back. #nature #conservation youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-b...
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adeludlamphoto.bsky.social @adeludlamphoto.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"Silent Night" A Barn Owl hunting river a local field after sunset one evening last week. Hardly ever see them. Very happy to get a couple of shots. Like the symmetry of the owl's outstretched wings and the distant treeline behind #birds #ukwildlife
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 04/12/2024
Seeking a better understanding of how politics, science, technology, nature, conservation, and the arts can make us better people.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 05/12/2024
Boris Johnson and David Frost screwed us.
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Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Incredible view of Earth from Space
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/12/2024
We're excited to unveil a new look for Europe by Satellite — now the European Broadcasting Service. Satellite TV was cutting-edge in 1995, but it's time for a new look that reflects EBS's missions: unity, transparency, and the seamless flow of information across Europe.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is extraordinary. Not one but TWO counter-bidders for the Observer have disclosed details of their bids…but the Guardian’s owner the Scott Trust is refusing to discuss www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
telegraph.co.uk
Observer sale gatecrasher offers to double investment to £50m
More generous bid may stoke striking staff’s opposition to a proposed sale to Tortoise
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 05/12/2024
Global warming crisis can only be stopped by critical thinking and choice, as well as a fully functional democracy to implement it. Only we can do this.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 05/12/2024
Watch as too many power hungry global oligarchs attempt to seize governmental power using new emerging technologies But can our democracies stop them in time.
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Tina’s Wilderness Photography @tinaswilderness.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My half Mainecoon Cat Moose. That girl just loves being out in any weather ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #cats #mammals
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The pro-Putin Prime Minister of European Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze has vowed to 'eradicate' 'liberal fascism' from the country. The kind of word-mangling beloved of authoritarians everywhere.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter says he sexually harassed her" The details in this article of Wallace and his behaviour are shocking tbh. The BBC has received complaints about his behaviour for YEARS but done nothing.... www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Gregg Wallace's ghostwriter says MasterChef host sexually harassed her
The MasterChef host has denied any sexual misconduct with Shannon Kyle, who worked on his 2012 memoir.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation…” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
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We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 04/12/2024
Never forget our place
Earth rise.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 04/12/2024
Seeking a better understanding of how politics, science, technology, nature, conservation, and the arts can make us better people.
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Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
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South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 04/12/2024
We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to ban deep sea mining before it starts.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 03/12/2024
Today it was gone!
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 03/12/2024
Let’s all of us make a cleaner, happier, and safer world. ♥️🌍❤️
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
thelondoneconomic.com
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 02/12/2024
Broken tree swept by power of water digs in on the River Severn, for now.
Nature tree Severn
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 02/12/2024
Over to you #keirstarmer
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 02/12/2024
It’s Putinism all over it. The creation of more oligarchs who will rule over every American so to enslave them.
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 01/12/2024
COP29 will go down as another misstep on the road to a healthy world where humans and other life can live happily together
northeastbylines.co.uk
Floods, the Climate Crisis and COP29
COP29 will go down as another misstep on the road to a healthy world where humans and other life can live happily together.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
We need an urgent inquiry in the UK into foreign interference in our politics & media. …one which needs to advise rules for Parliament to enact before the next General Election hits.
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 01/12/2024
Such a joy to watch a Common Buzzard use the wind to hover to find food yesterday evening as I walked along the River Severn. #birds #photography #iPhone #riversevern
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 30/11/2024
When the felon President is elected, weirdly the rules are changed to protect this criminal liar. It’s crazy
Trump convicted felon immunity President
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 29/11/2024
If you BELIEVE in FACTS you are closer to the TRUTH
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Meet Osmia biolor - the Red-tailed Mason bee. This stunning wee solitary #bee is one of 3 UK species who lay their eggs in abandoned snail shells She's one my favourite bees, so I was delighted last summer to spot this female checking out a snail shell when I stopped in a lay-by for a sandwich 🌿
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Bernard Walton @bernardwalton.com · 29/11/2024
Let’s be clear. Musk is a political crackpot megalomaniac whose been given enormous power without the people’s vote #USconstitution
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