Reposted by Clare RaynerProf Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Scarifying perennial wildflower strips & meadows every 4-5 yrs is a great way to rejuvenate the sward in the absence of large herbivores. Look how this has encouraged new seedlings whilst retaining much of the original plants. Yes it bounces back! 0265
Reposted by Clare RaynerProf Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I too am struggling to grow on Bluesky. 253
Reposted by Clare RaynerLittle Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝 512380
Reposted by Clare RaynerSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275282472
Reposted by Clare RaynerKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏 422368
Clare Rayner @clareacrayner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Found this bug outside our front door yesterday - apparently it’s a relatively recent American immigrant, the Western Conifer Seed Bug. Flew in with a whirring sound! 011
Reposted by Clare RaynerJames Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The big lie peddled by developers about ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’ is that that they can destroy natural places & somehow make it good by habitat creation elsewhere Ecological restoration is about reversing historical damage to nature It is not about justifying further destruction 54921
Reposted by Clare RaynerAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“We will be compassionate to a strictly limited number of people, and will save as many lives as the Daily Mail will let us” 27324
Reposted by Clare RaynerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy. 34569203
Reposted by Clare RaynerDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Labour is not opening new safe routes. This latest measure is reopening a route they closed and making it more restrictive. This follows claiming they were opening new community sponsorship and work/study routes which already existed but they made harder to access. It's smoke and mirrors. #r4today 013351
Reposted by Clare RaynerDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tomorrow, hundreds will replicate Rob’s brave action near the same location. Today’s arrest gives an indication that police will be making a lot of arrests tomorrow. Join us: wedonotcomply.orgwedonotcomply.orgSaving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries🗓️ On September 27th, we are taking the defiance to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. For over a year now we’ve been getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act in our thousands for holdi... 421958
Reposted by Clare RaynerPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026I’ve got beaver-cam footage to show you but only if you get @protect.earth up to 500 followers. We’ve been blocked from BlueSky for months, but we’re back now. Get us that count and I’ll show you a big fat furry river baby. 🫡 11612
Reposted by Clare RaynerMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hoursEntire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed 37947
Reposted by Clare RaynerPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is just disappearing people. This would’ve been the stuff of conspiracy theory a decade ago and now it’s in the AP. 312063
Reposted by Clare RaynerYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThis Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan FreedlandSpend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 914748
Reposted by Clare RaynerTes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: The teacher pay award for 2026-27 will be funded ‘at a national level’ from savings to employer contributions for support staff pensions, government claimstes.comTeacher pay award to be funded through pension savingsSchools were initially told they would have to fund the first 1% of the 2026-27 teacher pay award 024
Reposted by Clare RaynerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not. 41119270
Clare Rayner @clareacrayner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Out clearing part of a crack willow tree that had fallen down over a footbridge today. V pleased to be able to sneak up on this common blue butterfly in the meadow. #butterflies 020
Reposted by Clare RaynerPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 12/09/2026In the U.K. some of the most coherent political points are being made by a bin whilst our PM still seems to have his microphone muted. 03110
Reposted by Clare RaynerPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 10/09/2026If anyone is going to get their hands on an entire country’s private medical data it should be because they’ve got long astounding track record of being fucking revolutionary at handling medical data, not simply a painfully close proximity to the worlds most powerful pedophiles. 0236
Reposted by Clare RaynerJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets! 44851305
Reposted by Clare Raynerdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/09/2026any jewish institution that speaks out to oppose this is endorsing the years-long campaign of pogroms against palestinians by jewish extremists in the west bank 114137
Reposted by Clare RaynerNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2] 801511345
Reposted by Clare RaynerStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/20262) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad. 341090340
Reposted by Clare RaynerTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“Protesters“ - The UK would do well to learn what the Sturmabteilung was and did. Because that‘s what‘s happening. But the idea is still fascists are the people we beat 80 years ago. Of course not an ideology anyone ever supported in the Britain. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comBlack-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in KentPort authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions 412341
Reposted by Clare RaynerNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Water use was commercially confidential." No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRevealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit EnglandExclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply 8377183
Reposted by Clare RaynerPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea. 16879249
Reposted by Clare RaynerMichael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What would peace-loving, reasonably intelligent people have said 10 years ago (the Paris Agreement dates from 2015) about the fact that we would still be exploiting new fossil fuel deposits in Europe in 2026? (Yes, the fossil tech looks like it bites.) www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comJackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources sayThe government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands. 13113
Reposted by Clare RaynerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see. 82479864
Reposted by Clare RaynerPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836011429
Reposted by Clare RaynerM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Your new “left wing” prime minister is on X a site that boosts the far right and is owned by a nazi demonising asylum seekers and calling it “doing politics differently” 15827
Reposted by Clare RaynerRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026WHAT IF EVER STUDIED BODIES OF HALF OF POPULATION HOW MIGHT THAT GO (also bodies are WILD) 319145
Reposted by Clare RaynerJames Abbott @jamesabbott2024.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Developers routinely destroy most established trees and hedges on their sites. Then they say they will plant 'replacements' including 'quality street trees'. Large numbers of developer 'street trees' are dying here in mid-Essex due to lack of care and pressures from climate change. 111
Reposted by Clare RaynerDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’ - But scientists say world could get back to 1.5C with deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from atmosphere #climatecrisis @unep.org Story by @adammorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comGlobal heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere 25134
Reposted by Clare RaynerDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Costly PR stunt which "legitimises" vigilantism against migrants. People seeking asylum are less likely to cause trouble than Brits. This is aimed at framing them as a threat. If anything it's liable to increase divisions and violence, just against those seeking safety www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEssex council worried about migrants to hire security guardsThe Reform UK-run council says it will pay for security to patrol towns in Essex. 89333
Reposted by Clare Rayner⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026so if you pay andy burnham 165k not only will he sell you 10, 000 unpaid child labourers but he’ll also play dress up and make a commercial for your business. he threw in sadiq khan for free. 1119460
Reposted by Clare RaynerHeather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wrong decision. The growing role of mega donors is an urgent threat to democracy and there should have been a way around unions’ concerns. 24384109
Reposted by Clare RaynerAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Stupendous amounts of effort have gone into coddling these people, telling them their addled opinions are not just legitimate but entirely correct, and ensuring they never have to collide with an alternative viewpoint 1174
Reposted by Clare RaynerJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7253894411287
Clare Rayner @clareacrayner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Red underwing moth came into the house but luckily we were able to catch it and release it back outside. Beautiful! #teammoth 0130
Reposted by Clare RaynerProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026No, No, No, No, NO! Carbon capture and storage does NOT reduce emissions All it does is lock-in fossil fuel usage and infrastructure, and facilitate business as usual As far as tackling the climate emergency is concerned, it is a con trick www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCan Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael JacobsCarbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs 27291155
Reposted by Clare RaynerDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Does anyone in Essex have a copy of Volume 31 of the South Eastern naturalist? 057
Reposted by Clare RaynerPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/08/2026Drought stricken soil is baked solid, water cannot sink in. This is how we go from deadly heatwaves to flash floods that wash away whole communities. We’re planning major wetland restorations in Bath and elsewhere to slow that water down. protect.earth/articles/wet...protect.earthWetland Restoration | Protect EarthWetlands are one of the UK’s most overlooked ecological superpowers, vital for biodiversity, flood resilience, water quality, carbon storage, and long-term p... 415340
Reposted by Clare RaynerNorthumberland Wildlife Trust @northwildlife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The largest appeal in The Wildlife Trusts’ history needs a further £9m to reach its target, and we're asking the public for ‘a momentous final effort’ www.nwt.org.uk/news/two-months-go-r… 01920
Reposted by Clare RaynerDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Meanwhile, Labour continues to impose the most hostile anti-asylum measures for more than a generation, preventing Afghan women and children from reaching the UK, even when they have families here. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 412958
Reposted by Clare RaynerItsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This whole island should be thinking about rainwater harvesting and storage. Not just the water companies. Businesses and homes too. 123
Reposted by Clare RaynerTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 21/08/2026How is what's happening in US to children not a bigger story in the UK ? Imprisoning families will happen here too on an industrial scale if Restore / Reform are in power , I find it bizarre that UK journalists don't make that connection or question them about it . 817356
Reposted by Clare RaynerWomen for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yesterday, the Government released guidance on how people seeking asylum in the UK should behave. The Guide: ❌Reinforces anti-migrant rhetoric ❌Distorts the reality of violence against women and girls ❌Distracts from its root causes ❌Impedes access to support and justice for survivors 1/2refugeewomen.co.ukWomen for Refugee Women - Women for Refugee Women’s statement on the Home Office's "Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK" guideOur statement on the harmful "Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK" guide released by the Home Office on 19 August 2026. 13926
Reposted by Clare RaynerAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end 922804921