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Deborah Croker

@deborahcroker.bsky.social
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Nature, environment, wildlife gardener, lazy birder, streams, holloways, swimming, politics. Irish-British. Humanist. 319ppm. Flight free since 1976. Renationalise our utilities starting with the abysmal Thames Water. #EndFossilFuels #VoteGreen 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇪🇺🌍🌳🌿🦋

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#News: Princeton #study finds wealthy nations are driving #extinction in the tropical south by importing #palmoil #cocoa, #soy and #beef—destroying ecosystems and killing rare #animals. #BoycottPalmOil be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife 🚫🙊🔥 @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-cJI
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A whole planet of distant cousins.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The monsters are no longer hiding in the shadows. They occupy presidential offices and ministries, command armies and police forces, control digital platforms, dominate television screens, administer borders, build detention centers, and transform the suffering of others into political theater.'
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Guys, who left the stove on again? Oh wait.. ..it’s just human civilisation self-destructing @climatecasino.net
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why farmers are pairing crops with solar panels It's not only of potential benefit for the animals, which get additional shade. The panels can also protect crops from the elements as well as divert water to them, creating cooler, damper conditions that even boost yields. www.dw.com/en/why-farme...
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Why some farmers are pairing crops and grazing sheep with solar panels
From cooler soil to paid grazing land, farmers in the US are finding that solar panels can do more than generate power.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gorgeous visit to the sunny Lincolnshire coast yesterday to see the latest golf course given back to nature. Credit to @nationaltrust.org.uk for being brave. This is nature as human regen too – fantastic new green infrastructure for Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The most severe impacts will be when climate shocks intersect with weak health systems, limited access to health care, food insecurity, displacement & humanitarian crisis" #ClimateEmergency = #PublicHealth emergency phys.org/news/2026-09...
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UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health
El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for a cycle of the climate phenomenon predicted to be the most intense on record.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wild honeybees now meet the threshold for Endangered status in Europe Bees are the most important species on Earth but humans are intent on destroying them www.earth.com/animals/wild...
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Wild honeybees now meet the threshold for Endangered status in Europe
Wild honeybee populations across Europe may shrink without managed swarms, revealing hidden losses despite bees remaining common nearby.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
ALT: Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Labour have a new climate-ignorant f*ckwit in charge in Scotland www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Scottish Labour’s new leader backs Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gasfields
Michael Marra supports development of the North Sea sites, calling for a ‘more rational’ approach to energy policy
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?
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UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain
Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Important to know what is happpening in Trump's US www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House
The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media since returning to office.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Companies pay employer national insurance (ENI) on director pay. Partners in limited liability partnerships (LLPs) share profit, instead of salary. LLPs don't pay ENI on that. £150k ENI for every £1m of profit shared is avoided. Big four law firms alone avoided paying £4bn. Must end this perk.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Why is Canada still trading with genocidal Israel?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
TAKE ACTION🚨 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. Sign the petition here: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 18/09/2026
Social Murder: The Vinyl Chloride Coverup #Climate
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Making sure you're not a bot!
'They hid the facts and continued business as usual, which meant causing sickness and deaths.' Source
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UK is really behind on electrification of railways - however, any move away from diesel toward electric trains is a welcome step in reducing levels of nitrogen oxide - a pollutant linked to lung & heart disease & increased hospital admissions: share.google/cCYovH2vvSiI...
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UK's first long-distance battery-powered trains announced
The government has revealed plans to invest £1 billion in 29 new battery-powered trains, but why use batteries over diesel trains?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is. youtu.be/BfcjgWXk36c?... Commentators are saying we cannot afford pensions for the most vulnerable. But none of them is questioning the £83 billion a year spent subsidising the pensions of the wealthiest. Why is that?
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The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Donations to buy the Rothbury Estate for the nation via the Wildlife Trust are currently being match funded. So hurry over now, bung them a few bob, and see your donation doubled.
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Rothbury Estate Match Appeal August 2026 | The Wildlife Trusts
The Rothbury Estate is more than a beautiful place. It's 3,800 hectares of rivers, woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and open moorland, where wildlife still has the chance to thrive at a scale rarely s...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 15/09/2026
👉NEW -- The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements by Melissa Müller Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-chari...
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The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements
Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I genuinely don’t know what to say anymore. The Irish government isn’t ignoring the climate and environmental crisis. It’s actively waging war on the planet. It’s that simple.
irishtimes.com
Ireland ‘seriously considering’ importing fracked US gas for LNG reserve in Clare
New Mexico petroleum body says talks centred on creating a ‘long-term supply relationship’; Ireland previously banned importation of fracked gas
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/09/2026
Thames Water is a zombie company, kept alive by debt. Take it into Special Administration. That way cash from customer bills can go straight into sewage and water infrastructure rather than servicing the debt. Then take it into public ownership. We can't afford privatisation.
Screenshot of Financial Times article from 12 September 2026: "Thames Water hit by £2bn bill for finance costs and advisers’ fees". The lede says "Embattled UK utility faces mounting costs as government debates moving ahead with temporary nationalisation".
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Deborah Croker @deborahcroker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Soy Division
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is what people powered politics looks like. It’s a tough challenge, to win in the former Prime Minister’s seat. But this is how we win. With hundreds coming out to campaign for @zackpolanski.bsky.social every day from now until polling day.
Zack Polanski stood today in front of hundreds of supporters.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No. Fuck off.
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Cllr Benali Hamdache @greenbenali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A genocide is happening in Palestine and Palantir’s technology is used extensively by the Israeli army A company with such dubious ethics has no place handling our data. The tech should be kicked out of the NHS I promise to not be silenced about the truth of a company so ethically compromised
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Birds are running out of places to land: 45% of migratory bird species now in decline As habitat after habitats are destroyed by humans And agricultural intensification, climate change, and unsustainable hunting Birds are disappearing www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
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Birds are running out of places to land: 45% of migratory bird species now in decline
BirdLife International today publishes the State of the World’s Birds report at the Global Flyways Summit in Nairobi. BirdLife Partners, NGOs, governments and financial institutions sign the Nairobi…
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Spire - a private hospital that NHS patients are sent to - is now owned by private equity This is dangerous for patients. Do we want to be like the US, where the care you get depends on whether it is profitable for private equity? Invest and build up our NHS and stop NHS privatisation now
Screenshot of a Guadian headline "UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS"
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Deborah Croker @deborahcroker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A river stripped of life: inside the Kenfig sewage disaster
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A river stripped of life: inside the Kenfig sewage disaster
Your Monday Best of Bylines – what Brighthelmstone and Clacton-on-Sea tell us about memory, belonging and Britain’s future
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Deborah Croker @deborahcroker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Looks like the cowardly balaclava thugs could well raise more £s for the RNLI than the Flying Farage fundraiser!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Urgent: the government is soon to decide whether to give the green light to Rosebank, a move that would lock us into decades more climate-wrecking oil. @friends-earth.bsky.social tool helped me ask my MP to say no to new oil and gas – will you do the same? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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UK Government Petitions @petitions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New petition: "Mandate Bold Labeling for SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) on Toothpaste Packaging" Deadline 9 March 2027, created by Denise Higgins #NewPetition
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New petition: Mandate Bold Labeling for SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) on Toothpaste Packaging
Require manufacturers of toothpaste and oral care products to highlight Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS), a common allergen, in bold text in ingredient lists.
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A D Green @emeraldgeezer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please add your name, your life could depend on it.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
God have mercy, an old friend of mine was one of Orr’s students who had quit his PhD and can only speak about it now
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Deborah Croker @deborahcroker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The price of Germany’s black zero: the neoliberal policy that has driven the rise of its far right www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
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The price of Germany’s black zero: the neoliberal policy that has driven the rise of its far right
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany’s far-right political party, which won a major political victory in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt this weekend, possibly giving it a ch...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I knew today was going to be big. I didn’t know we’d have so many volunteers that we’d leaflet the ENTIRE constituency in just two hours (!!) - 80,000 leaflets. And we got to speak to so many people on their doorsteps. This is how we win this campaign. Thank you, everyone. 🙏🏽
Huge crowd on Primrose Hill with Vote Green signs
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ireland records hottest summer on record for second year running Sure no pictures of wildfires or drought conditions Just pictures of women in Bikinis to give the impression that extreme climate change is wonderful and should be welcomed extra.ie/2026/09/03/n...
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Ireland records hottest summer temperatures for 2026
Ireland has provisionally experienced its hottest summer on record, according to new figures from Met Éireann.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/09/2026
"We’ve had a Labour government for more than two years, but nothing has really changed and the bills are getting bigger while our precious chalk streams are dying." Jenny Jones on why she stopped paying the sewage element of her Thames Water bill and the case for public ownership of water.
WHY I'M REFUSING TO PAY MY WATER BILL

JENNY JONES
GREEN PARTY PEER

“I’m refusing to pay the sewage part of my Thames Water bill. 

Why should customers pay while water companies discharge sewage into our rivers, fail to fix leaks and load us with the cost of their debts? It’s time to end this failed experiment and bring water back into public ownership.”

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Flourishing green communities are changing lives in Devon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Flourishing green communities are changing lives in Devon
Four projects have been nominated in the environmental category in Devon's Make a Difference Awards.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.
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