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George Liston

@gdlscot.bsky.social
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Retired RAF officer, recent Non-executive Director and Chair of the Board of a National sporting governing body. Wildlife lover, food lover, husband.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The moral turpitude of the US under Trump is exemplified by the plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan. It degrades all of America and everyone who does not condemn it. Yet what happens in America always crosses the Atlantic and affects us here. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/a...
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America’s moral turpitude is infesting British politics
I don’t usually blog about America unless it directly affects or involves Scotland, but for the latest example of how far that once great country has fallen into moral turpitude under Trump, …
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This tweet is from 500 days ago. Apparently the "really bad things" that would happen to Putin and Russia if they refused to stop their war would be Trump lifting sanctions on them and paying them billions of dollars for less than a days worth of America's diesel needs.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The beautiful Greater Knapweed flower in the treepit of the new tree in our street has been poisoned by West Sussex CC, who continue to spray glyphosate on #Worthing pavements. 😢 #pavementplants #wildflowers #banurbanglyphosate @lgspace.bsky.social
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With the Tories' foolish announcement to revisit the Scotland Act and claw back powers from Holyrood, Badenoch has killed off the 'once in a generation' claim as well as the assertion that the issue of independence was settled in 2014. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/b...
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Badenoch has killed off the once in a generation claim
The Tories have officially ripped up the Vow to which they were signatories in 2014. This was the panicked promise made by the Better Together parties – one of which was the Conservatives &#8…
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My latest blog piece, emboldened by a lack of media accountability. The Tories like Reform and Restore, have crossed the Rubicon, destroying a key Better Together promise, and are openly calling for powers to be stripped from the Scottish Parliament. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/t...
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The British right has Holyrood in its sights
The Tories have crossed the Rubicon. Since the independence referendum of 2014, which Better Together won on the basis of false promises, not the least of which was the promise that the powers of t…
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.
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Friends of Lye Valley @friendlyevalley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, if you love wildlife, and have a spare fiver or so, consider giving it to the Wildlife Trusts to help to buy the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland, a 3,800 hectares (9,500-acre) site... They're so close, and appeal now runs to end of October... www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first two items on BBC News have unsubstantiated claims from Trump and Netanyahu as core parts of their story. This follows a Times of Israel ‘journalist’ on the radio quoting things other people had seen on Facebook. Journalism is dying.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 02/10/2026
How many times over the years has Scotland been told by Westminster it can't have the X it's been arguing for only to see England soon after using exactly the same arguments for Y for England and it being presented as not only reasonable but convincing?
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A side effect of restrictions imposed on miscreant landowners is the reporting of numbers killed under an individual licence. On one estate over 1000 birds! OUR native birds killed on an industrial scale to serve the narrow interests of a tiny minority. And do we get a say? Do we f***
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With colleagues at PAW wildlife crime conference at Kew this week. Amusing talk from BASC, desperately trying to distance itself from raptor persecution crimes on gamebird shoots & yet still in absolute denial, contesting the evidence. Oh, and we're to stop calling the criminals 'criminals'.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The total raised hasn’t been updated yet but donations are still pouring in with individual amounts given in the last 4 hours ranging from £6 to £19,900! If you can contribute anything before the end of today to help this appeal towards its goal, please do. #Rewilding #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 29/09/2026
This destruction is only the beginning. Seizing land, walling off communities, cutting wildlife off from their only water source, pumping billions of gallons of groundwater without permits, bulldozing archaeological sites, all done in violation of our nation’s most important protections.
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First segment of steel border wall goes up in Texas' Big Bend region
The first section of a 30-foot-high steel bollard wall has gone up in the Big Bend region, environmental activists said Wednesday. While construction is
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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Police seek help to trace missing teenager who was last seen in Dunbar Police are appealing for any information in relation to the whereabouts of Douglas McCormack from East Lothian....
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Police seek help to trace missing teenager who was last seen in Dunbar
Police are appealing for any information in relation to the whereabouts of Douglas McCormack from East Lothian. The 15-year-old was last seen in Dunbar at 5pm on Monday 28 September 2026. He is described as 5ft 10inch, slim build and was last seen wearing a navy blue Berghaus top, black tracksuit bottoms, possibility wearing a black jacket on with a silver logo on the chest, black Nike trainers. He has possible links to Dunfermline, Edinburgh City centre and Glasgow City centre. Any information, please contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting Inc Number PS-20260929-0446.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham's crude emotional manipulation in linking the death of his father to John Swinney's claim he will be the last UK PM inadvertently revealed the poverty of Westminster's arguments against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Burnham’s crude emotional manipulation reveals the poverty of Westminster’s case
The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This bird would not have been able to fly far after it was shot. It came down close to Combs Moss, a driven grouse moor owned by the Harris and Sheldon Ltd. Nothing to see here folks, no chance of a conviction, move along.
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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was so excited when I saw a kite over Goytsclough earlier this year...horrible to think someone might have shot that very individual just a couple of miles away. And truly depressing that we never see justice for these birds
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Red Kite dies after being found with gunshot injuries in Peak District National Park. Police appeal for information + commentary from me ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/28/r...
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Red Kite dies after being found with gunshot injuries in Peak District National Park – Police appeal for information
Derbyshire Constabulary has issued an appeal for information (27 September 2026) following the discovery of a shot Red Kite in the Peak District National Park on or before 7th July 2026. RURAL CRIM…
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh FFS. Increases in a few species is not a positive from climate change It is a signal that communities & ecosystems are under threat from rapid change Please, BBC, don’t do this simplistic reporting, feeding complacency about climate breakdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hummingbird hawk moths and ivy bees: The insects growing in number as temperatures rise
Hummingbird hawk moths - often mistaken for small birds - are being spotted in the West Midlands.
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 27/09/2026
This is now our new normal says the panel at ‘return of the wild’ speaking about the climate emergency. They each say we need to wake up to prioritise rewilding and the role species reintroduction has in creating a more resilient Britian. #lLab26 #HopeAgain #Rewilding @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/09/2026
No one is safe from extreme weather events. NO ONE.⁣ ⁣ Oil, coal and gas corporations continue to make obscene profits while making the world more dangerous with wildfires, floods, and deadly heatwaves.⁣ ⁣ This isn’t just unfair, it’s outrageous.⁣
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What the ‘natural’ disasters of 2026 reveal about climate change - Greenpeace International
Record-shattering global temperatures across land and sea are the grim reality of climate crisis, and the reason we need an immediate transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energies.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three days to go for @northwildlife.bsky.social to raise £30M to buy the Rothbury Estate. Impressively, they've secured over £27M in donations & pledges. But that still leaves a shortfall. I can only hope they're given more time by the seller. Or that he waives the difference. You can chip in here:
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let rivers be wild 🌊 Rivers should have space to wind, wander and flow naturally. By #restoring habitats, and bringing back natural ecosystem engineers like beavers, we can help more life thrive. This #WorldRiversDay, let’s give our rivers the freedom to flourish. 💦
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or your garden or community green space could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
Bumblebee feeding on flower
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 27/09/2026
History will show that nothing has aided the normalisation of the extreme right-wing in the UK more than the BBC.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/09/2026
I remember, many years ago, I first heard the phrase “climate anxiety” and thought it silly. Now here in Sydney - in the first week of spring - we face temperatures of 33*c and a total fire ban due to “extreme” fire danger… Now I’m anxious! www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...
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Total fire ban declared for millions as unseasonable early heatwave bears down
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Peter D @peted101.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Google 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...
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Save 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...
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James Flynn @jamespflynn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There’s no reason why we couldn’t have wild flowers on every roadside verge, roundabout and central carriage ways of motorways . They could be cut once a year in late summer to stop the succession.
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please say no to garden poisons such as pesticides and weedkillers, to help keep them out of the food chain. Hedgehogs, for example, can eat over 100 invertebrates every night. #wildlife #gardening #nature
Hedgehog at night, in undergrowth of ivy, looking towards the camera
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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI donation page. Save lives, support a great institution, send a message rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Climate change is already killing people with over 7,000 dead or missing in Nepal. These are the early stages of the problems. Either we act now or a lot more people will suffer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund
A new study says climate change was a likely factor in the massive flood on the Nepal-Tibet border last month.
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Public back nature restoration as a means to protect us from extreme weather (climate change) markavery.info/2026/09/10/r... @rewildingbritain.org.uk
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Seppo @sepponet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Climate #scientists had settled this already in 2008. We still hear these kind of arguments by the dirty energy lobby. Let's see #action!
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I may just send RNLI Christmas cards. Yes, the address is valid. We’re currently staying in a village w/ an RNLI station. People are overwhelmingly supportive of the RNLI & the RNLI really do appreciate the support. As I told one “The ocean of love for the RNLI will wash away the right wing hate’
I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H OHW
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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first it...
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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NHS England have doing it for years but it is even worse now. Rewcycling what the City of London calls "rolling bad apples" who cause harm in one Trust and get recycled to another whilst their victims see their careers and hea;lth damaged - and care impacted www.linkedin.com/pulse/rollin...
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“Rolling bad apples” and the NHS
. Staff members speaking to the BBC, on condition they remained anonymous, described "shouting and abuse of black and Asian consultants" in meetings at East Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good grief! Two absolute howlers on @itvnews.bsky.social report on the memorandum of understanding. 1. The North of Ireland characterised as one of ‘Britain’s’ devolved nations. 2. Apparently the SNP lost its majority in May. Amateurish errors that should have been weeded out. They don’t care!
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can tell the Celtic Alliance has got the Unionists rattled as they're promising to present a positive case for the Union again. This time they mean it, no honest, pinky promise. Of course their problem is that it doesn't exist. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/t...
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The positive case for the Union will be along shortly, this time they mean it.
The flag waving We’re not nationalists we’re British brigade are seriously rattled by the Celtic Alliance, although of course they’d never admit to it, they’re currently doi…
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since 2021, a former dredging site in Cheshire has been transformed into a network of freshwater pools and reedbeds. It's now home to almost two-thirds of the UK's breeding black-necked grebes, one of the UK's rarest breeding birds. Given a chance, nature bounces back. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Restored Cheshire wetland becomes haven for rare birds
Woolston Eyes, near Warrington, is home to the largest black-necked grebe population in the UK.
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James Flynn @jamespflynn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Councils using Wildflowers instead of standard practice would save money by using no pesticides and reduced man hours by no repeated mowing . Everyone will get the benefit of interest, beauty, colour and pollinators. Why aren’t they saving us money and helping biodiversity?
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Police Scotland appeals for information after Red Kite caught in illegal trap in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. This gamebird-shooting area is a well-known hotspot for crimes against birds of prey, demonstrating that grouse shoot licensing is no deterrent. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/16/p...
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Police Scotland appeals for information after Red Kite caught in illegal trap in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
Appeal for information issued by Police Scotland, 15 September 2026: APPEAL AFTER RED KITE CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL TRAP – STRATHDON, ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bir…
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