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John Sanderson

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Recovering Suffolk farmer, leftie conservationist, re wilder,

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just Stop Oil protesters sitting peacefully outside Parl’t on Wed were escorted to police stations; masked thugs were escorted, still Masked, to train station. JSO protesters were released, mostly alone, in the early hours. Some had their return tickets, Oyster cards & railcards confiscated.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How about ‘but what are they protesting? The idea that the RNLI should not rescue people in trouble in the sea is abhorrent and inhuman and we should be utterly repelled by it.’
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 19/08/2026
The Rothbury Estate covers 9,400 acres sandwiched between two #nature reserves. If purchased & protected, it would create a wildlife corridor of 40 miles across northern England, stretching from Druridge Bay to the Scottish-English border at Kielderhead and Whitelee Moor National Nature Reserves.(1)
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Giving Can Be a Force for Change, Starting at Rothbury Estate
Scientists estimate that if 30 percent of the planet’s oceans, lands, and freshwaters were to be given back to Nature by 2030, the biodiversity crisis and cli
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That 50% of people think immigration is the most important issue facing the UK, while only 25% think it's the environment, tells you all you need to know about how the media (especially the BBC) has pushed the non-issue of immigration, while deliberately downplaying the threats to our environment.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net
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Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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Nick Sanderson (he/him) @nsanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just a reminder that if all the world's SUVs 🚙 were a country they'd rank fifth for carbon pollution, ahead of Japan, Indonesia, Iran, Germany, Korea and Canada. Data for 2023. X axis is gigatonnes CO2. Courtesy of the @iea.org
A bar chart chart showing the top ten ranked countries by gigatonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 with the inclusion of the global SUV fleet in fifth place.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I sincerely hope that the good people of Clacton will show that they'd like to have an intergalactic dustbin as their MP - go Clacton! Make a little bit of history today! Vote @countbinface.bsky.social
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Christian Lipski @christianlipski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, we all want to be famous BUT AT WHAT COST
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If Nigel Farage loses Clacton to a refuse receptacle his career ends. A vote for Count Binface is a vote to end Trumpism in the UK.
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Craig Bennett @craigbennett3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
After plenty of fictional works written about the #Dunwich fire in certain other publications, it's great to read this excellent piece of #NonFiction by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social and @pippaneill.bsky.social at @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Vote Binface....
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
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Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach us, and not one of those miles goes through the straits of Hormuz." From Bill McKibben's recent TED talk, worth a few minutes. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The ghost ponds restored here (thanks to Suffolk Wildlife Trust) have brought so much life, kick starting the re- wilding project. Plants, invertebrates, birds and mammals an explosion of biodiversity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on ponds: these freshwater havens need a law of their own | Editorial
Editorial: Small pools don’t get the same attention as polluted rivers or seas. But they have a vital role to play in boosting nature
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I 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...
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Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our 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 ...
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We drilled about 100 acres of wildflowers in 2021 as part of our wood pasture creation. They have taken a while to establish but are looking good despite the heatwave, some were here already. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I really hope this is unfounded rumours. Hard to believe @andyburnham.bsky.social would approve new oil & gas production when the International Energy Agency, Lord Stern and other authorities advise against. Especially when we've just seen the hottest June day ever. @stopcambo.bsky.social
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
When a plan comes together, we put 4 barn Owl boxes up around the farm. Yesterday Roger and Jade from the Waveney Bird Club checked them out. 3 young males were ringed from this box. @waveneybirdclub.bsky.social @sbgbarnowls.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @birdergranty.bsky.social
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Vicki Hird MSc FRES @vickihird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I agree with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social here. CCS huge, ultra expensive - £264bn - white elephant - allowing fossil fuel use to go on when it shouldnt. And the tech is far from proven. And bioenergy with CCS could be a land based, natural disaster. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hannah Spencer: My dog works harder in the constituency than Nigel Farage.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In ten days time with your help we can cap how much money anyone can personally give to a political cause and any chance millionaires can buy our politics. If you agree share this and ask your MP to co sign the amendment. It’s time we made sure it’s democracy not donations that define our future.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I've signed @zero-hour.bsky.social's petition calling on Andy Burnham to Secure Our Future—to meet the UK's climate and nature commitments, pass the Nature + National Security Bill, and reject all new oil and gas. Will you join me? www.zerohour.uk/andy
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Secure Our Future For Us
Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign below.
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Please, [insert preferred deity here] let the parliamentary standards commissioner find Farage guilty of breaking the rules.
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Bindweed with a bonus beetle a little late for #wildflowerhour #climbingplant
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hopped off the tractor hay making to photograph Honeysuckle amongst the brambles in the hedgerow. #wildflowerhour #climbingplantchallenge
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gold grifter…. He’s the man, the man with the shyster’s touch…
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
you would only choose the hold your nose solution of CCS if you'd believed all the fossil-fuel funded propaganda promoting it as a solution, that doesn't actually exist. Whereas solar power exists, works, and mass production has reduced its costs to well below the Fossil Fuel alternatives.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 25/06/2026
I wouldn't say that coprolite is my favourite fossil, but it's a solid number two
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yet another Hen Harrier 'disappears' from Ruabon grouse moor in North Wales - her satellite tag had been "deliberately cut off". Press release from RSPB and commentary from me ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/24/y...
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Yet another Hen Harrier ‘disappears’ from Ruabon grouse moor in North Wales – her satellite tag had been “deliberately cut off”
Press release from RSPB (24 June 2026): RARE HEN HARRIER VANISHES IN WELSH ‘BERMUDA TRIANGLE’ – WITH SATELLITE TAG CUT FROM ITS BODY North Wales Police, RSPB and the National Trus…
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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s Invasive species week. The small, introduced Muntjac deer increased by 360% across the UK between 1996 and 2024. Find out more about mammal monitoring on BBS squares: www.bto.org/get-involved... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #INNSweek
A Muntjac Deer is shown. It is a small deer species feeding on some vegetation. It has brown eyes and relatively large ears.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Is it my turn to be prime minister yet?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Swarm of bees, they appeared and 24 hours later they were gone
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John Sanderson @john-sand.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hot weather brings loads of insect activity, much of it on brambles a much maligned plant. And I love some of the names Orange Belted Plumehorn. Comma is much to plain a name for beautiful butterfly @ipbes.net @suffolkbis.bsky.social @jarawson.bsky.social @vickihird.bsky.social
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
So we had Reform, then Restore, perhaps we'll next get Reflect, then Regret, then Remorse, then finally, Repent. We can only hope.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Andy Burnham is now MP for an important constituency of Willow Tits! Key areas of Amberswood Common and the Flashes of Wigan & Leigh NNR are in Makerfield, where our study was based. There's dozens of Willow Tit territories there, and likely hundreds in the wider area. doi.org/10.1080/0006...
Willow Tit territories (and dots showing nests) in an area of Makerfield, Wigan.Willow Tit by Philip Schofield
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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This Brit nails it. #Immigration
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Some very inaccurate statistics are being bandied about. According to the BBC (extensively quoted elsewhere) 6000 ponies lived on Dartmoor in 2000. Yet the National Park authority estimated <1500 in 2006. A later study found 1000-1200 in 2016. It helps if you start with the facts.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 15/06/2026
Did you know that more than 20,000 species of bees, along with birds, bats, and other animals, are wild pollinators? They are essential for biodiversity and the balance of ecosystems. Learn more in the IPBES #PollinationAssessment: www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/po…
A watercolor illustration of a pale green butterfly against a mint green background. Text reads "The vast majority of pollinators are wild, with over 20,000 SPECIES of bees and many other animals." The butterfly is shown in profile with detailed wing patterns. IPBES logo and citation appear.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Searingly important thread 👇
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 16/06/2026
Today marks ten years since the assassination of Humanists UK member Jo Cox MP by a far right extremist: a dark day in the history of our country, and a wound in our public life that has not healed. Today, we remember Jo, her work, and legacy of compassion. @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social .
‘We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.’ Jo Cox. Politician and humanist.
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Suffolk Biodiversity Information Service @suffolkbis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🌙 26 Jun || Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Evening Nightjars and Glow-worms Walk. >>> www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2026-...
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Evening Nightjars and Glow-worms Walk | Suffolk Wildlife Trust
An evening walk at Blaxhall Heath and Common looking and listening for the nightjar.
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