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What I am on about? The frothing nonsense being misquoted and misrepresented following Jenny Riddell-Carpenter’s comments on the risks of the weaponisation of rural issues by the right

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Dr Louisa Toxværd Munch is the academic voice we need to challenge the far right - The New Feminist

The use of nostalgia, as Louisa Toxværd Munch speaks so well on, is a well recognised approach by the right. From Brexit, to Trump, to Putin. But they are too busy wearing a schoffel gilet that costs more than a day’s rural wages to deploy their brain. thenewfeminist.co.uk/2026/05/dr-l...

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We spoke to Louisa Toxværd Munch, the academic and content creator who believes education is the most radical tool we have.

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Some media outlets will have you believe that the right don’t lean in to neo-nostalgic visions of rural Britain, whilst ignoring the real issues impacting us (catastrophic loss of public services, poverty, demographic shifts, climate and nature collapse).

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you see what she actually said, her point about neo-nostalgia tactics deployed by the right, she isn’t wrong. The right don’t talk about rural issues like removal of public services, loss of young people, housing affordability etc... It’s all shotguns, pints and schoffel gilets.

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Thanks for your insightful contribution to the debate!

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham has laid out some potentially very positive things today. Removing the triple lock is also very sensible, hardly “going after them”. This kind of reactive post isn’t useful. Many pensioners are rich. Many poor. You might be losing a green voter if you keep up stuff like this.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The homogenisation of the concerns of rural people is unacceptable, its a tactic of industry lobbying.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The question from Minette Batters. Good god. Interchanging countryside with farming (they are not the same). Taking about “Traditional rural pursuits” when she means banning trail hunting, no more than organised crime. And horse racing being a concern of the ordinary rural person? Ridiculous

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In good news, we picked up a polecat on the trail cam this week.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Peter Thiel + IQ obsessed tech bros = eugenics

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References: Rhind & Jones: cdn.fieldstudiescouncil.net/fsj/vol10.4_27… Caseldine: doi.org/10.11141/ia.48��

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6/ There are now up to 25 times more sheep in some areas than in medieval times. Sheep exclosures set up in Cwm Idwal, Pen y Pass, Moel Eilio, Llyn Llydaw and Crib Goch from 1957 grew back to heath, and where grazing has been absent longer, birch, hawthorn and rowan have come in.

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5/ Trees returned whenever pressure eased. Oaks were still being taken from the Gwydyr Estate near Betws-y-Coed in the 1750s, and little natural woodland was left by 1800. The woollen trade had already shifted the uplands from cattle to sheep from the late 1600s.

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4/ Same story across Wales. Caseldine (2018) records clearance rising in the middle-later Bronze Age, woodland regenerating in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, further clearance into Romano-British times, and recovery again in places in the late Iron Age.

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3/ The blanket peat came after. Moore (1973, Nature) found peat accumulation was hastened by early woodland clearance. Wood remains sit in the basal layers of the bog. (Ref 2)

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2/ Eryri has one of Britain's most studied pollen records. Oak forest dominant from c.8,660 BP, dense woodland as high as Llyn Llydaw at 440m, trees at 600m in Cwm Cywion. In late Mesolithic, Snowdonia's woodlands were more extensive than at any point in the Holocene (ref 1)

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You often hear that the Welsh uplands are naturally treeless — too high, too wet, too exposed — and that the evidence for it is upland tree cover declining from the late Mesolithic, before farming even arrived. In Eryri, the pollen record shows the opposite. 1/🧵

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Brexit benefits: import taxes! I had to buy something in from Germany. Purchase price = 212,38€ / £180 Customs charge = £78.33 😡 45% tax. Can I send an invoice to Farage? He’s got a few quid knocking about.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Over on the other place neoliberals are telling people recycling is bad, single use plastic is great and landfills are beautiful. Somehow I don’t think the ex exec director of the Adam Smith Institute is saying we should consume less, but instead use more fossil fuels via virgin plastic. Insane

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michael mezzatesta @michaelmezz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Economists say that “green growth” can stop climate change, but their solutions only address carbon emissions. With this lens, @timparrique.bsky.social says electric SUVs sound great – until you factor in material extraction, land use, and other consequences born by communities in the Global South.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“EACH DAY HUMBLE (Exxon Mobil) SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!” Time Magazine advert, 1962. They knew.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just 20 years ago 1 year before the iPhone Everyone present in the moment It’s so sad to be a living witness to how social media has detrimentally changed how people experience events Does our generation - that experienced a pre and post digital world - have a name? youtu.be/6bvoi8urTzk?...

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Not with that attitude! 😉 Next GE Labour will need as many votes as they can, they won’t get them from the right so they should be trying to get as many from the left as they can.

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Nothing connects you more to the drought than living off-grid for water. Remarkably our spring supply continues to flow, but this last heatwave has hit hard. We are now in the tank depletion zone. Hopefully this coming week brings significant rainfall.

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I’d guess because they are planning to announce Rosebank and/or Jackdaw post summer and speaking publicly on climate change now would clearly be at odds with that. I would love to be proved wrong.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

I can only conclude he doesn’t want to speak publicly about climate change because he will announce Rosebank and possibly Jackdaw once the heat of summer begins to fade. Which will be a complete failure of leadership and will fail to pull back ex Labour Green voters (like myself)

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Reversing the effects of drainage and restoring peat bogs is the right policy, as is establishing broadleaf woodland in the uplands. The contrasting history of burning in Scandinavian peat and British reminds us in drought peat is vulnerable to fire risk. pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Southern Scandinavia and the Baltics exhibit more peatland
burning from 10 ka to ~7.5 ka in terms of PRS, presences/absence
and z-score values (Fig. 4J and K). This early Holocene trend is more
subtle in burning of the wider landscape, with slightly elevated
burning 10 to ~8.5 ka (Fig. 4L). These higher levels of burning are
likely linked to climate and perhaps changes in vegetation. Pollen
reconstructions suggest this region was warming during this
period, with the HTM between ~8 and 6 ka (Davis et al., 2003;
Mauri et al., 2015). However, aquatic plant macrofossil evidence
suggests that early Holocene (11.7e7.5 ka) summer temperatures in
Fennoscandia were ~2 C higher than is suggested by pollen reconstructions (Valiranta et al., 2015 € ). In terms of vegetation, an
increased abundance of flammable coniferous taxa at ~9 ka e as
evidenced at Iso Lehmalampi and Etu-Mustajarvi in southern
Finland (Supplementary Table 2; see Sarmaja-Korjonen, 1998) e
may have contributed to greater burning at that time. Similarly, a
regional transition to broadleaf dominance from ~8 to 6 ka may
have mitigated burning during warm conditions (Brown and
Giesecke, 2014; Feurdean et al., 2020b). An increase in peatland

Peatlands in Britain and Ireland broadly initiated in the early
Holocene, from 10 to 8 ka (Morris et al., 2018), but we were only
able to reconstruct peatland burning from 4 ka to present owing to
a lack of data prior to this. Peatland sites showed consistently low
PRS and presence/absence values throughout, despite changes in
wider landscape burning (Fig. 4AeC). The comparatively humid
climate of Britain and Ireland (Fig. 7) likely mitigated peatland fire.
From the mid-Holocene, burning in the wider landscape appears to
be primarily influenced by human activity rather than generally
cooling summer temperatures from ~6 ka onwards (Davis et al.,
2003; Mauri et al., 2015). Increased burning in the wider landscape ~5 ka (Fig. 4C) may be linked to the human use of fire to clear
woodland (Ryan and Blackford, 2010). Similarly, Neolithic population growth from ~5.5 ka is clear in the archaeological record and is
associated with a trend of reduced forest cover that has continued
to the present (Woodbridge et al., 2014). Decreased burning in the
wider landscape from ~2 ka to 0.5 ka may be linked to the conversion of forest to agricultural land, resulting in landscape fragmentation and a loss of fuel for wildfires (Fyfe et al., 2003; Marlon
et al., 2013). PRS charcoal values decrease from 0.5 ka to present,
whereas z-score and presence/absence values drop initially
(0.5e0.2 ka), before increasing slightly from ~0.2 ka (1750 CE) to
present (Fig. 4A and B). Cooler, wetter conditions in Britain and
Ireland during the LIA (Swindles et al., 2013; Webb et al., 2022)

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Shortly followed by this. For me, this is a real problem.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not the first time I’ve said it, but Ben Goldmsith’s association with the rewilding movement is toxic. It doesn’t matter how deep his pockets are, his hard right environmentalism is in conflict with the social justice values rewilding needs to keep as it’s core. Today he posts this:

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Good point! Me too on registering. You can read if you click on the tiniest little x they hide in top right of the pop up. 3 free articles I think. Or do it in private browser. Thanks for the trust 🙏🏻

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Yes, by the council. The benefit argument came from the applicant but it was the council that adopted it. Named it “betterment” in its Appropriate Assessment, and made it the basis for concluding no adverse effect on the SAC

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That’s one hell of an anti-Green spin.

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He’s right that monocultures on depleted ground are drought-fragile and that the economics don’t pay for resilience. But most maize is grown as forage. Same bare winter soil, same compaction. The crop that most undermines his soil argument feeds the herd he wants to grow.

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