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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tories have announced they would abolish Natural England, support a Third Runway & pull the UK out of the Aarhus Convention - in further signs they’ve totally given up on Middle England, don’t give a toss about the environment & just want to please some wealthy grouse moor owners & raving YIMBYs
Tory party press release: “[We will leave the Aarhus] Convention that powers the lawfare hindering every major infrastructure project in this country.”

“Abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, moving to a more streamlined regulatory landscape to protect our environment.”Tory PR: “Support a Third Runway at Heathrow Airport and wider expansion, increasing capacity to deliver cheaper flights, better connections for passengers, and more exports of high-value British goods.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
theguardian.com
Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Important piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social on huge significance of the Report by UK Security Chiefs on rising climate & nature threats which has been shamefully suppressed by Government. Also the focus of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini-series, #WhenNatureBecomesASecurityThreat
theguardian.com
Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Golf’s purpose seems to be to spoil a good walk – & now it turns out golf clubs are stealing our water, too. As the climate crisis accelerates, the last thing we need is this wasteful, water-guzzling, land-hungry extravagance. Ace work by @emmahoward.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
One in 12 golf clubs in England broke water extraction rules in past five years
More than 140 clubs breached licences, with a third caught taking water illegally, analysis shows – but no fines issued
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit
theguardian.com
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The only reason senior figures in Reform have condemned the fascist protest in Dover is because they want to distance themselves from the ugly face of the xenophobic politics that they have legitimised. Stop giving them credit.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Why not simply ban guns?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
independent.co.uk
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The grouse moor lobby is out in force today, blaming ‘rewilding’ for wildfires and demanding government lift restrictions on… burning moorland! They want to burn heather because it increases grouse numbers. You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight it with water! www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Daily Mail front page today, headline reads: ‘Rewilding link to record fires’ (followed by an article which provides zero evidence for this bollocks claim, just a bunch of grouse moor lobbyists moaning about wanting to burn more heather this year)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.
Children’s immunization schedule
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, seperated by a cemetery wall in the Netherlands (1888). 📷 google images
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Richard Tice but Dim strikes again www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richar...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Richard Tice Says He's Been Treated 'Worse Than A Paedophile, A Rapist Or A Murderer'
Reform UK’s deputy leader launched an extraordinary rant when quizzed about his finances.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn. They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future. Always follow the money.
Zack Polanskis four biggest climate claims explained and why experts disagree
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somewhat incredibly Badenoch has just been defending this man on the Today programme
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...
spectator.com
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires
Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 03/08/2026
Rather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
‼️Breaking: Almost three-quarters of English riverbanks have no right of access. Our new investigation has found that 71% of riverbanks in England have no right of access on either bank. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The whole problem, in one post.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tell me Clarkson , is it really all happy smiley down on the farm ?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So they're all taking this really well
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New from @martinmckee.bsky.social @tiagocorreia.bsky.social and me on the need to counter the assault on science
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tetanus is returning. In the 1930s, Tetanus was widespread in the US. The development & deployment of vaccines reduced annual cases from ~ 600 in the 1940s to 17 in 2020. Mortality dropped 99%. There is no cure for tetanus. We have forgotten how life was before vaccines. 🧪 archive.today/c6QVx
nationalgeographic.com
Tetanus is making a comeback. There’s an easy way to fight back.
It's easy to dismiss, but more Americans died from tetanus last year than any year in nearly two decades.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/07/2026
Mind-blowing that in 2026, an event could go ahead highlighting 'neglected' stories of 'the power of God to transform sexual identity'. Conversion practices designed to suppress/change a person's sexuality are oppressive, abusive, and have no place in our society. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Archbishops threatened to cancel ‘disgusting’ conversion therapy event
Church elders accused of ‘censorship’ after warning organisers of fringe event it could contravene safeguarding guidance

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Dame Sarah Mullally, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York.
Dame Sarah Mullally, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, have been accused of ‘censorship’ Credit: Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York threatened to cancel a planned Church of England event on conversion therapy after critics called it “disgusting”…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Happy "tRUMP Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $5.8 Million Dollars" Tuesday to all those who celebrate justice! 💰 👍 #Sexual-Assaulter-In-Chief
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts' legacy is a far-right Supreme Court that prioritizes expanding corporate power above all else. I warned of his right-wing nature when I testified against his nomination in 2005.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tech companies: Our pavement robots are safe for pedestrians and don't get in their way! The robots:
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars
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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"A Tesla vehicle will drive in fully autonomous mode from LA to NY by end of 2017" "and then the car will go park itself. It will do this without the need for a single touch, including the charger" (Elon Musk Oct 19 2016) 10 years later your Tesla crashed into a UK .. Funeral Director's shopfront
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pete Buttigieg says his family was effectively swatted — except, instead of calling the cops, someone called Child Protective Services, lied and said Buttigieg had admitted to 'committing unspeakably violent crimes' and that his kids were at risk. The kids are not and were not at risk.
substack.com
A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ah yes, if only we knew the special stuff that only the government knows, we would agree with everything it does. Says every authoritarian state, everywhere.
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