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Climate & environment, birds, wildlife, social justice. Escaping X

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds
Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
These people want to run the country. Presumably on the hot air that they talk out of their backsides. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice
Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!
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Slc @salmber.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...
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The time for change is now: end fox hunting
Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Beware: weaponised nostalgia is the new face of climate denial. Not 'the science is fake', but 'We had it bad in my day too - remember '76?'. It reassures, distracts – and delays the action we urgently need.
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‘Remember ’76?’ isn’t a climate argument
Britain’s 1976 heatwave was an outlier in a stable climate – not proof today’s crisis is normal
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Congrats @fightingdirty.bsky.social for all your work on this - very pleased to join many others in calling on Govt to act. There can be no possible case for spreading toxic chemicals on farmland👇
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Jonathan Joss was murdered in a homophobic hate crime during pride month in Texas. Read this carefully, because this is what the far right (and nepo baby hate grifters like Fox) want to import here by rolling back the rights of LGBT people. This is horrifying and enraging in equal measure.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Well done @itvnews.bsky.social on pointing out the soaring rise in immigration “since we completed Brexit” - a key factor. This should be pointed out to Farage (who championed Brexit) in every interview
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’ - I said that because the Govt has said they will whip against the swift brick amendment that they whipped for 2 years ago….They CAN still embrace it. Thanks Patrick for covering swift bricks as we welcome swifts home. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’: will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform?
Campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor fears goal of requiring all new homes to include a hollow brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds may be dropped
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It just gets worse and worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Planning bill could allow developers to build without replacing local nature
Green spaces created to offset removal of others may not have to be in same county, sources at Defra say
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Hylder Adox @hylderadox.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's just not necessary to trash everything. Zach's right, they're just doing the bidding of developers to protect profits. We know we can do so much better with a little thought. Also greatly diminishes any good of putting solar on newbuilds recently announced. www.theguardian.com/environment/....
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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Containers of cyanide swilling around the North Sea are why you should be sceptical of any politician promising a bonfire of regulations.
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Everyone - there’s bit of HOPE in the form of OPPORTUNITY!! Some good-egg Labour MPs are meeting Minister of Housing next month to talk swift bricks. PLEASE ask your MP to help. Easy- just email me at thefeatherspeech@gmail.com to receive an email template to amend & send them
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
See No Nazis, Hear No Nazis: Is the Media Covering for Trump’s Fascist Base? Why are Republican leaders echoing Hitler’s symbology and rhetoric — and getting away with it?
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See No Nazis, Hear No Nazis: Is the Media Covering for Trump’s Fascist Base?
Why are Republican leaders echoing Hitler’s symbology and rhetoric — and getting away with it?
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Slc @salmber.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The world has gone proper bat shit crazy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hands Off My Medicaid
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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