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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A dog, sun in the window, a bowl of porridge and the promise of Spring.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say" @zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

So overjoyed that the marvellous Michael Lasky has won the King’s Medal for Poetry. He’s the biz. And I’m doing a workshop with him this week with @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My friend Paul Besley has only gone and won The Great Outdoors Book of the Year! He was already shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award. Its a wonderful read - does much more than its title. Moving, fascinating. Loved it. open.substack.com/pub/headingf...

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What A Year It Has Been For Scout and I.

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Robert Jenrick lives in Eye Manor, a Grade 1 listed building in rural Herefordshire bought in 2009 for over £1 million. I wonder whether he’s making an effort to integrate with his neighbours, especially poorer people?

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thanks for this John! Great to meet you and tell you about this 19th century experiment and mine from the 20th!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Fascinating programme about Orwell and how far Animal Farm reflects the way real mixed farms and farming in general was changing in the 1940s. Intriguing to an old anarcho-socialist grower like me, born not long after in the early 1950s. #farming #orwell

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Artworks - The Farmer's Guide to Animal Farm - BBC Sounds

Why George Orwell's political satire also reveals his commitment to agricultural debates.

Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Glad to have signed this deeply thought-through letter. It often feels there’s little we can do, yet we can’t let what we witness on our screens & in print numb or paralyse us. Until the civilians of Gaza are safe & given adequate food, water, medical aid & relief. TY @horatioclare.bsky.social

Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott

More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

An important, uplifting piece from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on the hope that springs from ‘a good year for wildlife.’ It proves the resilience of nature, & encourages those small, grass roots, ‘local’ efforts, despite the constant pummelling from government & many industry leaders…

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Will we finally see action taken to address the hidden scandal of rampant farm waste dumping - aka slurry spreading. www.farminguk.com/news/defra-t...

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Defra tightens rules to tackle farm pollution after legal pressure

Defra has issued tougher new guidance to clamp down on agricultural pollution following a landmark legal win by environmental campaigners.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Our annual public swift walk for Swift Awareness Week. We’ve found around 50 nests on this small 1930s estate and there are certainly more. Managed to see 3 into nests tonight despite the cold wind.

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The folk horror is real, where there’s a shoot. It brings the predators in. A gruesome & strange danse macabre for my @theguardian.com Country Diary today. ‘A jewel-bright partridge’s head, tops the beads of its neck vertebrae like an umbrella handle’ & someone is playing curious games..

Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester

North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The villagers are here! 'Village', my new non-fiction prose book, is available to buy. Witches, wheelbarrows, cheerful survival... The villagers dictated the blurb in the image. To buy, please see LINK IN COMMENTS.

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's #PublicationDay for #LandBeneaththeWaves! Thank you to everyone who made it possible. Can't wait to celebrate at my #Hitchin launch tonight. Pls report any sightings & let me know how it's behaving in the wild! Here's the aquatic edition... @summersdalebooks.bsky.social #booksky #naturewriting

A copy of Land Beneath the Waves underwater in a chalk stream on brown pebbles. Sunshine ripples across the surface.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Today a massive yew, big as a Boy Scout jamboree tent, at Monyash church yard. Probably predates the church.

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There’s an application near me on brownfield site within green belt and next moorland which is SSSI. Willow tits recorded here. Because only a few very expensive vast houses (prob costing £2-3 million) this will not be covered by Biodiversity net gain - which was pretty rubbish anyway. Seething!

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I read this too today. What a poem.

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today, 3pm BBC Radio 4 #GreatLives celebrates Emily Williamson who I nominated. Fellow guests ⁦‪Beccy Speight‬⁩ & ⁦‪⁦‪Tessa Boase‬⁩ share insight into the epic begins of ⁦‪@Natures_Voice‬⁩ 🪶Tenacious women have been saving birds for centuries. Tune into find out more.

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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 …

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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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is not only devastating for the future of swifts but plainly ridiculous. Too woke? Please do as Hannah asks.

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A lovely man, poet and Ruskinian - obituary in the print Guardian today. He was a great advocate of creative projects here - Ruskin in Sheffield - and a support to my walking play and book, Thirteen Acres, about a Ruskin communitarian experiment locally. A playful, generous, imaginative man.

Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays

Clive Wilmer obituary

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Beautiful scarlet tiger moth in the park behind our house. Is this unusual this far north (Sheffield)?

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This ordinary street on a thirties housing estate is full of swift nests. My 6th year of surveying 7 streets round here and have over the years identified over 50 nests. Not many about though. Have others noticed this?

Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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LIFELINES is published today, 25 years after my wife and I arrived in northern Greece with the aim of changing our lives. It's a book about shelter and generosity, borders and brown bears, people and pelicans. It's about how the lifelines of the world hold together the greater home of us all.

A copy of the book LIFELINES stood in a granite rock with the mountains and lakes of Prespa in the background.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Looking forward to seeing this visually stunning film at DocFest. Lost for Words is inspired by The Lost Words (Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris). It includes a song setting of Heartwood, the 'charm against harm' Robert wrote for Sheffield's trees. www.sheffdocfest.com/film/lost-wo...

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Lost for Words | Sheffield DocFest

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Visually stunning film by Hannah Papacek Harper inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & Jackie Morris’s The Lost Words. It looks at language and nature in the UK. And it features a Sheffield Choir of tree protesters singing our version of Rob’s Heartwood. www.sheffdocfest.com/film/lost-wo...

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Lost for Words | Sheffield DocFest

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Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This is bonkers. Care homes are closing because they can’t recruit staff. Elders are stuck in hospitals because of care home staff shortages. This is actually an opportunity to argue for the value of migrant workers but I guess that would clash with their apparent plan to Be More Reform

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Flowing from Manchester to Sheffield after a watery evening, navigated by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @helenmort.bsky.social for ‘Is a River Alive?’ Magical event in which Rob was himself “rivered”. (Helped in the big city by pally activists from @ryebankfields.bsky.social.) Buy the book!

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Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:

Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In the back garden with the bat detector tonight - loads of pipistrelles flying between the old street oak and our sprawly hawthorn. And the new moon. Lots of insects. And the swifts are back.