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Tony Kennelly

@tonykennelly508.bsky.social
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Birdwatching, Arsenal FC supporter, land & building surveyor. Once a Sapper, always a Sapper.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h
Dr Ellie Chowns, "If we're talking about security against things that kill many people, covid, killed 250,000 people in this country and cost us hundreds of billions" "But I don't hear anybody in this country talking about pandemic preparedness - why is that?"
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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 14h
www.portlandbirdobs.com/2026/10/5th-october.html
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5th October
A pretty ripping morning saw a good cloud cover and no more than a waft of a breeze drop a succession of scarce migrants that included 4 Yel...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16h
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 15h
A Tufted Titmouse surrounded by Fall color.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Swallow Birding & Wildlife @swallowbirding.bsky.social · 18h
Lovely day with 2 ladies that won a day out with us in the @essexbirdnews.bsky.social Conference Raffle. Headed to The Naze where this late HOBBY plus YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, JAYS, GOLDCREST & more were seen. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #essexbirding #birds #birding #ukbirding @britishnatureguide.bsky.social
Eurasian HobbyEurasian Jays on the moveGoldcrest
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Steve Entwistle @entwistle5.bsky.social · 16h
Today 11.35 to 13.20 a Dartford warbler Poss female found by Dougal Urquhart at West mersea Strood channel 150yds along seawall in borrow dyke from hill laydy it was very mobile & elusive,2 photos(1 with words D Urquhart)Other2Ed Bateman #Essexbirdnews #EssexBirding .
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
standard.co.uk
MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Andy Field @merseabirder.bsky.social · 18h
You'll have to take my word for it but a Mersea Island patch tick Dartford Warbler today. A very mobile bird in the company of 2 Stonechats. A great find for Mersea by Dougal Urquhart. #Essexbirding #UKbirding
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Simon Patient @simonpatient1.bsky.social · 20h
This Firecrest was my first locally this autumn and the highlight of a late a’noon bike ride with my daughter in the woods today. Just next to our Colchester garden. Hopefully one of last winters birds returning. #essexbirding
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Mike O’Hanlon @yellowshriker.bsky.social · 18h
A late Northern Wheatear passes through Holland Haven Country Park 4/10/26 @essexbirdnews.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfBluesky #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 05/10/2026
📢A new megapoll has found that 53.4% of people in the UK want to stay in the ECHR versus 24.2% of people against👇 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... via @theguardian.com The ECHR is on the side of the people, and vice versa.
theguardian.com
Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.
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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A third Yellow-browed Warbler of the day - this one for @slashercutts.bsky.social at Culverwell - all these are being colour-ringed as part of a national project to track their subsequent movements
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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.portlandbirdobs.com/2026/10/4th-october.html
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4th October
The loveliest of days to be out birding in unbroken sunshine and summer warmth - conditions that wouldn't usually be viewed as favourable fo...
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David Morrison @morry57.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Battersea Power Station - 100 up! www.davemobirding.blogspot.com
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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Tony Kennelly @tonykennelly508.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@essexbirdnews.bsky.social @birdtrack.bsky.social #Essex Wildlife trust The Naze: 1 yellow-browed warbler (calling & mobile around the sycamores & playing hide & seek with me!), juv gannet offshore, returning brent geese & juv hen harrier over the car park as I was packing up! UK list now 199
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So apparently Man City have lodged IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE. I would have thought that should have been presented during the actual original investigation. 🤔🧐
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, says UK govt. Govts awaits the Casey Review for further decisions. 12% of children, 24% of working-age adults, 45% of adults over State Pension age have a disability Low incomes; poor food, housing, healthcare; NHS queues adds to problems
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Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech
Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shoc…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After a robust internal investigation we have found that the rules don't apply to us.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mostly agree as SM has to be top priority but Freedom of movement again would be great.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnham scraps Starmer-era plans to curb jury trials. A victory for common sense. The Bill would have been defeated in the Lords. Due to Tory cuts, there is a backlog of over 81,000 Crown Court cases in England & Wales. Govt must invest in public services.
bbc.co.uk
Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict. The 'rule of law', not blackmail must prevail. Over 100 individual breaches of the Premier League Rules. It filed misleading accounts at Companies House. There are questions about whether Manchester City circumvented UK taxes.
theguardian.com
UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict
Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said
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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's see. Who was Home Secretary in 2023 ? That would be the lovely Suella Braverman
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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.portlandbirdobs.com/2026/10/3rd-october.html
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3rd October
A veil of light cloud overhead that marked the dreg end of a weak weather front departing very slowly southeast did us a favour today and dr...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare?
independent.co.uk
Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes
The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending
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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Long-term funding backs Norfolk's beach-nesting birds www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/L...
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Long-term funding backs Norfolk's beach-nesting birds
An initial three-year award will support Little Terns, Ringed Plovers and other coastal birds within a much longer disturbance plan.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election. Risks handing advantage to opposition parties who will argue the opposite. Will alienate some senior voters. Risks Labour backbench rebellion, repeat of the Winter Fuel Payment episode. Numerous ways of funding triple lock.
theguardian.com
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says
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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Red Kite dies after being found shot in Peak District www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/R...
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Red Kite dies after being found shot in Peak District
Police are seeking information after treatment failed to save a bird discovered with a badly injured wing.
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whilst the shooters are out casually and mindlessly killing and wounding thousands of sentient birds for no reason other than their own entertainment this w/e, it’d be great if you could do this! raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/02/d...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebirds: what exactly is it asking for, and how can you help?
I hope by now that blog readers are aware of Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird rearing, releasing and shooting. The Call for Evidence was launched in September 2026, and closes on 1st Nov…
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Sue Luxton @kelper60.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lovely colours on the Red-Backed Hawk.. #Chartres #Hawk #FalklandIslands
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not so free speech ... "Reform-run Derbyshire County Council doesn’t like the questions, so it’s decided not to answer them. The party has stopped engaging with local democracy reporter Eddie Bisknell ..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations to Suella Braverman for her Question Time appearance - I didn't think it was possible for her to come across as any more deranged and stupid than usual, but she somehow managed it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
theguardian.com
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From fairways to flyway: birds move into Lincolnshire's newest wetland www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/F...
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From fairways to flyway: birds move into Lincolnshire's newest wetland
A former golf course is welcoming new arrivals as a coastal restoration project opens to visitors.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, 1st October, is the start of the pheasant shooting season. Some 50 million pheasants are released into the British countryside for this sport annually. If you have concerns about the impacts of this out-of-control industry, tell the government - handy guide below: bsky.app/profile/guys...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US forces to leave Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal. All over the world illegal US wars have killed millions, fermented instability, bitterness and possibilities of extremist regimes. Corporations profited. When will US and its allies realise that they can't rule the world?
news.sky.com
US forces to leave last bases in Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal
Iraqi security experts have warned the departure could give Tehran and its allies free rein while also risking a comeback from ISIS.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?
independent.co.uk
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latest
The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’
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Steve Entwistle @entwistle5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thursday morning pied flycatcher still in feldy view cemetery West Mersea still there in afternoon for Ollie Cottis to photo it,then Midday over to Abberton LBCW E,An early Fm Goosander found yesterday by Ollie Cottis, photo by Peter Higgleton #Essexbirdnews #EssexBirding
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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.portlandbirdobs.com/2026/10/1st-october.html
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are reportedly 100s of feral goats – as well as countless sika deer – in Glengarriff's upper reaches. Both are highly invasive alien species, devastating what remains of the natural rainforest ecosystem, promoting rhodo infestation, and spreading Lyme disease. How is all this still ignored?
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