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Claire Wright

@wrightclaire.bsky.social
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Former politician turned backroom political PR. Care about stuff. Love nature 🌼🌳🦋🐛

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration. The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 22/11/2025
“Why did white people separate themselves from Nature, turning Nature into an object to be raped and stripped of commodities?” read one sign outside COP30 in Brazil. Eliane Brum reports.
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The Amazon will speak at COP30
Indigenous people have arrived at the first climate summit held in the planet’s largest rainforest. They are fighting to postpone the end of the world...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer. ‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ?? news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The ex-Reform leader in Wales has been sentenced to ten-and-a-half years in prison for taking pro-Russia bribes Nathan Gill's "sophisticated" activity was a "grave betrayal" of public trust, a judge said on Friday Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Nigel Farage's party is a "danger to national security"
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Ex-Reform UK Leader In Wales Sentenced To Ten-And-A-Half Years In Prison For Taking Russian Bribes
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for taking bribes from a pro-Russia campa...
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This report describes exactly what happened, despite the gaslighting to the contrary we were all fed. If a doctor causes the death of one patient, they are struck off at the very least. Johnson should face prosecution.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives. Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Love this.... and absolutely superb from Chris Packham! #hunting www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Town finally declares Boxing Day hunt 'not welcome'
A fiery council meeting and a brutal statement from Chris Packham
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
That's not an interview it's a demonstration of unabashed sycophancy. GB News doesn't know the meaning of the word journalism.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/11/2025
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12/11/2025
The BBC isn’t perfect but it belongs to all of us and plays a key role holding the powerful to account. The Liberal Democrats will keep defending the BBC against those who want to destroy it, both from the inside and outside.
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 13/11/2025
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social
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A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Farage is flagging. He’s losing councillors and by-elections, and his polling’s plateaued. But we all need to fight him harder. A month ago I wrote this blog about 10 things you can do to help defeat Farage - keep doing them, it’s working! - bsky.app/profile/guys...
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit. Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
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Jim Budd @jymbudd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change" "All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern" "I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened" "And I get more scared every single day"
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 13/09/2025
Far-right commentators reacted in shock to the murder of Charlie Kirk, claiming his killing is 'not what America is'. "I'm sorry, this is exactly who you are," say The News Agents. "You have the most toxic political environment in the world."
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‘Trump, and everyone around him, does not want civil discourse about Charlie Kirk’ | The News Agents
Donald Trump has blamed the “radical left” for the killing of Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead on a Utah university campus. But is this a “deep hypocrisy” from the radical right?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Burning banned on England’s deep peat to protect wildlife
Ban on burning heather and grass on deep peat extended to improve air quality for local communities, reduce flood risk and protect wildlife.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🔴The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-fake-p...
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The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage
Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Launched today: #ReviveTheRiverOtter The middle and lower reaches of the River Otter are now so contaminated with sewage, that it is classed in the bottom 20 per cent of rivers in England for water quality. South West Water must act now. For more: www.richardfoord.org.uk/news/article...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
On Dartmoor, good geology hides a lot of problems. The latest official figures show that just 0.1% of Dartmoor's nature reserves - its SSSIs - are in favourable condition. As @tonydartmoor.bsky.social says, 'Dartmoor is dying'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I utterly condemn the reckless attack on Iran by the United States that can only lead to further dangerous conflict in an already volatile region. There is no international legal basis for this unilateral action that poses a serious threat to international peace and security.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
via Wild Bird Scoop
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Labour backed swift bricks when past Tory govts blocked them. Now the Tories are backing them and Labour govt is blocking them. Absolutely deplorable game playing with a threatened species. (LibDems are also proposing them BTW but no coverage). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Liberal Democrats have for a long time promoted nature-based policy. I am pleased to sign this amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Unamended, the Bill would undermine legal protections for natural habitats. 1/2
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Amendment NC27 to Planning and Infrastructure Bill to Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
Gideon Amos' amendment (NC27) to Planning and Infrastructure Bill, proposed during Committee stage
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Labour has been awful for #nature. A staggering disappointment #swifts
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The nasty little knot of far right ugliness that is Andrea Jenkyns (now Mayor of Lincolnshire) says it’s ‘no more soft touch Britain’. How lovely. Voters have basically handed her a loud dog whistle and told her to kick the people and policies they don’t like or understand. Failure is inevitable.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hi Labour, rather than learning all the wrong lessons from this election defeat - what about taking some people out of poverty and improving some lives?
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In the 35 years before privatisation, almost 100 reservoirs were built. In the years since, private water firms haven't built any and sold off 25. After selling off critical infrastructure for profit, water bosses on huge salaries now tell us we're the problem.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's polling day! And it's like old times as I do my shift outside #ottery polling station (for Jess Bailey!)
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
As a general rule, I do think it's important for election candidates to be able to spell their own ward correctly ....
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Why not just make it east for them? Looks cute but would you like to struggle and balance precariously to eat your food?
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR FIRST SWIFTS YET? When you have/ if you do, comment on this video saying which county and when to win a free copy of my book #NatureNeedsYou #TheFightToSaveOur swifts 3 people will be randomly chosen by my publisher ⁦‪@eandtbooks‬⁩.bsky.social
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Ottery St Mary. Woke up to five squealing zooming swifts this morning! Just wonderful to have them back. Hoping they might nest in my eaves again 🙏
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Pete Best @petebestuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@wrightclaire.bsky.social Shocked face...
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/04/2025
When Trump talks about trade barriers, he means lowering our high British standards. We must draw a red line—no to US vulture firms undermining our NHS, no to giving up online safety and no to lowering our food standards. @libdemdaisy.bsky.social
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“This government is pitting economic growth against climate action. They’re spreading the lie that economic prosperity comes at the expense of the planet that our economy exists on. But there’s no growth on a dead planet.” - @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-growth-...
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"No Growth on a Dead Planet"
What Can We Do? #8
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 31/03/2025
That schadenfreude feeling - when right wing populists are revealed as the very people they built their careers warning us about….. corrupt politicians….
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Exmouth & Exeter East Liberal Democrats 🔶 @eeelibdems.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Constituents may be interested in this article. #ExmouthandExeterEast #Exmouth & #Exeter East www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Farmers furious as Farage admits he would allow chlorine-washed chicken in US deal
The Reform leader’s remarks sparked anger from agricultural campaigners, who warned that the British public is ‘rightly appalled by chlorinated chicken’
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Exmouth & Exeter East Liberal Democrats 🔶 @eeelibdems.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The @libdems.org.uk want to replace OfWat with a tough new regulator & transform water companies into public benefit companies. eastdevonwatch.org/2025/03/29/d... People in #ExmouthandExeterEast are taking SWW to court using a group legal action. No win. No fee. ⬇️ www.leighday.co.uk/our-services...
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Devon’s natural beauty is being destroyed as it becomes national blackspot for sewage spills
“Of the 10 most frequently used overflows, five were in Devon. Another was in neighbouring Cornwall, meaning six were in the region served by South West Water (SWW).” How Devon’s beache…
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Lock him up
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It was absolutely lovely delivering in beautiful #Sidmouth for the inspiring @denisebickley.bsky.social this afternoon. Known her for years. She's superb. #DeniseforSidmouth
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Keir Starmer has been warned against “appeasing” Donald Trump as he considers reducing a major tax for US tech companies while cutting disability benefits and public sector jobs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms
Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut
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Claire Wright @wrightclaire.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... At last, some positive environmental news 🙏
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New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050
Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol
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