Nicola Cutcher
@nicolacutcher.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist, writer and filmmaker.
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nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Huge news!

Red Tractor = false advertising.

I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
riveractionuk.bsky.social
🚨 NEWS! Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims 🚨

A TV ad by the UK’s biggest farm assurance scheme has been banned after the @adstandards.bsky.social found “insufficient evidence” that Red Tractor farms met basic environmental standards.

READ MORE: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.
www.bbc.co.uk
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friendsriverwye.bsky.social
Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
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riveractionuk.bsky.social
Hay Festival Winter Weekend! 🌿💙

Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.

🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Delighted to be interviewing the actor and activist James Murray about the state of our rivers. Join us on Saturday 29 November at 2.30pm in Hay Castle!
hayfestival.bsky.social
Let’s go!!!

Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 programme is here. Members enjoy priority booking until Friday.

Join us! www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
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greenparty.org.uk
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Leadership elections results 

New Leader 

Zack Polanski 

Photo of Zack Polanski 

 

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 

Green Party 

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Have you seen it like this before?
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
This is the riverbed of the River Dore in Herefordshire today. What a drought. There were still crayfish under the rocks. Eerie scene.
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emmagarnett.bsky.social
It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat.

This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just eat less meat’
Singh-Watson may believe he has softened. But for many years he has been an iconoclastic voice among farmers. Take meat: most British farmers reject calls to eat less red meat to reduce damage to the environment and people’s health. Singh-Watson says eat good meat but less often: just 5% of what Riverford sells is meat. He had shared an organic chicken with eight people the previous evening: “I probably won’t buy another one for a month.”
“I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Brilliant to see The Observer devote its front page to examining the government’s treatment of Palestine Action. Excellent coverage inside.

Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
I didn’t have Hyperemesis Gravidarum, but I did have a debilitating nausea with regular vomiting for months.

Whilst we need better medical understanding and treatment, we also need to change the language. It’s NOT ‘morning sickness’. I wrote this for Grazia:

graziadaily.co.uk/life/parenti...
‘The Term “Morning Sickness” Trivialises The True Hell Of Pregnancy Sickness’
The founder of the ‘Not Morning Sickness’ campaign explains why the term makes it sound like a minor inconvenience, when for some women it can be anything but
graziadaily.co.uk
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friendsriverwye.bsky.social
Our latest newsletter dropped this morning with a bumper round-up of news affecting the Wye this month. Read all about bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, legal victories and lots of ways you can help defend our rivers…

mailchi.mp/3d36ecfd57b1...
Wye News: Bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, farming schemes...
mailchi.mp
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Just found an old script from Dumbshow Theatre for ‘Electric Dreams’ which was based on The Shock Doctrine.

The opening line feels especially pertinent today:

“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
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owenjones.bsky.social
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
How on earth has Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer who defended peaceful non-violent direct action, ended up proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group?

Make it make sense.
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riveractionuk.bsky.social
🚨 Take part in one of the most important public events since the March for Clean Water!

Join us at the UK River Summit 2025 and demand answers from those in power. This is your chance to challenge the status quo and push for urgent water reform.

🎟️ Book your place now - www.theriversummit.com
Celebrating Rivers
www.theriversummit.com
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riveractionuk.bsky.social
And a Agriculture and food panel including 🍗:

⭐ Amy Fairman - Head of Campaigns at River Action
⭐ Ruth Westcott - Campaign Coordnator at Sustain
@nicolacutcher.bsky.social - Journalist and founding member of Friends of the Wye
⭐ Martin Lines - Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network UK
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish.
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
www.monbiot.com
nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Nice! I’m interviewing Jay the week before on 9th July in Hay at North Books!