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Alasdair Cameron

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Executive Director of charity @SomersetWildlands.Bsky.social - rewilding land in the Somerset Levels for all. Rewilding own land too. Zoologist. Investigator. Campaigner. Bristol, UK. www.somersetwildlands.org

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello BlueSkiers! I’ve made a starter back of people working on rewilding and similar things in UK and Ireland. Many more to add but it’s a start.

go.bsky.app/A7v5ZUQ

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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a perfect storm;

1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.

Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

100%.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 15h

Then fecking do it @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

John Pearce @johnpearce650.bsky.social · 16h

www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/e...

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

www.desmog.com

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 1d

In crimson, orange and bronze, autumn had arrived.
Fox had spent a rather enjoyable morning searching for the perfect collection of leaves.
She'd finally found it.
With a joyful soul and playful heart, she jumped.
In one fine leap, she pounced to catch her shadow.

#Autumn

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill

UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 17h

I hate Instagram. Yes it has funny moments, but of all the platforms I use it by far the most consistently reductive - stereotyping, racist, sexist, dealing with everything in broad generalities. Really depressing.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18h

Useful reminder on volatility, four years on, onto our third Prime Minister since this realignment tweet. Nb, "tight on immigration" in Oct 2021 after most of the decisions (bar Ukraine) that would quadruple net migration in 2022: commentary is based much on vibes/words than major policy choices

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 21h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 1d

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance has launched a new Community Rewilding Guide!

“More than anything, rewilding means hope. Hope for a liveable future, a wilder world, and thriving communities.” - Steve Micklewright, our Chief Executive.

Download the guide 👉

Community Rewilding Guide

Switch to Gaelic / Tionndaidh gu Gàidhlig

www.rewild.scot

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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #bookshopday and I met the amazing #MonicaFeria-Tinta at The Sussex Bookshop, talking about her book Barrister for the Earth.
Inspiring listening to hear her talk about acting for the rights of nature, including for rivers and chalk streams here in the UK.
#booksky
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Woman holding her book a barrister for the Earth

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts? The great majority of subsidies for renewable energy are from early Renewable Obligation (RO).. this no longer exists, and was closed in 2017.. contracts were 20 years which means most end in early 2030s. Should government take them off bills now as they wind down? Would be quick win.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

Help us Gordon, you’re our only hope!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

This makes it sound even more sordid than perhaps it was.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

What an unusual recognition, but I guess when you are a mid-tier city you take what you can! :) www.bristol247.com/lifestyle/he...

Bristol has Europe's most running clubs per population

Running clubs have been growing exponentially in Bristol in recent years

www.bristol247.com

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

Listen if I want to see Olaf having sex with the dragon from Mulan I need to see it now.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

I think in reality that would lead to the death of hundreds of millions if not more. Better to simply try and change diets and build a more sustainable food system.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

Society right now is a perfect illustration of the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

This seems like just the sort of well adjusted person who should be given access to any amount of highly sensitive government data.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 2d

Why are the Hard Right all so fixated on Greta. Like she's great, but she is one among many many people. Their need to have an enemy 'messiah' to attack I think says something about their own world view which must always have a leader.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 3d

This is what political courage can do.

There was a loud, well connected and well financed but small minority against these measures, but Khan pushed through, and now theres no chance of it being rolled back.

Elected officials throughout the country - please take note.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 3d

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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