Alasdair Cameron
@alasdaircameron.bsky.social
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
www.somersetwildlands.org
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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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What a feline…
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What a feline…
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Diplomacy as real estate.
Everyone from Putin to FIFA knows that you no longer need to appeal to American interests, let alone values; you appeal to the greed of its president and his circle.
A more honest slogan than MAGA would have been "Make Donald Rich Again".
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everyone from Putin to FIFA knows that you no longer need to appeal to American interests, let alone values; you appeal to the greed of its president and his circle.
A more honest slogan than MAGA would have been "Make Donald Rich Again".
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Diplomacy as real estate.
Everyone from Putin to FIFA knows that you no longer need to appeal to American interests, let alone values; you appeal to the greed of its president and his circle.
A more honest slogan than MAGA would have been "Make Donald Rich Again".
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Everyone from Putin to FIFA knows that you no longer need to appeal to American interests, let alone values; you appeal to the greed of its president and his circle.
A more honest slogan than MAGA would have been "Make Donald Rich Again".
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I paid £4.75 for a latte in a service station today. It wasn’t good. Just saying if you want to complain about something that’s a better place to start than the mansion tax.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I paid £4.75 for a latte in a service station today. It wasn’t good. Just saying if you want to complain about something that’s a better place to start than the mansion tax.
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This is the stump which broke the digger, which is now fixed. The person in orange is Dave - one of our Trustees. Rewilding life is fun. www.somersetwildlands.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is the stump which broke the digger, which is now fixed. The person in orange is Dave - one of our Trustees. Rewilding life is fun. www.somersetwildlands.org
Bribes feels like the wrong word to describe Russian money to Reform/UKIP reps.. it’s really seed funding, no?
Another senior Reform Party leader is caught taking money from the Kremlin. "Speaking outside his château in France, Coburn, a leader in Nigel Farage's Reform Party, answered 'no' when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners."
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bribes feels like the wrong word to describe Russian money to Reform/UKIP reps.. it’s really seed funding, no?
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Another senior Reform Party leader is caught taking money from the Kremlin. "Speaking outside his château in France, Coburn, a leader in Nigel Farage's Reform Party, answered 'no' when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners."
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Another senior Reform Party leader is caught taking money from the Kremlin. "Speaking outside his château in France, Coburn, a leader in Nigel Farage's Reform Party, answered 'no' when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners."
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Short-eared Owl, this morning on Tealham Moor
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Short-eared Owl, this morning on Tealham Moor
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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My LinkedIN is awash with apparently innovative captains of industry saying that the freezing of the income tax brands or an extra 2% tax on the dividends they pay themselves instead of salaries means it’s hardly worth them running their businesses and I just don’t believe them.
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My LinkedIN is awash with apparently innovative captains of industry saying that the freezing of the income tax brands or an extra 2% tax on the dividends they pay themselves instead of salaries means it’s hardly worth them running their businesses and I just don’t believe them.
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Like all too many children in the UK today, I grew up poor. I am no longer poor, and I am delighted to pay higher taxes to reduce - or ideally eliminate - child poverty. 1/3
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Like all too many children in the UK today, I grew up poor. I am no longer poor, and I am delighted to pay higher taxes to reduce - or ideally eliminate - child poverty. 1/3
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our pelicans event last night - we'll keep you posted with the carbon dating from the bones when Lucia is able to publish. In the meantime why not sign up for our next talk on EELS in January? As ever it's FREE FOR MEMBERS! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eels-are-g...
Eels are good - with the Somerset Eel Recovery Project
Join Vanessa and Geoff from SERP for a talk on the eels of Somerset, their fascinating history and the work being done to restore them.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our pelicans event last night - we'll keep you posted with the carbon dating from the bones when Lucia is able to publish. In the meantime why not sign up for our next talk on EELS in January? As ever it's FREE FOR MEMBERS! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eels-are-g...
Green roofs, PVs, heat pumps, social rental. It is always tempting to be against new development in your area, because the changes are often bad, but this looks like a decent scheme. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Council-backed housing scheme breaks ground
The scheme will deliver 166 homes, with 40 per cent designated as affordable housing
www.bristol247.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Green roofs, PVs, heat pumps, social rental. It is always tempting to be against new development in your area, because the changes are often bad, but this looks like a decent scheme. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
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Three things to bear in mind about yesterday’s #budget.
1) Our overall tax take is still proportionally less than other Western European peer countries.
2) Brexit
3) Liz Truss
1) Our overall tax take is still proportionally less than other Western European peer countries.
2) Brexit
3) Liz Truss
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Three things to bear in mind about yesterday’s #budget.
1) Our overall tax take is still proportionally less than other Western European peer countries.
2) Brexit
3) Liz Truss
1) Our overall tax take is still proportionally less than other Western European peer countries.
2) Brexit
3) Liz Truss
To anyone looking at the budget from afar its pretty small beer. The media hysteria around it just bonkers.
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
To anyone looking at the budget from afar its pretty small beer. The media hysteria around it just bonkers.
Exciting looking job for the right person going in the West of England. careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Hea...
Head of Regeneration | 04 December, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority
Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint a Head of Regeneration to join our Place Directorate team.This is ...
careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Exciting looking job for the right person going in the West of England. careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Hea...
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
If this is anything less than a flying saucer there will be bitter disappointment.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If this is anything less than a flying saucer there will be bitter disappointment.
With the press would stop referring to me as a striver. I'm really not.
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
With the press would stop referring to me as a striver. I'm really not.
You know the Star would have run that "the Rach stole Christmas" headline regardless of what was in the budget, because a) they were so amused with themselves for the Rach/Grinch pun which they had been working on all summer and b) they had already commissioned the artwork.
Hyperbole...
Hyperbole...
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
You know the Star would have run that "the Rach stole Christmas" headline regardless of what was in the budget, because a) they were so amused with themselves for the Rach/Grinch pun which they had been working on all summer and b) they had already commissioned the artwork.
Hyperbole...
Hyperbole...
Also - delighted to see this. Would urge @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @bristollibdems.bsky.social and @labourbristol.bsky.social @mayorhelengodwin.bsky.social to come together to jointly implement it.. few pounds a night on hotels and ABNBs could really help the city. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
English mayors will get new powers to levy tourist taxes
Mayors will be given the power to charge tourists a tax for staying overnight in their towns and cities.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Also - delighted to see this. Would urge @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @bristollibdems.bsky.social and @labourbristol.bsky.social @mayorhelengodwin.bsky.social to come together to jointly implement it.. few pounds a night on hotels and ABNBs could really help the city. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now I’ve had time to digest the budget and read the views of people I trust, it seems like actually it was really rather a good one for decarbonisation. Not all good of course (and it’s never enough), but the show is still on the road.
Nature on the other hand….
Nature on the other hand….
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Now I’ve had time to digest the budget and read the views of people I trust, it seems like actually it was really rather a good one for decarbonisation. Not all good of course (and it’s never enough), but the show is still on the road.
Nature on the other hand….
Nature on the other hand….
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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"