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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute trashing of the supply of water - the absolute fundamental of life - in the UK by PE, has surely been the nadir.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 4d

Moving to renewable energy doesn't *only* bring down carbon emissions and direct air pollution, it also leads to a LOT less mining/drilling for resources and a LOT less shipping

IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief

More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables

www.carbonbrief.org

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 4d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 5d

Well done to all the brilliant local councillors who have lowered the speed limits their roads to 20mph - often in the face of much hostility.

There is now irrefutable evidence to show your bold decisions are saving lives.

Thank you!

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to everyone who brought this event (and a packed house) together.
Informative and positive look at how agriculture can maintain productivity without the chemicals, toxins and carbon emissions, and while improving biodiversity.

Soil health is the key. It's not new, but it still needs saying.

Richmond and Twickenham Friends of the Earth @rtfoe.bsky.social · 6d

Great to see such a great turnout for tonight's showing of Six Inches of Soil: photos.app.goo.gl/kJeb4HsdbD4L...

New photo · Wednesday, Oct 8 📸

Tap to view!

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 7d

A project to reintroduce Black Grouse to the North York Moors has enjoyed early success, with the species successfully breeding in the national park for the first time since the 1840s:

Black Grouse breeds on North York Moors after 180-year absence

Black Grouse has successfully bred on the North York Moors, confirming the species' first nesting success in the area since the 1840s. Read BirdGuides's report on the monitoring, habitat restoration, and the future prospects for the re-establishing population of this striking gamebird in Yorkshire.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7d

As the world moves forwards and embraces renewable energy,

At Conference, the Tories plot to drag us back — abolishing the Climate Change Act and ‘maximising extraction’ of North Sea oil and gas.

Graphic featuring a close-up wind turbine over farmland under a cloudy sky. Headline reads: “THE WORLD MOVES FORWARD WITH RENEWABLES AS TORIES LOOK BACK.” Below is a quote from Green MP Carla Denyer: “The news that renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity shows our world is moving in a cleaner, greener, healthier direction, but the Tories are plotting how they can block both people and the planet from benefitting from this transition.” Bottom shows Carla Denyer’s headsh

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 6d

In my personal experience, Candy's values include failing to pay consultants for their design work.

Tice's include attempting to circumvent planning law, and planning conditions requiring affordable homes, preventing "poor doors" and providing play space for children.

Tice's own team hated it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 14d

Does it actually need to be said that volunteering, by definition, cannot be compulsory?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17d

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.

Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17d

How is this not front page news?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 21d

Remember the march for Palestine (I was there!) with around 100,000 others, closing off large parts of central London? Wasn't even mentioned on local London News.

@lisanandymp.bsky.social is the rabbit in the headlights, unable to move to rid the BBC of Gibb, Davie and the rest of the Tuftonites.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21d

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 22d

@lisanandymp.bsky.social
How long is this Farage sycophancy from the BBC board going to poison OUR #BBCnews?

Gibb, Davie and the rest of the cabal have to go.

I despair. I have no idea what Labour are for any more 😡

Right now, it's @greenparty.org.uk or goodbye tolerant, civil democratic society

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 23d

I’m not sure guys, I think maybe Oxford Street was better when it was full of motor traffic, I think people liked it better that way

😂

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 23d

Defying everything you were ever taught about genetics and biology.

How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. And reminding us that we shouldn't muck around with genetic systems we don't understand

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Hampton Heath Friends @hamptonheath.bsky.social · 23d

Great to meet @davegoulson.bsky.social and hear him speak at a really well attended event at the wonderful Hanworth Air Parks Biodiversity Project yesterday.

The work of HABP and @cambeauty.bsky.social is clearly hugely valued in the community, and I look forward to reading Silent Earth.

Prof. Dave Goulson's book, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse.

Wool Carder Bee feeds from Birds Foot Trefoil at Hampton Heath.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25d

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds

Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria

www.theguardian.com

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 24d

Lawson and a plethora of Tufton Street alumni.
It sadly took years before the scientific community bit back with a very public refusal to appear on Today because science was being pitched as a debate against lobbyists.
They knew they were being played, but felt they needed to explain the science.

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Art Gelling @artgelling.bsky.social · 24d

Radio 4's news + current affairs has been unlistenable for many years. I gave up shouting at the Radio over the relentless platforming of climate change deniers and "both-sidesing" clear-cut science way back.
John Humphreys was truly appalling, but others have taken a similar line before and since.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 28d

"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences."

medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Managed decline: Regulating gas grids when gas ends

The transition to a climate-neutral future is happening, and with it, the era of fossil gas consumption is coming to an end. This is a…

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