Sir Basil
@sirbasil.bsky.social
Very concerned that right-wing pluto-populists are degrading our lives and our planet (🌱)
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Sir Basil
@sirbasil.bsky.social
· May 12
Why are the worse types of people in Britain the most heavily-courted voters?
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Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
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With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
Change Everything
A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future, by a veteran former Green Party leader
wiltonsquarebooks.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
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Two Cornwall dairy farms supplying Cathedral City have been exposed in new undercover footage showing workers punching, kicking, slapping and jabbing cows, dragging newborn calves away by their legs, and even forcing rods into rectums to make exhausted individuals stand.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Two Cornwall dairy farms supplying Cathedral City have been exposed in new undercover footage showing workers punching, kicking, slapping and jabbing cows, dragging newborn calves away by their legs, and even forcing rods into rectums to make exhausted individuals stand.
"UK Dairy Benefits The Environment!*"...
..... says a new report by the AHDB, a body funded by farmers and where 6 of the 8 board members are farmers
*Dairy farming is abusive, hugely GHG productive and the soy foodstuffs are depleting South American forests
www.fwi.co.uk/news/uk-dair...
..... says a new report by the AHDB, a body funded by farmers and where 6 of the 8 board members are farmers
*Dairy farming is abusive, hugely GHG productive and the soy foodstuffs are depleting South American forests
www.fwi.co.uk/news/uk-dair...
UK dairy farming benefits environment says report - Farmers Weekly
The virtues of UK dairy farming, including its contribution to nutrition, health and environmental sustainability, are highlighted in a new report by the
www.fwi.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"UK Dairy Benefits The Environment!*"...
..... says a new report by the AHDB, a body funded by farmers and where 6 of the 8 board members are farmers
*Dairy farming is abusive, hugely GHG productive and the soy foodstuffs are depleting South American forests
www.fwi.co.uk/news/uk-dair...
..... says a new report by the AHDB, a body funded by farmers and where 6 of the 8 board members are farmers
*Dairy farming is abusive, hugely GHG productive and the soy foodstuffs are depleting South American forests
www.fwi.co.uk/news/uk-dair...
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The Telegraph is worried that feeding themselves is a blue tit's personal responsibility and that feeding the creates dependency, removing the incentive for birds to work and improve themselves, and thus perpetuate the problem of hunger amongst blue tits
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Telegraph is worried that feeding themselves is a blue tit's personal responsibility and that feeding the creates dependency, removing the incentive for birds to work and improve themselves, and thus perpetuate the problem of hunger amongst blue tits
The Telegraph is worried that feeding themselves is a blue tit's personal responsibility and that feeding the creates dependency, removing the incentive for birds to work and improve themselves, and thus perpetuate the problem of hunger amongst blue tits
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Telegraph is worried that feeding themselves is a blue tit's personal responsibility and that feeding the creates dependency, removing the incentive for birds to work and improve themselves, and thus perpetuate the problem of hunger amongst blue tits
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Can we have our money back please?
In Profits of Doom, @rbrooks45.bsky.social says the £252m PPE contract the UK gov't awarded to Tim Horlick’s Ayanda Capital in Apr 2020 triggered “perhaps the most egregious taxpayer-funded windfalls for the men at the centre of it” @privateeyenews.bsky.social
www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...
www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Can we have our money back please?
When the Liz Truss-supporting "newspapers" complain about the budget, remember, it's now more expensive to service our debt....because of Liz Truss!
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
When the Liz Truss-supporting "newspapers" complain about the budget, remember, it's now more expensive to service our debt....because of Liz Truss!
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Private Eye's Richard Brooks has revealed how financiers behind Ayanda Capital (which is owned by a Mauritius-based holding company)—Tim Horlick, Nathan Engelbrecht, and Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills—amassed £64m from UK taxpayers despite supplying faulty PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Private Eye's Richard Brooks has revealed how financiers behind Ayanda Capital (which is owned by a Mauritius-based holding company)—Tim Horlick, Nathan Engelbrecht, and Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills—amassed £64m from UK taxpayers despite supplying faulty PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Can you imagine how f*cked up you've got to be to think that a terrifying plague represents an opportunity to f*ck the NHS over?
The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Can you imagine how f*cked up you've got to be to think that a terrifying plague represents an opportunity to f*ck the NHS over?
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Tomorrow at 8am we will be publishing the video of the horrific kill being covered up below ⬇️.
The Beaufort Hunt hunted this fox into a hedgerow, before she was ripped to pieces by their hounds. The video shows the Whipper-in removing the evidence from the scene.
📸 @wiltshuntsabs.bsky.social
The Beaufort Hunt hunted this fox into a hedgerow, before she was ripped to pieces by their hounds. The video shows the Whipper-in removing the evidence from the scene.
📸 @wiltshuntsabs.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tomorrow at 8am we will be publishing the video of the horrific kill being covered up below ⬇️.
The Beaufort Hunt hunted this fox into a hedgerow, before she was ripped to pieces by their hounds. The video shows the Whipper-in removing the evidence from the scene.
📸 @wiltshuntsabs.bsky.social
The Beaufort Hunt hunted this fox into a hedgerow, before she was ripped to pieces by their hounds. The video shows the Whipper-in removing the evidence from the scene.
📸 @wiltshuntsabs.bsky.social
There is something especially depressing about living in a country where the very same shitty "newspapers" who insisted on the hardest of Brexits are now moaning about tax increases
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There is something especially depressing about living in a country where the very same shitty "newspapers" who insisted on the hardest of Brexits are now moaning about tax increases
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"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?"
Martin Wolf, today's FT
Martin Wolf, today's FT
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?"
Martin Wolf, today's FT
Martin Wolf, today's FT
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Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
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It's often claimed factory farming is needed to provide cheap food, but there are so many hidden costs.
A new report from the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation found pig and poultry farms in Britain take £269 million a year in subsidies: https://bit.ly/48h41bF
A new report from the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation found pig and poultry farms in Britain take £269 million a year in subsidies: https://bit.ly/48h41bF
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's often claimed factory farming is needed to provide cheap food, but there are so many hidden costs.
A new report from the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation found pig and poultry farms in Britain take £269 million a year in subsidies: https://bit.ly/48h41bF
A new report from the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation found pig and poultry farms in Britain take £269 million a year in subsidies: https://bit.ly/48h41bF
PROJECT FEAR!
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
PROJECT FEAR!
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"Yeah but not in a hurtful way"
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Yeah but not in a hurtful way"
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Realising that every animal’s life has value breaks the conditioning that teaches us to ignore their suffering. 🐖💚
When we choose compassion, we open the door to a world where no one has to be used or harmed.
👉 Every choice matters. Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
When we choose compassion, we open the door to a world where no one has to be used or harmed.
👉 Every choice matters. Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Realising that every animal’s life has value breaks the conditioning that teaches us to ignore their suffering. 🐖💚
When we choose compassion, we open the door to a world where no one has to be used or harmed.
👉 Every choice matters. Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
When we choose compassion, we open the door to a world where no one has to be used or harmed.
👉 Every choice matters. Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
"Yeah but not in a hurtful way"
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Yeah but not in a hurtful way"
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Why oh why don't we see more of this lovely man on Question Time?
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Why oh why don't we see more of this lovely man on Question Time?