Mary Y
@no1coolcat.bsky.social
Dr. in Compassion and Contemplative Studies, Chartered Psych, environmentalist, ornithologist, meditator. Passionate for the wellbeing of all life and our beautiful Planet. Grateful for love and life. Always curious, sometimes crazy.
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"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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Oh dear Chris. And BBC.
Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense.
Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense.
Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oh dear Chris. And BBC.
Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense.
Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense.
Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform is reporting £331 million in savings across the councils it runs, but Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs writer Saba Salman says the claims are complete guff.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reform is reporting £331 million in savings across the councils it runs, but Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs writer Saba Salman says the claims are complete guff.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Give yourself a break from the nonsense.
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/70jw...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Give yourself a break from the nonsense.
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Piss off the wildlife abusers and pick up our British Wildlife Calendar here :) - protectthewild.shop/products/pro...
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Piss off the wildlife abusers and pick up our British Wildlife Calendar here :) - protectthewild.shop/products/pro...
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
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In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.
The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.
The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 225
Inside the narrow waist (petiole) of #bumblebees cooler blood pumped from the abdomen is heated up as it passes warm blood returning from the head and thorax.
This process is known as ‘Counter Current Heat Exchange’.
#bees
#nature
#science
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 225
Inside the narrow waist (petiole) of #bumblebees cooler blood pumped from the abdomen is heated up as it passes warm blood returning from the head and thorax.
This process is known as ‘Counter Current Heat Exchange’.
#bees
#nature
#science
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 225
Inside the narrow waist (petiole) of #bumblebees cooler blood pumped from the abdomen is heated up as it passes warm blood returning from the head and thorax.
This process is known as ‘Counter Current Heat Exchange’.
#bees
#nature
#science
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 225
Inside the narrow waist (petiole) of #bumblebees cooler blood pumped from the abdomen is heated up as it passes warm blood returning from the head and thorax.
This process is known as ‘Counter Current Heat Exchange’.
#bees
#nature
#science
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Police have made 2100 arrests under terrorism laws for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. We need to urge the UK’s chief prosecutors not to prosecute them. Add your name to the letter. www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Police have made 2100 arrests under terrorism laws for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. We need to urge the UK’s chief prosecutors not to prosecute them. Add your name to the letter. www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
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£300 million a year given to relatively well off people, who can afford a spiffy new £15k heating system - it’s economically and socially unjust. Labour should take this subsidy and use it to help people in poverty.
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
£300 million a year given to relatively well off people, who can afford a spiffy new £15k heating system - it’s economically and socially unjust. Labour should take this subsidy and use it to help people in poverty.
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Nigel Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side:
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
Standing up for speaking out | Good Law Project
Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side.
goodlaw.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Nigel Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side:
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
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They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
https://action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/action/1?ea.tracking.id=rspb_uk_bluesky👈
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
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Poll after poll shows people care deeply about wildlife and want it protected.
Instead, we’ve had months of nature-blaming rhetoric and pushes to sidestep environmental law.
This flies in the face not only of what the public wants...but the Government’s own manifesto.
Instead, we’ve had months of nature-blaming rhetoric and pushes to sidestep environmental law.
This flies in the face not only of what the public wants...but the Government’s own manifesto.
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Poll after poll shows people care deeply about wildlife and want it protected.
Instead, we’ve had months of nature-blaming rhetoric and pushes to sidestep environmental law.
This flies in the face not only of what the public wants...but the Government’s own manifesto.
Instead, we’ve had months of nature-blaming rhetoric and pushes to sidestep environmental law.
This flies in the face not only of what the public wants...but the Government’s own manifesto.
What an absolute betrayal and wholesale disgrace.
Last night the Government steamrollered its Planning Bill through, slamming the door on vital protections for nature.
They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature.
But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.
They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature.
But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What an absolute betrayal and wholesale disgrace.
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
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Chalk streams - they now lack the protection they need and deserve, says @greenjennyjones.bsky.social.
Reflecting that Natural England and Environment Agency are not delivering what we should expect
Reflecting that Natural England and Environment Agency are not delivering what we should expect
Planning and Infrastructure Bill - sadly about to clear its final hurdle. With disastrous implications for our already nature-depleted land
#Biodiversity #Planning
#Biodiversity #Planning
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Chalk streams - they now lack the protection they need and deserve, says @greenjennyjones.bsky.social.
Reflecting that Natural England and Environment Agency are not delivering what we should expect
Reflecting that Natural England and Environment Agency are not delivering what we should expect
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Farage says he can't remember being continually racist and antisemitic.
The axe forgets. The tree remembers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The axe forgets. The tree remembers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Farage says he can't remember being continually racist and antisemitic.
The axe forgets. The tree remembers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The axe forgets. The tree remembers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
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Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Full Page 94 episode... 160: Trump Shakes Down The BBC
Listen: pod.fo/e/355376
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
Listen: pod.fo/e/355376
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast: 160: Shakedowns, Coups and COP 30
The team discuss Donald Trump’s legal methods, the mayhem in the UK government (part 94) and what’s really going on at the Amazon climate summit.
pod.fo
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Full Page 94 episode... 160: Trump Shakes Down The BBC
Listen: pod.fo/e/355376
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
Listen: pod.fo/e/355376
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
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