Darren Burling
@chesterdaz.bsky.social
Chester FC, real ale, cyclist, environmental campaigner....
Stop Israeli genocide.. 🇵🇸
Stop Israeli genocide.. 🇵🇸
Exactly. It's basically a runaway train.
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Exactly. It's basically a runaway train.
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
As a landlord myself I feckin hate most landlords. They're nearly all selfish, money grabbing reprobates.
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single rogue landlord in past three years despite 300,000 separate complaints.
Less than 2% of complaints led to any action.
2010-2020 Austerity: 41% cut in enforcement funding, staff cut by a third.
Law without enforcement is a cruel hoax.
Less than 2% of complaints led to any action.
2010-2020 Austerity: 41% cut in enforcement funding, staff cut by a third.
Law without enforcement is a cruel hoax.
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As a landlord myself I feckin hate most landlords. They're nearly all selfish, money grabbing reprobates.
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
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“most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history”
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
Hunger strike continues as protests planned in Aberystwyth and Cardiff
Campaigners vow “most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history” A ROLLING hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned...
pembrokeshire-herald.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history”
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
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Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
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The COP process has been utterly compromised by the fossil fuel lobby for years
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The COP process has been utterly compromised by the fossil fuel lobby for years
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank.
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank.
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
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Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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There are around 1,500 rivers in Britain, so the government’s manifesto pledge to create a mere 9 river walks is simply pathetic.
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Walkers protest over riverbank access
Campaigners take to the banks of the River Dart, calling for the right to access all English rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
There are around 1,500 rivers in Britain, so the government’s manifesto pledge to create a mere 9 river walks is simply pathetic.
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today we are reporting good news for once! This is why jury trial should be protected at all costs. @defendourjuries.bsky.social
A good day for peaceful protest
This is why juries should be protected at all costs
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today we are reporting good news for once! This is why jury trial should be protected at all costs. @defendourjuries.bsky.social
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PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
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Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
I went in search of Britain's cosiest pubs - here are my 20 favourites
From 200-year-old inns to charming, snug-filled bolt-holes, a renowned expert selects some of the most welcoming watering holes to visit as the nights draw in
inews.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse
October 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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The United Kingdom government cannot block the cofounder of pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action from bringing a legal challenge over the banning of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws, a court has said.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
UK’s Palestine Action group wins legal bid to challenge ban
UK court to hear challenge to the pro-Palestine group's ban under 'anti-terrorism' laws after government loses appeal.
www.aljazeera.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The United Kingdom government cannot block the cofounder of pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action from bringing a legal challenge over the banning of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws, a court has said.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
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In 1989 Tory Grandee Nicholas Ridley was asked his view of the Green Party. He replied "What's a green party", just before they won 15% of the vote in the European elections.
ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉
📈 125,000 members and counting.
📈 125,000 members and counting.
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
In 1989 Tory Grandee Nicholas Ridley was asked his view of the Green Party. He replied "What's a green party", just before they won 15% of the vote in the European elections.
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In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to:
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to:
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits
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Nothing better illustrates Keir Starmer's rather blatant bias in favour of Israel. This is a straight forward public order matter.
Some of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are notoriously violent troublemakers. Violent far right ultra hooligans.
news.sky.com/story/maccab...
1/3
Some of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are notoriously violent troublemakers. Violent far right ultra hooligans.
news.sky.com/story/maccab...
1/3
Starmer criticises decision to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending Aston Villa match
Police say the decision is based partly on what happened in Amsterdam last year, when Israeli fans attending a match against Ajax were caught up in attacks.
news.sky.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Nothing better illustrates Keir Starmer's rather blatant bias in favour of Israel. This is a straight forward public order matter.
Some of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are notoriously violent troublemakers. Violent far right ultra hooligans.
news.sky.com/story/maccab...
1/3
Some of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are notoriously violent troublemakers. Violent far right ultra hooligans.
news.sky.com/story/maccab...
1/3
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Braved the wind and rain to end up with a lovely evening with Becky and Lili at @spooktonbrewco.bsky.social and @thatbeerplace.co.uk
Some fabulous beers at 2 of Chester's best independent bars.
Cracking sunset on the way home...
Some fabulous beers at 2 of Chester's best independent bars.
Cracking sunset on the way home...
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Braved the wind and rain to end up with a lovely evening with Becky and Lili at @spooktonbrewco.bsky.social and @thatbeerplace.co.uk
Some fabulous beers at 2 of Chester's best independent bars.
Cracking sunset on the way home...
Some fabulous beers at 2 of Chester's best independent bars.
Cracking sunset on the way home...
Probably the last hours of freedom for the 44-boat flotilla before Israel breaks international law yet again.. youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Probably the last hours of freedom for the 44-boat flotilla before Israel breaks international law yet again.. youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
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The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Gaza Sumud flotilla: How Israel breaks international maritime law
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
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IT'S GOING TO BE CLOSE! Vote PAUL BOWERS in tomorrow's #strawberryward #ellesmereport #byelection2025
A family man, painter & decorator, experienced former Councillor, Paul stands for you.
He will prioritise:
- local services,
- affordable public transport routes
- affordable & social housing
A family man, painter & decorator, experienced former Councillor, Paul stands for you.
He will prioritise:
- local services,
- affordable public transport routes
- affordable & social housing
October 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
IT'S GOING TO BE CLOSE! Vote PAUL BOWERS in tomorrow's #strawberryward #ellesmereport #byelection2025
A family man, painter & decorator, experienced former Councillor, Paul stands for you.
He will prioritise:
- local services,
- affordable public transport routes
- affordable & social housing
A family man, painter & decorator, experienced former Councillor, Paul stands for you.
He will prioritise:
- local services,
- affordable public transport routes
- affordable & social housing