D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃
@colliewobbled.bsky.social
Like forest bathing. Dislike greenwashing.
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Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour.
Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife.
Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.
Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife.
Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour.
Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife.
Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.
Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife.
Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.
"Forest City 1: The Charter City Coming to Suffolk"
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
251204 Forest City Webinar
YouTube video by Community Planning Alliance
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This isn't community housing. It's corporate governance with progressive branding.
Suffolk is the test case. Your region could be next.
Suffolk is the test case. Your region could be next.
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This isn't community housing. It's corporate governance with progressive branding.
Suffolk is the test case. Your region could be next.
Suffolk is the test case. Your region could be next.
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"Forest City 1: The Charter City Coming to Suffolk"
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
251204 Forest City Webinar
YouTube video by Community Planning Alliance
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Forest City 1: The Charter City Coming to Suffolk"
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
My presentation exposing what Forest City 1 (there are more coming)really is—based on the founder's own admissions!
Please watch the talk on Youtube, and share as widely as possible.
Support my research💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3-...
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you're not sure how to read between the lines, Owen Jones has shared this helpful video...
The Budget shows:
💪 Labour is panicking about the left
👎 That it doesn't have a vision for the country
🙏 But there is an alternative!
The facts with brilliant economist James Meadway 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXf4...
💪 Labour is panicking about the left
👎 That it doesn't have a vision for the country
🙏 But there is an alternative!
The facts with brilliant economist James Meadway 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXf4...
Labour Budget FAILURE Exposed - And Why They’re In PANIC w/ James Meadway
YouTube video by Owen Jones
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you're not sure how to read between the lines, Owen Jones has shared this helpful video...
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This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
So Helena Hornton appears to have succumbed to the "Forest City" scam. She's blocking and refusing to engage with critics on X!
That image looks like Berger's vision of Hell to me: an horizonless world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@europeanpowell.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
That image looks like Berger's vision of Hell to me: an horizonless world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@europeanpowell.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
So Helena Hornton appears to have succumbed to the "Forest City" scam. She's blocking and refusing to engage with critics on X!
That image looks like Berger's vision of Hell to me: an horizonless world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@europeanpowell.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
That image looks like Berger's vision of Hell to me: an horizonless world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@europeanpowell.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.
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A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
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Some questions about these destructive ideas:
1. How will they be imposed?
2. Will any stations be excluded?
- e.g. in Footnote 7 areas?
- in other scenic areas?
- on heritage railways?
3. How will minsters cope with furious objectors to 150-home sites?
tinyurl.com/yrv2m5a4
1. How will they be imposed?
2. Will any stations be excluded?
- e.g. in Footnote 7 areas?
- in other scenic areas?
- on heritage railways?
3. How will minsters cope with furious objectors to 150-home sites?
tinyurl.com/yrv2m5a4
Housebuilding around train stations will be given default “yes”
Housebuilding near well-connected train stations will receive a default “yes” in future if they meet certain rules, ensuring more homes are built
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Some questions about these destructive ideas:
1. How will they be imposed?
2. Will any stations be excluded?
- e.g. in Footnote 7 areas?
- in other scenic areas?
- on heritage railways?
3. How will minsters cope with furious objectors to 150-home sites?
tinyurl.com/yrv2m5a4
1. How will they be imposed?
2. Will any stations be excluded?
- e.g. in Footnote 7 areas?
- in other scenic areas?
- on heritage railways?
3. How will minsters cope with furious objectors to 150-home sites?
tinyurl.com/yrv2m5a4
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What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls.
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
George Monbiot nails Keir Starmer's government in under a minute #ukpolitics
YouTube video by The National
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November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls.
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...
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1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
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A message for Sir Keir Starmer:
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A message for Sir Keir Starmer:
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
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Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
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Powerful letter asking if we’ve been collectively gaslit by the construction industry — exposing how public input is blamed while elite networks quietly rewrite planning rules.
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Have we all been gaslit by the construction industry?
‘As a planning consultant, I’ve seen first-hand how public participation strengthens communities’
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Powerful letter asking if we’ve been collectively gaslit by the construction industry — exposing how public input is blamed while elite networks quietly rewrite planning rules.
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Extreme wealth inequality is killing planet Earth, and hijacking political power so as to be allowed continue.
This is the most important thing to understand right now.
This is the most important thing to understand right now.
Ireland's wealthiest households create significantly more carbon emissions than lower-earners, according to a new report from Oxfam Ireland.
jrnl.ie/6859962
jrnl.ie/6859962
Ireland's richest 10% produce almost as much carbon as the bottom 50%, report says
Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on the rich.
jrnl.ie
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Extreme wealth inequality is killing planet Earth, and hijacking political power so as to be allowed continue.
This is the most important thing to understand right now.
This is the most important thing to understand right now.