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leftie green, Kernow, he/him
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Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse.

Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms?
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Bird flu outbreak at commercial turkey flock in Carlow
Restriction zones have been put in place around a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow, after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu was detected there.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC

He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead

He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy

This should be the end of his time on the BBC board
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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A powerful investigation but a namby-pamby headline

Elon Musk is not 'boosting the right'; he is driving fascism here and around the world

Our squeamishness around the use of the word fascism is undermining our ability to defeat it

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Who is writing the budget?
Today, I revealed that City lobbyists have been seconded into the Treasury under the Labour Party, and that the Treasury wouldn’t tell me whether they are ‘helping’ write Rachel Reeves’ budget: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
REVEALED: Labour let City lobbyists work in Treasury
The Treasury didn't answer questions about whether lobbyists for the banking industry seconded into it are helping write this month's budget.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Looking at the way Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentments against solar farms. Given that most farmers are concerned by climate change – does this actually make Reform anti-farmer?

Enjoyed writing this with @tom-cb.bsky.social

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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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And so it begins
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The Cornish chough vanished in 1973.

Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.

Then in 2001 – 3 returned.

Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.

A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦🔥

#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife
August 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
‘Unprecedented’ marine heatwave hits waters around Devon, Cornwall and Ireland

Scientists warn of profound impacts as sea temperatures rise by up to 4C above average for springtime

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‘Unprecedented’ marine heatwave hits waters around Devon, Cornwall and Ireland
Scientists warn of profound impacts as sea temperatures rise by up to 4C above average for springtime
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Art.
April 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Starlings vanishing from gardens, says conservation charity, RSPB

UK breeding population declined by 82% between 1970 and 2022

One reason less grassland and insect food than there used to be because of intensive farming

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Starlings vanishing from gardens, says conservation charity, RSPB
The Big Garden Birdwatch survey recorded the lowest ever numbers of starlings this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Fire service in Cornwall 'stretched' amid moorland fires

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Cornwall fire service 'stretched' amid moorland fires
Residents have been urged to think carefully and remain vigilant.
www.bbc.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Labour MP asking voters how to solve housing crisis!? But hasn't he been told that his Govt and party has found the answer - build, baby, build (more unaffordable houses), bash the blockers and boost developers' and landlords profits. Simple. www.voicenewspapers.co.uk/news/residen...
Residents invited to have say on how to fix Cornwall's housing crisis
Noah Law MP is holding three public events in St Austell, Newquay and Roche.
www.voicenewspapers.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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In 2021 there were 1,400 unoccupied dwellings in the Penzance area (2nd homes, hol lets, empty), so 140 new dwellings are unjustified. As for affordables???? The green areas are greenwash. Its already green!
February 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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More fields about to go at PZ? Although it'll have 'green infrastructure' the 140 houses won't do much for whatever lives in those woods. The Essex-based developers and Bristol architects promise 'affordable' housing numbers will be 'policy-complaint'. www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
MSN
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February 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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PM and property developers visit Newquay settlement. Meanwhile, Labour orders Cornwall's planners to allow equivalent of seven more of these every year to boost market for 'Cornwall lifestyle', trash countryside and ignore national rights of Cornish. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 denies dragging king into politics after visit to Cornwall with Starmer and Rayner
Government says timing of trip to ‘sustainable community’ days before major housing announcement is a coincidence
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Thank heaven we have a brave govt that protects us from b̶a̶n̶k̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶p̶o̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶e̶r̶-̶r̶i̶c̶h̶ bats, newts and nimbies and stands up for the 9̶9̶%̶ 1% thenegotiator.co.uk/news/land-ne...
PLANNING: Forget bats and newts, Reeves tells developers
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she was "genuinely shocked" at how slow the planning process for new build homes was.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Joe Haines, Press Secretary to Harold Wilson PM, died today aged 97.
When Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991 Haines described him as ‘sheer poison, a man bent - the apt word - on abnormal sexual pleasure, corrupt, corrupting and a drug taker.'
Haines was part of a cruel, homophobic establishment.
February 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Trump is demonstrating that he is Putin's man in the White House

We need to completely rethink our security relationship with the US

And get US nukes of our soil
February 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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At first glance, a quintessentially beautiful Irish landscape.

But in reality, it's a deadzone. The graveyard of a once species-rich Atlantic rainforest wonderland, smothered under sheep and, in the distance, sitka.

We are, however, waking to just how much has been stolen from us.
February 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM