Nicola Cutcher
@nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, writer and filmmaker.
Deeply saddened that Nabil Shaban has died. A towering inspiration with his mischievous and irrepressible spirit. He did incredible things and was a font of extraordinary stories. There’s nobody like him. I was so lucky to know him. Love you Nabs!
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Nabil Shaban obituary
Actor and founder of Graeae, a theatre company and platform for disabled and neurodivergent performers
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Deeply saddened that Nabil Shaban has died. A towering inspiration with his mischievous and irrepressible spirit. He did incredible things and was a font of extraordinary stories. There’s nobody like him. I was so lucky to know him. Love you Nabs!
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
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Our latest newsletter is out! It covers the expose of Red Tractor, the Wye legal case and shares three new films - plus more….
Read it here and click the link to subscribe to our monthly mailing list.
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Wye latest: Red Tractor exposed, legal claim filed and new films
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October 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Our latest newsletter is out! It covers the expose of Red Tractor, the Wye legal case and shares three new films - plus more….
Read it here and click the link to subscribe to our monthly mailing list.
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Read it here and click the link to subscribe to our monthly mailing list.
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Huge news!
Red Tractor = false advertising.
I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
Red Tractor = false advertising.
I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
🚨 NEWS! Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims 🚨
A TV ad by the UK’s biggest farm assurance scheme has been banned after the @adstandards.bsky.social found “insufficient evidence” that Red Tractor farms met basic environmental standards.
READ MORE: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A TV ad by the UK’s biggest farm assurance scheme has been banned after the @adstandards.bsky.social found “insufficient evidence” that Red Tractor farms met basic environmental standards.
READ MORE: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Huge news!
Red Tractor = false advertising.
I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
Red Tractor = false advertising.
I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
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Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
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Hay Festival Winter Weekend! 🌿💙
Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.
🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.
🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
September 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Hay Festival Winter Weekend! 🌿💙
Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.
🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.
🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
Delighted to be interviewing the actor and activist James Murray about the state of our rivers. Join us on Saturday 29 November at 2.30pm in Hay Castle!
Let’s go!!!
Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 programme is here. Members enjoy priority booking until Friday.
Join us! www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 programme is here. Members enjoy priority booking until Friday.
Join us! www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Delighted to be interviewing the actor and activist James Murray about the state of our rivers. Join us on Saturday 29 November at 2.30pm in Hay Castle!
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Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
This is the riverbed of the River Dore in Herefordshire today. What a drought. There were still crayfish under the rocks. Eerie scene.
August 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is the riverbed of the River Dore in Herefordshire today. What a drought. There were still crayfish under the rocks. Eerie scene.
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It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat.
This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
![Just eat less meat’
Singh-Watson may believe he has softened. But for many years he has been an iconoclastic voice among farmers. Take meat: most British farmers reject calls to eat less red meat to reduce damage to the environment and people’s health. Singh-Watson says eat good meat but less often: just 5% of what Riverford sells is meat. He had shared an organic chicken with eight people the previous evening: “I probably won’t buy another one for a month.”
“I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rc66vw4ruqwyhohdi6y75gdw/bafkreiailejl5nvrrr6u3oab5ggyhlblkgobygxfcqeqbjkgwxckdoi77u@jpeg)
August 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat.
This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brilliant to see The Observer devote its front page to examining the government’s treatment of Palestine Action. Excellent coverage inside.
Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
August 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Brilliant to see The Observer devote its front page to examining the government’s treatment of Palestine Action. Excellent coverage inside.
Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
Brilliant long-read from @abistephenson.bsky.social in the Guardian about extreme pregnancy sickness - how much suffering it causes and why it’s so weirdly neglected.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The long read: The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Brilliant long-read from @abistephenson.bsky.social in the Guardian about extreme pregnancy sickness - how much suffering it causes and why it’s so weirdly neglected.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This is a refreshingly frank take on Welsh farming from politician Lee Waters. Recommend reading…
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We need to re-set the debate on farming
Speech in the Senedd on 16th July 2025 Let me start with the obvious: Farming is hard. I am proud to come from a family of farmers, and I un...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is a refreshingly frank take on Welsh farming from politician Lee Waters. Recommend reading…
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...
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Our latest newsletter dropped this morning with a bumper round-up of news affecting the Wye this month. Read all about bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, legal victories and lots of ways you can help defend our rivers…
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Wye News: Bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, farming schemes...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Our latest newsletter dropped this morning with a bumper round-up of news affecting the Wye this month. Read all about bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, legal victories and lots of ways you can help defend our rivers…
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Just found an old script from Dumbshow Theatre for ‘Electric Dreams’ which was based on The Shock Doctrine.
The opening line feels especially pertinent today:
“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
The opening line feels especially pertinent today:
“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
July 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just found an old script from Dumbshow Theatre for ‘Electric Dreams’ which was based on The Shock Doctrine.
The opening line feels especially pertinent today:
“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
The opening line feels especially pertinent today:
“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
Screenwriter Ronan Bennett rousingly condemns the government’s position on Palestine Action. What a last line!
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested
Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Screenwriter Ronan Bennett rousingly condemns the government’s position on Palestine Action. What a last line!
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Proscribing Palestine Action is a huge over-reach by the state.
People of conscience holding placards have been arrested for ‘terrorism’ offences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People of conscience holding placards have been arrested for ‘terrorism’ offences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than 70 arrests at Palestine Action ban protests
The protests - and the arrests - come after the pro-Palestinian group was proscribed as a terror organisation.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Proscribing Palestine Action is a huge over-reach by the state.
People of conscience holding placards have been arrested for ‘terrorism’ offences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People of conscience holding placards have been arrested for ‘terrorism’ offences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
How on earth has Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer who defended peaceful non-violent direct action, ended up proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group?
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
July 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
How on earth has Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer who defended peaceful non-violent direct action, ended up proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group?
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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🚨 Take part in one of the most important public events since the March for Clean Water!
Join us at the UK River Summit 2025 and demand answers from those in power. This is your chance to challenge the status quo and push for urgent water reform.
🎟️ Book your place now - www.theriversummit.com
Join us at the UK River Summit 2025 and demand answers from those in power. This is your chance to challenge the status quo and push for urgent water reform.
🎟️ Book your place now - www.theriversummit.com
Celebrating Rivers
www.theriversummit.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨 Take part in one of the most important public events since the March for Clean Water!
Join us at the UK River Summit 2025 and demand answers from those in power. This is your chance to challenge the status quo and push for urgent water reform.
🎟️ Book your place now - www.theriversummit.com
Join us at the UK River Summit 2025 and demand answers from those in power. This is your chance to challenge the status quo and push for urgent water reform.
🎟️ Book your place now - www.theriversummit.com
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And a Agriculture and food panel including 🍗:
⭐ Amy Fairman - Head of Campaigns at River Action
⭐ Ruth Westcott - Campaign Coordnator at Sustain
⭐ @nicolacutcher.bsky.social - Journalist and founding member of Friends of the Wye
⭐ Martin Lines - Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network UK
⭐ Amy Fairman - Head of Campaigns at River Action
⭐ Ruth Westcott - Campaign Coordnator at Sustain
⭐ @nicolacutcher.bsky.social - Journalist and founding member of Friends of the Wye
⭐ Martin Lines - Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network UK
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
And a Agriculture and food panel including 🍗:
⭐ Amy Fairman - Head of Campaigns at River Action
⭐ Ruth Westcott - Campaign Coordnator at Sustain
⭐ @nicolacutcher.bsky.social - Journalist and founding member of Friends of the Wye
⭐ Martin Lines - Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network UK
⭐ Amy Fairman - Head of Campaigns at River Action
⭐ Ruth Westcott - Campaign Coordnator at Sustain
⭐ @nicolacutcher.bsky.social - Journalist and founding member of Friends of the Wye
⭐ Martin Lines - Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network UK
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I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
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Join us this Saturday in Talgarth at the BMC ‘Beth Nawr?’ Festival.
Our @nicolacutcher.bsky.social will be running a workshop from 5pm to 7pm on ‘How to Protect Rivers’ with legendary river guardian @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Tickets here:
blackmountainscollege.uk/events/beth-...
Our @nicolacutcher.bsky.social will be running a workshop from 5pm to 7pm on ‘How to Protect Rivers’ with legendary river guardian @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Tickets here:
blackmountainscollege.uk/events/beth-...
Beth Nawr? (Now What?) Festival | Black Mountains College
We invite you to join us for a micro-festival nestled in the hills of Bannau Brycheiniog to unleash your capacity to create a future in which human and more-than-human societies thrive. Tickets only £...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Join us this Saturday in Talgarth at the BMC ‘Beth Nawr?’ Festival.
Our @nicolacutcher.bsky.social will be running a workshop from 5pm to 7pm on ‘How to Protect Rivers’ with legendary river guardian @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Tickets here:
blackmountainscollege.uk/events/beth-...
Our @nicolacutcher.bsky.social will be running a workshop from 5pm to 7pm on ‘How to Protect Rivers’ with legendary river guardian @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Tickets here:
blackmountainscollege.uk/events/beth-...
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In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish.
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
www.monbiot.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish.
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
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"Ministers repeatedly dodge the simple question: has the UK government conducted a risk assessment of genocide in Gaza? If not, why not? And if so, what does it say?"
Read my op-ed on the UK's duty to prevent genocide in Gaza here: parliamentnews.co.uk/we-cannot-wa...
Read my op-ed on the UK's duty to prevent genocide in Gaza here: parliamentnews.co.uk/we-cannot-wa...
June 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Ministers repeatedly dodge the simple question: has the UK government conducted a risk assessment of genocide in Gaza? If not, why not? And if so, what does it say?"
Read my op-ed on the UK's duty to prevent genocide in Gaza here: parliamentnews.co.uk/we-cannot-wa...
Read my op-ed on the UK's duty to prevent genocide in Gaza here: parliamentnews.co.uk/we-cannot-wa...