Nutcracker
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Birds, conifers and some green & pro-European politics.
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14 November, bike along to Elswick just in time to see @pauldavidson936.bsky.social's Great Northern Diver for 4 or 5 minutes before it flew off! #135 on the green patch yearlist 😃😃😃
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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
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Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river
Police are investigating after a cygnet was believed to have been shot with a ball bearing projectile in a Northumberland park
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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The 15- and 16-year-old “terrorists” those Brave IDF Warriors “eliminated” today.
After gunning down these children, the occupation took their bodies hostage for no given reason.
After gunning down these children, the occupation took their bodies hostage for no given reason.
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The 15- and 16-year-old “terrorists” those Brave IDF Warriors “eliminated” today.
After gunning down these children, the occupation took their bodies hostage for no given reason.
After gunning down these children, the occupation took their bodies hostage for no given reason.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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What on earth was the reason for the 3 line whip to vote this down? The Labour party supported the swift brick amendment when it was tabled on Conservative government legislation in 2023. Why has it gone from supporting swift bricks in opposition to imposing a 3 line whip to block them in government
In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
What on earth was the reason for the 3 line whip to vote this down? The Labour party supported the swift brick amendment when it was tabled on Conservative government legislation in 2023. Why has it gone from supporting swift bricks in opposition to imposing a 3 line whip to block them in government
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Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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"Guardians of the countryside" update
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Guardians of the countryside" update
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Delighted to cone across this Gateshead mega this morning, Great Northern Diver on the Tyne at Dunston - full patch tick! #NEbirding
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Delighted to cone across this Gateshead mega this morning, Great Northern Diver on the Tyne at Dunston - full patch tick! #NEbirding
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In what was probably his last political action, Geoffrey Bindman signed a public letter condemning the proscription of Palestine Action. The letter demanded “an immediate stop to the escalating genocide and to end all UK complicity with Israel’s crimes”.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/geoffrey-...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/geoffrey-...
Geoffrey Bindman and his pursuit of justice for all
From calling for Tony Blair to be tried, to defending Gaza, Geoffrey always fought for everyone to have the rights they deserved
www.opendemocracy.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In what was probably his last political action, Geoffrey Bindman signed a public letter condemning the proscription of Palestine Action. The letter demanded “an immediate stop to the escalating genocide and to end all UK complicity with Israel’s crimes”.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/geoffrey-...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/geoffrey-...
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@francescaalbanese.bsky.social denounces the UK's crackdown on Palestine Action, saying it has helped create "a climate of complicity".
"framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes," she said.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/france...
"framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes," she said.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/france...
Francesca Albanese: Why I'm accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide
The UN’s top expert on Palestine accuses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ‘enabling genocide’ in Gaza and calls out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel
www.middleeasteye.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@francescaalbanese.bsky.social denounces the UK's crackdown on Palestine Action, saying it has helped create "a climate of complicity".
"framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes," she said.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/france...
"framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes," she said.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/france...
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8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
8. Anyway, please remember, amid all the noise about the prisons crisis, that it is caused not by rising crime or rising population. It is caused by rising demands from people who do not represent this country and do not have our interests at heart. Thank you. 8/8
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7. You can see this pressure working simultaneously in the same government’s astonishingly draconian anti-protest laws: piling yet more measures on top of the extreme punitive regime introduced by the Tories. Want to free up some prison places? Then stop banging up peaceful protesters.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
7. You can see this pressure working simultaneously in the same government’s astonishingly draconian anti-protest laws: piling yet more measures on top of the extreme punitive regime introduced by the Tories. Want to free up some prison places? Then stop banging up peaceful protesters.
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4. Those who own media platforms repeatedly bang the drum for longer sentences and greater criminalisation of the underclasses. They frequently exaggerate the dangers of crime and claim it is rising when it is falling. They push governments ever further towards a prison state. 4/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
4. Those who own media platforms repeatedly bang the drum for longer sentences and greater criminalisation of the underclasses. They frequently exaggerate the dangers of crime and claim it is rising when it is falling. They push governments ever further towards a prison state. 4/8
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3. Very rich people and corporations suffer from what I call Property Paranoia: an extreme fear of lower social classes, who might want what they have and seek to take it from them. They demand ever more draconian legal regimes to keep the masses in check. 3/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
3. Very rich people and corporations suffer from what I call Property Paranoia: an extreme fear of lower social classes, who might want what they have and seek to take it from them. They demand ever more draconian legal regimes to keep the masses in check. 3/8
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2. Given that locking more people up is NOT a response to rising crime, we could ask ourselves why it has been happening.
I see it as one symptom of the rising power of the economic elite, and of its influence over successive governments. 2/8
I see it as one symptom of the rising power of the economic elite, and of its influence over successive governments. 2/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
2. Given that locking more people up is NOT a response to rising crime, we could ask ourselves why it has been happening.
I see it as one symptom of the rising power of the economic elite, and of its influence over successive governments. 2/8
I see it as one symptom of the rising power of the economic elite, and of its influence over successive governments. 2/8
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Cartoon by John Deering.
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cartoon by John Deering.
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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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Think that’s why we still get rare/scarce birds in numbers (at times) as their populations haven’t been affected. So we’ll get a scarce bird with 8 common migrants, where as 20 years ago we would have got a scarce bird with 80 common migrants!
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Think that’s why we still get rare/scarce birds in numbers (at times) as their populations haven’t been affected. So we’ll get a scarce bird with 8 common migrants, where as 20 years ago we would have got a scarce bird with 80 common migrants!
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And don’t we know it! I don’t think we get much of the way of even common migrants now unless winds originate well to the east not from just over The North Sea as used to be the case.The further east you go the less serious the population decline has been is my admittedly completely untested theory.
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
And don’t we know it! I don’t think we get much of the way of even common migrants now unless winds originate well to the east not from just over The North Sea as used to be the case.The further east you go the less serious the population decline has been is my admittedly completely untested theory.
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#Starmer
Funny isn't it.
All these RW #LabourMPs. All leading lights in sabotaging Corbyn & 2 GEs. Held up as sensible adult centrists in the room, the future of #Labour are finally exposed for the greedy, talentless, vacuous pondlife they always were...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
Funny isn't it.
All these RW #LabourMPs. All leading lights in sabotaging Corbyn & 2 GEs. Held up as sensible adult centrists in the room, the future of #Labour are finally exposed for the greedy, talentless, vacuous pondlife they always were...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
Starmer may fall, but the right’s grip on Labour won’t be broken from within
IF KEIR STARMER intended to stave off a leadership challenge by advertising his readiness to fight one, he has miscalculated.All his intervention has done is placed the question of his leadership at t...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#Starmer
Funny isn't it.
All these RW #LabourMPs. All leading lights in sabotaging Corbyn & 2 GEs. Held up as sensible adult centrists in the room, the future of #Labour are finally exposed for the greedy, talentless, vacuous pondlife they always were...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
Funny isn't it.
All these RW #LabourMPs. All leading lights in sabotaging Corbyn & 2 GEs. Held up as sensible adult centrists in the room, the future of #Labour are finally exposed for the greedy, talentless, vacuous pondlife they always were...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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The problem with pinning our hopes on nature to clean up our emissions is that the more the planet heats, the less it's able to do so
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
The land and ocean CO₂ sink are 25% and 7% smaller, respectively, than they would have been without the effects of climate change and variability, on average for the 2015-2024 period.
Combined, this is equivalent to the total sink (land and ocean) being nearly 20% smaller than otherwise.
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Combined, this is equivalent to the total sink (land and ocean) being nearly 20% smaller than otherwise.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The problem with pinning our hopes on nature to clean up our emissions is that the more the planet heats, the less it's able to do so
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff
We can't plant our way out of this. We need to stop burning stuff