Ken Newton
@redbilledchough.bsky.social
Nature conservation and rewilding supporter who likes cycling and dogs. Green Party supporter who wants to stop climate breakdown, pollution and species loss and build a fairer, greener society. Born at 310 ppm.
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Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England.
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England.
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)
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Brexit detonated our economy and our politics. Since then, our country seems to have lost its mind, veering off to the right, reawakening the racism genie, ruining itself to try to hide the dishonesty and snowballing damage of it all.
And now Farage could be PM ffs.
Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy
And now Farage could be PM ffs.
Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Brexit detonated our economy and our politics. Since then, our country seems to have lost its mind, veering off to the right, reawakening the racism genie, ruining itself to try to hide the dishonesty and snowballing damage of it all.
And now Farage could be PM ffs.
Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy
And now Farage could be PM ffs.
Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy
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Twats marching through Benidorm.
Spain should really deport them.
Spain should really deport them.
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Twats marching through Benidorm.
Spain should really deport them.
Spain should really deport them.
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It took three types of politician to get the Brexit ‘win’. Intensely cynical and dishonest egotists… prejudiced ideologues… and useful idiots.
Absolutely no one in any of those categories is capable of admitting the mistake or accepting it is one.
Absolutely no one in any of those categories is capable of admitting the mistake or accepting it is one.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It took three types of politician to get the Brexit ‘win’. Intensely cynical and dishonest egotists… prejudiced ideologues… and useful idiots.
Absolutely no one in any of those categories is capable of admitting the mistake or accepting it is one.
Absolutely no one in any of those categories is capable of admitting the mistake or accepting it is one.
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Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
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“Populism, as I see it, is the 99% versus the 1% — the working majority against a tiny elite that has taken our power and wealth.”
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Populism, as I see it, is the 99% versus the 1% — the working majority against a tiny elite that has taken our power and wealth.”
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
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When someone says it clearly like this, echoing what everyone says in private, the sycophancy and double-speak of other political leaders becomes all the more intolerable.
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When someone says it clearly like this, echoing what everyone says in private, the sycophancy and double-speak of other political leaders becomes all the more intolerable.
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Interview with Sky News on yet another week with questions around this Labour Government and their conduct in office.
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Interview with Sky News on yet another week with questions around this Labour Government and their conduct in office.
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Everyone's exhausted - it doesn't need to be this way.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We can make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Since the early 2000s the cost for home solar panels dropped around 95+% if I recall. I bet that's somewhat commensurate for industrial solar.
Wind has dropped around 70% for onshore and 80% for offshore.
We need to invest in mass storage, then most fossil fuel generation can be avoided.
Wind has dropped around 70% for onshore and 80% for offshore.
We need to invest in mass storage, then most fossil fuel generation can be avoided.
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Since the early 2000s the cost for home solar panels dropped around 95+% if I recall. I bet that's somewhat commensurate for industrial solar.
Wind has dropped around 70% for onshore and 80% for offshore.
We need to invest in mass storage, then most fossil fuel generation can be avoided.
Wind has dropped around 70% for onshore and 80% for offshore.
We need to invest in mass storage, then most fossil fuel generation can be avoided.
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The decarbonisation of U.K grid electricity with renewable energy is an international success story.
It shows a low fossil fuel world is possible.
That’s why fossil fuel industry-owned politicians and think tanks are launching an unprecedented assault against it.
It shows a low fossil fuel world is possible.
That’s why fossil fuel industry-owned politicians and think tanks are launching an unprecedented assault against it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The decarbonisation of U.K grid electricity with renewable energy is an international success story.
It shows a low fossil fuel world is possible.
That’s why fossil fuel industry-owned politicians and think tanks are launching an unprecedented assault against it.
It shows a low fossil fuel world is possible.
That’s why fossil fuel industry-owned politicians and think tanks are launching an unprecedented assault against it.
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Another performative hair shirt policy from Labour to please some knuckledragging group or other.
All this absolute nonsense, while Britain's economy bleeds out because of Brexit.
All this absolute nonsense, while Britain's economy bleeds out because of Brexit.
Rachel Reeves ‘to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes’
Rachel Reeves ‘to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes’
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
Rachel Reeves has drawn up a plan to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy expensive manual and electric bicycles, according to a report.
The chancellor is expected to introduce a new limit on how much people can spend on a bicycle through the cycle to work scheme in this month’s budget, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with budget preparations, amid concerns that subsidising cycle purchases is not the best use of taxpayers’ money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Another performative hair shirt policy from Labour to please some knuckledragging group or other.
All this absolute nonsense, while Britain's economy bleeds out because of Brexit.
All this absolute nonsense, while Britain's economy bleeds out because of Brexit.
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Oh, Canada...
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Oh, Canada...
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Wonder if Rachel Reeves' team will read this...
"A luxury levy would be politically smart – it would primarily fall on the wealthiest, including wealthy tourists visiting London, while sparing working-class voters."
labourlist.org/2025/11/budg...
"A luxury levy would be politically smart – it would primarily fall on the wealthiest, including wealthy tourists visiting London, while sparing working-class voters."
labourlist.org/2025/11/budg...
'A luxury levy is the politically savvy way to ensure the rich pay more tax' - LabourList
The chancellor should consider a luxury levy to raise revenue from the wealthiest, and has significant political benefits.
labourlist.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Wonder if Rachel Reeves' team will read this...
"A luxury levy would be politically smart – it would primarily fall on the wealthiest, including wealthy tourists visiting London, while sparing working-class voters."
labourlist.org/2025/11/budg...
"A luxury levy would be politically smart – it would primarily fall on the wealthiest, including wealthy tourists visiting London, while sparing working-class voters."
labourlist.org/2025/11/budg...
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Today I voted for protecting nature.
The Lords added sensible, evidence-based amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to strengthen nature protection. But the govt rejected them.
Ministers need to listen - to experts, to trusted organisations, and to the public.
The Lords added sensible, evidence-based amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to strengthen nature protection. But the govt rejected them.
Ministers need to listen - to experts, to trusted organisations, and to the public.
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today I voted for protecting nature.
The Lords added sensible, evidence-based amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to strengthen nature protection. But the govt rejected them.
Ministers need to listen - to experts, to trusted organisations, and to the public.
The Lords added sensible, evidence-based amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to strengthen nature protection. But the govt rejected them.
Ministers need to listen - to experts, to trusted organisations, and to the public.
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X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
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Climate crisis - what climate crisis?
The latest f*ckwit decision from this appalling government
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The latest f*ckwit decision from this appalling government
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Climate crisis - what climate crisis?
The latest f*ckwit decision from this appalling government
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The latest f*ckwit decision from this appalling government
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
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Sitting here in the UK, where the most incentive we have to cycle comes in the form of salary sacrifice and tax breaks, looking enviously at France where they just give you the damn money.
Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sitting here in the UK, where the most incentive we have to cycle comes in the form of salary sacrifice and tax breaks, looking enviously at France where they just give you the damn money.
Every complacent white person (which includes me) should read this. Why complacent? Because I always thought that seeing and treating everyone in the same way was enough - but reading this shows that it really isn’t enough.
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
I Was So Close To Becoming A Doctor. Then I Was Forced To Complete A Truly Humiliating 'Assignment.'
"I put on a happy face. But my internal world was frenzied. I... was... appalled."
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Every complacent white person (which includes me) should read this. Why complacent? Because I always thought that seeing and treating everyone in the same way was enough - but reading this shows that it really isn’t enough.
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
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Woodpecker holes! Loads of them.
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Woodpecker holes! Loads of them.
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This is a v depressing read.
Yes, there’s still time.
Yes, if people’s lives start to get better, then they may turn their back on Reform’s clowncar of extremism…
BUT, the very things these voters think they want… closed borders, Brexit deregulation, low tax, leaving the ECHR… are all ruinous ideas.
Yes, there’s still time.
Yes, if people’s lives start to get better, then they may turn their back on Reform’s clowncar of extremism…
BUT, the very things these voters think they want… closed borders, Brexit deregulation, low tax, leaving the ECHR… are all ruinous ideas.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a v depressing read.
Yes, there’s still time.
Yes, if people’s lives start to get better, then they may turn their back on Reform’s clowncar of extremism…
BUT, the very things these voters think they want… closed borders, Brexit deregulation, low tax, leaving the ECHR… are all ruinous ideas.
Yes, there’s still time.
Yes, if people’s lives start to get better, then they may turn their back on Reform’s clowncar of extremism…
BUT, the very things these voters think they want… closed borders, Brexit deregulation, low tax, leaving the ECHR… are all ruinous ideas.
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The American eel is an iconic species native to North America. Today it’s Endangered. Its numbers have plummeted to historic lows.
At #CITESCoP20, we will urge Parties to support Proposal 35, which would provide critical oversight to help prevent overexploitation and illegal trafficking of eels. 🌎
At #CITESCoP20, we will urge Parties to support Proposal 35, which would provide critical oversight to help prevent overexploitation and illegal trafficking of eels. 🌎
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The American eel is an iconic species native to North America. Today it’s Endangered. Its numbers have plummeted to historic lows.
At #CITESCoP20, we will urge Parties to support Proposal 35, which would provide critical oversight to help prevent overexploitation and illegal trafficking of eels. 🌎
At #CITESCoP20, we will urge Parties to support Proposal 35, which would provide critical oversight to help prevent overexploitation and illegal trafficking of eels. 🌎
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Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes
Coiled nerves allow the reptiles to move their peepers in multiple directions at once without moving their heads
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏