Susan Eastoe
@susaneastoe.bsky.social
Politics, SciFi, #YNWA, nature and climate - will try not to rant too much but sometimes it’s very hard
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Exclusive: Farmers and landowners fear Defra is putting its flagship Landscape Recovery schemes at risk.
While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice.
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2025...
While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice.
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2025...
Nicola Cutcher’s Linklog: Is Defra putting its flagship Landscape Recovery scheme at risk?
cutcher.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Exclusive: Farmers and landowners fear Defra is putting its flagship Landscape Recovery schemes at risk.
While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice.
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2025...
While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice.
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2025...
Hope when GWR is nationalised they put 9 rather than 5 coaches onto all trains - overcrowding is insane and this is a 2pm weekday train. #GWR #nationalisation
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hope when GWR is nationalised they put 9 rather than 5 coaches onto all trains - overcrowding is insane and this is a 2pm weekday train. #GWR #nationalisation
London being London
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
London being London
Might have caused less chaos if they had let the tractors into Whitehall…
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Might have caused less chaos if they had let the tractors into Whitehall…
Still not sure how the new ‘mansion tax’ would work. Bands F, G and H property values differ wildly across the country. Yet the proposition is that this would be a national tax with local government not benefiting or involved in setting it / so how does it allow for valuation differentiation?
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Still not sure how the new ‘mansion tax’ would work. Bands F, G and H property values differ wildly across the country. Yet the proposition is that this would be a national tax with local government not benefiting or involved in setting it / so how does it allow for valuation differentiation?
At no point did I ever think Klopp was not the right man for job despite some challenging times - and we had them. The challenge with Slot is I am not sure he has the players with him at this point #LFC
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
At no point did I ever think Klopp was not the right man for job despite some challenging times - and we had them. The challenge with Slot is I am not sure he has the players with him at this point #LFC
Great to see a professional woman’s ref at the WALvNZL rugby - football seems a very long way behind
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Great to see a professional woman’s ref at the WALvNZL rugby - football seems a very long way behind
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One of the many, many things I hugely admire about Ukraine is its ability to keep the trains going despite being bombed daily. In the U.K. meanwhile the excuse seems to be ‘it’s Friday’ and ‘winter’…
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
One of the many, many things I hugely admire about Ukraine is its ability to keep the trains going despite being bombed daily. In the U.K. meanwhile the excuse seems to be ‘it’s Friday’ and ‘winter’…
The staff on #Avanti are brilliant - but the service itself - suboptimal to say the least and the resilience of the track support services presumably railtrack just not there
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The staff on #Avanti are brilliant - but the service itself - suboptimal to say the least and the resilience of the track support services presumably railtrack just not there
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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...
All this talk about Semenyo - why doesn’t Slot just try out Chiesa there when Mo goes to the Africa Cup? His stubbornness about certain players is worrying #LFC
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
All this talk about Semenyo - why doesn’t Slot just try out Chiesa there when Mo goes to the Africa Cup? His stubbornness about certain players is worrying #LFC
Whether you agree with the new Labour proposals or not - Reform is clearly concerned given seniority of spokespeople on GB News since the Home Secretary’s speech
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Whether you agree with the new Labour proposals or not - Reform is clearly concerned given seniority of spokespeople on GB News since the Home Secretary’s speech
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Every word of this.
Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Ca...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Every word of this.
Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Policies that will cost consumers more, suffocate nascent industries, leave us dependent on gas for longer, and jeopardise green transition are really not great overall.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Currently front page of The Times online:-
How many obstacles will our iconic swifts have to wade through to just catch a break?
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
How many obstacles will our iconic swifts have to wade through to just catch a break?
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Labour peer blocks plans for nesting brick to aid endangered swifts
The former head of the RSPB voted against plans to make swift bricks mandatory in all new housing
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Currently front page of The Times online:-
How many obstacles will our iconic swifts have to wade through to just catch a break?
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
How many obstacles will our iconic swifts have to wade through to just catch a break?
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Juliet Samuels gives the Chancellor both barrels in @thetimes.com today. To raise just £500m the Treasury has effectively frozen the investment plans of every family business in the country. One of the pillars of the economy they are cutting back rather than invest for growth. Well done everyone
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Juliet Samuels gives the Chancellor both barrels in @thetimes.com today. To raise just £500m the Treasury has effectively frozen the investment plans of every family business in the country. One of the pillars of the economy they are cutting back rather than invest for growth. Well done everyone
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The Planning Bill is back in Parliament today.‼️
From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats.
Peers reduced some of those risks.
Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.
From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats.
Peers reduced some of those risks.
Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The Planning Bill is back in Parliament today.‼️
From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats.
Peers reduced some of those risks.
Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.
From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats.
Peers reduced some of those risks.
Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.
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A reminder that a subscription service would be the end of the BBC universality, which makes the BBC the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A reminder that a subscription service would be the end of the BBC universality, which makes the BBC the BBC
#PaulJohnson with a very sensible set of proposed tax reforms in #theTimes. Won’t happen of course. I can partly understand decisions by politicians not to move forward on this basis. But have never understood why the Treasury brain does not. All are logical and all should already be in place
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#PaulJohnson with a very sensible set of proposed tax reforms in #theTimes. Won’t happen of course. I can partly understand decisions by politicians not to move forward on this basis. But have never understood why the Treasury brain does not. All are logical and all should already be in place