Tess
@tessamarsh.bsky.social
Policy, campaigns, nature, Cardiff 🏴
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Great blog from @ruthchambers.bsky.social today on amendments needed to the Environment Bill: "It is essential that the OEGW’s independence from the Welsh Government is watertight, something which the bill currently fails to secure."
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
#WeNeedNature #AngenNatur
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
#WeNeedNature #AngenNatur
At a crossroads: why Wales must futureproof its new green governance - Institute of Welsh Affairs
The new OEGW can fill our environmental governance gap, but it must be given the legal duty and resources to ensure its independence and delivery.
www.iwa.wales
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Great blog from @ruthchambers.bsky.social today on amendments needed to the Environment Bill: "It is essential that the OEGW’s independence from the Welsh Government is watertight, something which the bill currently fails to secure."
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
#WeNeedNature #AngenNatur
www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
#WeNeedNature #AngenNatur
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We're logging on to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our panel discussion at the Climate Cymru Act Now Change Forever mass lobby 🐝
We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.
We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We're logging on to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our panel discussion at the Climate Cymru Act Now Change Forever mass lobby 🐝
We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.
We also wanted to say a big thank you to the staff at @climatecymru.bsky.social, Bethan Sayed and Stanley Townsend for organising a brilliant day.
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Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. The non dom exodus, the collapse of private schools, which other over hyped story from the last 12 months will turn out to be nonsense?
Initial tax data allays fears of non-dom exodus from UK on.ft.com/45Ae6iz
Initial tax data allays fears of non-dom exodus from UK
Officials had expected one in four with trusts to leave Britain after status was abolished
on.ft.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. The non dom exodus, the collapse of private schools, which other over hyped story from the last 12 months will turn out to be nonsense?
Great to see this piece gaining traction. A strong Bill is crucial for us to deliver nature's recovery in Wales - and to re-establish the rights and governance we lost after leaving the EU in 2021.
We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱
We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱
It’s well-known that Wales is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, with one in six species here at risk of extinction from our lands. It’s now time we do something about it ✍️Wales Environment Link
Why Wales needs a stronger environmental principles, governance and biodiversity Bill
Wales Environment Link Wales stands at an environmental crossroads. Our shared natural heritage, once rich in wildlife, is under unprecedented pressure. Species like the fen orchid and hen harrier are...
wp.me
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Great to see this piece gaining traction. A strong Bill is crucial for us to deliver nature's recovery in Wales - and to re-establish the rights and governance we lost after leaving the EU in 2021.
We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱
We need a strong Environment Bill for a #NaturePositive Wales 🐝🐬🌱
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IMPORTANT:
The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more.
If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.
The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more.
If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.
July 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
IMPORTANT:
The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more.
If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.
The more Israeli crimes are exposed, the more emboldened Israel becomes in committing even more.
If you’re following the news & the lists of victims’ names, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Lately, every single day, Israel is killing over a hundred people—some of them entire families.
Came on here to complain about the ITV coverage of the women’s football simply not mentioning Wales’ game on Saturday but describing England’s game as ‘the big one’ but there’s actually real problems in this country 🙃
After around just 90 minutes of debate, the UK Parliament has voted to take the unprecedented step of proscribing Palestine Action, an anti-genocide protest group, as a terrorist organisation.
That is a stain that will never wash off the Labour party.
Ayes: 385
Nos: 26
That is a stain that will never wash off the Labour party.
Ayes: 385
Nos: 26
July 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Came on here to complain about the ITV coverage of the women’s football simply not mentioning Wales’ game on Saturday but describing England’s game as ‘the big one’ but there’s actually real problems in this country 🙃
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This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
June 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This afternoon, the Planning Bill enters the House of Lords.
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
Within it is a proposal that would make it easier to destroy the woods, rivers and wildlife we all love - by weakening the laws that keep them safe.
If Part 3 isn’t changed or scrapped, nature will pay the price. ⚠️
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😳 As more than 100 backbench Labour MPs prepare to rebel against the Government's cruel welfare cuts, Kemi Badenoch has offered Tory votes to push through the cuts.
Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷
Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
😳 As more than 100 backbench Labour MPs prepare to rebel against the Government's cruel welfare cuts, Kemi Badenoch has offered Tory votes to push through the cuts.
Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷
Labour and Conservatives teaming up to punish vulnerable people. Who'd have thought it... 🤷
If you joined a pride event on the weekend, now is the time to do the work and respond to this consultation ⚧️🏳️⚧️✍️
Not long left to respond to the consultation on the EHRC Code of Practice? If so, we've got some guidance to help you: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransRights #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #TransAlly #EqualityAct #EHRC
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransRights #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #TransAlly #EqualityAct #EHRC
June 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If you joined a pride event on the weekend, now is the time to do the work and respond to this consultation ⚧️🏳️⚧️✍️
“New Velindre mitigations and sustainable design features [are] no more than a sticking plaster slapped over a corpse, a particularly blatant form of greenwashing, with a high, net environmental cost.”
Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯
Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯
Campaigners who fought against the siting of a new cancer centre have expressed shock and outrage that the scheme has won a prestigious award for collaboration between the public and private sectors ✍️ Martin Shipton
Construction firm's award angers hospital campaigners
Martin Shipton Campaigners who fought against the siting of a new cancer centre have expressed shock and outrage that the scheme has won a prestigious award for collaboration between the public and pr...
nation.cymru
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“New Velindre mitigations and sustainable design features [are] no more than a sticking plaster slapped over a corpse, a particularly blatant form of greenwashing, with a high, net environmental cost.”
Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯
Save the Northern Meadows still never miss 🎯
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“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan.
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
NEW: The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter is 536 words long. None of them are “climate change."
In 'serious omission,' G7 leaders release wildfire charter with no mention of climate change
The discussions that led to the statement’s specific wording were not public. But governments of most G7 nations recognize the role of human activity in climate change, as well as the role of climate ...
www.nationalobserver.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan.
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
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Whether for love, work or to flee danger - people move. Always have and always will. It's the govt's job to make it work - but instead the failing Home Office wastes taxpayer money treating migrants like criminals. Time for something new - my report with
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social out today.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social out today.
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Whether for love, work or to flee danger - people move. Always have and always will. It's the govt's job to make it work - but instead the failing Home Office wastes taxpayer money treating migrants like criminals. Time for something new - my report with
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social out today.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social out today.
Wales is told to celebrate the pitiful £450 million for new rail, when a single road in England is getting £590m… and we were originally asking for the £4 billion owed by HS2.
This is far from the public’s priority for transport investment and every £ spent here is not being used to deliver projects that would really make a difference to people’s daily journeys and undermining goals to get more stuff moving by rail. Disappointing.
Lower Thames Crossing project awarded £590m by Rachel Reeves
Work on the Lower Thames Crossing is expected to begin in 2026 and finish by 2032.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Wales is told to celebrate the pitiful £450 million for new rail, when a single road in England is getting £590m… and we were originally asking for the £4 billion owed by HS2.
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Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.
Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.
Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
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Totally utterly completely indefensible
❗️BREAKING — The UK Ministry of Defence admits it is “currently training” Israeli military personnel in Britain.
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Totally utterly completely indefensible
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No farmers, no food.
Google Earth has just released satellite imagery of Gaza December - we're familiar with seeing destroyed buildings, but the thing that strikes me is how much farmland there is producing food for the population, and how that is gone. Replaced with tracks through the soil. Nov 23 vs Dec 24.
June 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No farmers, no food.
It's been an incredible opportunity to work on this Bill for WEL with colleagues across the ENGOs and the Welsh Government. Although there are gaps, these can be closed with ambition and determination.
It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.
It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.
We're pleased to see Welsh Gov finally introduce the Environment (Principles, Governance & Biodiversity Targets) Bill to the Senedd today. Bring on a Nature Positive Wales! business.senedd.wales/mgIssueHisto...
Here's our response, below + in more detail here: waleslink.org/wp-content/u...
Here's our response, below + in more detail here: waleslink.org/wp-content/u...
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's been an incredible opportunity to work on this Bill for WEL with colleagues across the ENGOs and the Welsh Government. Although there are gaps, these can be closed with ambition and determination.
It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.
It's crucial the Bill is strengthened to ensure it delivers real change for nature.
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All you need to know about our broken economic system, is that more people are in the market for private jets.
And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️
And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️
Farnborough airport is almost all private jets, flying the rich to and from London
They plan to expand from 40,000 to 70,000 flights per year
Protest speeches from an air quality scientist & two local councillors
1/6
@staygroundednet.bsky.social
@hacaneast.bsky.social
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
They plan to expand from 40,000 to 70,000 flights per year
Protest speeches from an air quality scientist & two local councillors
1/6
@staygroundednet.bsky.social
@hacaneast.bsky.social
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All you need to know about our broken economic system, is that more people are in the market for private jets.
And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️
And more people than ever blame immigrants for the fact that they can’t afford a house. ☹️
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We only just crossed 1.5C warming. This means a rate that is rapidly approaching 1C per decade. That means we're only 20 years away, at most, from a 3C+ world.
Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...
Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...
May 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We only just crossed 1.5C warming. This means a rate that is rapidly approaching 1C per decade. That means we're only 20 years away, at most, from a 3C+ world.
Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...
Arriving half a century sooner than was projected, half a dozen years ago. And still heating...
Imagine if Cardiff worked for people who live here instead of the visitors - got off the train and shepherded out the back of the station to a cab rank around the front where I’m immediately in a cab (great) then stuck in traffic and the driver says £25 😭
May 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Imagine if Cardiff worked for people who live here instead of the visitors - got off the train and shepherded out the back of the station to a cab rank around the front where I’m immediately in a cab (great) then stuck in traffic and the driver says £25 😭
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Devastating new figures on global forest loss increasing sharply again last year, in large part due to fires. The failure to reckon with the risk of feedback loops is probably the single biggest flaw in the debate around climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413897...
'Global red alert': Fires responsible for half of global forest loss in 2024
Record breaking levels of forest loss recorded globally in 2024, with wildfires leading to 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
www.businessgreen.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Devastating new figures on global forest loss increasing sharply again last year, in large part due to fires. The failure to reckon with the risk of feedback loops is probably the single biggest flaw in the debate around climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413897...
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Kind of amazing how nakedly dishonest are Wes Streeting's lot when it comes to suppressing data on young people taking their own lives in consequence of the withdrawal of gender affirming care. 🤯🧵
May 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Kind of amazing how nakedly dishonest are Wes Streeting's lot when it comes to suppressing data on young people taking their own lives in consequence of the withdrawal of gender affirming care. 🤯🧵
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It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - and just 3 days ago it was revealed that the UK is now one of the more difficult places in Europe to live as an LGBTQIA+ person. A sobering reminder that our rights can never be taken for granted. #IDAHOBIT2025
🚨 The UK is now one of the most difficult places in Western Europe to live as a LGBTIQA+ person - slumping to 22nd position overall
🚨 Gender Recognition and Asylum are the areas in which the UK dropped the most
🚨 The UK has made no progress on Intersex rights
🚨 Gender Recognition and Asylum are the areas in which the UK dropped the most
🚨 The UK has made no progress on Intersex rights
May 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - and just 3 days ago it was revealed that the UK is now one of the more difficult places in Europe to live as an LGBTQIA+ person. A sobering reminder that our rights can never be taken for granted. #IDAHOBIT2025
Arguing on Bluesky like it’s twitter in 2017. A beautiful Sunday morning ✨🌞
May 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Arguing on Bluesky like it’s twitter in 2017. A beautiful Sunday morning ✨🌞
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Lots of National Wales staff (including myself) were approached by Pakistani bloggers last year who had captured the expired website domain name.
They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.
They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.
Remember the National?
The short-lived news service for Wales closed in 2022, but last month the title was "relaunched" at the same web address, declaring itself: "Independent. Trusted. Unapologetically Welsh."
That tagline, and everything else about the site, was a sham...
The short-lived news service for Wales closed in 2022, but last month the title was "relaunched" at the same web address, declaring itself: "Independent. Trusted. Unapologetically Welsh."
That tagline, and everything else about the site, was a sham...
May 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Lots of National Wales staff (including myself) were approached by Pakistani bloggers last year who had captured the expired website domain name.
They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.
They've relaunched it with the worst sort of AI-generated content.