Brian Williams
@wildsnaps.bsky.social
Left leaning exiled Scot. Happiest out in nature. Sometime photographer.
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No, they are only alienating a minority of entitled degenerates who think that chasing animals to exhaustion and throwing them live to be ripped apart by a pack of dogs is a bit of a laugh. This should have been confined to history just like bear baiting, dog fighting, and hare coursing long ago.
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
No, they are only alienating a minority of entitled degenerates who think that chasing animals to exhaustion and throwing them live to be ripped apart by a pack of dogs is a bit of a laugh. This should have been confined to history just like bear baiting, dog fighting, and hare coursing long ago.
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My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Rubbish Mountain
A gigantic pile of rubbish was dumped in a field in Oxfordshire. The response sums up everything wrong with British bureaucracy.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
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In June 2024, 80,000 of us marched peacefully to #RestoreNatureNow with hardly a mention in the media. Were we supposed to have thrown stones and fought the police to be noticed?
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Bottles thrown at police as 100 officers clash with ‘unite the kingdom’ marchers – UK politics live
Met police estimate 110,000 people attended rally, with smaller number of counter-protesters ‘penned in’
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September 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In June 2024, 80,000 of us marched peacefully to #RestoreNatureNow with hardly a mention in the media. Were we supposed to have thrown stones and fought the police to be noticed?
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This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
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Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
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Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
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September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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High Court greenlights our legal fight vs 2024 badger cull licences issued against scientific advice. Justice for wildlife is coming. 🦡⚖️ buff.ly/ZDpAouB
May 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
High Court greenlights our legal fight vs 2024 badger cull licences issued against scientific advice. Justice for wildlife is coming. 🦡⚖️ buff.ly/ZDpAouB
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Govt is portraying the new #PlanningBill as 'win-win' for nature & people. This is false. Sec of State needs to amend this statement so as not to mislead MPs' votes. We will apply for judicial review if correction not forthcoming ⚖️
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Wild Justice starts legal proceedings against Government’s controversial Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice
Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament […]
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May 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Govt is portraying the new #PlanningBill as 'win-win' for nature & people. This is false. Sec of State needs to amend this statement so as not to mislead MPs' votes. We will apply for judicial review if correction not forthcoming ⚖️
wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...
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Nine months on and Labour are still sticking to their promise not to penalise ‘Working People,’ by focusing instead on those who can’t work or are retired.
March 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Nine months on and Labour are still sticking to their promise not to penalise ‘Working People,’ by focusing instead on those who can’t work or are retired.
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If Trump was President in 1940
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If Trump was President in 1940
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We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline
Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
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February 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
February 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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The Salmon industry is facing a reckoning with mass deaths and diseases ravaging fish farms.
Farmed salmon is not ‘organic’, it’s not fit for human consumption…
Farmed salmon is not ‘organic’, it’s not fit for human consumption…
February 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Salmon industry is facing a reckoning with mass deaths and diseases ravaging fish farms.
Farmed salmon is not ‘organic’, it’s not fit for human consumption…
Farmed salmon is not ‘organic’, it’s not fit for human consumption…
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Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.
This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🇺🇸 LATEST: America Set To Crown Its First King. All Hail King Elon!
👇🏻 Please like and share this morning’s #BrokenNews report.
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All Hail King Elon! - #BrokenNews
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February 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🇺🇸 LATEST: America Set To Crown Its First King. All Hail King Elon!
👇🏻 Please like and share this morning’s #BrokenNews report.
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If Labour approves the Rosebank oil field, it would be the final straw for many of its green-minded voters. It might appease corporate power for a moment, but in doing so it will lose far more than it gains.
The government seems to be on a self-destructive streak. Now's the time to rethink.
The government seems to be on a self-destructive streak. Now's the time to rethink.
February 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
If Labour approves the Rosebank oil field, it would be the final straw for many of its green-minded voters. It might appease corporate power for a moment, but in doing so it will lose far more than it gains.
The government seems to be on a self-destructive streak. Now's the time to rethink.
The government seems to be on a self-destructive streak. Now's the time to rethink.
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DEFRA to hand taxpayer cash to NFU for badger vaccination study
The government is absurdly funding a pro-cull organisation that is skeptical about badger vaccination to carry out a vaccination study project
The government is absurdly funding a pro-cull organisation that is skeptical about badger vaccination to carry out a vaccination study project
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
DEFRA to hand taxpayer cash to NFU for badger vaccination study
The government is absurdly funding a pro-cull organisation that is skeptical about badger vaccination to carry out a vaccination study project
The government is absurdly funding a pro-cull organisation that is skeptical about badger vaccination to carry out a vaccination study project
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Equinor , the company behind the new Rosebank oilfield , say they are halving their investment in renewables . Inevitable when you have Starmer & Reeves briefing the press that they still blindly back new oil and gas .
Criminal .
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Criminal .
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Norwegian oil giant Equinor cuts green investment in half
Equinor will slash investment in renewable energy while ramping up oil and gas production.
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February 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Equinor , the company behind the new Rosebank oilfield , say they are halving their investment in renewables . Inevitable when you have Starmer & Reeves briefing the press that they still blindly back new oil and gas .
Criminal .
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Criminal .
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Number crunching: Potential increase in GDP from new third runway at Heathrow v estimated fall in world GDP for every 1°C rise in global temperatures.
February 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Number crunching: Potential increase in GDP from new third runway at Heathrow v estimated fall in world GDP for every 1°C rise in global temperatures.
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England water industry corruption:
March 2023: Ofwat said it will "stop the payment of dividends if they would risk the company’s financial resilience".
Debt-laden Thames Water still paid £196m.
Dec 2024: Thames fined £18m. ZERO PAID.
Thames allowed to choose what and when it will pay.
March 2023: Ofwat said it will "stop the payment of dividends if they would risk the company’s financial resilience".
Debt-laden Thames Water still paid £196m.
Dec 2024: Thames fined £18m. ZERO PAID.
Thames allowed to choose what and when it will pay.
The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society
Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.
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February 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
England water industry corruption:
March 2023: Ofwat said it will "stop the payment of dividends if they would risk the company’s financial resilience".
Debt-laden Thames Water still paid £196m.
Dec 2024: Thames fined £18m. ZERO PAID.
Thames allowed to choose what and when it will pay.
March 2023: Ofwat said it will "stop the payment of dividends if they would risk the company’s financial resilience".
Debt-laden Thames Water still paid £196m.
Dec 2024: Thames fined £18m. ZERO PAID.
Thames allowed to choose what and when it will pay.
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Badgers are being killed for no good reason. They’re intelligent, social animals, and the cull is causing unimaginable suffering.
If we reach 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
If we reach 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
January 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Badgers are being killed for no good reason. They’re intelligent, social animals, and the cull is causing unimaginable suffering.
If we reach 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
If we reach 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives.
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives.
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