Will Payne
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It would be nice if we made our world a better place to live.
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Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
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But it's the *total* opposite.
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“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
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November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
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But it's the *total* opposite.
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Zoos and aquariums are prisons for animals. Forced to live a torturous, unnatural life in captivity for the entertainment of humans. It's disgusting. Free the penguins and close the aquarium
MPs call for release of 15 penguins ‘trapped’ at London aquarium
Cross-party group wants environment secretary to urgently examine moving the birds to a facility ‘better aligned with their needs’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Zoos and aquariums are prisons for animals. Forced to live a torturous, unnatural life in captivity for the entertainment of humans. It's disgusting. Free the penguins and close the aquarium
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
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Disgusting authoritarian overreach. This Labour government is a joke.
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Disgusting authoritarian overreach. This Labour government is a joke.
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“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”
They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”
They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing
The web of life is unravelling fast
The web of life is unravelling fast
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing
The web of life is unravelling fast
The web of life is unravelling fast
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🔴Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle
Officers drove away the van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...
Officers drove away the van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...
Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle
Officers drove away the advertising van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
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September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🔴Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle
Officers drove away the van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...
Officers drove away the van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...
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The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it.
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...
How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe
The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it.
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...
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Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them
Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s critical we r...
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our failure to act is a punishment we inflict upon ourselves. Every year it will get hotter and hotter. Until eventually we cannot take anymore.
There is still time to change. But if we fail to act, nothing else will matter, because nothing else will exist.
There is still time to change. But if we fail to act, nothing else will matter, because nothing else will exist.
Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe
Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Our failure to act is a punishment we inflict upon ourselves. Every year it will get hotter and hotter. Until eventually we cannot take anymore.
There is still time to change. But if we fail to act, nothing else will matter, because nothing else will exist.
There is still time to change. But if we fail to act, nothing else will matter, because nothing else will exist.
BBC news is such a boot licking organisation. "Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza." It's not their job to tell the country what Israel denies, it's their job to look at the (overwhelming) evidence of genocide and call it what it is.
Kneecap hit back at Starmer in highly-charged Glastonbury set - BBC News
The Irish-language rap trio play to a packed crowd, despite calls for their performance to be banned.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
BBC news is such a boot licking organisation. "Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza." It's not their job to tell the country what Israel denies, it's their job to look at the (overwhelming) evidence of genocide and call it what it is.
"If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. The sheet won’t melt all at once, of course, but scientists are increasingly concerned by signs of accelerating ice-sheet retreat. A recent report showed that it has been losing mass every year for the past 27 years"
When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. The sheet won’t melt all at once, of course, but scientists are increasingly concerned by signs of accelerating ice-sheet retreat. A recent report showed that it has been losing mass every year for the past 27 years"
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"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands."
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change
Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?
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February 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands."
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis
Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis
High temperatures likely to cause deaths and will worsen in future as global heating intensifies, scientists warn
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis
Deeply worrying authoritarian creep. "British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts ... Many have simply said something that someone else considers offensive." If we're not free to express ourselves online, then we're not free.
Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways
Muddled laws give them wide discretion
www.economist.com
May 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Deeply worrying authoritarian creep. "British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts ... Many have simply said something that someone else considers offensive." If we're not free to express ourselves online, then we're not free.
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"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."
apnews.com/article/ship...
apnews.com/article/ship...
Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
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April 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."
apnews.com/article/ship...
apnews.com/article/ship...
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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How?
Simple: overfishing is prevented.
If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
Simple: overfishing is prevented.
If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
France’s new tidal turbines aim to power thousands of homes with clean energy supplying electricity to 8 million people.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
World’s most powerful underwater turbines are coming to French coast
One of France's first commercial-scale tidal energy pilot projects, NH1 is due to supply thousands of locals with clean electricity.
www.euronews.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How?
Simple: overfishing is prevented.
If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
Simple: overfishing is prevented.
If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
• about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
March 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
• about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research theconversation.com/whales-sing-...
Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research
The findings are a window into the rich inner lives of whales – and allow us to check the health of the ocean.
theconversation.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research theconversation.com/whales-sing-...
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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...