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Says the man who has spent his whole life killing animals and said he'd leave the country if fox hunting was banned.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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'Share' if you agree!
January 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt
October 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Dorrit Black,
The Acrobats, c.1928-29
Australian printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Landowners release 50million pheasants a year into the British countryside - and a new study shows how this is boosting the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving
Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the U.K. for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.
www.forbes.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Lotte Laserstein,
Reclining Girl on Blue c.1931 #WomensArt
March 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Can we live with bears in Europe?

Yes. Many of us already do. As I argue in LIFELINES, co-existence isn’t just an ethical or ecological issue but a practical arrangement, requiring honest dialogue, reliable compensation schemes & the return of traditional skills.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Europe’s big carnivores are on the rise – but can we live with bears next door?
Numbers of animals once hunted as vermin are rising across the continent. But scientists worry about how we are going to get along with these predators
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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What the government can’t afford:

❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance

What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.

Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
February 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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John Constable, 1827
February 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Émilie Charmy ( 1878 – 1974), French born avant-garde painter who worked in a Fauvist style
November 23, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor?

Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?

It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.

Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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If #Leicester beat #Chelsea today, one lucky person to RT this will win one of our hats: tufac.bigcartel.com/product/thic...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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If #Palace win at #Villa today, one lucky person to repost this wins the bed set
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November 23, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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“The UK has more potential for temperate rainforest restoration than anywhere else in the world… UK rainforests are resilient to low & medium amounts of future warming”

But rapid climate action needed to save other temp rainforests

Ace new research by Leeds Uni: www.leeds.ac.uk/research-32/...
Climate change threatens rare temperate rainforests
Up to two thirds of the world’s temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds.
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM