Darren Burling
@chesterdaz.bsky.social
Chester FC, real ale, cyclist, environmental campaigner....
Stop Israeli genocide.. 🇵🇸
Stop Israeli genocide.. 🇵🇸
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If you’re outraged by the mass shooting of Jews in Sydney but not by the mass shooting of Palestinian children by armed settlers. Then you’re the problem.
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you’re outraged by the mass shooting of Jews in Sydney but not by the mass shooting of Palestinian children by armed settlers. Then you’re the problem.
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NME: Kneecap, Massive Attack, Garbage highlight fears for Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike in UK
Palestine Action were proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government earlier this year
www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Palestine Action were proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government earlier this year
www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Kneecap, Massive Attack, Garbage highlight fears for Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike in UK
Kneecap, Massive Attack and Garbage have highlighted their fears for a group of Palestine Acton prisoners on hunger strike in the UK.
www.nme.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
NME: Kneecap, Massive Attack, Garbage highlight fears for Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike in UK
Palestine Action were proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government earlier this year
www.nme.com/news/music/k...
Palestine Action were proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government earlier this year
www.nme.com/news/music/k...
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For a glimpse of just how complex, fascinating and unexpected soil ecosystems are, have a watch of this video, and see if it doesn't blow your mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGI...
How the soil healed wounded soldiers - a tale from Regenesis | George Monbiot
YouTube video by Sustainable Human
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
For a glimpse of just how complex, fascinating and unexpected soil ecosystems are, have a watch of this video, and see if it doesn't blow your mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGI...
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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Donald Trump "awarded" FIFA's first peace prize.
Donald Trump "awarded" FIFA's first peace prize.
December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Donald Trump "awarded" FIFA's first peace prize.
Donald Trump "awarded" FIFA's first peace prize.
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Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
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Your donation says yes to beavers. Yes to wetlands. Yes to bringing nature back.
Thanks to generous funders, every gift is match-funded, so your support goes twice as far!
Please like, share and donate today 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
#ChristmasChallenge #donatetoday
Thanks to generous funders, every gift is match-funded, so your support goes twice as far!
Please like, share and donate today 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
#ChristmasChallenge #donatetoday
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Your donation says yes to beavers. Yes to wetlands. Yes to bringing nature back.
Thanks to generous funders, every gift is match-funded, so your support goes twice as far!
Please like, share and donate today 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
#ChristmasChallenge #donatetoday
Thanks to generous funders, every gift is match-funded, so your support goes twice as far!
Please like, share and donate today 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
#ChristmasChallenge #donatetoday
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Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors.
See link in pinned post.
See link in pinned post.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors.
See link in pinned post.
See link in pinned post.
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Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Simply a brilliant interview. If you watch one thing this week please watch this...
youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Simply a brilliant interview. If you watch one thing this week please watch this...
youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
From the local Hynot campaign. Stop these fossil fuel projects wasting taxpayer money - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...
Tell chancellor Rachel Reeves to stop funding carbon capture and storage
Dear Rachel Reeves,
In your statement to the House of Commons in July last year, you announced a £22billion black hole in public finances. Three months later, the government pledged £22billion of pub...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
From the local Hynot campaign. Stop these fossil fuel projects wasting taxpayer money - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...
Exactly. It's basically a runaway train.
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Exactly. It's basically a runaway train.
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
Climate tipping points, feedback from methane emissions, etc..
2 degrees becomes 3 degrees.
3 degrees becomes 4 degrees.
4 degrees becomes...
Hang on food production has already collapsed...
As a landlord myself I feckin hate most landlords. They're nearly all selfish, money grabbing reprobates.
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single rogue landlord in past three years despite 300,000 separate complaints.
Less than 2% of complaints led to any action.
2010-2020 Austerity: 41% cut in enforcement funding, staff cut by a third.
Law without enforcement is a cruel hoax.
Less than 2% of complaints led to any action.
2010-2020 Austerity: 41% cut in enforcement funding, staff cut by a third.
Law without enforcement is a cruel hoax.
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As a landlord myself I feckin hate most landlords. They're nearly all selfish, money grabbing reprobates.
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
Hope you appreciate the hypocrisy of that statement tho..😳
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“most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history”
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
Hunger strike continues as protests planned in Aberystwyth and Cardiff
Campaigners vow “most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history” A ROLLING hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned...
pembrokeshire-herald.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“most widespread civil disobedience in modern UK history”
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
A hunger strike by prisoners linked to the proscribed group Palestine Action is continuing as new protests are planned in Aberystwyth & Cardiff under the banner of the Lift The Ban campaign.
pembrokeshire-herald.com/126696/hunge...
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Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
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The COP process has been utterly compromised by the fossil fuel lobby for years
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The COP process has been utterly compromised by the fossil fuel lobby for years
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank.
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank.
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa
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Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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There are around 1,500 rivers in Britain, so the government’s manifesto pledge to create a mere 9 river walks is simply pathetic.
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Walkers protest over riverbank access
Campaigners take to the banks of the River Dart, calling for the right to access all English rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
There are around 1,500 rivers in Britain, so the government’s manifesto pledge to create a mere 9 river walks is simply pathetic.
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give the public a right of responsible access to all rivers & the wider countryside.
Our @righttoroam.bsky.social trespass on BBC news:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today we are reporting good news for once! This is why jury trial should be protected at all costs. @defendourjuries.bsky.social
A good day for peaceful protest
This is why juries should be protected at all costs
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today we are reporting good news for once! This is why jury trial should be protected at all costs. @defendourjuries.bsky.social
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PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
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Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
I went in search of Britain's cosiest pubs - here are my 20 favourites
From 200-year-old inns to charming, snug-filled bolt-holes, a renowned expert selects some of the most welcoming watering holes to visit as the nights draw in
inews.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse
October 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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