Jonathan
@clarets7.bsky.social
Passionate about preserving the UK's irreplaceable habitats and the biodiversity they support. West Yorkshire, UK.
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OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
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NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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THE DEATH OF HUMANITY!!
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Elon Musk
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END HUMANITY!!
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Elon Musk
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END HUMANITY!!
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
THE DEATH OF HUMANITY!!
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
——————
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Elon Musk
———-
END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END HUMANITY!!
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
——————
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Elon Musk
———-
END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END HUMANITY!!
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Fond memories of his 2002 visit to Thorne & Hatfield Moors SSSI when we delivered a conference celebrating buy out of peat extraction permissions on T,H & at Wedholme Flow.
Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking.
www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...
Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking.
www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...
Stuart Brooks, advocate for peatlands
For much of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, peatlands sat awkwardly at the edge of public consciousness. Neither conventionally scenic nor easily commodified, they were drained, burned, plante...
www.butlernature.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fond memories of his 2002 visit to Thorne & Hatfield Moors SSSI when we delivered a conference celebrating buy out of peat extraction permissions on T,H & at Wedholme Flow.
Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking.
www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...
Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking.
www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...
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An absolute disaster for nature, climate and humanity - everything we depend on to survive, from food to water, requires a healthy natural world. In the UK nature is already at rock bottom, one of the worst in the world. This Government is doing the unthinkable and harming what little is left.
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
An absolute disaster for nature, climate and humanity - everything we depend on to survive, from food to water, requires a healthy natural world. In the UK nature is already at rock bottom, one of the worst in the world. This Government is doing the unthinkable and harming what little is left.
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🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Over 100,000 acres of our public forests used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger than the Isle of W...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Alan Sked, the founder of Ukip, has made such an allegation, saying that the 33 year old Farage spoke about black voters being unreachable for Ukip using racial slurs in 1997, the year Farage replaced Sked as leader. See this 2014 interview
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
December 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Alan Sked, the founder of Ukip, has made such an allegation, saying that the 33 year old Farage spoke about black voters being unreachable for Ukip using racial slurs in 1997, the year Farage replaced Sked as leader. See this 2014 interview
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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‘By summer’s end I had an entire housing estate of avian abodes, a metropolis of miniscule mansions for our feathered friends.’
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘By summer’s end I had an entire housing estate of avian abodes, a metropolis of miniscule mansions for our feathered friends.’
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social Thank you for this web page, can you promote it on here please? www.ywt.org.uk/calderdale-e...
Calderdale Energy Park | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Calderdale Energy Park
www.ywt.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social Thank you for this web page, can you promote it on here please? www.ywt.org.uk/calderdale-e...
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@support.bsky.team we notice you now have to age verify to access messages. How do we do this as an organisation please?
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@support.bsky.team we notice you now have to age verify to access messages. How do we do this as an organisation please?
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Yesterday an NGO boss told me that all funders now use "AI" to assess bids.
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yesterday an NGO boss told me that all funders now use "AI" to assess bids.
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
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A poll of readers of my monthly newsletter (464 responses) shows that 44% of them say they voted #Labour in 2024 but only 7% would vote that way in a general election tomorrow.
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A poll of readers of my monthly newsletter (464 responses) shows that 44% of them say they voted #Labour in 2024 but only 7% would vote that way in a general election tomorrow.
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
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Labour have lost voters who care about nature to the Green Party - a majority of people in the UK care about restoring nature. It’s understandable as Labour lied about protecting nature up until the day before the election and have since thrown nature under the bus.
A poll of readers of my monthly newsletter (464 responses) shows that 44% of them say they voted #Labour in 2024 but only 7% would vote that way in a general election tomorrow.
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Labour have lost voters who care about nature to the Green Party - a majority of people in the UK care about restoring nature. It’s understandable as Labour lied about protecting nature up until the day before the election and have since thrown nature under the bus.
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In 24 hours this has now raised £150,000.
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In 24 hours this has now raised £150,000.
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.
Let's make small donations normal again!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Over the last year the new Government has actively been destroying the peatland it promised us in the manifesto it would protect - the delay on the agreed ban is inexplicable www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
Bogs not bags... | Yorkshire Peat Partnership
In 2011, the UK Government set a voluntary target for the use of peat in amateur horticulture to be phased out by 2020. In 2021, Defra launched a consultation on whether the use of peat in horticultur...
www.yppartnership.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Over the last year the new Government has actively been destroying the peatland it promised us in the manifesto it would protect - the delay on the agreed ban is inexplicable www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-...
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The UK government’s budget is simply managing decline.
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth.
Can't grow economy by hiking taxes on low/middle income families.
Whatever happened to taxing the rich?
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth.
Can't grow economy by hiking taxes on low/middle income families.
Whatever happened to taxing the rich?
The government’s budget is simply managing decline
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The UK government’s budget is simply managing decline.
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth.
Can't grow economy by hiking taxes on low/middle income families.
Whatever happened to taxing the rich?
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth.
Can't grow economy by hiking taxes on low/middle income families.
Whatever happened to taxing the rich?
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"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
How Europhobia crushed Tories, and why Labour must beware
From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party. Labour risks repeating the same mistake
bylines.scot
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"From Thatcher to Brexit, the Tories’ war on Europe turned a political colossus into a crippled party.
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
Labour risks repeating the same mistake."
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People hated by Fascists
V
People hated by Antifascists.
V
People hated by Antifascists.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
People hated by Fascists
V
People hated by Antifascists.
V
People hated by Antifascists.
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UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations
French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
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Migration policy is being driven by fear of Reform not by rational thought
'a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase deficit by c. £20bn'
We will all feel poorer and Reform will just find another group to blame this on
Labour need to find the courage to take on the racist rhetoric
'a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase deficit by c. £20bn'
We will all feel poorer and Reform will just find another group to blame this on
Labour need to find the courage to take on the racist rhetoric
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Migration policy is being driven by fear of Reform not by rational thought
'a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase deficit by c. £20bn'
We will all feel poorer and Reform will just find another group to blame this on
Labour need to find the courage to take on the racist rhetoric
'a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase deficit by c. £20bn'
We will all feel poorer and Reform will just find another group to blame this on
Labour need to find the courage to take on the racist rhetoric
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
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Oh my goodness, it's true!
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Oh my goodness, it's true!