Clive Swinsco
@cliveswinsco.bsky.social
Ageing Activist
Today is a Good Day for Action
Today is a Good Day for Action
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BBC have clipped the interview which can be found on it's own page here - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Kat Cowan on BBC Radio Sheffield - Maggie Ewan is a practising Catholic who's passionate about access to the countryside - BBC Sounds
Maggie is from Reclaim Our Moors. The BBC has contacted the Duke of Rutland for comment.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
BBC have clipped the interview which can be found on it's own page here - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
Write to your Labour MP – Reclaim Our Moors
www.reclaimourmoors.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...
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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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Cumbria Police has launched an investigation after live fox thrown to hounds
Coniston Foxhounds suspended over allegations of illegal fox hunting
Coniston Foxhounds suspended over allegations of illegal fox hunting in Ambleside
www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Cumbria Police has launched an investigation after live fox thrown to hounds
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Leave our animals alone, please. The only effective way to protect our environment is to bring rural Scotland into public ownership. The landowners have been having their way for centuries & they are still calling the tune. See the Galloway National Park fiasco for a perfect example.
Green MSP Ariane Burgess said that if Scotland is “serious about reversing nature loss and tackling the climate emergency, we have to get deer densities down to levels that allow woodlands and peatlands to recover”
theferret.scot/nearl...
theferret.scot/nearl...
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Leave our animals alone, please. The only effective way to protect our environment is to bring rural Scotland into public ownership. The landowners have been having their way for centuries & they are still calling the tune. See the Galloway National Park fiasco for a perfect example.
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Absolutely sickening. Please read and share as far and wide as possible. Brilliant work by Hunt Saboteurs exposing this!
Chris Packham Slams Cruel Lake District Fox Hunt! - Hunt Saboteurs Association
On Saturday 8th November, Lake District Hunt Sabs filmed the Coniston Foxhounds in the act of digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. Just weeks before the government’s hunting consultation is...
www.huntsabs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Absolutely sickening. Please read and share as far and wide as possible. Brilliant work by Hunt Saboteurs exposing this!
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A message to NatureScot: We’re not stopping until the ‘Guga hunt’ is over for good!
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A message to NatureScot: We’re not stopping until the ‘Guga hunt’ is over for good!
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New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: The Hunts Bankrolled by Your Taxes Even After Breaking the Law
New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
protectthewild.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Callanish sunset yesterday #StandingStoneSunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Callanish sunset yesterday #StandingStoneSunday
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This is just one poll, but it lays bare how shallow Labour’s 2024 victory was.
Last year, ‘Thin Ice’ showed how a fractured system and a progressive electorate hungry for real change demand a new approach from Labour.
That case is stronger than ever today.
www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
Last year, ‘Thin Ice’ showed how a fractured system and a progressive electorate hungry for real change demand a new approach from Labour.
That case is stronger than ever today.
www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is just one poll, but it lays bare how shallow Labour’s 2024 victory was.
Last year, ‘Thin Ice’ showed how a fractured system and a progressive electorate hungry for real change demand a new approach from Labour.
That case is stronger than ever today.
www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
Last year, ‘Thin Ice’ showed how a fractured system and a progressive electorate hungry for real change demand a new approach from Labour.
That case is stronger than ever today.
www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
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Nothing to see here! Just the security hired by the South Essex Hunt tackling a hunt sab to the ground for simply trying to protect foxes from being hunted.
Please show some love to South Norfolk Hunt Sabs by getting them a coffee: ko-fi.com/sonosabs
Please show some love to South Norfolk Hunt Sabs by getting them a coffee: ko-fi.com/sonosabs
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Nothing to see here! Just the security hired by the South Essex Hunt tackling a hunt sab to the ground for simply trying to protect foxes from being hunted.
Please show some love to South Norfolk Hunt Sabs by getting them a coffee: ko-fi.com/sonosabs
Please show some love to South Norfolk Hunt Sabs by getting them a coffee: ko-fi.com/sonosabs
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The artwork filmed above is by the amazing Alan Lee, and forms the front cover to my book The Lost Rainforests of Britain.
Listen to the full clip from BBC R4 The World Tonight, from 38 minutes in until the end: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen to the full clip from BBC R4 The World Tonight, from 38 minutes in until the end: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The World Tonight - How were two more prisoners wrongly released? - BBC Sounds
Police search for two prisoners separately released in error from London prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The artwork filmed above is by the amazing Alan Lee, and forms the front cover to my book The Lost Rainforests of Britain.
Listen to the full clip from BBC R4 The World Tonight, from 38 minutes in until the end: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen to the full clip from BBC R4 The World Tonight, from 38 minutes in until the end: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Our Land, a new documentary, interrogates the connections between land, power and a sense of belonging following the Right to Roam movement in England and Wales. It captures the tension between public campaigners fighting for greater access to nature and landowners.
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our Land, a new documentary, interrogates the connections between land, power and a sense of belonging following the Right to Roam movement in England and Wales. It captures the tension between public campaigners fighting for greater access to nature and landowners.
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The League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social is deeply concerned that mounted hunts are accessing these licenses so they can once again have a smokescreen to obscure packs of hounds being encouraged to hunt and kill #foxes
follow @huntsabs.org.uk
www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...
follow @huntsabs.org.uk
www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...
Same old same old
Before the fox hunting ban was strengthened in 2023, mounted hunts regularly exploited a loop-hole that enabled them to encourage a pack of hounds to chase and kill foxes across the Scottish countrysi...
www.league.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social is deeply concerned that mounted hunts are accessing these licenses so they can once again have a smokescreen to obscure packs of hounds being encouraged to hunt and kill #foxes
follow @huntsabs.org.uk
www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...
follow @huntsabs.org.uk
www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...
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To some - it’s just “food.” 🥓
The them - it’s a life of misery, fear and hopelessness. 💔
Behind every animal product, is someone who suffered. 🐷
👉Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
#animalrights #change #veganfortheanimals
The them - it’s a life of misery, fear and hopelessness. 💔
Behind every animal product, is someone who suffered. 🐷
👉Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
#animalrights #change #veganfortheanimals
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
To some - it’s just “food.” 🥓
The them - it’s a life of misery, fear and hopelessness. 💔
Behind every animal product, is someone who suffered. 🐷
👉Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
#animalrights #change #veganfortheanimals
The them - it’s a life of misery, fear and hopelessness. 💔
Behind every animal product, is someone who suffered. 🐷
👉Sign the vegan pledge: https://veganfta.com/vegan-pledge/
#animalrights #change #veganfortheanimals
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Another example of the thoughtless, feckless and unaccountable actions of the UK gamebird shooting industry, who yet again do what they like, when they like and to hell with the consequences, because there aren’t any.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/s...
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/s...
Shot Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges dumped in Penicuik, Scotland
It’s another gamebird shooting season and that means shot Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges being illegally dumped (fly-tipped) by the side of a road. Thanks to the blog reader who alerted …
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Another example of the thoughtless, feckless and unaccountable actions of the UK gamebird shooting industry, who yet again do what they like, when they like and to hell with the consequences, because there aren’t any.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/s...
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/s...
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Superb, hard-hitting presentation (including further info about this infamous C4 News footage) for the @friendsofthedales.bsky.social ‘Eyes on the Skies’ initiative.
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
Secret filming uncovers illegal killings of rare birds in England
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Superb, hard-hitting presentation (including further info about this infamous C4 News footage) for the @friendsofthedales.bsky.social ‘Eyes on the Skies’ initiative.
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
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Thankyou to @keasdenkate.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social for launching our new campaign #EyesontheSkies speaking out against the very illegal #persecution of #BirdsofPrey
& thank you all that attended & supported🤩
Sign up to our enews for all future plans & events: www.friendsofthedales.org.uk
& thank you all that attended & supported🤩
Sign up to our enews for all future plans & events: www.friendsofthedales.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Thankyou to @keasdenkate.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social for launching our new campaign #EyesontheSkies speaking out against the very illegal #persecution of #BirdsofPrey
& thank you all that attended & supported🤩
Sign up to our enews for all future plans & events: www.friendsofthedales.org.uk
& thank you all that attended & supported🤩
Sign up to our enews for all future plans & events: www.friendsofthedales.org.uk
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An excellent new initiative led by a local community that is sick to the back teeth of illegal raptor persecution inside this National Park.
Bravo, @friendsofthedales.bsky.social
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/08/e...
Bravo, @friendsofthedales.bsky.social
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/08/e...
‘Eyes on the Skies’ – new campaign to raise awareness of raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Following the recent collapse of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Bird of Prey Partnership (due to its failure to tackle crimes against birds of prey), and the news that since 2015, 29 Hen Harrier…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An excellent new initiative led by a local community that is sick to the back teeth of illegal raptor persecution inside this National Park.
Bravo, @friendsofthedales.bsky.social
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/08/e...
Bravo, @friendsofthedales.bsky.social
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/08/e...
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
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Not just fox hunting of course, legislation needs to properly ban stag hunting and hunting hares with dog packs. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/seni...
Senior cops say laws on hunting with hounds are ‘not fit for purpose’
THE law on hunting with hounds is “not fit for purpose,” senior police officers have told MPs, with “loophole after loophole” continuing to frustrate the prosecution of illegal hunts.Chief Superintend...
morningstaronline.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Not just fox hunting of course, legislation needs to properly ban stag hunting and hunting hares with dog packs. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/seni...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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“Every degree of heating matters, every life, every home and every child, living now or yet unborn.”
We need a response to the climate crisis rooted in peace, equality, and justice.
Find out how you can make a difference in the run-up to the next global climate conference.
We need a response to the climate crisis rooted in peace, equality, and justice.
Find out how you can make a difference in the run-up to the next global climate conference.
Quakers and COP30: bearing witness to care
A blog about political action on the climate crisis, especially how people can get involved.
www.quaker.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Every degree of heating matters, every life, every home and every child, living now or yet unborn.”
We need a response to the climate crisis rooted in peace, equality, and justice.
Find out how you can make a difference in the run-up to the next global climate conference.
We need a response to the climate crisis rooted in peace, equality, and justice.
Find out how you can make a difference in the run-up to the next global climate conference.
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Lovely to have space for discussing community ownership of Moscar Moor on BBC Sheffield this morning… You can listen in from 8.12 via www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#reclaimourmoors
#reclaimourmoors
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Lovely to have space for discussing community ownership of Moscar Moor on BBC Sheffield this morning… You can listen in from 8.12 via www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#reclaimourmoors
#reclaimourmoors
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Today I’ve launched the next stage of my Wealth Tax Campaign — calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Budget to fund emergency action on the cost of living crisis.
I’ll be delivering this open letter to the PM and Chancellor.
Add your name 👇
bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget
I’ll be delivering this open letter to the PM and Chancellor.
Add your name 👇
bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget
Open Letter to the PM and Chancellor: Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget - Fund Emergency Action to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis
I've added my name to Richard Burgon MP's open letter to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget and to fund emergency Action on the cost o...
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today I’ve launched the next stage of my Wealth Tax Campaign — calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Budget to fund emergency action on the cost of living crisis.
I’ll be delivering this open letter to the PM and Chancellor.
Add your name 👇
bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget
I’ll be delivering this open letter to the PM and Chancellor.
Add your name 👇
bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget