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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The wonderful @oonahathaway.bsky.social does not hold back: our international legal order is at risk. And she has some proposals... www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Willing states must act to save international legal order, warns top academic
Yale professor says wars in Ukraine and Gaza and threats from Donald Trump risk the ‘total collapse’ of the global courts system
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Tout a été vendu, tout a été détruit : à Santarem, la "dévastation" d'un territoire grignoté par le soja dans l'Amazonie brésilienne
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🔥Corporate sustainability laws altered beyond recognition at today’s @europarl.europa.eu #omnibus vote.

Conservatives sided with the far-right to dilute the #CSRD & #CSDDD in the name of ‘simplification’, at the expense of nature, people & long-term business success.

🔗 tinyurl.com/mn5tkrc9
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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With today's #omnibus vote on corporate sustainability laws, the EU Parliament turned its back on nature & climate - not for the first time. 🔥🌳

🚨Alliances between conservative MEPS and far-right groups signal a troubling shift in the EU.
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🇪🇺 How many times can the EPP side with the far right before we stop calling it an exception?

Despite reassurances from VDL, Manfred Weber and Roberta Metsola, the EPP continues to strike tactical alliances with far-right groups whenever numbers are tight.

🔍 Explore our tracker: bit.ly/47T70GZ
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Prostate cancer affects tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - yet routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. Sign the petition now calling for routine screenings for all men at risk of developing prostate cancer:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ro...
Introduce routine prostate cancer screenings for all at risk!
Despite prostate cancer affecting tens of thousands of men each year - including one in four Black men - routine screenings for men at risk still aren’t available. But right now the UK National Scree...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Biofuels were meant to reduce emissions — but recent evidence shows they’re doing the opposite.

New data suggest that crop-based biofuels are worsening CO₂ emissions globally. 🧵1/3
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Dark skies on the rise

Momentum for dark skies friendly communities builds as more residents flick the switch in North Yorkshire

By Louisa Merrick-White

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Dark skies on the rise
Momentum for dark skies friendly communities builds as more residents flick the switch in North Yorkshire
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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👏 @andyburnham.bsky.social hits out at Brexit.

“The people who lead Reform are leading voices that said Brexit would solve everything when it comes to immigration.

“They made that promise to the country, didn’t they? They stood there and said that it would save X amount of money for NHS.”
September 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay: act.gp/3RIc9dq
Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
act.gp
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Fantastic multi-agency partnership working between Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team, RSPB Investigations Team & National Wildlife Crime Unit 👏

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/12/l...
Lincolnshire Police launch investigation as 7 dead birds of prey found in raptor persecution hotspot
From Lincolnshire Police (11 September 2025) Officers from Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team are investigating after a number of dead birds of prey were found in the countryside between B…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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🤖 L’Intelligence Artificielle est partout dans notre quotidien et @bonpote.com en fait un dossier accessible, notamment sur son cout environnemental 👇

#tellthetruth

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Intelligence artificielle : le vrai coût environnemental de la course à l'IA
L’intelligence artificielle est matérielle. Pour comprendre ses impacts il faut remonter sa chaîne de valeur qui mobilise des métaux, de
bonpote.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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🔴 #10septembre / #BloquonsTout : une proposition d'action, parmi d'autres 😉

😠 Si tu es en colère, que tu en as marre, que tu veux que ça change mais tu ne sais pas quoi faire le 10/09, voici une action simple, que tu peux faire tout·e seul·e (c'est mieux à plusieurs surtout en cas de répression) !
September 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#NoPlanetB🌍⏰🙉🙈🙊🚨 Can we talk about
#ClimateActionNow 🚨🚨🚨?🧑‍🦰🧓🧕👶wake up??
#SaveOurSeaice ❄️🦭❄️🐧❄️🐋 ❄️🐻‍❄️
#SaveOurGlaciers ❄️🏔️❄️
#extinctionisforever 🦖🦕🦤....🐻‍❄️🐋🦭🧑‍🍼?
#SaveOurWeatherPatterns ☀️❄️⚡🌬️🌀🌪️🌊
#Globalboiling 🥵🌍🥵🔥
#KeepItInTheGround 🛢️⛽💰
#BiodiversityCrisis 🐋🪸🦈🦭🐧
#DavidAttenborough💔#BluePlanet🌎 #Ocean 🌊
Net Zero: saving our world and saving money. Now there's a win-win - if only voters knew about it.

"New modelling from BloombergNEF suggests investing just 0.7 per cent of GDP in the net zero transition could unlock huge financial savings - and avert a rolling climate crisis."
How reaching net zero could cut global fuel costs by $1tr a year
New modelling from BloombergNEF suggests investing just 0.7 per cent of GDP in the net zero transition could unlock huge financial savings - and avert a rolling climate crisis
www.businessgreen.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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On global governance without America, by @samirpuri.bsky.social: ip-quarterly.com/en/global-go...
September 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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China debuted multiple new weapons systems at its military parade today, making ever-more clear its increased capabilities and global role. But as @ivadica.bsky.social wrote recently, China is a big blind spot for Europe—something the EU now needs to fix.

ip-quarterly.com/en/eus-blind...
The EU’s Blind Spot: China in the World
Beijing has been outpacing Brussels in the so-called Global South. Now the EU must rethink its global game plan.
ip-quarterly.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Eight decades after the Second World War ended, China no longer views itself as a mere participant in history but as the architect of a new world order.
China is using the SCO summit and Victory Day parade to showcase its vision of a new world order
China is sending a clear message: it wants to reshape the world order. And it has the power to do it.
www.chathamhouse.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Well done RSPB, raptor fieldworkers and everyone else involved with protecting breeding Hen Harriers on United Utilities land in Bowland.

Elsewhere, HH breeding results on privately-owned grouse moors are down for another year.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/05/r...
RSPB announces another record year for Hen Harriers in the Forest of Bowland
Statement from the RSPB (4 September 2025) ANOTHER RECORD YEAR FOR HEN HARRIERS IN THE FOREST OF BOWLAND Hen Harriers are one of the most charismatic yet also most threatened bird species nesting i…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM