“A family earning £100k a year will now find themselves on minimum wage after taking part in just two drug binges a week.”

No top story mention of #StormÉowyn on
@BBCNews website - no mention in the Guardian, Telegraph, Times - even though arrives in 24 hours and peoples' lives are in danger if they are unaware it's on the way! Madness the priorities of stories in the news. Is it because it's not affecting SE England?

These comments by Streeting are disgraceful. The safety of a senior female politician has been put at risk; let alone that she's been grotesquely defamed.

Never, EVER accept the lie that this is somehow a 'forest', just because there are trees: it's not. A real forest is 1,000s of diverse species, all intricately connected.

By contrast, what you're looking at here is one face of the death of nature, covering around 10% of Ireland.

A fair question.

For a #conservation journalist, this is an excellent case study to show to people who ask you: "Why spend all that money to save one species? Shouldn't we help people instead?" #wildlife 🧪🌍
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Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him

He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots and ignored laws. We mustn’t make the mistake of playing nice with the world’s richest bully

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Ominous Russell Brand vibes here: wellness grifting and bothsidesism as the gateway to conspiracy theories

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Just an observation: If the ruling political party were taken over by our worst foreign enemy and weaponized to destroy our nation from within, this is exactly that that would look like:

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back?

Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine

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This may look hand made but it's not. Strong winds during #StormDarragh over Exmoor have created this. Beautiful.

📷 Exmoor4All

🇺🇳 The Standing Committee of the #Bern Convention just voted down the protection status of the #wolf 👉 This will not solve the challenges for livestock. This is not based on science but was political. #Wolves play a crucial role in ecosystems. And: we cannot allow risking the EU Habitats Directive! 🐺

Driven grouse shooting is Scotland’s shame. It creates biodiversity deserts with a small sub set of species surviving there. Burning produces pollution and climate warming. How can we justifying killing 100s of thousands of native species per annum so a few people can shoot another species for fun?

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

Scratching the surface of Farage and his real political, er, leaning

@adambienkov.bsky.social reports ⏬

In 2024, the UK now has something resembling the Infowars to Fox News to the Republicans pipeline.

What starts with blue ticks on X is boosted by “mainstream” GB News pundits and then Reform politicians.

That’s much more dangerous than online disinfo alone
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/disinfo-wars...

A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️