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The world’s gone barking mad. In this era of canine exceptionalism, can humanity stage a comeback? | Farhana Dawood
The world’s gone barking mad. In this era of canine exceptionalism, can humanity stage a comeback? | Farhana Dawood
From pawdicures to designer rainwear, the cult of the dog is expanding with impressive speed. Why must we tolerate it?
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January 1, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The world’s gone barking mad. In this era of canine exceptionalism, can humanity stage a comeback? | Farhana Dawood
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
Newcastle on a Sunday night, 22:45.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Newcastle on a Sunday night, 22:45.
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My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looking forward to @zackpolanski.bsky.social shredding the Government's attack on nature in their Planning and Infrastructure Bill. The comments made by Reeves and Starmer need to be comprehensively refuted by someone with reach and influence.
October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Looking forward to @zackpolanski.bsky.social shredding the Government's attack on nature in their Planning and Infrastructure Bill. The comments made by Reeves and Starmer need to be comprehensively refuted by someone with reach and influence.
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Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
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The community note has it right.
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The community note has it right.
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Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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September 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Marsh Harrier south over Foxton Bend, just now.
August 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Marsh Harrier south over Foxton Bend, just now.
Hobby just gone Sw over my Newcastle Road garden. Circled back briefly to have a look at the swifts (a mere 5 this year), then disappeared. Nice garden tick !!
July 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hobby just gone Sw over my Newcastle Road garden. Circled back briefly to have a look at the swifts (a mere 5 this year), then disappeared. Nice garden tick !!
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
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July 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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June 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hobby flew across the Seaton Burn roundabout on the A19 at 12:25, heading in the direction of Arcot Pond.
May 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Hobby flew across the Seaton Burn roundabout on the A19 at 12:25, heading in the direction of Arcot Pond.
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Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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May 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple giving it some at the Common Room tonight.
May 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple giving it some at the Common Room tonight.
Just come back from my first visit to Tunisia. It's a potentially beautiful and rewarding place to go to, but the constant police presence, security guards and overzealous customs officials made it a trying holiday experience for someone doing it even slightly independently (i.e. having a hire car.
March 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just come back from my first visit to Tunisia. It's a potentially beautiful and rewarding place to go to, but the constant police presence, security guards and overzealous customs officials made it a trying holiday experience for someone doing it even slightly independently (i.e. having a hire car.
From the air, a good portion of France looks like a giant farm.
March 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
From the air, a good portion of France looks like a giant farm.
Great start to my short break in Tunisia, when my binoculars and scope were confiscated by customs on arrival. Hotel staff trying to get them back for me, but there's nowhere to buy a pair of bins, if they fail.
March 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great start to my short break in Tunisia, when my binoculars and scope were confiscated by customs on arrival. Hotel staff trying to get them back for me, but there's nowhere to buy a pair of bins, if they fail.
6 Goosanders just flew over the house, heading for the coast. A most unexpected garden tick.
March 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
6 Goosanders just flew over the house, heading for the coast. A most unexpected garden tick.
If I was a federal employee whose boss was telling me I had to respond to the Musk email, I think I'd be avoiding that list of words that they're looking for in Government-funded projects. Musk will be analysing all the responses with AI, no doubt.
February 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If I was a federal employee whose boss was telling me I had to respond to the Musk email, I think I'd be avoiding that list of words that they're looking for in Government-funded projects. Musk will be analysing all the responses with AI, no doubt.
Good to see that Marsh Tits, severely declining in Northumberland, are still thriving in Castle Eden Dene, Co. Durham. 4 seen during our walk this afternoon, plus a minimum of 7 others heard.
February 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Good to see that Marsh Tits, severely declining in Northumberland, are still thriving in Castle Eden Dene, Co. Durham. 4 seen during our walk this afternoon, plus a minimum of 7 others heard.
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One of the main things that inspired me to become an entomologist was watching the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano & specifically @georgemcgavin.bsky.social standing on the volcano edge surrounded by the most wondrous moths!
I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x
I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x
February 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
One of the main things that inspired me to become an entomologist was watching the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano & specifically @georgemcgavin.bsky.social standing on the volcano edge surrounded by the most wondrous moths!
I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x
I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x
