@putneypolitics.bsky.social
If you live in the Putney or Wimbledon area, please consider thia appeal, to help restore major paths on the the Wimbledon and Putney Commons.
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Winter Appeal - Paths for All Seasons – Big Give
Wetter winters mean many of the Commons’ paths become muddy, waterlogged and impassable. This limits access and forces people off the paths, damaging the surrounding habitats.
Your support will help ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you live in the Putney or Wimbledon area, please consider thia appeal, to help restore major paths on the the Wimbledon and Putney Commons.
I've just donated.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
I've just donated.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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*PLEASE DO NOT SET OFF FIREWORKS ON THE COMMONS*
They can cause serious injury to other visitors, terrify our wildlife and damage this important habitat. And our team have to clear up the mess that is left behind. Thank you for helping us to keep the Commons safe and peaceful for everyone.
They can cause serious injury to other visitors, terrify our wildlife and damage this important habitat. And our team have to clear up the mess that is left behind. Thank you for helping us to keep the Commons safe and peaceful for everyone.
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
*PLEASE DO NOT SET OFF FIREWORKS ON THE COMMONS*
They can cause serious injury to other visitors, terrify our wildlife and damage this important habitat. And our team have to clear up the mess that is left behind. Thank you for helping us to keep the Commons safe and peaceful for everyone.
They can cause serious injury to other visitors, terrify our wildlife and damage this important habitat. And our team have to clear up the mess that is left behind. Thank you for helping us to keep the Commons safe and peaceful for everyone.
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The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed.
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed.
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Far better to use freecycle or other apps to find new users for your redundant kit.
Have just thrown out a big box of cables “that might come in useful one day”.
April 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Far better to use freecycle or other apps to find new users for your redundant kit.
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Is there any point in me posting this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Is there any point in me posting this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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April 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
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The insurance sector knows how to approach risk ...."Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism"
“The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts,” said Janos Pasztor, former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The insurance sector knows how to approach risk ...."Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism"
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“The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts,” said Janos Pasztor, former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts,” said Janos Pasztor, former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The insurance sector knows how to approach risk ...."Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism"
“The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts,” said Janos Pasztor, former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When massive insurers with huge climate science expertise, like Allianz Munich Re or Swiss Re, warn that capitalism itself is on an unsustainable path, let alone our civilisation, governments need to pay attention.
Please read and pass on.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Please read and pass on.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
When massive insurers with huge climate science expertise, like Allianz Munich Re or Swiss Re, warn that capitalism itself is on an unsustainable path, let alone our civilisation, governments need to pay attention.
Please read and pass on.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Please read and pass on.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well worth looking at the report by Richard Murphy.
"How will you pay for it?" The answer is in Taxing Wealth Report 2024. 30 simple tax changes = £90bn a year. That’s half the NHS budget. Labour doesn’t need to hit the poor | Prof Richard Murphy
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
There are better ways for Rachel Reeves to find the money she needs
Richard Murphy’s proposals for simple, rapid tax reforms could easily raise the money Rachel Reeves needs, without penalising the poor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Well worth looking at the report by Richard Murphy.
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"How will you pay for it?" The answer is in Taxing Wealth Report 2024. 30 simple tax changes = £90bn a year. That’s half the NHS budget. Labour doesn’t need to hit the poor | Prof Richard Murphy
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
There are better ways for Rachel Reeves to find the money she needs
Richard Murphy’s proposals for simple, rapid tax reforms could easily raise the money Rachel Reeves needs, without penalising the poor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"How will you pay for it?" The answer is in Taxing Wealth Report 2024. 30 simple tax changes = £90bn a year. That’s half the NHS budget. Labour doesn’t need to hit the poor | Prof Richard Murphy
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
The UK's 8 million or so 'outdoor' cats reputedly kill about 160 million small mammals and birds every year.
That's a lot of carnage.
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
That's a lot of carnage.
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
Is your pet a pest?
Given the potential for domestic animals to cause damage to wildlife, some conservationists are calling for restrictive measures — but mitigating strategies are surely a first step
www.ft.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The UK's 8 million or so 'outdoor' cats reputedly kill about 160 million small mammals and birds every year.
That's a lot of carnage.
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
That's a lot of carnage.
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
Will UK farmers start suing the UK government for its inadequate response to the #ClimateEmergency?
The irony of farmers and farmers’ associations (also) involved in animal husbandry turning to the court to force the government to do more to act on climate change. And that picture 😱.
Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change
How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Will UK farmers start suing the UK government for its inadequate response to the #ClimateEmergency?
We knew that dog flea treatments kill river and pond life and that they stay on dog owners' hands for weeks after use.
Now we know they kill songbirds in our gardens too.
Next up: how those pesticides are poisoning children who stroke dogs treated against fleas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Now we know they kill songbirds in our gardens too.
Next up: how those pesticides are poisoning children who stroke dogs treated against fleas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pet fur found in songbird nests contains high levels of pesticides, study finds
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We knew that dog flea treatments kill river and pond life and that they stay on dog owners' hands for weeks after use.
Now we know they kill songbirds in our gardens too.
Next up: how those pesticides are poisoning children who stroke dogs treated against fleas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Now we know they kill songbirds in our gardens too.
Next up: how those pesticides are poisoning children who stroke dogs treated against fleas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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An Express poll needs more input. You know what to do...
Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
January 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An Express poll needs more input. You know what to do...
Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid". Great quote often attributed Einstein (though he is probably not the architect behind it).
December 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM
"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid". Great quote often attributed Einstein (though he is probably not the architect behind it).
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We’ve all been there.
December 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
We’ve all been there.
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This story about the secret deal between the Warwickshire Hunt & Warwickshire Snr Police is not going to go away.
The new Labour MP, Matt Western, has been asking questions.
www.channel4.com/news/inside-...
The new Labour MP, Matt Western, has been asking questions.
www.channel4.com/news/inside-...
Inside story of the secret deal with Warwickshire Hunt
Now for the first time, police officers in Warwickshire have broken silence over the long-running sore, which was caused when Warwickshire Police reached a secret deal with the Warwickshire Hunt to av...
www.channel4.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
This story about the secret deal between the Warwickshire Hunt & Warwickshire Snr Police is not going to go away.
The new Labour MP, Matt Western, has been asking questions.
www.channel4.com/news/inside-...
The new Labour MP, Matt Western, has been asking questions.
www.channel4.com/news/inside-...
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✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 AM
✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
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“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
The UK is world leading in repressing climate protesters.
A shameful tory legacy but is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social just as bad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A shameful tory legacy but is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social just as bad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
The UK is world leading in repressing climate protesters.
A shameful tory legacy but is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social just as bad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A shameful tory legacy but is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social just as bad?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This whole thing reeks of punishing lippy women who don't know their place. Solidarity with my admirable friend Charlotte Proudman - my regulator needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/10/bar-standards-board-barrister-charlotte-proudman-hear…
Bar Standards Board ‘failed to protect’ female barrister from online gender violence
Disciplinary hearing opens against Charlotte Proudman for saying a judge had shown a ‘boys’ club attitude’
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This whole thing reeks of punishing lippy women who don't know their place. Solidarity with my admirable friend Charlotte Proudman - my regulator needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/10/bar-standards-board-barrister-charlotte-proudman-hear…
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Another thought on all the 'blob-bashing' chatter. Pleased to see McFadden swerve Labour away from the culture war but...
There is an important distinction between *not criticising* your staff and *enthusing and inspiring them*.
There is an important distinction between *not criticising* your staff and *enthusing and inspiring them*.
December 10, 2024 at 11:16 PM