Ross McNally
@rossmcnally.bsky.social
Environmentalist, writer, revolution inciter. Caffeinated & bitter.
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Brighton & Hove City Council - ePetition - Ban street parking along bus routes
Delivering 24 hour council services to residents, visitors and businesses in Brighton & Hove
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk
I'm calling upon @brighton-hove.gov.uk to stop street parking along bus routes, so that roads can actually be navigable for public transport instead of being choked up by parked cars. @brightonhovebuses.bsky.social
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?
There are several examples from around the world of non-native species being introduced to fix anthropogenic problems, even to control other invasive species (small Indian mongoose as rat control in Hawaii). It doesn't usually go well.
How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis
How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis
Nootka lupins, introduced in the 1940s to repair damaged soil, are rampaging across the island, threatening its native species
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There are several examples from around the world of non-native species being introduced to fix anthropogenic problems, even to control other invasive species (small Indian mongoose as rat control in Hawaii). It doesn't usually go well.
Capitalism is truly evil. Trump has probably just thrown this man off of his Medicaid, on top of everything else.
Listen to this American still working 40 hours a week when he's 88 because his wife got sick and he had to sell his house.
This is what they want to do in the UK.
This is what they want to do in the UK.
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Capitalism is truly evil. Trump has probably just thrown this man off of his Medicaid, on top of everything else.
This shambolic outfit is dead on arrival. Unfortunately the past couple of days have only confirmed that. Just join @greenparty.org.uk.
Your Party faces proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, insiders warn
Your Party faces proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, insiders warn
While members’ vote avoids one-to-one leadership race, battle continues ‘for the soul of the party’
Your Party faces a potential proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana after members opted for a collective model of leadership, insiders have warned.
Members voted narrowly in favour of an initial period in which the new leftwing party is guided by a 16-strong central executive committee at its inaugural conference at the weekend. The decision avoided a direct and possibly brutal contest between Corbyn and Sultana to be sole leader, the other option available. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This shambolic outfit is dead on arrival. Unfortunately the past couple of days have only confirmed that. Just join @greenparty.org.uk.
If there was ever an organisation that was crying out for leadership, it's this one.
🚨 BREAKING: Your Party members have voted for a collective leadership model over a single leader
Collective: 51.6%
Single: 48.4%
Collective: 51.6%
Single: 48.4%
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If there was ever an organisation that was crying out for leadership, it's this one.
I'm glad to see Your Party using its inaugural conference to project unity and professionalism. Not in the least bit shambolic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I'm glad to see Your Party using its inaugural conference to project unity and professionalism. Not in the least bit shambolic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
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‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Continuing to operate under the moniker of The Labour Party must surely be some form of fraud at this point.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Continuing to operate under the moniker of The Labour Party must surely be some form of fraud at this point.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
This should arguably be a far more outrageous scandal than the felling of the sycamore gap tree, but probably won't get a thousandth part of the attention.
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This should arguably be a far more outrageous scandal than the felling of the sycamore gap tree, but probably won't get a thousandth part of the attention.
It appears that EU citizens have an incoherent attitude to large carnivores, supporting recovery but opposing further growth of populations. What is clear though, is that these species aren't as polarising as the media and farmers' organisations would have us think.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It appears that EU citizens have an incoherent attitude to large carnivores, supporting recovery but opposing further growth of populations. What is clear though, is that these species aren't as polarising as the media and farmers' organisations would have us think.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Panto season has kicked off early. JHB thinks children should starve and puppies be turned into coats.
The Talk presenter seemed to be unhappy that taxes were paying for the meals.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Panto season has kicked off early. JHB thinks children should starve and puppies be turned into coats.
I suggest that if John Redwood wants to argue against a figment of his own hysterical imagination, he doesn't do so on national TV – it's just embarrassing.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I suggest that if John Redwood wants to argue against a figment of his own hysterical imagination, he doesn't do so on national TV – it's just embarrassing.
Are we really doing this – pretending it's news to anyone that Farage is racist?
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Are we really doing this – pretending it's news to anyone that Farage is racist?
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Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
Amid lots of liberal hand-wringing over the future of the BBC, the organisation seems determined to alienate all its potential defenders and confirm that it's not worth defending.
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of censoring his Reith lecture on Trump
Dutch writer says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
The BBC has been plunged into a new row over its treatment of Donald Trump, after an academic accused it of censoring his remarks about alleged corruption by the US president.
Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from a flagship address he had been invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Amid lots of liberal hand-wringing over the future of the BBC, the organisation seems determined to alienate all its potential defenders and confirm that it's not worth defending.
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Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan | Peter Sagar
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
Civil war in Sudan: the UK’s deadly connections
Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan.
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan | Peter Sagar
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
Southern Water should be fined into bankruptcy, and then nationalised at no cost.
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
The Camber Sands bio-beads disaster
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Southern Water should be fined into bankruptcy, and then nationalised at no cost.
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A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
The Camber Sands bio-beads disaster
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
I'm calling upon @brighton-hove.gov.uk to stop street parking along bus routes, so that roads can actually be navigable for public transport instead of being choked up by parked cars. @brightonhovebuses.bsky.social
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
Brighton & Hove City Council - ePetition - Ban street parking along bus routes
Delivering 24 hour council services to residents, visitors and businesses in Brighton & Hove
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm calling upon @brighton-hove.gov.uk to stop street parking along bus routes, so that roads can actually be navigable for public transport instead of being choked up by parked cars. @brightonhovebuses.bsky.social
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
She claims to have been 'cast aside by Maga Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class'. Marjorie, that's what MAGA has always been. It was never that difficult to see through the populist charade.
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
She claims to have been 'cast aside by Maga Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class'. Marjorie, that's what MAGA has always been. It was never that difficult to see through the populist charade.
Quite the metaphor.
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Quite the metaphor.
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"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
Remind me how you're Making America Great Again by decimating it's wildlife and habitat protections.
Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act
Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act
Experts fear plan, one of many attempts Trump’s made to dismantle wildlife protection, will speed up extinction crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Remind me how you're Making America Great Again by decimating it's wildlife and habitat protections.
