Sara Willard
@saffers.bsky.social
She/her. Amateur naturalist. Rewilding ‘gardener’. Passions: my garden, learning, bumblebees, trying to identify insects & plants, trees & all birds. Basically, we are nature.
I try to be kind.
WSL / Lionesses. Mary Earps fan!
I try to be kind.
WSL / Lionesses. Mary Earps fan!
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We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them | The Bear
Movember: Great moustaches, terrible mental health infrastructure
We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them | The Bear
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Excellent news. Well done to all those who worked behind the scenes to make this happen. Thank you. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social
This is VERY good news - the massive loophole that allows grouse moor owners & their gamekeepers to avoid sanction for killing birds of prey is about to be closed.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
Discussion at @revivecoalition.bsky.social conf this w/e
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/b...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
Discussion at @revivecoalition.bsky.social conf this w/e
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/03/b...
BREAKING NEWS: Scottish Government commits to closing loophole on sabotaged grouse moor licences
BREAKING NEWS: The Scottish Government has committed to closing the loophole on the grouse moor licences that were sabotaged last year by the powerful grouse shooting lobby. If you recall, grouse m…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Excellent news. Well done to all those who worked behind the scenes to make this happen. Thank you. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @markruskell.bsky.social
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Big Oil spent nearly $450M backing Trump & Republican candidates last year.
Now, during one of the longest government shutdowns in history, Senate Republicans voted to gut a policy protecting millions of acres in Alaska from oil drilling.
Talk about a return on investment.
Now, during one of the longest government shutdowns in history, Senate Republicans voted to gut a policy protecting millions of acres in Alaska from oil drilling.
Talk about a return on investment.
The Secret Behind High Gas Prices
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Big Oil spent nearly $450M backing Trump & Republican candidates last year.
Now, during one of the longest government shutdowns in history, Senate Republicans voted to gut a policy protecting millions of acres in Alaska from oil drilling.
Talk about a return on investment.
Now, during one of the longest government shutdowns in history, Senate Republicans voted to gut a policy protecting millions of acres in Alaska from oil drilling.
Talk about a return on investment.
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Nigel Farage has, very clearly, broken parliamentary rules. Will any journalists challenge him on it? Via Private Eye
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Nigel Farage has, very clearly, broken parliamentary rules. Will any journalists challenge him on it? Via Private Eye
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London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank.
Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
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Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
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Optimistic October - Day 21: Let go of the expectations of others and focus on what matters to you actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Optimistic October - Day 21: Let go of the expectations of others and focus on what matters to you actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober
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Whilst the immediate future looks bleak, have the kids got this?
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Whilst the immediate future looks bleak, have the kids got this?
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Many insects hibernate over winter, but bumblebees and butterflies may emerge during mild spells and will look for food. So growing nectar-rich, pollinator-friendly plants is especially important in winter and early spring.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Many insects hibernate over winter, but bumblebees and butterflies may emerge during mild spells and will look for food. So growing nectar-rich, pollinator-friendly plants is especially important in winter and early spring.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...
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There may not be obvious parallels with Jan 6th, conduct-wise, but the message is identical: laws are to be abused in pursuit of Trump’s foes & ignored in relation to his allies. He is telling his base that they can commit crimes with impunity. Fascism 101.
President Trump has commuted the seven-year prison sentence of the disgraced congressman George Santos, who was jailed for fraud
Trump commutes sentence of disgraced congressman George Santos
www.thetimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
There may not be obvious parallels with Jan 6th, conduct-wise, but the message is identical: laws are to be abused in pursuit of Trump’s foes & ignored in relation to his allies. He is telling his base that they can commit crimes with impunity. Fascism 101.
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So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
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Did u know?Since we've been making bee hotels,our diversity of solitary bees has increased 10-fold.This is a mud nesting brick for Hairy Footed Flower bees.Recipe:cricket pitch loam,sand,straw. Poke holes. 2 feet off the ground,south facing. Plant Pulmonaria-they LOVE it.How fab is the male?! 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝
October 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Did u know?Since we've been making bee hotels,our diversity of solitary bees has increased 10-fold.This is a mud nesting brick for Hairy Footed Flower bees.Recipe:cricket pitch loam,sand,straw. Poke holes. 2 feet off the ground,south facing. Plant Pulmonaria-they LOVE it.How fab is the male?! 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝
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"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents
In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
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Optimistic October - Day 15: Thank yourself for achieving the things you often take for granted actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Optimistic October - Day 15: Thank yourself for achieving the things you often take for granted actionforhappiness.org/optimistic-o... #OptimisticOctober
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Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 14/10/2025
www.coe.int
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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GB News has lost over £100 million thanks in part to SFH supporters – now, let’s do the same with X.
How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!
How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!
October 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
GB News has lost over £100 million thanks in part to SFH supporters – now, let’s do the same with X.
How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!
How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!
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To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal
New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports
New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports
October 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal
New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports
New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports
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Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
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“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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We need to plant many more native trees in urban spaces, and better protect and value existing ones. This helps nature and wildlife. It's #ClimateAction. It reduces floods, pollution and urban heating. And it improves our lives!
October 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We need to plant many more native trees in urban spaces, and better protect and value existing ones. This helps nature and wildlife. It's #ClimateAction. It reduces floods, pollution and urban heating. And it improves our lives!
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Crop yields in England 2nd lowest on record as climate chaos kicks in - exactly as scientists have been predicting for years
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows
Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.
www.independent.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Crop yields in England 2nd lowest on record as climate chaos kicks in - exactly as scientists have been predicting for years
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.
Except Zack Polanski.
She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.
They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.
Except Zack Polanski.
She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.
They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.
October 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.
Except Zack Polanski.
She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.
They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.
Except Zack Polanski.
She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.
They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.