Shirley Sheyes
@shirleysheyes.bsky.social
Taking an interest in the environment, corporate greed, vested interests & political hypocrisy. Big fan of joined-up thinking & sustainability in all spheres
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The most magical moments with animals don’t happen behind glass.
This season, let’s celebrate that magic by refusing to support captive “attractions”.
👉 Learn more about how you can help: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/signup
#FreedomForAnimals #EndCaptivity #AnimalRights #RealMagic
This season, let’s celebrate that magic by refusing to support captive “attractions”.
👉 Learn more about how you can help: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/signup
#FreedomForAnimals #EndCaptivity #AnimalRights #RealMagic
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The most magical moments with animals don’t happen behind glass.
This season, let’s celebrate that magic by refusing to support captive “attractions”.
👉 Learn more about how you can help: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/signup
#FreedomForAnimals #EndCaptivity #AnimalRights #RealMagic
This season, let’s celebrate that magic by refusing to support captive “attractions”.
👉 Learn more about how you can help: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/signup
#FreedomForAnimals #EndCaptivity #AnimalRights #RealMagic
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How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Hundreds of chicks clubbed to death every year for "tradition" - sign the petition to end it: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hundreds of chicks clubbed to death every year for "tradition" - sign the petition to end it: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
Never going to Cyprus while this is happening
Disgusting
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#cyprusholidays
@visitcyprus.bsky.social @cyprus-mail.com
Disgusting
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#cyprusholidays
@visitcyprus.bsky.social @cyprus-mail.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Never going to Cyprus while this is happening
Disgusting
www.facebook.com/share/r/17DB...
#cyprusholidays
@visitcyprus.bsky.social @cyprus-mail.com
Disgusting
www.facebook.com/share/r/17DB...
#cyprusholidays
@visitcyprus.bsky.social @cyprus-mail.com
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President Trump defended Tucker Carlson on Sunday for his sympathetic interview with the white nationalist and racist antisemite Nick Fuentes, breaking a weekslong silence on an episode that had ignited bitter infighting among conservatives.
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
President Trump defended Mr. Carlson’s friendly interview with an openly antisemitic white supremacist that prompted denunciations from some on the right.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
President Trump defended Tucker Carlson on Sunday for his sympathetic interview with the white nationalist and racist antisemite Nick Fuentes, breaking a weekslong silence on an episode that had ignited bitter infighting among conservatives.
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
@naturescot.bsky.social no excuse for unnecessary animal cruelty. Shame on you Nature Scot
#scotland #barbaric #animalcruelty #gannets
#scotland #barbaric #animalcruelty #gannets
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
@naturescot.bsky.social no excuse for unnecessary animal cruelty. Shame on you Nature Scot
#scotland #barbaric #animalcruelty #gannets
#scotland #barbaric #animalcruelty #gannets
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So much for "boosting growth".
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New planning bill could jeopardise UK’s trade deal with EU, ambassador warns
Exclusive: Proposed legislation removes EU-derived nature protections as government hopes to boost economic growth
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So much for "boosting growth".
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.
[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].
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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown
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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.
[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives
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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage
[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]
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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?
FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.
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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.
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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?
FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!
PRESENTER:
Ha ha
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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.
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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]
FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey
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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...
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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:
*Am I the only option for Britain?*
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[Cut back to studio]
PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidseyojvyqngmitl76iafvvbvgg4a3i7a26642c2c3gacoi7pwtbi@jpeg)
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October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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“It wasn’t immigrants who hiked anyone’s electricity bills. It wasn’t asylum seekers who increased anyone’s rent. Trans people didn’t make your weekly shopping more expensive.
We’re here to call bullshit on those kinds of lies."
📣 @ross-greer.bsky.social
We’re here to call bullshit on those kinds of lies."
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Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer have delivered their first conference speeches as co-leaders of the Scottish Greens 👇
'We're here to call bullsh**': Scottish Greens co-leaders rally for Holyrood 2026
www.thenational.scot
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“It wasn’t immigrants who hiked anyone’s electricity bills. It wasn’t asylum seekers who increased anyone’s rent. Trans people didn’t make your weekly shopping more expensive.
We’re here to call bullshit on those kinds of lies."
📣 @ross-greer.bsky.social
We’re here to call bullshit on those kinds of lies."
📣 @ross-greer.bsky.social
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I’d give her the Nobel Peace Prize if it was up to me. All decent news networks should be lining up to interview her. Immense respect to all those brave Jewish people who resist and protest against what Israel has been doing despite risks, and everyone else committed to a peaceful, civilised world.
This is profoundly dismaying to read. (I know Greta personally; she is absolutely trustworthy, and this narrative is confirmed by many many witnesses.)
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I’d give her the Nobel Peace Prize if it was up to me. All decent news networks should be lining up to interview her. Immense respect to all those brave Jewish people who resist and protest against what Israel has been doing despite risks, and everyone else committed to a peaceful, civilised world.
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Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences for the second time after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry.
Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/s...
Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/s...
Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences (for the second time) after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry
The Scottish Government has, for the second time, delayed the implementation of muirburn licensing after caving in to pressure from aggressive lobbying by the grouse shooting industry. A quick re-c…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences for the second time after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry.
Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/s...
Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/s...
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When the ‘trail’ you’re pretending to follow runs across a busy road…
#trailoflies #trailhunting #smokescreen #wildlifecrime
#trailoflies #trailhunting #smokescreen #wildlifecrime
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
When the ‘trail’ you’re pretending to follow runs across a busy road…
#trailoflies #trailhunting #smokescreen #wildlifecrime
#trailoflies #trailhunting #smokescreen #wildlifecrime
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“The woman volunteer corroborated an earlier report that Greta Thunberg was physically beaten and forced to wear an an Israeli flag tied to her back while she was dragged along – then went on to describe the terrible prison conditions .., including being starved and forced to drink toilet water”
Second released flotilla activist confirms Israel beat Greta Thunberg
The rogue Zionist state's violence and humiliation of an activist like Greta Thunberg, known worldwide, can only backfire on it
www.thecanary.co
October 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“The woman volunteer corroborated an earlier report that Greta Thunberg was physically beaten and forced to wear an an Israeli flag tied to her back while she was dragged along – then went on to describe the terrible prison conditions .., including being starved and forced to drink toilet water”
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The American fans at the Ryder Cup are absolutely gross, just the worst of the worst
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The American fans at the Ryder Cup are absolutely gross, just the worst of the worst
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
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‘Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds’
Given a choice, big developers will always cookie cut green fields. It’s easier & cheaper.
Need to change the emphasis from what’s most profitable to what’s right.
Nationalise social homebuilding?
Given a choice, big developers will always cookie cut green fields. It’s easier & cheaper.
Need to change the emphasis from what’s most profitable to what’s right.
Nationalise social homebuilding?
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Exclusive: CPRE study suggests housebuilding targets can be met without encroaching on green belt land
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds’
Given a choice, big developers will always cookie cut green fields. It’s easier & cheaper.
Need to change the emphasis from what’s most profitable to what’s right.
Nationalise social homebuilding?
Given a choice, big developers will always cookie cut green fields. It’s easier & cheaper.
Need to change the emphasis from what’s most profitable to what’s right.
Nationalise social homebuilding?
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On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...
The Farage ‘mirage’: how the media is warping our politics
It is time that the media fulfils its role to critically examine politician’s statements and call them out when they stray from the truth
bylines.scot
September 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...