Sir Birdly
@sirbirdly-100.bsky.social
Birder. Moth-er. Tank enthusiast. History buff.
Habitat restorer, hedge-layer, scyther.
Bloodbowl and other geekery
Habitat restorer, hedge-layer, scyther.
Bloodbowl and other geekery
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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...
Hazelnut sounds great but I'm not sure about vegan as a flavour.....🤔
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hazelnut sounds great but I'm not sure about vegan as a flavour.....🤔
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BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too
It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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“Remind me to add ‘philanthropist’ to my LinkedIn profile”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“Remind me to add ‘philanthropist’ to my LinkedIn profile”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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This is disgusting in all regards. The crime, the time and the silence. As soon as these crimes have been committed and announcing info won’t risk an investigation, then this should be communicated nationally as fast as possible.
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is disgusting in all regards. The crime, the time and the silence. As soon as these crimes have been committed and announcing info won’t risk an investigation, then this should be communicated nationally as fast as possible.
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Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .
Whilst on my morning dog walk I saw a pipistrelle foraging along a line of oaks 🦇🦇. No doubt Rachel Reeves would disapprove.
But a bat out in November shows how mild it is at the moment.
#batconservationtrust
But a bat out in November shows how mild it is at the moment.
#batconservationtrust
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Whilst on my morning dog walk I saw a pipistrelle foraging along a line of oaks 🦇🦇. No doubt Rachel Reeves would disapprove.
But a bat out in November shows how mild it is at the moment.
#batconservationtrust
But a bat out in November shows how mild it is at the moment.
#batconservationtrust
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With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
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Tesla shareholders approve pay package to Elon Musk of 254,515,050,167 Private Eyes (at cover price)… or $1 trillion if he decides to take it in cash.
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!
New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!
New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tesla shareholders approve pay package to Elon Musk of 254,515,050,167 Private Eyes (at cover price)… or $1 trillion if he decides to take it in cash.
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!
New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!
New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
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Today the UN COP climate summit kicked off in Brazil, and @london.gov.uk has been in Rio to promote action on climate change by cities. Back here in London, my @badvertising.bsky.social team mates launched a campaign to ask the Mayor to stop promoting pollution on London’s public transport network
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Today the UN COP climate summit kicked off in Brazil, and @london.gov.uk has been in Rio to promote action on climate change by cities. Back here in London, my @badvertising.bsky.social team mates launched a campaign to ask the Mayor to stop promoting pollution on London’s public transport network
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
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Happy hang, eviscerate, and burn someone who believes in the exact same God as you, but in a slightly different way, week.
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Happy hang, eviscerate, and burn someone who believes in the exact same God as you, but in a slightly different way, week.
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Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
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Never forget this. Monster.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Never forget this. Monster.
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Wise words by Sir John Lawton: "There is no surrogate metric that can reliably assess conservation success or failure without knowing what is happening to populations of plants and animals in the landscape."
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Wise words by Sir John Lawton: "There is no surrogate metric that can reliably assess conservation success or failure without knowing what is happening to populations of plants and animals in the landscape."
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
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Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Four is live a day early.
Highlights this week include:
🧠 Proper journalism
🤡 Improper politicians
🏴 Bunting-based chaos in Kent
I contain multitudes.
Highlights this week include:
🧠 Proper journalism
🤡 Improper politicians
🏴 Bunting-based chaos in Kent
I contain multitudes.
Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Four
Good reporting, bad politics, and one very flammable flag situation in Kent.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Four is live a day early.
Highlights this week include:
🧠 Proper journalism
🤡 Improper politicians
🏴 Bunting-based chaos in Kent
I contain multitudes.
Highlights this week include:
🧠 Proper journalism
🤡 Improper politicians
🏴 Bunting-based chaos in Kent
I contain multitudes.
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The full Sky investigation is also well worth a read:
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The full Sky investigation is also well worth a read:
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Today marks the official death of my Twitter blue-tick - and fittingly, Sky News published an investigation proving the whole thing’s an algorithmic bin fire.
It’s been real, it’s been ragey, it’s been hell.
Let it burn. Let it all burn to the ground.
It’s been real, it’s been ragey, it’s been hell.
Let it burn. Let it all burn to the ground.
The X-periment: Sky News Proves Elon’s Algorithm Does Pick a Side
Nine fake British users, ninety-thousand posts and one undeniable conclusion - X is boosting the far right, and the rest of us were never meant to win the argument.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today marks the official death of my Twitter blue-tick - and fittingly, Sky News published an investigation proving the whole thing’s an algorithmic bin fire.
It’s been real, it’s been ragey, it’s been hell.
Let it burn. Let it all burn to the ground.
It’s been real, it’s been ragey, it’s been hell.
Let it burn. Let it all burn to the ground.
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️