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Freelance writer based in France. Nature lover. News and politics junkie. DarkXside refugee now in recovery
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Gratitude to everyone who contributed — whether with a donation or through action 💛💙 #ThankYou #SupportUkraine #UaView

Nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Injure seven police officers driving at 119 mph earns 1 yr and 2 months in prison. Planning environmental activism earns 5 yrs in prison. Justice???

Fishing is peak Ladybird Libertarian territory. It taps into grand notions of "who we are" and noble and heroic traditions of "man versus the sea" and "man versus fish." That's why the Brexiters weaponised it, and I'm just sorry for ordinary fishing communities that were pawns in the game.

Gary Lineker had the courage to speak up for the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people And for that, he was cancelled We say 'never forget' but when someone points out that we've forgotten' and speaks out against a genocide, they're dismissed Thank you Gary for being human and caring 🙏

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week

we are the #dangerous

Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com

Britain: Time to wake up and smell the coffee. That special relationship was a myth.

This is the most dangerous, irresponsible framing imaginable. Not to mention it is bollocks. The big big winners from positioning Ukrainian security against poor British people & our public services are the far right. TAX THE RICH TO PAY FOR DEFENSE. PROTECT OUR WELFARE STATE.

I constantly hear/see journalists, commentators & interviewers asserting how easy it is to get incapacity & disability benefits despite clearly having no real understanding of how the process actually works or having spoken to someone who's been through it. Completely distorts public understanding

In other words, stop pandering to a megalomaniac.

Appeasing Trump is not realpolitik. Realpolitik is grasping the fact that Trump is an enemy of democracy allied with Putin. He is not a troublesome ally. He is an enemy. There's no bringing him onside. There's only letting him use our desperation to manipulate us.

Is this another cover up? This time the Covid Inquiry not talking to PPE Suppliers?

The USA gives Israel way more money than Ukraine but Donald Trump daren't say a thing to Benjamin Netanyahu.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Zelensky: "You are never alone, Dear President"

Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be waking up. Here’s the latest evidence — 10 more reasons for modest optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-reasons-for-moderate-optimism

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

Time for the UK to recognize that the "special relationship" was only ever a one-sided love affair. Time to stop hankering after the US and turn back to Europe #brexit

Okay, it’s only one poll but a significant drop in opposition and an increase in support for lynx reintroduction in Scotland since they last asked the question. www.rewild.scot/scottish-peo...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Will we ever get to the bottom of the many corruption scandals such as PPE or does the incoming government simply brush them beneath the carpet and pretend they never existed? #corruptpolitics

Supressing a woman’s right to vote. They’re just a white Christian version of the Taliban.

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Laura Kuennsberg repeats the 'we know there isn't much money around at the moment' line again this morning. Without asking WHY there is 'no money around'. Politicians must be challenged on their decisions to refuse to tax the super-rich so that there IS 'money around'. #BBCLauraK

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We need to all be getting behind the call for a ban on lying in parliament. A simple fix to so many problems and a practice that would influence other countries too.

So how’s it going so far?

Must speak truth to power. Is Mariann Edgar Budde the person of the year for standing up to Trump? There is nothing more patriotic than social justice; protection of the vulnerable; eradication of poverty, hate; giving visibility to what is ignored/marginalized. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We need to all be getting behind the call for a ban on lying in parliament. A simple fix to so many problems and a practice that would influence other countries too.

When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.