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hackneymartian.bsky.social
Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 3 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Was community tree carer, forest gardener, alt.beekeeper, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarily
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"Is the reality that your evidence is all over the place because it's simply not true?" asked David Barr KC, counsel to the #spycops inquiry during the evidential hearing. Today #Barnack is learning why Andy Coles is an unsuitable candidate in the forthcoming #localelections.

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Just heard BBC World Service use the word reprisals of Gaza. Unscripted panellist Alistair Burt of RUSI on Weekend. Violation of laws of war. Oops.

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🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Nick Robinson on Today telling Peter Hain 'You dug up pitches' (he didn't) & Hain having to correct the pub Tory version of history which Robinson carries round in his head. BBC accuracy much?

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Holborn post office. Rang twice. Sat in my wheelchair for 15 minutes. WTAF. Luckily my wife was with me & able to go to counter.

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🚨 BREAKING - Road occupied at Strand outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Over 1,000 people are sat in the street holding a time-limited Exhibition in solidarity with the ‘Lord’ Walney 16. The People will not be deterred by extreme sentences of peaceful protestors. 🧵

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"It is “too early” to say whether the UK will strip the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, of her British citizenship, the prime minister has said." Guardian. Shamima Begum also went to Syria to marry a terrorist & was stripped in 2024. The Met investigated Asma for torture & terrorism

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Sorry to see my MP Diane Abbott lobbying against the assisted dying bill. She argues no safeguards can be good enough: not the experience of jurisdictions such as Oregon. And she attacks the timing, which is determined by the private members bill lottery. www.dignityindying.org.uk/assisted-dyi...

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Another regular #EastLondonKingfishers spot is the River Lea at Hackney Marshes where we have had in recent years two breeding pairs. Sadly this summer neither pair appeared to be successful in fledgling any young. Fingers crossed for next year. #birds #kingfisher #londonbirds #birdphotography

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Last week it was amazing to meet & help Hamza Yassin (nature cameraman, TV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner!) & the wonderful Lira find & film #kingfishers in east London for a nature series out next year. I was very relieved the kingfishers turned up! #LondonBirds #nature #birds

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Inheritance tax is, of course, based upon the value of assets. Dodgy tax avoiders buying up swathes of farmland have driven up the value of agricultural land. When you tackle tax avoiders by closing loopholes, you actually help farmers who don't benefit from the overinflation of land value...

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If I don't follow back, it may be because - - you've no bio or posts, so I've no idea if you're interesting/real - I'm following you via a list - you're a lovely transatlantic person & I'm mostly following UK people so as not to get swamped Thanks for following & sorry if I seem ungracious

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