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Retired. Worked for an aid agency that tackled the complex challenges of poverty. Interested in politics, reading, cookery and gardening. Anti-Brexit. Adore my cockapoo, Baxter.
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If every Badger killed due to the cull was lined up head to toe, they would stretch from Nottingham to London - 207km.

Here it is @lewisgoodall.com 😳

It’s World Curlew Day!💧 As the largest shorebirds, they are known for their speckled brown plumage as well as their bubbling call.🔊 There are eight species of Curlew, but both Slender-billed and Eskimo Curlews may now be extinct.🌍 Discover more on our BirdLife DataZone 👉 datazone.birdlife.org

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Customers listening to new records, before buying, in a UK record shop (1955). 📷 google images

We don’t say ‘post HIV’ or ‘post Ebola’, so why are people saying ‘post COVID’? COVID is running rampant due to apathy, ignorance and complacency on the part of governments, public health and healthcare systems www.bmj.com/content/388/...

No aid has entered the Gaza Strip since March 2 due to Israel's blockade, risking a surge in malnutrition, disease and other preventable conditions among the enclave's Palestinians, says the territory's Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7qs7pz

Turns out the self-styled ‘anti-woke’, Trump- excusing, free speech patriots don’t actually care about: a) free speech b) the rule of law c) the Constitution d) being hypocritical weapons grade dicks

An appalling incident. Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the Relief International team. Sincere condolences from @msf.org. Relief International were the only international humanitarian organisation still operating for the people in Zamzam camp, Sudan.

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

Snares are still LEGAL in England! 😡

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It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years. It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The Gaza Government Media Office has called for an independent, international investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 Palestine Red Crescent and civil defence workers after new video evidence contradicted the military's account. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex

"When I finished my PhD in Immunology and Microbiology I started working at CDC NIOSH in Morgantown...to understand diseases that were being seen in coal miners...The type of research that we were doing is not being done anywhere else in the world. And now it’s not being done at all." bit.ly/3YioisS

They have no shame. The UK is complicit in this genocide.

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

deals are being made every day

We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia. Very normal administration we have here.

22 weeks apart.

56 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip today since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/6etbtl

Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social right now & it’s hard to find the words to express the utter depravity and total disdain for human life exercised by the IDF Mass graves of medics, bound, tied and shot in the head and chest And the perpetrators will be applauded by Netanyahu et al Unconscionable

Cowards.

Despicable.

This happened 8 days ago and is horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

America 🇺🇸 today

Another foreign student disappeared by ICE. see more below christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Posting again.

Lots of new items in the shop today ♥️ www.cotswoldsdesigns.com

I had legit completely forgotten this.

The Badger cull must end! Share if you agree!

£37bn a year. Let that sink in.

Good evening #bluesky, have a great day/evening/night and may this week be kind to us all. Throwback to a cold night (-11°C) in Laggan.

I go on about pavement parking a lot and this is why. Where exactly are me and my son supposed to go at this point? The answer, thanks to this driver, is into the road.

Please sign to impose a lifetime ban on animal ownership for anyone convicted of animal cruelty. It’s the very least of the things that should be done. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Take take take.

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

Twins.. 💓🐾

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.