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willduo.bsky.social
Retired, ex marketeer, ex dog owner, ex school governor, into environment, the great outdoors, history and politics.
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Bid to build Europe’s first research station on Atlantic temperate rainforest in Cornwall A great project by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison’s Thousand Year Trust, of which I’m a trustee: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Building a stronger Canada can only happen in full partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Thank you to the leaders of the National Indigenous Organizations for a productive and wide-ranging discussion today. It is the first of many.

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

The President is threatening to send anyone who burns a Tesla to the scary prison in El Salvador. Luckily, I've never burned a Tesla car and have no plans to. Clearly it's not a good idea! I do, however, plan to never ever buy one. Is that terrorism too?

Me and countless other authors today…😂

"Official reject the idea" of a 2% wealth tax, by... pointing to what people pay in income tax. A tax on wealth is not the same as a tax on income, FFS! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

Brilliant news

'Who owns land is one of our oldest and darkest secrets... so I'm excited that the government have announced plans to open up the Land Registry' Was great to speak with @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday about uncovering who owns England: youtu.be/gqS5OMVCL-E?... (1hr 25mins in, 11.50-12noon)

Imagine if as well as pubs & village halls, communities could dream big & purchase beloved rivers, woods & peat bogs. Labour’s forthcoming Community Right to Buy could enable this but rumours are circulating that it's at risk of being dropped. Read more from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...

💡 Delighted to have @guyshrubsole.bsky.social writing for us, helping us think big about the opportunities presented by a Community Right to Buy, if we grasp them. 🌳 Community owned woodland, moorland, rivers and much more. 🎯 It's important that we get the design of a CRTB right to enable this.

That's 🎉75,000🎉 signatures on our petition to get driven grouse shooting banned. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social's pretty chuffed about it! Now, the last 25% needed to reach our target of 100k. Please help us keep the momentum up! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

🚨BREAKING: Ukraine agrees to immediate 30 day ceasefire, BUT Russia must agree first. US will also now restart intelligence sharing & security assistance. So what was the point of removing that support for a week. Spite? Dozens of Ukrainians are dead as a result. Blood on Trump’s hands.

Tediously predictable that Johnson - liar and cheat all his life - pusher of a ruinous Brexit - epic disgrace of a PM - kicked out of power by his own party - thinks he can persuade us that Trump’s grim betrayal of Ukraine is a cunning plan to punish Putin. He never tires of being a total arsehole.

Is there not a single journalist in the White House with the courage to step up and point out Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator?

“.. When you see important societal actors .. C.E.O.s, mayors, governors .. changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Blood on Trump’s hands - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Traits of a psychopath

Europe’s biggest powers are swinging behind efforts to seize more than €200bn of frozen Russian assets, as they draw up plans for a ceasefire deal in Ukraine www.ft.com/content/6536...

It was a shameful, insidious and calculated ambush on a vulnerable and traumatised ally by the White House bully-boys, designed to humiliate Zelenski and put him in his place. With friends like these who needs an enemy, even if it is Putin. America is diminished today.

Trump and Vance’s shameful behavior has embarrassed their country. President Zelenskyy is a hero. He should have been treated as such

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... These two motherfucker extorting the President of Ukraine when he's trying to save his country and the world from a tyrant and psychopath. I feel so bad for him and embarrassed to be American.

Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side

Jeez. This is shameful from Trump

Andrew Tate has left Romania for US by private jet, reports say. Good grief is there no end to US lies and interference.

The time has come to create a fairer voting system for UK elections. Please support Unlock Democracy to achieve this and let your MP know that 'first past the post' has had its day. How can it be right that the current government has such a massive majority with such a small share of the vote?

Holocaust Memorial Day - I was deeply depressed and disturbed that the president of the nation that liberated Auschwitz (Putin) and the Prime Minister of the nation victimised there (Netanyahu) were not invited the attend the commemorations because they both stand accused of war crimes. Never again?

Max Hastings in the Times on Saturday 22nd February was right to say, “As mere citizens, we must keep saying again and again that Trump’s rhetoric about Ukraine - and Gaza - is a tissue of lies and fantasies.” The time has come, folks. Let’s get to it now. Starmer can’t call him out, but we can.

This is the logical conclusion to her deranged, racist politics and the open sewer of our current discourse. A race now, I guess, for the first brown Tory to deport themselves to a country they don't know.

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

Oh my god. God damnit.

I hope Mr Trump is preparing the American people for another 9/11 event. If you piss enough people off it’s bound to happen.

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

The government doesn’t have their personal emails so it’s struggling to hire back the people it fired. 🤡 show.

One year since Alexei Navalny was murdered by the Putin regime. Tomorrow his wife Yulia Navalnaya is our guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. At a time Trump can barely bring himself to say Putin caused the war in Ukraine her voice is more important than ever

“Yesterday was a very, very good day for Vladimir Putin..” the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg

Honoured to attend the Westminster Book Awards yesterday eve, for which my book The Lie of the Land was shortlisted for best book by a non-parliamentarian. Huge congratulations to the winners - in particular to the family of Alexei Navalny, whose book Patriot deservedly won. Rest in power!

Thread (1/2) Excellent, and chilling analysis by @chrischirp.bsky.social looking at what is happening in the US right now... christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is...

Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing

This was an eye opener for me - thank you @andykroll.bsky.social for taking us through the Trump agenda

Appalled to hear a commentator on Radio 4 suggesting that Trump will do a deal which sees Putin hold on to Russia’s territorial gains in Ukraine as if that’s a decent outcome

We all heard what Trump gave away in his call with Putin. Anyone know what he got in return?

How is banning journalists for not using the phrase Gulf of America consistent with First Amendment rights? Well done @kaitlancollins.bsky.social for standing up and raising this

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

Note that Tesla is the foundation of Musk's wealth. A collapse in Tesla sales would be a massive problem for him. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...