@lynngreen.bsky.social
Retired engineer, lifelong environmentalist. Interested in wildlife conservation and climate change.
"We are at a turning point in Europe’s story..."
Read more to know what else Verhofstadt spoke in Edinburgh.
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Cambridgeshire train stabbings: ‘heroic’ LNER staff member suffered ‘life threatening injuries’
02.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 3
EXCLUSIVE: Polling trends in 2025 show women are now more supportive of Scottish independence than men, marking a striking reversal in Scotland’s political landscape
02.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 85 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 0
This is a wrong that desperately needs putting right.
Come on, #LisaNandy… make the difference to these deaf athletes. Change their lives. You have the power.
Take the chance to be useful to someone!
Support @nydeafswimmer.bsky.social
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John Swinney has said leaving the European Convention on Human Rights is 'not the future I want for Scotland' ahead of its 75th anniversary
02.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 125 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 5
We live on a planet on the brink of disaster
This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos
By Brian McHugh
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Corporate Rip-off.
Ofcom rules brought in to stop phone/broadband companies from hiking prices mid-contract.
O2 to ignore the rules.
15.6m O2 customer bills to rise 40% more than expected.
Other companies bound to follow. They raise capital from customers.
Customers need enforceable rights
🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Corridor care in Britain's hospitals is a "crisis in plain sight", a charity has warned, with patients complaining of long waits and warzone-like conditions
news.sky.com/story/elderl...
Congratulations to Josh Fyvie - now the youngest councillor in Scotland.
Great result in Stirling East for the SNP. Well done to all who worked so hard on the campaign. 🏴
An 18-year-old SNP candidate has won a key by-election, signaling a crucial moment for the future of Stirling Council
31.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 78 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2
Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year
31.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 72 🔁 29 💬 12 📌 4
UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma
Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.
Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses
Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
The Blairgowrie blueberry bushes are laden with fruit but where are the pickers? | Charlie McCarthy
@charliemac2204.bsky.social
Australia plans to overhaul national environmental laws to better protect nature, while speeding up approvals for major projects in sectors including natural gas, renewable energy and mining.
29.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have bought a £10 million home on America’s 'billionaire island'
28.10.2025 23:50 — 👍 3 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
Nafeez Ahmed unveils a network of tech tyrants and MAGA figureheads as they look to plant their flag on a brand new territory: The United Kingdom.
29.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 140 🔁 114 💬 8 📌 6Even if they achieve nothing at these UN Climate Change Conferences (i.e., COPs), we always get updates about how fucked we are so that's something.
29.10.2025 00:09 — 👍 168 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 1
Step by step we move toward The Great Climate Insurance Collapse.
28.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 264 🔁 72 💬 14 📌 5
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates that universal credit will still fall short by around £1,000 a year per person
28.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 7 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.
28.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 11810 🔁 3753 💬 1015 📌 243What the 🤬 !!!!
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Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.”
Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.
www.thetimes.com/article/9048...
The Scottish Government has called on a UK-wide review into the state pension age to take into account Scotland's lower average life expectancy
28.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 34 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
The economic disaster that is Brexit The chancellor admitted last week that Brexit has hit productivity and the economy much harder than previously thought, a fact that the budget - courtesy of the OBR - would recognise. In a little-reported speech last week, Bank of England monetary policy committee member Swati Dhingra gave a hint at official thinking, citing recent independent research suggesting that Brexit had lowered Britain's output by between 6% and 8% and investment by between 12% and 18%, compared with what it would have been had the UK remained in the EU. Worse, these losses are permanent. The devastating numbers, much worse than the OBR's earlier official estimates, are the single most important cause of weakened productivity. They also mean that the exchequer has lost not £40bn but up to £80bn of tax revenue every year. Outside wartime, no leading country has ever committed so much economic self-harm.
"The economic disaster that is Brexit"
(A lot worse than I had thought)
Will Hutton in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
It is going to cost over £35 billion to build one single nuclear power station. For that price you could put a £2,000 battery in every other home in the country to use cheap off peak energy and cut demand and the need for backup power stations there just for peak demand.
28.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 46 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
