Sarah Hamshere

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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I so feel this!

Silver tabby cat lying on the bed relaxed with her head half upside down and her paws in the air.

Silver tabby cat lying on the bed relaxed with her head half upside down and her paws stretched out.

It's a hard life being a cat... #catsofbluesky #cats

"The UN says thsat Gaza is again on the brink of famine. Israel has refused to let food, water, fuel and medical supplies in since early March"

And not only has the UK govt taken no action against Israel for doing this, we're actively helping them do it.

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.

So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
goodlaw.social/xpme

Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

White cherry blossoms against a very blue sky.

Glorious cherry blossom even if everything in the world is sh?t

Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit

From the new Private Eye, out now.

- Will male police officers now have powers to strip search any woman they suspect as being trans? - What does 'biological sex' mean? Is it 1. what's on your birth certificate? 2. one's genitals? 3. hormonal? 4. chromosomes? 5. A combination of all of these? - If 1. will we all now have to carry our birth certificates around with us and present them every time we wish to urinate? If 2. Will we have to present our genitals for inspection? (in which case some trans women have vaginas)? If 3. Will we have to take a 'gender test' similar to that undergone by elite athletes? If 4. How will that be measured? - If the answer is 5 - where will intersex people go? What is deemed to be the 'correct' balance of female hormones? Will cis women with naturally high testosterone be allowed to use single sex spaces? What about cis women who are post-menopausal? - Where are trans men supposed to go if they need a single sex space? I cannot imagine the gender critical campaigners behind the Supreme Court decision would be comfortable sharing with people who are indistinguishable in almost every way from cis men (and trans men would certainly not want to do that either). And finally if, as I suspect, all of the answers to my questions above conspire to create a situation where womanhood is a tightly gatekept thing, accessible only to those who meet strict criteria, and everyone else is labelled 'not woman' - How is that a win for feminism?

I’ve asked my local MP to ask these questions to the government on my behalf. Feel free to copy and paste if useful.

Yellow tulips in a pot, the sun shines through the petals.

I see a theme developing 🤔

Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years Fewer than five criminal cases were brought against those who aid tax dodgers in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19

Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years.

Less than 5 criminal cases in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19

Data provided by Treasury to Parliament, in reply to my question, was inflated and incorrect.

Govts soft on tax dodge industry.

This is appalling!

Cat lying on the bed with her head upside down over the edge.

Cat on a bed curled up looking very relxed

Cat on a bed sleeping.

More Mabel. #cats #catsofbluesky

Ohh yesss 👇👇

Lovely chair!

Sign the petition: scrap planned dental fee hikes NHS dental fees are about to increase. If you’re lucky enough to have an NHS dentist, you’ll soon pay more for everything from a check-up to fillings. And not a penny of it will actually be put into o...

BREAKING: NHS dental fees are about to go up! Enough is enough: sign the petition to say no to new price hikes, and demand a real plan to fund NHS dentistry:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sc...

47 species this morning on our #NewForest #lowcarbon #patchbirding walk. Highlight was our first singing Woodlark since 2023 along with nine displaying Lapwing over the heath. Plenty of Stonechats but just two Dartford Warblers (down from last week’s record of nine) in the brisk Northerly wind

Silver tabby cat sitting on my duvet covered legs and feet.

Why does she sit on me just as I'm finally going to get up?! Mabel #cats #catsofbluesky #caturday

Yup.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

From the President of European Commission just now 💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Cat lying on the bed, next to the stick she likes chasing, looking happy.

Cat lying on the bed all twisty with her front half facing back and her back half facing up.

Mabel looking adorable. For a break from awfulness.... #catsofbluesky #cats

No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.