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While the EU requires advanced treatment of urban wastewater, the UK has no legal obligation to monitor microplastics or antimicrobial residues.

If others have better protections, we should follow them.

#WaterQuality #DirtyWater

Note. Standing together.

Iran latest: Trump criticises Starmer over UK stance - 'this is not Winston Churchill we're dealing with' The US and Israel are striking Iran for a fourth day after the American embassy in Saudi Arabia was hit by a drone. The UK is sending a warship to Cyprus after a strike on an RAF base. Follow the late...

Don’t you dare give in to this megalomaniac Starmer! Stand your ground!
@darrenpjones.bsky.social

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Cliff at Sainte-Adresse - 1873
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8205

Nottingham killer sought arrest at MI5 HQ before 2023 attack, inquiry told Valdo Calocane approached security at Thames House in 2021 but did not meet threshold for further assessment, public inquiry told A man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023. Continue reading...

Nottingham killer sought arrest at MI5 HQ before 2023 attack, inquiry told

Raac not Rack Concrete…Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete 💙 Love your walls they are great. Thank you

Looking forward to a read of this book which explores the 21st century hauntology music scene and particularly music inspired by landscape and cultural heritage. Expensive but thanks to @moonbuilding.bsky.social newsletter review you get a £32 discount. PDF version also expensive.

Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons

I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP

Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.

He supported it then, and he should support it now.

Solidarity, Mothin 💚

found in my archives
not mine, but I had to share
life's reality

#haiku

The establishment are trying to do to the greens what they did to Corbyn.

Last night we went to see Ken Dodd at the Palladium. The Hotel food is good & plentiful and its also very safe.

That’s great, you don’t want food poisoning!

somethings never change

“My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humoured; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.”

W. H. Auden, St. Marks Place, New York, March 3, 1960. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

Have Japan attacked British interests in the last 48 hours? (Tongue-in-cheek)

Keir Starmer when you were running for Labour leader you promised to introduce this legislation to stop the UK being dragged into illegal wars - it's time to show you were serious about that.

Rude white privileged men who don’t recognise that they are rude white privileged men, perhaps that is why women don’t treat them with respect. Ever thought of that

Sarah Everard’s mother pays tribute to ‘loving’ daughter on fifth anniversary of her murder Susan Everard says her daughter ‘added to the beauty of the world’

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

From many, many years ago in Sumatra. The man who later became my husband boinging from a palm tree branch.

Not a bad shot when you consider there were no iPhones or digital to see if you’d caught it.

In essence there is no Good or Bad art. It's all down to personal choice.

Pristine brickwork (2026) The art of Paul Garrard

www.paulgarrard.xyz/2026/03/pris...

#art #newart #myart

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if you go down to the woods today, you're sure for a big surprise.

Part of an old kiln, close to a disused railway line

Clusters of small pink and cream cashew blossoms among broad green leaves on a sunlit tree branch, early bloom stage before the nuts form.

Our cashews are blooming.
Nuts by summer.

#The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱

Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.123.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On the 29 Feb 1944, a 40 year old Dutch Jewish woman perished in Auschwitz. Her husband and daughter (16) perished in the camp on the 17 Sep 1943 and son (18) on the 31 Mar 1943. Her name was Hennij de Groot-Cossen

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