@nicolacutcher.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, writer and filmmaker.
Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists.
You laugh and then you weep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can jurors apply their conscience when giving a verdict? Or must they only consider the evidence? And are the two even mutually exclusive? @nicolacutcher.bsky.social investigates, via a fossil fuel protest case.
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Can jurors apply their conscience when giving a verdict? Or must they only consider the evidence? And are the two even mutually exclusive? @nicolacutcher.bsky.social investigates, via a fossil fuel protest case.
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Do jurors have the right to apply their conscience to a case or could it be a criminal offence for them to do so?
A recent hearing before the RCJ puts the centuries-old principle of jury equity on the line.
I’ve written about it for @prospect_uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/71...
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27.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exclusive: Farmers and landowners fear Defra is putting its flagship Landscape Recovery schemes at risk.
While the large-scale projects are intended to last 20-30 years, the government could pull the plug at any time with a year’s notice.
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Just subscribed to @thenerve.news having listened to the founders on the latest Media Confidential podcast.
We need more journalists with nerve!
Enjoyed Stewart Lee satirising Grok. Excited to follow the journalism to come! (I’d love to write for it too!)
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Deeply saddened that Nabil Shaban has died. A towering inspiration with his mischievous and irrepressible spirit. He did incredible things and was a font of extraordinary stories. There’s nobody like him. I was so lucky to know him. Love you Nabs!
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
Our latest newsletter is out! It covers the expose of Red Tractor, the Wye legal case and shares three new films - plus more….
Read it here and click the link to subscribe to our monthly mailing list.
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Huge news!
Red Tractor = false advertising.
I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority
Emerging young filmmaker Mykyta Osadchyi has made a compelling 25 minute documentary about the River Wye. It gives an excellent overview of the issues and our campaign to save the Wye. Here’s a trailer, but you can watch the full film on YouTube here: youtu.be/i45B-NfPr-4?...
12.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1Hay Festival Winter Weekend! 🌿💙
Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change.
🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
📍 Hay Castle
🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...
Delighted to be interviewing the actor and activist James Murray about the state of our rivers. Join us on Saturday 29 November at 2.30pm in Hay Castle!
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Leadership elections results New Leader Zack Polanski Photo of Zack Polanski REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
02.09.2025 10:14 — 👍 3011 🔁 686 💬 135 📌 309Have you seen it like this before?
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This is the riverbed of the River Dore in Herefordshire today. What a drought. There were still crayfish under the rocks. Eerie scene.
26.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0![Just eat less meat’
Singh-Watson may believe he has softened. But for many years he has been an iconoclastic voice among farmers. Take meat: most British farmers reject calls to eat less red meat to reduce damage to the environment and people’s health. Singh-Watson says eat good meat but less often: just 5% of what Riverford sells is meat. He had shared an organic chicken with eight people the previous evening: “I probably won’t buy another one for a month.”
“I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rc66vw4ruqwyhohdi6y75gdw/bafkreiailejl5nvrrr6u3oab5ggyhlblkgobygxfcqeqbjkgwxckdoi77u@jpeg)
Just eat less meat’ Singh-Watson may believe he has softened. But for many years he has been an iconoclastic voice among farmers. Take meat: most British farmers reject calls to eat less red meat to reduce damage to the environment and people’s health. Singh-Watson says eat good meat but less often: just 5% of what Riverford sells is meat. He had shared an organic chicken with eight people the previous evening: “I probably won’t buy another one for a month.” “I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”
It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat.
This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent.
I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brilliant to see The Observer devote its front page to examining the government’s treatment of Palestine Action. Excellent coverage inside.
Is Yvette Cooper becoming increasingly desperate by resorting to smears?
I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us
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I didn’t have Hyperemesis Gravidarum, but I did have a debilitating nausea with regular vomiting for months.
Whilst we need better medical understanding and treatment, we also need to change the language. It’s NOT ‘morning sickness’. I wrote this for Grazia:
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Brilliant long-read from @abistephenson.bsky.social in the Guardian about extreme pregnancy sickness - how much suffering it causes and why it’s so weirdly neglected.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This is a refreshingly frank take on Welsh farming from politician Lee Waters. Recommend reading…
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Our latest newsletter dropped this morning with a bumper round-up of news affecting the Wye this month. Read all about bathing water quality, toxic sewage sludge, legal victories and lots of ways you can help defend our rivers…
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Just found an old script from Dumbshow Theatre for ‘Electric Dreams’ which was based on The Shock Doctrine.
The opening line feels especially pertinent today:
“We’re not terrorists, we’re librarians”.
Screenwriter Ronan Bennett rousingly condemns the government’s position on Palestine Action. What a last line!
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Proscribing Palestine Action is a huge over-reach by the state.
People of conscience holding placards have been arrested for ‘terrorism’ offences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
