Simon Chambers

No it's simple maths below. France has less than half the population density of the UK, Spain about a quarter. If you look at the south of the UK it is the mostly densely populated part of Europe except Malta 🤔

It’s not just the content of what she says, it’s the patronising manner she adopts to deliver it. I can’t see voters taking to her at all.

Shame on her. The greatest challenge mankind faces and she wants to make it worse. Events will make her eat her words. But there are no excuses. The science is clear.

God help us
Thank goodness it won’t happen

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."

I don’t understand how the White House believes peace will result from Ukraine ceding territory. The blood of Ukrainians has soaked that soil. They have sacrificed everything. Why would they just let it go? It’s a recipe for future guerrilla campaigns and uprisings against the Russian oppressors.

Ludicrous- this is not terrorism nor is it democracy.
What is going on?

Just reading your thought-provoking book. I believe strategic areas of Rewilding work as incubator hubs for ecosystems & spread benefits to the wider area, much as marine protected areas do in Attenborough’s Ocean.
Also Check out @gilbertwhite.bsky.social Sanfoin commonly grown in Hants in 1776!

Just reading your thought-provoking book. I believe strategic areas of Rewilding work as incubator hubs for ecosystems & spread benefits to the wider area, much as marine protected areas do in Attenborough’s Ocean.
Also Check out @gilbertwhite.bsky.social Sanfoin commonly grown in Hants in 1776!

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/br...

Protesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the U.S. on Saturday, gathering at demonstrations to call for protecting American democracy from President Trump. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4e3BIzD

Damien Lewis on X: "Running out of good books to read. Any suggestions? 🤨 https://t.co/6Wd5GRuHtf" / X Running out of good books to read. Any suggestions? 🤨 https://t.co/6Wd5GRuHtf

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What’s new? #HS2

What happened in Race 2?

An interesting poll from YouGov this morning - the anti-Farage coalition is definitely real, including among Tory voters.

That’s the problem for the Tories - everyone in business sees this as a positive which hugely undermines their credibility as the party of business.

2016:

David Davis: "The day after Brexit we hold all the cards"
Liam Fox: "Easiest [trade] deal in history"
Dan Hannan: "No one is talking about leaving the Single Market"
Boris Johnson: "There will be no friction... No non-tariff barriers"

The Brexit lies will never end.

24m ago 16.10 BST Trade body for Scottish salmon industry hails EU deal as 'breakthrough' Severin Carrell Severin Carrell Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor. Salmon Scotland, the trade body which represents the fish farms behind the UK’s largest food export, said the EU trade deal would “slash red tape” and cut export costs. The organisation estimates that post-Brexit food export rules cost exporters around £3m a year, with France the sector’s biggest customer. The sector sold £844m worth of farmed salmon overseas last year, with £462m sent to France alone. Tavish Scott, the chief executive of Salmon Scotland and former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, is at a reception to celebrate the deal in London later. He said: We congratulate the UK government on securing this deal with the EU, which will slash red tape and speed up the delivery of our premium salmon to market. This breakthrough eases the burden on our farmers, processors and the communities they support, and we welcome efforts to implement it at pace. The withdrawal of physical checks is particularly welcome. It means lower costs and quicker deliveries for our customers.

Salmon Scotland: "We congratulate the UK gov't on securing this deal with the EU, which will slash red tape and speed up the delivery of our premium salmon to market." ~AA #NotAllFish

Source: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Meat industry welcomes deal, saying Labour has achieved 'what previous government promised originally but didn't deliver' The British Meat Processors Association has issued a statement strongly welcoming the deal with the EU. It says that, making access to the EU market easier for meat exporters, Keir Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. The association has also dismissed claims that the deal will mean the UK being a “rule taker” because it will aligned with the EU on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules. It says: A common misunderstanding is that an SPS agreement will mean Britain becomes a ‘rule taker’. In reality, we must comply with the rules of any of our trading partners if we want to export to them – just like America must comply with British rules if they want to send us their products. This means we have been aligned with EU rules and standards all along. The difference this new deal will make is that Britain, unlike their other third country trading partners, will benefit from true, un-fettered access to their market and massively reduced trade friction. It will boost trade and make us more competitive. Under the existing arrangement we have had to produce a mountain of paperwork to prove we comply, costing business a fortune but with no added value. This extra cost had to be absorbed somewhere in the supply chain, either through lower margins or higher prices, driving food price inflation and rendering UK businesses less competitive.

British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA

Sweet irony! Welcome.

That’s all he is - a purveyor of confected insults and slogans which he hopes will stick. This one is crass and coarse.

Well done @itvnews.bsky.social
on pointing out the soaring rise in immigration “since we completed Brexit” - a key factor. This should be pointed out to Farage (who championed Brexit) in every interview

Today!

They’re a thoughtful bunch

New Attenborough film showcases both destruction and hope in planet's oceans British naturalist David Attenborough says there is hope for the future of the planet's oceans in a new film premiering later on Tuesday that sets out both the scale of damage caused by human activities and the oceans' capacity for recovery.

New Attenborough film showcases both destruction and hope in planet's oceans reut.rs/4iV2yen

The Catholic church is still in mourning. This is hubris beyond. It’s also insensitive, crass & shows the man does not understand any human feeling beyond greed or power. He believes anything can be transacted - religion, nationhood, identity etc. Ask Ukrainians, Canadians, Greenlanders….

Unbelievably crass and unaware.

Reasons to oppose Reform:
1. Farage is not a principled person. He’s an opportunist.
2. He’s responsible for the fiasco that is Brexit.
3. He’s a Trump apologist & an admirer of Putin.
4. His economics are “Trussian”.
5. He’s a climate change denier and will exacerbate harmful UK climate events.