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Peter Gannon

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Hoping we can reverse Brexit in my lifetime! #FBPE Living the good life in #Catalunya #birder #walker #Garraf #UKBirding 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 live in🇪🇸 born in🇬🇧 & also🇩🇪

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Totally agree. It's even worse here in Barcelona!

26.01.2026 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24-hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

14.11.2025 07:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Budapest Pride expected to be a rallying cry against Orbán’s rollback of rights Record numbers expected at march despite Hungary’s leader saying those attending will face ‘legal consequences’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

28.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great work Jono

09.06.2025 17:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’ Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ time

Good article on wine making in my area: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

17.05.2025 06:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

24.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Working in a wet Manchester today and then back to bcn late tonight. We’ll be in Naburn 3 and 4 June so hopefully see you both.

23.04.2025 03:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! Hope all is good

22.04.2025 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

23.03.2025 07:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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​How a tiny village in a deserted part of Spain became a centre for gay weddings A couple of hours’ drive from Madrid, Campillo de Ranas has played a huge role in promoting same-sex marriage – and revived the fortunes of the ‘black villages’ of Guadalajara

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

18.03.2025 07:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain

The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2025 08:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No thank you for all your Sunday articles - my first read every Sunday!

02.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In this dangerous age, Britain needs to exert soft power as well as the hard stuff | Andrew Rawnsley Defence spending has to go up, but siphoning money from international aid is a self-defeating folly

bang on as usual from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

02.03.2025 07:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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With Nato adrift and Brussels snubbed, is the UK key to Europe’s response to Trump? | Simon Tisdall In a fast-moving crisis, the EU hasn’t been nimble enough. The onus must fall on ‘coalitions of the willing’ to stop a US-Putin carve-up

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

02.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

27.02.2025 08:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Absolutely

23.02.2025 19:36 — 👍 3723    🔁 794    💬 79    📌 13
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Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

22.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

indeed!

22.02.2025 07:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

21.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 5838    🔁 1441    💬 231    📌 58
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As always @maitlis.bsky.social neatly sums it up

15.02.2025 18:20 — 👍 2672    🔁 582    💬 32    📌 8
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Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves | Andrew Rawnsley The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences

Always stimulating but this time it really is worrying too, from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

16.02.2025 07:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Oh dear Gary! There are hundreds in Sitges but so far they haven't made it 8km inland to Olivella where I live and I am hoping it long remains this way!

07.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it | Caroline Lucas If the courts let 16 climate activist’s draconian sentences stand this week, we are no better than an authoritarian state, says environmental activist and former Green MP Caroline Lucas

Important piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

29.01.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spanish Imperial Eagle numbers on the rise Spanish Imperial Eagle, one of the world’s most localised raptor species, has enjoyed a population increase across its Iberian Peninsula range. The eagle is listed as Vulnerable by IUCN but, in a positive development, the number of pairs rose from 536 in 2017 to 821 in 2021. Spanish Imperial Eagle...

Spanish Imperial Eagle, one of the world's most localised raptor species, has enjoyed a population increase across its Iberian Peninsula range:

27.01.2025 07:26 — 👍 46    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Will the return of King Maga to the White House mean a Trumpification of British politics | Andrew Rawnsley Donald Trump poses dilemmas and dangers for the Tories as well as Labour, and presents opportunities to the Lib Dems and Reform

Great reading this Sunday from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social
Thank you!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

26.01.2025 08:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Rejecting offer for UK to join Europe-wide customs scheme is ‘economic negligence’, Lib Dem leader says – UK politics live Ed Davey says it is ‘alarming’ the government will negotiate with China but won’t agree to better EU trading arrangement

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

23.01.2025 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends… fast | Will Hutton Amid deepening debt and an onslaught by the president-elect, Labour must calm the markets, then think big economically

Great article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

12.01.2025 11:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Olivella just now

10.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You too Jono

26.12.2024 09:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Catalan cava on the terrace:
Bones Festes!

25.12.2024 13:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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