Elizabeth Barratt

What was the music Jacapo choose for your car yesterday? Thanks

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

Pic of Pontevedra from the air

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

🦇 Have you explored our eLearning platorm yet? We have some amazing webinars and training courses on there for you to explore: learn.bats.org.uk/collections

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Impact assessment Impact assessment relating to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

The governments own impact assessment of the planning and infrastructure bill concludes that there is no significant evidence that environmental legislation is a barrier to development www.gov.uk/government/p...

🚨Email your MP to back my Bill to ban pesticides from public spaces! 🐝🌱

We’re facing a biodiversity crisis and our urban areas can help reverse this decline.

100 councils have already taken action and with proper legislation and guidance, the rest can too.
pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe...

How will bats respond to climate change? Our new paper shows that Nathusius's pipistrelles are likely to expand their European range, but most other bats will lose out. Things look particularly bad for the pond bat, which is already declining rapidly. 🌍🦇#bats #climatechange doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Throwing bats under the train: HS2’s bat tunnel and the dangerous spin behind deregulation - News - Bat Conservation Trust HS2's so-called bat tunnel has become a political scapegoat, used to justify rolling back environmental protections. But the real story is very different. This page breaks down what the bat tunnel is,...

This lovely piece by BCT is well worth a read. Help debunk the bat tunnel myth when you see it!
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

This year has started well for butterflies: peacock, comma, speckled wood, brimstone, holly blue already seen. Discussed by Guy Shrubsole the other day.

Oxfam GB | Stop arming Israel: sign our petition now

Here is a petition - Stop Arming Israel - the arms trade is shameful (the only industry Margaret Thatcher was interested in)

www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

A familiar face to those of a certain age. Fascinating man, great legacy.

Save the date On 9th July 2025 We are uniting at Westminster For people, climate, and nature

SAVE THE DATE 📢

On 9th July 2025, we’re heading to Westminster to show MPs that climate & nature must be a priority.

This is your chance to speak directly to your MP & call for urgent action. Stay tuned for details!

RT & spread the word for people, climate & nature.

The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”

Via @theguardian.com

Very early budburst on pedunculate oaks. Quite widespread in the wood. Any late frosts will clobber them (and the caterpillars hatching on them). The oak phenology is much earlier than the breeding tits, which are nowhere near egg-laying yet.

“Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.” — Lewis Mumford, 1955 Spread the word.

It’s still a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history.

Please share it as much as you can.

Peacock’s
and a brimstone last week. Didn’t see any brimstones last year.

Why Don’t Starmer and Reeves try socialism? Part 2 Is it time for the Labour Party to return to its socialist roots? This writer argues that it should have done so long ago. Part 2 of 2

Is it time for the Labour Party to return to its socialist roots? This writer argues that it should have done so long ago. Part 2 of 2 | Colin Tudge

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A sneaky little rock art post…
North York Moors, UK 🇬🇧
#archaeology #prehistory

Nytt rekord: Svensk el till 99 procent fossilfri - Energiföretagen Sverige Sverige har ett av världens bästa elsystem och förra året slog svensk el nytt rekord och var till 99 procent fossilfri samtidigt som den fortsatt är billigast i EU, detta enl...

🇸🇪 Sweden sets record with 99% clean electricity production in 2024. They also achieved the lowest wholesale electricity prices in the EU in the same year.

🔌💡 www-energiforetagen-se.translate.goog/pressrum/pre...

‘Bridget Phillipson has suggested cutting school spending by £500 million and ending universal free meals for infants.’

Is this the same Labour that campaigned tirelessly for free primary school breakfast clubs, or did I dream that?

Seabirds and shorebirds along the East coast are in trouble.🚨

Avian flu, climate change & food shortages have already hit them hard.

Now, plastic pollution threatens the places they'll soon gather to feed, nest & raise their chicks.

They need our help: www.rspb.org.uk/donate/emerg...

Here's our #PlanningBill Second Reading briefing to go with the blog: wcl.org.uk/docs/Plannin...

We hope Parliamentarians and Government will work across parties to take this chance to make planning work for nature.

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

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Furthermore - please 'like' the video on YouTube. It all helps!

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures Exclusive: RSPB and National Trust among groups saying rhetoric from Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer at odds with public sentiment Nature charities with a combined membership of about 8 million people are pressing the prime minister and chancellor to stop demonising wildlife and to urgently strengthen environmental protections in new planning laws. Organisations which are household names, such as the RSPB, the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts, are calling on MPs to back amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill to end what they say is the scapegoating of nature for the failures of the planning system. They say the anti-nature rhetoric employed by Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer, who has labelled environmental objectors as “blockers”, is at odds with public sentiment. Continue reading...

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures

The Nasty Party is back The ‘nasty party’ is back—this time wearing a red rose. Labour’s Wes Streeting claims mental health is ‘overdiagnosed.’

“The ‘nasty party’ is back — this time wearing a red rose.” 🌹

This is brutal. 👇

In Finland they have Universal healthcare
No gun violence
No tuition fees to attend university
No homelessness

You want to know how?
Finland only has 7 billionaires, the richest of which is worth $2.83 Billion

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich."

My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’

Well said Chris Packham 🦇❤️🦇 Please do contact your MP about this madness! @batconservation.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

URGENT: Planning bill threatens bat conservation – ACT NOW - News - Bat Conservation Trust We are reaching out to you at a critical moment for bat conservation in England

This is a pivotal moment for bat conservation, and we need your help. URGENT: Planning bill threatens bat conservation – ACT NOW www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/03...