Amanda R

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

The least surprising news ever. But also thank you to @robevansgdn.bsky.social & @direthoughts.com for shining a light on how two Silicon Valley lobbyists have joined forces to advance their billionaire-funded techno-accelerationist agenda into the heart of UK govt.

National Bee Unit

Tropilaelaps mite presents a significant biosecurity risk

From 7 Oct the below products prohibited for export into GB from Ukraine

honey bees
unprocessed apiculture by-products
used beekeeping equipment
apiculture products in honeycomb

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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.

It’s hidden under Welsh news.

Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.

Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️

13/14

Update on yellow-legged hornet W/E 26 Sept

476 sightings

11 more nests discovered

Kent
Maidstone
Snave
Rolvenden
Waltham
Elham
Tonbridge
Stalisfield Green
Canterbury
Eastling

Hampshire
Southampton

Isles of Scilly
Tresco

129 confirmed nests

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

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@bbka.org.uk

When will the GMC act against anti-vax doctor? It’s three years since a complaint was lodged against a doctor who recently linked Covid vaccines to cancer at Reform’s conference. But the General Medical Council still hasn’t taken action.

Aseem Malhotra has been making extreme claims about Covid vaccines that fly in the face of science for years – including on stage at Reform’s party conference.

But, three years after the regulator first received complaints about them, the GMC is yet to take action.
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Trying to get Formic Pro anti-mite treatment on final hive, faced with a colony that's filled 2 supers and most of the roof with (from the scent) ivy honey in the last 10 days. Will leave the big old Commercial super on (for winter) but they're still going to be a bit short of space for a while! 🫰

Two very important graphs.
Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved.
The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers.
Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins.

That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage

Telegraph headline feels inflammatory - there's no tearing, just careful removal of a flag from a grade 1 listed historic monument that belongs to the nation.

A close-up of a bumblebee feeding on a sunflower. Text reads: Insect crisis declared. The UK’s leading insect conservation charities launch the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis.

Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨

This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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I have enjoyed 'Wisdom'. Hope all goes well.

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest

It only took 48 hours for the court to scrub out a Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel

Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home

Please download the Asian Hornet Watch app.

It is the key way to report any sightings to those who currently track and destroy nests

Go on stirring way longer than you think you should have to, and don't be tempted to put the heat up - that way lies lemony scrambled eggs. I sometimes replace 1/3 sugar with honey (of slightly more weight as honey has c.16% water) - adding it near the end - but then I've got loads of honey. 🫰

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A useful way of picking up the names of reviewers who are idiots? Have ordered, anyway. :)

Just wonderful writing. :)

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