Elizabeth Norman

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

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

Rachel Reeves risks damaging the environment and removing local planning decisions to improve financial forecasts in order to save her budget

29 cases have gone to the ECHR since 1980. 16 were upheld in the government's favour meaning only 13 people were allowed to stay in that time ( David Gaulke, The Times) So why do they want to quit it! It removes the everyday rights of all of us with no recourse to law.

Protect our swans!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

From this week’s Beano.

It's why any workable ID Card proposal can't avoid the need to provide citizens with a physical document that everyone can afford

We aren’t talking about ID cards though are we, but digital ID cards. Great unless you haven’t eg got a smartphone

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

What a paragraph

Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve Bannon Footage shows Brexit party leader calling Bannon’s plan a ‘fightback against globalists’

Steve Bannon -Farages mate www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

California gubernatorial candidate posted '0% unemployment plan' featuring image of Auschwitz The aspiring politician, Kyle Langford, added, "My German Ancestors smile upon me."

Republican values.
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Pretty much says it all.

Good point

Sad to say, #sophiefromromania, the squirrel won’t climb back down

Have you ever heard a Shahed drone?

Ukrainians do every day and night: the sickening moped-like buzz circling above, the fear of waiting for the final explosion.

The Harmoniia Orchestra created an overture imitating a Russian Shahed attack, capturing the sound of terror.

🎥Harmoniia Orchestra

Clown moment from Michael Gove, "If we had a Tory Mayor in London rather than Sadiq Khan, we would not have the tube misery people are experiencing." Gove forgets there were 20 tube strikes during the time Boris Johnson was the Conservative Mayor of London. (H/T @implausibleblog.bsky.social)

They droned a second boat. We’re still going to Gaza. Pressure the Irish government any way you can to support the flotilla and sanction the country attacking us

Imagine waking up in the morning and finding a paper telling you:
“Leave your home .leave your city.leave your memories.leave everything that belongs to you.”
An entire city with its history, its streets, the voices of its children,
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Vile

It's well known that Bowheads live to be 200+ years old but here's a bonkers thing that we didn't realize until we had Nick on the pod - that means a whale alive today could potentially have been alive before whaling started AND they lived through the decades of whaling & the century of recovery🤯

He's EXTREMELY tetchy.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

And with no vaccinations

Over 230,000 Badgers Killed for Nothing: DEFRA Review Confirms the Real Cause of TB The government has just published the new Bovine TB strategy review, led yet again by Professor Charles Godfray.

As @greenparty.org.uk has always said, the #BadgerCull is unscientific, unjustified, inhumane and disastrous for the #Biodiversity on these battered islands

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An asymmetry of what’s acceptable between the major parties is already developing. Just as it has in the US. Primarily driven by media and social media coverage.

She wasn’t ‘convicted’. She pleaded guilty.

I love Norway’s brown cheese anyway x