Daz Mileham

As the PM heads to the Amazon, remember that Britain is a rainforest nation On Thursday, the Prime Minister will arrive in the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 climate talks, hosted this year by Brazil. As Keir Starmer composes his speech, he should remember that Britain, t…

As the PM heads to the Amazon for COP30, remember that Britain is also a rainforest nation.

UK Ministers must support Brazil's plans to save the world's tropical rainforests. They must also set a goal to restore Britain's own lost temperate rainforests:

lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/05/a...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds. Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪

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Good to see at least 50% of the vote is progressive, can't say much else

Just booked my first ever birding holiday to the highlands next May, so excited!

How about the reaction from the rest of the world if he does win it?

Surely, as has been well documented, if the Tangerine Palpatine (my favourite description) is only doing any of this to get the gong, that includes itself should preclude him ever getting it!

Why is the Death of one far right, misogynist, racist still dominating the mainstream media?

Hold him to the same account as everyone else! But the media don't allow that!

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

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

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Woke is a badge of honour, not a stick to beat us with

People aren’t seeing the benefit of renewables because electricity prices are still tied to gas. That means higher bills for everyone, even though more of our power comes from cheaper renewables.

We must break that link to cut energy bills for everyone.

Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’ Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist

9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct:

🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances
📉4% hit to UK productivity
📦15% drop in trade
💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary

Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉

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Cracking day on Skomer with @westcoastbirds.bsky.social every expectation met, manxies, chough and a very showy short eared owl,
peregrines, mipits, and the usual auks among the other highlights. top job Dave

Have you ever wondered why
"Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God"
is not a quote often used by
supposedly Christian politicians ...

meme via Sally Gwynne

A Life More Than Ordinary Before Basic

Just started a substack as I have a bit of time these days, please check it out dazmileham.substack.com/p/a-life-mor...

Seems to be a real sense of indignation in the mainstream media that Labour had the temerity to win a by election.

A good week, been on a cruise to Galicia and Portugal and found out there is a bird called a Zitting Cisticola, bit of a LBJ but happy I saw it!

Netanyahu is on the wrong side of history, terrible person, not the leader Israel needs

Granted, but the point remains I wouldn't expect to see it in a forest on top of a hill in Wiltshire

Oh no settings are fine, it came up as a rare migrant, just thought it heard a black bellied plover

Absolutely, as demonstrated by the black bellied plover it picked up in Castle Combe this afternoon

Off out looking for spot fly and dipper around Castle combe today #cwpbirds #wiltsbirds #birding #ukbirding

via Fans of Animal Life

Reform is a Limited Company

Farage owns 53%

It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit”

It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget

It wants to privatise the NHS

& invest in fossil fuels

Close the BBC

& break International law

It’s a scam

Please retweet widely

So, in England:-

- Reform are obvs beyond the pale

- Tories are mad and moribund

- Labour is immolating itself

- Zack wants to leave NATO, and that's before we get to the hypnotism stuff.

Where does that leave me, exactly? Ah, LD - as it stands, today at least.

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Since the partial suspension of export licences in September 2024, the UK has exported over 8000 individual munitions, 150,000 bullets and 299 "tanks and other armored fighting vehicles" to Israel.

Continuing to arm a genocidal regime is indefensible.

The UK must end ALL arms sales to Israel.

Absolutely incalculable damage, no doubt!

Have to disagree with @newsagents.bsky.social idea that Starmer's anti immigrant rhetoric is not a vote loser. Don't suppose I'm the only one who lent him a vote last time, but never again

The only person not angry with Labour seems to be Farage, tells you something