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Campaign Win! Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced Following Fighting Dirty Action | Fighting Dirty Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its le...

Excellent news: our legal action has succeeded. The government is changing its policy on the export of waste tyres, to stop them being diverted into highly polluting and dangerous pyrolysis plants. @fightingdirty.bsky.social
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...

Sleep well Ozzy, thanks for all the music. From an honorary Brummie.

Massive kudos & admiration for @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social for taking on Sharks: celebrity Infested Waters. What a challenge, to face personal fears & then to get in with the amazing creatures. huge congratulations to achieving the goal & becoming a shark advocate.

What a glorious historic quarter in King's Lynn, Norfolk

Byline Podcast: U.S. Democracy 'Is On Life Support' Adrian Goldberg discusses the Kilmer Abrego-Garcia case with David Greenwald, founder of the US-based Vanguard News Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"If Congress isn't willing to confront the President - and so far they haven't been - then we have a state that is now a tyranny."

US justice expert David Greenwald talks #AbregoGarcia with @goldbergradio.bsky.social

From @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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OK, whoever was NOT on a Signal chat with Pete Hesgeth regarding the strikes in Yemen, please raise your hand.

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.

Sounds fun

Three flying absolute units (Exmoor Horn rams) glide over the English countryside. The artwork for Absolute Units, The MERL podcast.

Come for the big animals. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

The first full episode of Absolute Units, the official MERL podcast, is here!!!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Guardian view on the arts in schools: classrooms need more creativity | Editorial Editorial: The promising early signs are that Prof Becky Francis’s education review will boost music, art and drama

The Guardian view on the arts in schools: classrooms need more creativity | Editorial

This is just terrible, terrible to read. The impact of losing this research

Tickets booked today. Such great reviews #nationalgallery

Mindful walking, happy to spot this little guy

Seriously impressed you made this & also of your optimism with weather

My grown up son a few years back said he'd found this brilliant film he thought we'd love. He was miffed that we laughed loudly & could recite it verbatim, but great yo share across the family years

And breathe. For a short time anyway.

Afghan women students in Oman face expulsion after Trump's USAID freeze US aid funding enabled the women to study in Oman - but their scholarships have been abruptly terminated.

#BBCNews - Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face imminent return after USAID cuts
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#Afghanistan

Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.'

Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.

Our responsibility is clear.

To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.

Not just today, but every single day.

#InternationalWomensDay

Donate to Ukraine’s defenders The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.

This is Penny, ex OL office!

Cheers to your Dad Jon!

It’s perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime - in fact the UK didn't hold elections during World War Two - does Trump think Churchill was a dictator? Polls from last autumn showed that 56% of Ukrainians were against holding elections during the war

An absolutely astounding project to nurture love of books from the amazing Dolly Parton

🦋 It's almost time! Featuring nearly 30 species, our sensational springtime #ButterflyPavilion officially takes flight beginning Sunday, March 23! Save your spot and be the first to walk among hundreds of beautiful butterflies and colorful native plants: nhm.org/butterflies

So lucky to see one there

Diamonds, duchesses and dazzling tiaras: inside the upcoming Cartier exhibition at the V&A Museum The London institution will host the first major presentation in almost 30 years dedicated to the French jeweller's designs

Roared straight up the "must see" list. Total sucker for the bling
www.tatler.com/article/cart...

Government is busy: but the media are not telling you Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage

The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.

Great to read some good news!

Fabulous to see the judges actually creating pieces themselves too

Victoria Derbyshire replaced Laura Kuenssberg on her own show and she was 1000x... infinitely better.

RT if it is time to replace the Laura Kuenssberg show with the Victoria Derbyshire show.