David Jobbins

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

“This is the largest legal action concerning environmental pollution ever brought in the UK. In a context where government and regulators have failed to prevent degradation of our rivers the court has become last avenue for justice”
@ollyholland.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kendrick should be asked how many non-white faces he sees in his constituency town of Newark before he lectures other communities on integration and multiculturalism. Newark is 95% white and 2.5% Black/Asian.

Kidnapped CONCERNS are growing over Scottish journalist Yvonne Ridley, kidnapped along with 450 others when their Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) mercy mission to Gaza was intercepted by Israeli forces.One of four ...

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kidn...

MPs and public underestimate urgency of climate action, new UEA study reveals Fewer than 15% of UK MPs knew emissions must peak by 2025, raising questions about climate communication

New UEA study finds public and politicians dangerously misinformed: climate clock says 2025, many think 2040 or beyond.

Quite an odd headline even the hyper-cautious BBC. That isn't the main line he's defending: he had attacked a supposed total lack of white people in the area

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

Don't we know it and the impact is there for all to see. How to mishandle a critical public service in one easy lesson. And it isn't just HE.

Another year I’ve not seen Hen harriers in the #YorkshireDales in breeding season. Dales habitat looks like successful Bowland habitat though.
No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021.

Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social

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Great to see Brian MacArthur's byline - founding editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement now @timeshighered.bsky.social

As long as George has a halfway decent 0.0% beer behind the bar in the Muckrakers, I'm ready to join the discussion on where next for we democratic socialists.

Also there on Wednesday to pick up my Svaros after re-skinning - a couple of Ruff, six Avocets and a number of Blackwits on the scrape, which however looks good for something...

This month's Birds of Essex is on Friday 26th September, when Steve and Matt will be joined by special guest Katrina Myers from Colchester Owl Rescue. With all the usual news, photos and sightings it's gonna be a good show! Watch live at ebws.org.uk/BoE/Sep2025
#essexbirding

United Utilities underspent £52m on vital work to reduce sewage pollution, FoI reveals Privatised water company criticised over efforts to connect private septic tanks to mains and cut pollution

Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution.

Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.

UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation

Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

16. Windermere has turned into a cess pool, because of capitalist greed. United Utilities (whatever that name means) has underspent £52 million on vital work and where did the money go? Bonuses and dividends?

A brass memorial plaque in the church of St John the Baptist, Kings Caple, commemorates my great uncle George Ravenhill, who died on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915

On September 25 1915 my great uncle, George Ravenhill, died on the first day of the Battle of Loos. Aged 35, he was a Herefordshire agricultural worker who volunteered to fight in the war to end all wars.

And don't get me started on Emma Barnett.

And ex-Young Conservative..

You can read in more detail the research we commissioned from Howard Stevenson et al on this - ‘Changing lives and transforming communities: harnessing the power of post-compulsory education’ - here:

www.ucu.org.uk/media/14604/...

Wondering why @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social is dumb on this platform. Many individual county trusts are active here, reaching the huge environmental/conservation/natural history community that has left X. Sadly the Essex Wildlife Trust is still not among them.

I don't think so. I'm back to where I was 50 years ago, outside the mainstream and free to vote tactically in my constituency to keep the fascists out...

I remember from my 1950s childhood, when WW2 was still fresh in adults' minds, that the St George's flag appeared once a year from church towers, on April 23.

Sadly the Essex Wildlife Trust still refuses to join many other county Trusts on this platform. It has frozen its X account but says it will continue to rely on other social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn etc) rather than here. #essexbirding

Feel on firmer ground with parakeets but will sketch something constructive...

Could I remind Mr Pecksniff that those policies were part of the Labour Party manifesto on which Keir Starmer and others in the current government campaigned? I don't think the whole Labour Party should be dismissed as idiots (other opinions are available).

These policies were popular but Corbyn failed (just) in 2017 because May bought support from the DUP and in 2019 because of the propaganda war whipped up over antisemitism by factions in the party.
The apparent failure of Your Party is in part due to the dominance of one issue - Palestine.

Mr Pecksniff and I crossed virtual swords over his patronising dismissal of Your Party. Events have proved him right but I can't let his remark about the dotty left pass. What was dotty about public ownership of utilities, welfare reform that reduced child poverty, and a progressive tax regime?

Proud to be antifa...