Jonathan
@clarets7.bsky.social
Passionate about preserving the UK's irreplaceable habitats and the biodiversity they support. West Yorkshire, UK.
Weekend reading: I travelled the length of England observing the worst hit drought areas, this is what I saw: www.wildway.info/p/15-observa...
15 observations of heatwave and drought across England
Hope and horror as I visit some of the worst hit areas
wildway.info
There's been growing recognition, in recent years, of the mental health benefits of spending time in nature But I'm not sure it's quite the same when all you can see are signs of nature dying
🗞️ @democracynow.org’s Amy Goodman, the subject of new documentary @stealthisstory.bsky.social @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about surviving a massacre, Trump, and the current threats to the media www.thenerve.news/p/amy-goodma...
Happy #YorkshireDay to all my friends & followers🙂 Take care & stay safe all in this hot & humid weather. Enjoy & cherish the beauty of our natural world 🐍🐞🦗🕷🦟🪰🦋🐛🐌🐚🌾 Lathyrus palustris (more info in Alt)
Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)
Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment
For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience
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The Prime Minister, @andyburnham.bsky.social, has spoken about being honest about the challenges we face. So, as we welcome our new Prime Minister and cabinet, let's start there: Nature is disappearing. The climate crisis is accelerating. The UK cannot thrive while both continue unchecked.
If you aren’t aiming for home ownership, the state hasn’t cared about you." @danielhewittitv.bsky.social calls for #AndyBurnham to fulfil his council house building pledge. @goldbergradio.bsky.social with the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social podcast... pod.fo/e/44cd07
BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Burnham's Priority "Must Be Council Housing"
Adrian Goldberg talks to ITV's Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt about the dire state of Britain's social housing stock. Dan is the author of "Left To Rot - How Governments Have Betrayed Us And H...
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Read this from @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/if-you-are... I discussed how Thatcher's Right to Buy policy destroyed the chances of millions to live in decent affordable council houses and how Labour has betrayed us by not repealing it in this article tinyurl.com/2n52mukx
"If You Aren't Aiming For Home Ownership, the State Hasn’t Cared About You..."
ITV's Investigations editor Daniel Hewitt tells the Byline Times Podcast why Andy Burnham needs to prioritise social housing.
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Huge well done to all the campaigners, especially Mary Colwell, who fought to bring the natural history GCSE into the world. Planet-saving stuff! I had to give it a shout-out on Question Time - with an impassioned defence of otters on bank notes 🦦💚
Once again, Brighton and Hove’s brave and inclusive city has massively outnumbered an attempted fascist march on our streets. Love will win. Pics: forward view, backward view, team view, street view. #gohomeracists #Brighton
Well done to the demonstrators who turned out in their masses to counter the far right in Brighton. Good people outnumber these hateful little nobodies and always will.
Trumpian censorship in the UK Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries. 200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors. Freedom to read is a major casualty on the road to tyranny.
'Erasing histories and voices'
Once seen as a culture war confined to the USA, book censorship is gaining ground in the UK. Authors, librarians and teachers warn of mounting pressure to remove titles from school libraries, particul...
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Today a judge ruled that four Palestine Action activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite the jury that heard their trial thinking they were on trial for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented. Anandita Abraham reports for the Nerve.
I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed -the real cost of NHS dentist shortage. 14m people pushed into private sector. Initial consultation fee up 23% in 2 yrs, tooth extraction fee up 32%. Private equity profiteering. Profit margins, 20%-30%. People avoid dentists, pull their own teeth.
'I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed' - the real cost of NHS dentist shortage
People tell BBC Your Voice the rising cost of private dentistry is putting them in a difficult position.
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UK cost-of living tsar, multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock. Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage. Millions can't save for private pension 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty. archive.ph/OIdCF
Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar
Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’
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Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the steal: protect workers’ and renters’ rights!
Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. Sign this petition to stop the steal.
megaphone.org.uk
NEWS: RSPB acquires Bass Rock and Craigleith islands markavery.info/2026/06/09/s... @rspb.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social #gannet #forth #seabird #scotland
How the Far-Right Is Using the Racist Myth of ‘Two-Tier Policing’ to Exploit Henry Nowak’s Murder A quarter-century of data tells a very different story about which groups are actually being unfairly targeted by the police, reports Nafeez Ahmed
How the Far-Right Is Using the Racist Myth of ‘Two-Tier Policing’ to Exploit Henry Nowak’s Murder
A quarter-century of data tells a very different story about which groups are actually being unfairly targeted by the police, reports Nafeez Ahmed
bylinetimes.com
Legal equality duty for public services should be scrapped, says Badenoch. Tories chasing Reform vote. Apparently, equality is bad as some push for return of age, gender, race, disability discrimination. Rights hard-won by our ancestors to be reversed. What next?
Kemi Badenoch to call for scrapping of legal equality duty
The Conservative leader will argue that the rules have become a "minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge".
bbc.co.uk
Tory Legacy 1980 onwards govts sold council homes at deep discounts. Many tenants sold cheaply acquired houses. Some made profit of £200,000+ 41% of the 2.8m houses cheaply sold now let in the private market Home ownership down from 71% in 2003 to 64.5% now. Social housing in deep crisis.
The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
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What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]
"Trump's War in Iran is the typical behaviour of an empire in decline. Rome did versions of it in its last centuries, throwing legions it could no longer afford into wars against enemies it could not subdue." ✍️ @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/01/n...
No One Can Reopen the Strait of Hormuz - and That Is the New Regional Order
Every instrument the United States uses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – force, sanctions, a treaty – accelerates the structural decline that closed it
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Reposting this ⬇️ because of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
White-tailed eagles to be reintroduced in Exmoor despite farmer concerns
Some farmers fear the reintroduction of the UK's biggest bird of prey will threaten their livestock.
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Mark Avery@markavery.bsky.social · 4mo agoGuest blog - White-tailed Eagles and sheep, a Norwegian perspective by Roger Morgan-Grenville markavery.info/2026/05/05/g...
I missed this astoundingly erudite & cogent piece the other day, & I'm so glad I managed to catch it today. Do yourself a very big favour & make sure you catch it too...
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4mo ago🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12
Watch how legacy media whitewash Tommy Robinson as an "anti-Islam activist", and fail to acknowledge his white nationalist, anti-black racism. At @bylinetimes.bsky.social we trawled through his own posts: Please share to help folks see what he's really about bylinetimes.com/2026/05/15/h...
How Tommy Robinson Disguises White Supremacism In the Coded Language of Anti-Islam Politics
Robinson repeatedly uses “native” for white, “invader” for non-white and “African” and “Somali” for black across 140 posts examined by Byline Times
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Cross party support for this message. Love is louder than hate and Londoners know that.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 3mo agoOne city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/05/07/r...
Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Sovi...
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