West Country Voices
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Progressive, pro-European volunteer-run, citizen journalism for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. Human rights, democracy, climate, NHS, corruption... Telling it like it is. Can't let the far-right dictate the narrative! #Resist!
Fuel cost of running an electric vehicle vs petrol was always significant, now factor of 9 for diesel New EVs inevitably flow into second-hand market where ££ savings are made by all societal segments UK Govt plans to dilute the mandate for EVs will stop that www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
'One way or another, our health and wellbeing depend directly upon nature.' Review of 'Eat The Planet Well: How to fix our toxic food system- one meal at a time.' by Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social #EatThePlanetWell climatewithbrian.com/2026/09/24/r...
Review of ‘Eat The Planet Well’ by Dave Goulson
Certainly, I missed the parade of ‘Eat The Planet Well’ by Dave Gouson, when it was published earlier this year, and what a shame. This is a delightfully informative book which takes the read…
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This is what happens when you don’t nip things in the bud. Rampant paramilitarism.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h agoSo they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
Blatant political corruption revealed in a WhatsApp chat: "For €10,000, they would get a written question and an oral question in the Assemblée Nationale's foreign affairs committee, plus three tweets from an MP, Hubert Julien-Laferrière. For €15,000, it would be picked up by BFM [news channel]."
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 19h agoNew investigation reveals extent of foreign interference campaign in France
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h agoBasingstoke police station.
Benjamin Netanyahu is making his speech at the U.N., where a large-scale walkout just took place. Netanyahu lashed out at the delegations leaving, calling them "moral cowards."
I can only agree: "Governments must treat the climate as they would other threats to national security, such as sabotage by hostile states." Richard Nugee, a retired general and security expert. Why would such a report be suppressed? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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My gods, arrest this psychopath now!
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h agoNetanyahu "Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Did any of the genocidal leaders ask people to leave so they could come in? Of course not." Netanyahu openly compares his actions to Nazis and all the genocidal leaders. His own words.
New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...
🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work
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Evil and utterly despicable. There's profit in cruelty under the Trump regime. www.instagram.com/reels/DcUe47...
Frank Figliuzzi on Instagram: "A $158M contract for the care and feeding unaccompanied migrant children has been awarded to a group founded by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex tr...
25K likes, 3,516 comments - frank.figliuzzi on August 21, 2026: "A $158M contract for the care and feeding unaccompanied migrant children has been awarded to a group founded by an ex-ICE agent accused...
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‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...
Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics
Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.
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BBC calling Danny Tommo an activist, is like calling a violent mugger Robin Hood FFS❗️ He’s a far right, extremist vigilant POS End of❗️🤷♂️ Police examine video of anti-migrant activist slashing dinghy with knife
Police looking at video of anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas slashing at boat with knife
Daniel Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, livestreamed a video of the alleged incident.
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Prime Minister of Denmark: “To Donald! He came for Greenland and left with a parking permit.”
Loving Ed Milliband. Guts and conviction
Gaia Vince@wanderinggaia.bsky.social · yesterdayWow good call
Given grim geopolitics and the huge benefits of climate action to people and planet, why would we NOT make this investment? @nebriefing.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social westcountryvoices.co.uk/the-best-inv...
The best investment our country could possibly make - West Country Voices
In the People’s Emergency Briefing, economist Angela Francis cites the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) official estimate that reaching net zero is projected to cost an average of around £4bn a year. ...
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" interfering with a rescue operation and putting people’s lives at risk is a completely different line. Nobody gets to play vigilante at sea because they don’t like what’s happening." westcountryvoices.co.uk/a-knife-a-li...
A knife, a livestream and a rescue worker in the middle of the channel - West Country Voices
So apparently Danny Tommo decided that being angry at small boats wasn’t enough. He needed to take a knife to one in the middle of the English Channel. On Tuesday 22 September, Daniel Thomas, who call...
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I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
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No one would be able to say this stuff if the fossil fuel industry didn't own both the people saying it *and* the media ecosystem reporting it. But here we are.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoCoalition vows to 'take a chainsaw' to climate laws and offshore wind
I just checked, and the story still hasn't been updated. Not only that, but it's only the 7th story on the website. They're basically enabling the far right now.
SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦@clairecopperman.bsky.social · 2d agoThe BBC straight-up ignoring Thomas' illegal and dangerous actions is pretty much par for the course these days.
There's an understandable moral panic about AI killing us all, but in reality the robots have already been accessories to mass murder, and if we do nothing they will kill again WE created the weapons for AI to end the world. WE need to take them away My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
War, AI, and the end of the world | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, new proof that George W. Bush is not your friend.
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