Diana Jones
@dmj24.bsky.social
Passionate about nature and the environment, anti all forms of recreational hunting and all forms of cruelty. Loves art, walking, wildlife gardening and train travel
Last week I visited an art show in the Poole Museum. The art was created by Jason Wilsher Mills who many years ago as a child got chickenpox. He was in hospital for a year and lost the use of his legs . He now creates colourful art celebrating and commenting on disability
To cover up 1 high level report into nature collapse & national security looks odd. To cover up 2 looks like a pattern. Episode 2 of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social pod explores a hidden DEFRA report on UK vulnerability to food shocks & asks how confident we can be in our ability to feed ourselves
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 23 July · 16min
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Please Andy Burnham, Don't waste £264 billion on Unproven Carbon Capture technology. Invest a fraction of that money on planting street trees for shade, restoring wetlands, peat and bog, preserving ancient woodlands, adapting the UK to hot weather - all Proven Carbon Capture devices!
🌴@jewelthin.bsky.social · 3w agoHere's a way to save the economy £11billion a year
Can somebody explain why so many people who spout right wing commentary on social media sites have profiles that say they are ‘digital content creators’?
Beautiful moths in my moth trap last night. All released safely into my well stocked wildlife garden
🔴 NEW: Parliament’s Standards Watchdog Rejected Complaints About Farage’s ‘Hidden Property Empire’ Months Before Times Exposé It exposes a glaring loophole in Parliamentary transparency rules, reports Josiah Mortimer Read the full story below.
Parliament's Standards Watchdog Rejected Complaints About Farage's 'Hidden Property Empire' Months Before Times Exposé
It exposes a glaring loophole in Parliamentary transparency rules, reports Josiah Mortimer
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We watched an interview with George Monbiot yesterday on YouTube where he clearly explained how the ultrarich are not only extracting wealth but essentially controlling our Governments and lives. Stuff we all already sort of know but explained in a way that sharpened the focus.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoThis point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
The brilliant Michael Walker has interviewed me for @novaramedia.com about Farage, heatwaves, carbon capture and storage, new green tech and a bunch of other stuff. Do give it a watch or a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3IF...
George Monbiot | The Most Important Technology You’ve Never Heard Of
YouTube video by Novara Media
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This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot | Simon Oldridge
George Monbiot is right to call for expensive carbon capture plans to be halted. Ed Miliband was also right to push CCS during the Brown government. Back then it made sense to try and capture emissi...
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Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani's wealth tax has not caused the ultra wealthy to leave New York. Another reason to introduce them is to call their bluff.
So when governments say "but the ultrarich might leave the country", we should respond, "mission accomplished then." Get them and their ill-gotten gains out of our politics and out of our hair. And hopefully, with global measures, out of everyone's.
Was surprised and pleased to see a woodpecker on my bird feeder today. Not seen one here since we moved 10 years ago. We used to get them at our London house but we backed on to a small piece of woodland there
This is a Pom-pom crab. No, really 😄 🦀 (Also Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab) The pink structures are actually living sea anemones that the crab holds in its claws for defense and to help mop up food particles. If one anemone is lost, the crab clones another by tearing it in half to regenerate.
Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.
The collapse of nature in our lifetimes has a sound – or rather a lack of it. Year on year, mesmeric natural soundscapes are ever more dumbed down, as this heart rending recreation of the dawn chorus over recent decades shows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost
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At last I can sit in the garden now the weather is more civilised. I’m enjoying wild look, full of butterflies and other insects
So instead of listening to the science about the badger culls they just listened to farmers and looked to protect themselves . Absolutely disgusting. But at least it’s now in the open. Well done Wild Justice and the Badger Trust www.badgertrust.org.uk/post/natural...
Natural England concedes farming interests must not drive Badger cull decisions following legal challenge.
Wild Justice and Badger Trust secure an acknowledgement that farming interests and budget pressures must not influence culling decisions.
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Nature Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social announces that the Government Estate Nature Plan will be published today (should be laid before Parliament around midday) - speaking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social’s Land Use Conference in London. I’ll be speaking shortly in response! @wildcard.land
Care should put people before profit. Yet around 80% of the UK's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity. It's time to end profiteering in social care. Agree? Add your name 👇 party.coop/campaign/soc...
End private profit in social care
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'A remarkable 3.5˚C rise in central equatorial Pacific Ocean temperatures is possible by November, shows new ECMWF, which would mark the strongest El Niño on record. Possible strength scenarios range from +2.8˚C to +4.3˚C, with sweeping consequences on global climate into 2027.' Ben Noll [x]
Excellent backround information here: Satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle 'disappeared' on Snilesworth Estate, North York Moors National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/06/s...
Satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle ‘disappeared’ on Snilesworth Estate, North York Moors National Park
Further to the news earlier this week that a young satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle (known as G834) had ‘disappeared’ on 1st May in what the police describe as suspicious circumstanc…
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Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year. Renewables? Barely a fraction. We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience. Share if you’ve had enough. 🌍✊
“For the first time in 130 years Denmark will not have an agriculture minister. In their place will be a minister for nature and animal welfare” Extraordinary wins by environmental & animal welfare groups in Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How campaigners beat industrial farming in Denmark’s ‘pig election’
Mette Frederiksen’s new government promises overhaul for people – and animals – in home of ultra-intensive farming
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