Amanda R 💙

This is not the end. We won't stop fighting until every dying person has choice.

A holiday from fines. How privatised water seeks to legitimise the organised criminal pollution from which it profits. If Ofwat allows this scam, it will soon spread across the entire sector under the guise of the new supervisory regulators that government is trying to sneak in while waving cash at NGOs to take their eyes off the ball. Apart from that ...

Let's be clear - This is not a rescue deal for Thames Water. It is the attempted hijacking by clever financiers of 16 million captive customers that the government is leaving to 'market forces' because it seems to lack the competence to use the law designed to protect the public from this very serious threat. @EmmaforWycombe @Keir_Starmer reuters.com/sustainability…

Creative games in Japan helping elderly residents stay active and engaged

"Severn Trent handed 530 actions after 1,800 Environment Agency inspections." And this my friends, this is how it works. If you had broken the law 530 times how would you except the regulator to react? The Environment Agency? Finger wagging. westbridgfordwire.com/severn-trent-h…

The government talks about bringing responsible investors in and then lets the most vicious financial predators attack the sick body of Thames Water and prey on our endless supply of bills. This part of the developed world is now being driven backwards by corruption and corporate greed, aided by those we elected to protect us, not protect them.

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO thenational.scot/news/25967768.…

@RhysMorganLab @drol007 @GiveBloodNHS And - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@drol007 @GiveBloodNHS Same amazing taste Ollie but looks like they've shaved another gram off the net weight to me.....😡

Nice little trip down to the superb @GiveBloodNHS donation centre in Brighton for the Easter 🐣 donation #44. Main change from last time? A controversial change to the Orange Club wrapping system.

On BBC Question Time, @Helen_Whately just said ‘we can’t afford Net Zero’ . She is a human health hazard and grossly misinformed or lying . Time to call out the lunatics leading us to hell . No facts , no truth , no integrity - no hope.

Since @Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalist from a wide range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @GBNEWS . Their conclusion: the supposedly regulated channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…

River guardians do not want bribes that allow Thames Water to keep breaking the law. We want one simple thing: for Thames Water to put spades in the ground & fix every single illegal outfall within the next 5-10 years. A little story to illustrate: 5 years ago I found an illegal outfall spewing raw sewage (with visible turds) into the Aldersbrook (a tributary of the Roding). The EA refused to prosecute, but I created so much fuss locally about it that eventually I got a visit from Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s ‘Sustainability Director’ who had an unflattering appearance in the recent ‘Dirty Business’ programme. Instead of setting forth a timetable to fix the outfall, Aylard offered the River Roding Trust (the entirely volunteer run charity I founded) £50,000 for “river restoration”. I refused this offer, saying there was no point restoring a brook that still had raw shit going into it. I continued campaigning for another three years: taking numerous journalists to the outfall, getting Thames Water hauled before the local council scrutiny committee & relentlessly calling them out on social media. Eventually, after 4 years, Thames spent £1 million fixing the outfall & the brook is now clean for the first time in decades. I have no doubt that if I hadn’t discovered the outfall in the first place, or if I had taken the £50,000, the outfall would still be putting raw turds into the Aldersbrook, a stone’s throw from Ilford town centre. It’s obvious for Thames that’s it cheaper to pay their critics to keep quiet than to do the work needed to fix the problem, but this is not what our rivers need.

"Salmon fishing banned from Hampshire’s River Test." The Environment Agency was established in 1995 with a specific legal obligation to "to maintain, improve and develop", "fisheries of salmon, trout, eels". And what's it achieved in the last 31 years? The entire UK population of Atlantic salmon is now on the endangered species list along with black rhinos, tigers and mountain gorillas while the number of salmon now returning to the River Test to spawn are deemed to be at "critically low levels". Hell of a job the boys, hell of a job. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…

Skills of a ballerina

"Water firms acting like ‘criminal gangs’ dumping 10,000 hours’ worth of sewage each month on dry days." If it was another sector, or any other group of people they would all be in jail right now. What not the water industry? lbc.co.uk/article/water-…

"The secret hero of the toxic river scandal is finally free to tell all." Ladies and gentlemen meet Robert Forrester the real life whistleblower who exposed the incompetence, stupidity and arrogance of senior managers and board of the Environment Agency. #Echobox=1772981268" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/environment…

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences. Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate. Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/kei…

The reality is that they send bailiffs to intimidate people. Yet, publicly, they pretend to be caring. Once you understand that this is how these companies operate, you learn not to trust a word that they say. They are no more than parasites with PR teams.

@hilary_mckay @gordonsta2 The 'milk snatcher'. :)

@gordonsta2 I don't.

Look, every British citizen over about 10 years old knows who this is.

As Dandelions start to flower, please remember they are a valuable early food source for honey bees and other pollinators. Think of them as a plant and not a weed.

The UK press is in now in full jingoistic mode for us to join an illegal war led by an out of control US president & genocidal Israeli PM couched in the language of the apocalypse.