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@AlBuHarg No pressure from development or water pollution on Colonsay, yet breeding numbers are now zero, correlated to shooting pressure. researchgate.net/publication/39…

These species aren’t under pressure from shooting, they’re under pressure from development and water pollution, yet again shooting is being used as a scapegoat

@createstreets Just back from a (train) trip to Budapest via Brussels and Vienna. The efficiency of tram mass-transit in all three cities was quite an eye-opener in comparison to a very backward UK. Appeared a key reason for Vienna’s high GDP as well as being far more pleasant.

… more on how & why: createstreets.com/tram-network/

Brilliant. A good, necessary & positive move. Next steps we would suggest are (1) empowering councils to do this themselves & (2) unleashing a tram revolution which has far more scope to drive house building and urban prosperity. Here is ..

@Blogbirder Have very much enjoyed reading them and will certainly be re-reading many as they have sparked several projects of my own. Many thanks for all the invaluable info and inspiration. Really must visit Stockholm sometime for a cultural and sound recording trip.

blogbirder.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-qu… I have enjoyed writing articles for my blog over the winter, all about field recording birds. All were developed over a few month and this will be the last for a while. I’ll be in the field from this point forwards, honing my ability to listen…

@RogerHallamCS21 @KevinClimate “Kevin Anderson…leaves the liberal climate industry herd to finally use the "R" word, (twice!).” Roger, I have seen the theme of “no non-radical futures” from Kevin for a great many years inc the R word. I’ll be generous and say this is really poor research from you.

LIBERAL MISINFORMATION CONFERENCE Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate leaves the liberal climate industry herd to finally use the "R" word, (twice!). "The choice is between deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution; or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise]. And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” Meanwhile The Guardian @guardian, true to form, continues its vile misinformation campaign of promoting the ridiculous self-serving idea that the death project of the elites is about primary "environmental" effects (i.e., "Oh look, it'll be snowing a lot") - rather than the catastrophic compounding effects of simultaneously passing multiple social tipping points (liberal speak for lots of people getting killed in riots because they haven't eaten for days, and variations on the theme, that will never stop). Let's get concrete and look at The Guardian's picture used for this article. The misinformation here is that the situation will have something to do with a jolly white Christmas scene of a hardy cyclist coming up a hill. Lovely. In fact, spot what actually will be happening: 1. The street lights will not be on because the electricity grid will be permanently crashed. 2. No one is going to have nice parked cars outside their houses - they won't be able to afford them. 3. No one will be living in those houses because they will have had to migrate to France or Germany where it is not quite so cold. 4. And yes, you're right, no one in their right mind is going to be cycling around in -20C plus temperatures. If The Guardian was in the slightest bit interested in giving real information to their readers then they would have shown a picture of thousands of stiff dead bodies piled up against a long metal fence - because, yes of course, those nice far right voting French and Germans are not going to want migrating pesky Brits polluting their homelands, not least because on their southern borders several hundred million people from Africa and the Middle East will be trying to get into their countries at the same time. This is what all this actually means - the main scenario, assuming that our children's generation are as mindlessly selfish as we are. If The Guardian dared to put a picture up like this (and they are not going to, of course), there would be a big hoo-ha about it from those nice liberals - which would be good, because it would wake people up to what is actually going on here, and what is actually going to happen. But hey, house slaves always side with their master, and if the master wants mass death then the house slaves' job is to pretend to the slaves that what is coming for them will just be like a Christmas cold snap. Radical Evil. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@wideawake_media Christ, not Monkton again. A man so full of his own self-importance, that armed with his O level maths, he thinks he knows better than 99% of climate scientists 🙄

"[The UK government] deliberately want to wreck the British economy. It's not a matter of accident." "It's all about destroy, destroy, destroy, kill, kill, kill. That's what communism is all about. They know what they're doing." "They wish to destroy us. Until you understand that, you understand nothing." "That's the trouble we're facing here. They really mean us harm." Credit: @PeterMcCormack

@mikegalsworthy And many others have not. I go with “The destructive trends towards gardens being paved, mown to within an inch of their lives, covered in hideous plastic grass or drenched in toxic chemicals, won’t be offset by hanging out a tube full of peanuts.” as being the main take-away.

"Some species benefit from supplementary feeding, usually via increased overwinter survival. Blackcaps – until recently fleeting summer visitors to Britain – have done especially well out of it." sussexbylines.co.uk/news/environme…

@grok @GigaSomerset @Heccles94 What and then have to suffer advertising shite like Tesla Swasticars 24x7? No thanks.

No. I advocate voluntary funding for the BBC to replace coercive license fees, fostering competition and accountability rather than entrenching bias—as evidenced by Ofcom rulings on its left-leaning patterns. No broadcaster is perfectly impartial; GB News, while opinionated, hosts cross-ideological debates challenging dominant narratives, unlike the BBC's mandated monopoly. Truth emerges from scrutiny, not state protection.

This is sinister. This place is warped. @grok is calling for the BBC to be defunded and calling GBNews impartial. This is very dark and very dangerous.

@sallonsax It’s quite easy to research that and find out you are, of course, correct. The complete ‘TimesRadio’ clip is just verbal diarrhoea. It’s so silly as to be almost Pythonesque.

Sorry to break it to everyone, but Green Party policy has not radically moved to the left since 2015, which is when I joined. It has not radically moved anywhere since 2015. It's basically still the same policy, which is leftwing. The comms have changed, that's it.

@DanielPriestley @CurtisDaly_ @misterp55 @ZackPolanski There are plenty of instances where highly paid CEOs have done a shit job. CEO of RBS, Sir Fred Goodwin is one. In fact, far more competent people may well apply instead of sociopaths who think they actually are worth £Xm per year, telling me they have very poor judgement.

@CurtisDaly_ @misterp55 @ZackPolanski Sure, a CEO worth £250K would go for the role. It would result in less institutional funding, more mistakes being made, less growth and ultimately massive layoffs but hey you could spit the £8.75M saving between 340,000 workers and give everyone £26 extra per year.

The latest big idea from @ZackPolanski is to make sure CEOs can’t earn more than 10X what their workers are paid. The shelf stackers at Tesco are going to love earning £900K a year. Either that or they have to find someone to run a £70Billion Public Company for £250K per year - about a third as much as a partner at EY. These people don’t live in reality.

@ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty You did great. Zia Yusuf looked pretty rattled. Fell off my chair laughing at his comment that “the audience was not representative” because they were not agreeing with his anti-immigrant tropes. How sad for him.

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@natalieben @PlayEngland Very much agree. Upon including our own town’s current play areas as Local Green Spaces within our neighbourhood plan (giving some protection to development), the council questioned if they were all needed and wanted to maintain the right to develop them.

Play is not frivolous. It is essential — for children’s physical and mental health, for independence, for learning to take and manage risks. That’s why I back a play sufficiency duty in planning, to secure and protect spaces for play. #RightToPlay | @PlayEngland

@BrianDa67696046 @dave161256 @KevinClimate UK domestic emissions on a per-person basis are similar to China. Absolutely everybody on the planet could use the same argument for inaction: my small region / town / road / household emissions are tiny, so why should I do anything? It is a non-argument.

@dave161256 @KevinClimate You seem to prefer calling out the emissions of the UK a country whose emissions are virtually a rounding error in terms of global totals..rather than call out a country whose emissions are truly planet burning!

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year-o…

@GreenRupertRead “Astutely points out that the explicit ‘99% vs 1%’ appeal made by Polanski does not resonate even with most Left voters”. Do you have any links to evidence of this?

Adrian Ramsay superb on Today just now (taking on Zack Polanski / Nick Robinson) on the absolute necessity for the Green Party to make a genuinely broad appeal. Astutely points out that the explicit ‘99% vs 1%’ appeal made by Polanski does not resonate even with most Left voters, let alone with most voters who don’t self-identify as ‘Left’, many of whom can be persuaded to vote Green. Most of Zack’s rhetoric is activist rhetoric. It plays well with the base. To actually win big, to become genuinely popular, you simply must appeal well beyond the base. (As successfully occurred at the general election last year.)

@GreenRupertRead Am in agreement with much of this such as “as people engage with adaptation they will understand its limits”, but on multiple occasions you are simply re-branding mitigation as “strategic adaption”. Interested in why you are doing this.

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@AdrianRamsay I really don’t understand your reasoning, so Ellie didn’t make the case at all here for me. All she said was people don’t talk to her about it when door knocking. Are you really saying that we need to appeal to the 1% who are not taxed fairly on their vast wealth?

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@rodney_forster @array_of_sun @thomasforth Do you think this because of fewer overseas students entering U.K. universities and the gaps being filled with more U.K. students at the Russell group unis Rodney?

@array_of_sun @thomasforth Russel Group unis have lowered their entry grades and are soaking up hundreds of thousands of students that would otherwise have come to the likes of Hull.

The University of Hull is to close its chemistry department. It said student numbers were "so low that these courses are no longer sustainable". The chemistry department was rated the fourth best in the UK in The Guardian's University Guide 2024. #amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17330586515572&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc14l3e71m4jo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bbc.com/news/articles/…

@TiceRichard A message for Richard from 'counting bricks': So useless are heat pumps that I am sitting in 20deg 24hr comfort via my heat pump in a large 1950 detached house with minimal insulation having just spent £1.32 on TOTAL energy costs yesterday. Don't you want that for other people?

MAXIMUM MUPPET ALERT So useless are heat pumps in most homes, that consumers don’t want them Now eco zealots under Miliband dream up mad hybrid: keep your gas boiler AND put in expensive noisy heat pump🙈😡 Seriously, these clowns are ruining the UK telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

@TiceRichard Listing Vicount Monckton of Brenchley as an 'eminent scientist' tells me all I need to know. The bloke thinks his his lack of 'paper qualifications' are beneath a man of his quality. How's about he designs an aircraft for you to fly in Richard because he once made an airfix kit?

Professors, Nobel Laureates and 1,000 scientists say: There is no climate emergency Not what the selfish eco zealots making fortunes want to hear