NatureScot has signed off on the slaughter of up to 500 gannet chicks this year on Sula Sgeir — despite acknowledging public outrage. As they put it: “We understand there are very strong feelings about the guga hunt, and that some people will disagree with it taking place…"
Disgraceful.
Nigel Farage’s hollow, dangerous concern for women www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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Off the scale, repugnant greed at its worst 👇
A reform councillor who resigned after never attending a meeting got paid £2,442. Calling DOLGE… calling DOLGE… I have found an example of the waste you are so keen to stamp out!
The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh… Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population) Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK Immigration isn’t draining us Inequality is.
Paging LABOURS Jackie Baillie 📣 Another one of yours l think but you wouldn't know it because your motormouth is moving 🙄 BBC News - MSP locked out of parliament after secret toilet camera claims www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform councillor closes 5 Derbyshire adult education centres without consultation in private meeting www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them George Monbiot Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Chicago keeping art alive:
And the Uk
This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
More money wasted
The government wins its Court of Appeal case to keep asylum seekers at The Bell Hotel in Epping The High Court previously said the 138 men being housed there had to leave by 12 Sept – they will now be allowed to stay
I'm sure Nigel Farage will bring this up when he testifies before the US Congress in September about freedom of speech restrictions in the UK.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
My morning beef with Nick Ferrari on @lbc over his double standards…
All the trappings of a dictator
Anyone destroying native forest where the cute little endangered Southern Greater Glider lives deserves everything the law can throw at them. Humans are meant to be smart right? Well, grow plantation trees FFS! Stop being lazy & destructive! #EndNativeForestLogging 🇦🇺 🌱 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
I wonder how many cyclists are happy about Shimano sponsoring this horror. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Flagshaggers vandalise, for what? So Farage can take £98k a month from GB News as Lowe pretends he’s working class? The only thing trickling down is contempt. Flagshagging at the bottom, cash bagging at the top. It’s a scam youtu.be/OoZw6TgVvCI
Argh, not now, Atlantic meridional overturning circulation tipping point... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
DWCT’s leadership has just “unambiguously refused” to discuss a motion from Trust members calling for the issue to be debated at Durrell’s upcoming AGM in September. protectthewild.substack.com/p/deer-stalk...
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
I was honoured to speak at the vigil for Palestinian journalists killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza, organised by the London Freelance chapel of @NUJofficial. It was a shame a far right activist tried to disrupted the event. It matters not; hundreds of us turned out in solidarity.
I’ve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
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The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...
Perhaps rather than endlessly promoting Mr Farage, the national media could highlight what his local councillors are doing - as demonstrated here by @northantstelegraph.bsky.social www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
🔴A Russian ‘Drone Siege’ Threatens to Cut Off the Ukrainian City of Kherson 60,000 civilians risk being trapped as the Russian military adopts a deadly new form of warfare, reports @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/a...
Every time living standards fall, Nigel Farage blames migration. And every time, Keir Starmer nods along. People are struggling with the cost of living and blaming migration won’t fix that. Scotland deserves better - a fairer, wealthier, welcoming future with independence.
🚨 Per @daveweigel.bsky.social the DNC has rejected a proposal for the Democratic Party to endorse an arms embargo for Israel
Well done Calum Miller
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is facing a storm of criticism. Despite promising to finally end pay-to-shoot deer stalking at its Scottish estate, the Trust has blocked its own members from debating a motion that called for an immediate end to the blood sport.
Journalist: “Can you name any of the military bases you would use to house migrants?” Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
Great new project providing expert support for farmers & landowners across England who want to host birds of prey. Services include habitat & wildlife surveys, nest box installation & monitoring, Barn Owl planning mitigation & more! #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/27/b...
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Disgusting! He was fired for prosecuting people who had stormed the U. S. Capitol that day, assaulting police officers, vandalizing a landmark & disrupting the sacrosanct moment in a democracy, the transfer of presidential power. He was fired for doing his job. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”. It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even). Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
🔴The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues @ottoenglish.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
Nigel Farage refuses to watch the Red Arrows fly past as it would mean we couldn't see his face on this carefully staged photo of him pretending to watch the Red Arrows fly past.
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have 'catastrophic consequences for generations to come,' experts warn phys.org/news/2025-08... via @physorg_com
Lucy Connolly was not a hero, nor was she a political prisoner. She is, however, a case study in the psychological disorder of fake victimhood created and manipulated by politicians with a far right agenda. This is what she tweeted:
UK Government's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Christine Middlemiss claims: "Strong biosecurity is our best defence". It isn't. Not releasing 60 million gamebirds is. #AvianFlu #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/21/d...
🔴Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel” bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
These morons moved to Spain because there were "too many foreigners in the UK".
Once more for the dimwits at the back: a) Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty. b) She was convicted under legislation introduced under Thatcher. c) She was sentenced under guidance brought in under Boris Johnson. d) fuck off.
Convicted for 17 indecent assaults of women - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... But he's not a migrant, so will RW folks be bothered?
Ex-priest found guilty of 17 indecent assaults www.bbc.com/news/article... I’m sure angry young white patriots will be assembling around churches right…now!
'£20k for doing naff all' say readers on Reform councillor attendance www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-op...
The Arse of the Deal The new Private Eye is out now.
Just a group of Reform councillors posing for photos with a man draped in a flag bearing a neo- Nazi symbol www.kentcurrent.news/p/kent-refor...
BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is pushing to meet Zelensky in Moscow and Zelensky has obviously turned this down. Why would Zelensky meet Putin in the country that wants him killed? This is all a big joke to Putin. He has no plans on stopping. He has no plans for peace.
Well done, Craig Best - not afraid to say it how it is 👏👏 #RaptorResarch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/20/h...
We want over platforming of ONE party to stop & fair coverage of ALL our parties set out in law. Everyone already signed should pass on the request to 1 other person they know. It takes just 30 seconds. But you need to live in the UK. Need to hit 10k by sep13! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Every new home without a nest brick is a death sentence for swifts. They're cheap, easy to install, and save lives. Let’s make swift bricks mandatory in all new builds. Sign the petition to protect these amazing birds 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/swift-bricks...
BREAKING: The far right have not called for all white men to be kicked out of the UK after a white British Labour councillor was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl 🤷♀️
A retired headteacher was arrested for carrying an Eye joke at a march in July. To hear more about Mr Farley’s arrest and release, tune in to the Summer Free Speech Special episode of Page 94, the Private Eye magazine podcast.
Can’t wait for @jaketapper.bsky.social’s book about this
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
He's looking more and more like Bozo the Clown.
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
The temperature has been warm as of late. If you can, leave out a shallow bowl of clean water in a shady spot. Birds, stray cats, and other wildlife will appreciate it. Refill it daily and help them stay cool and hydrated.
22 year old Reform councillor Joseph Boam has been sacked as deputy leader of Leicestershire C C. Not sure why, but I wonder if it was anything to do with his homophobic, sexist and islamophobic social media posts, or claiming that depression wasn't real.
Denver Zoo Sea Lion Nick Passes Away During Wait For New Habitat Nick—an 18-year-old California sea lion from the Denver Zoo—tragically died on August 7, 2025, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C.,
If it takes three working class lads from Belfast to stand up for people being murdered, then what does that say about the state of politics and politicians in the UK?
A historic cosmetics testing ban is crumbling. Across Europe, rabbits, rats, fish, and other animals are used in cruel cosmetics tests under the pretext of the EU chemicals regulation. Demand that officials change the law now! petauk.org/45r
Carriage Horse Found Dead in Manhattan Sparks Renewed Calls for Ban Police are investigating the sudden death of a 15-year-old carriage horse named Lady, who collapsed while still attached to her carriage in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Red carpet?
Persimmon Homes gets green light to rip out 120m of hedgerows at Ilminster nature reserve, paving the way for 360 homes, despite concerns over wildlife loss and damage to protected green space.
Is that because they’re lazy and thick?
If it’s al trail hunting, why are they going out early? Cubbing!
The Pork lads are outside the hotels again aren’t they? Fugly, 5ft nothing men waddling about, waving their badly shagged flags before going home to beat their wives. Well, tonight Matthew, I’ll be mostly taking the piss + a live Q&A. A classic Sunday roast. www.youtube.com/live/Ix6yOd8...
The absolute cream turnip of hypocrites.
Russians are advancing in Zaporizhzhia oblast under the American flag.
No Jo Jo Jo I Jo Jo i
We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.
Jaymey McIvor (who the Tories kicked out for sending dick pics) is now Reform's Director of Local Government. His job is to make sure councils are run efficiently. A company he ran went bust in March owing £141,025, so he sounds ideal. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/12/b...
So it sounds like Trump is going to give Putin another two weeks, on top of the ten days he gave him instead of the original 50 days he gave him, after the two weeks he gave him following the first two weeks he gave him. TACO Trump strikes again.
🔴 Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000 EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
Huntsman, whipper-in, and Pipewell Foot Beagles Ltd plead not guilty to illegal hare hunting after viral footage sparks rare corporate prosecution under the Hunting Act 2004.
In 1918 a clothes magazine reported: 'The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls'
UK privatised water crisis If current usage of water is resulting in hosepipe bans, NO #DataCentres can ever be classified as 'sustainable' development + must NEVER be granted planning permission. #BoycottAI Renationalise water #BrokenBritain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Word of the Day is ‘copemate’ (16th century): the friend in life who gets you through. It’s one of the 365 entries in Words for Life, an almanac of my favourite words and etymologies to give (I hope) each day a boost.
Bird shooting helps destroy our land. It must end!
Very good move. We should do the same here in UK.
'What is surprising, but is v welcome, is that the YDNPA has closed down the partnership after 5 yrs, instead of letting it limp on for 12 yrs like the Peak District National Park Authority did, in the futile hope that progress would come'. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/14/y...
Ahem
