Ben Goldsmith
@BenGoldsmith
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“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, only defenders.” ~ Edward Abbey
Bruton, England
Joined April 2010
Nebraska farmer asks pro-fracking committee to drink water from a fracking zone near his farm. 😂
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My brother-in-law @ImranKhanPTI is a good and honourable man, motivated only by a strong desire to do good by his country. His record as PM is exceptional, most of all on the biggest issue of our time: Pakistan under Imran is now a world leader on environmental restoration.🙏.
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Clinton: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza. between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it.”. The ‘free Palestine’ movement has never been about securing a.
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Deliciously satisfying video. [There are two kinds of people: those who leave their plastic litter all over the place and don’t care, and those, like this hero, who risk getting hurt removing it from wriggling, suffering wildlife.]
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It hasn’t rained in Somerset for months. And yet, there is coolness and water along every ditch and stream because we have beavers. How did it take us so long to figure out that this humble animal is the answer for breathing life back into our landscapes.
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Remember those times when Israeli soldiers went on the rampage, executing old ladies at point blank range, brutalising, raping and murdering teenage girls and parading their bodies on the backs of vans, kidnapping children, beheading young men in the street? No, because it has.
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To alleviate the current shortage of lateral flow tests, how about people who aren’t ill stop testing themselves every ten minutes?.
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It would be hard to find a less progressive movement anywhere in the world than the slave-owning, child-marrying, blasphemist-beheading, Jew-hunting Houthis of Yemen. But western progressives love them all the same. It’s all so revealing.
The chanting for Yemen is all across the demonstration. "Yemen Yemen make us proud turn another ship around"
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This layer hen has been rescued from a factory farm. She has never previously experienced sunlight, fresh air, grass or kindness. Factory farming is among the greatest crimes ever committed by humanity.
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Steve Hughes so funny on the kind of people who are endlessly offended:
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We need a majority of people to know 5 things, which they largely do not:. 1. Pollution from oil, coal and gas is heating the earth and causing dangerous weather. 2. All the climate scientists agree. 3. We must move quickly if we are to save a livable climate. 4. There are.
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“. every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984.
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Dear God, please can I have my beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl back, please God. And if not, please take extra special care of her. I love her so so much and I’m so proud of her. It hurts me so much I can’t describe.
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Again, what exactly have Irish UN peacekeeping troops been doing out there in southern Lebanon for 18 years while Hezbollah built up one of the world's biggest missile stockpiles right under their noses (in violation of UN Resolution 1701)? It’s beyond parody.
Irish soldiers remain on the Lebanese border protecting communities from the evils of war. These peacekeepers deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
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This young elephant spots a man he thinks is drowning in the river, and rushes across to save him, so tenderly. We are so lucky to share the world with such creatures. They are so unlucky to share it with us.
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As a non-Jew (I had one Jewish grandfather), it seems to me that hating on the Jews (a tiny minority representing just 0.2% of the world’s population) not only reveals a deep-seated inferiority complex on the part of the haters; it’s also a precursor *every single time* to some.
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Children shouldn’t start classes on an empty stomach; that goes without saying. But since when did it become the role of the state to sort pre-school breakfast for children? Isn’t providing your child with breakfast sort of parenting 1.01? Like brushing their teeth at night? If.
This Labour government will ensure every primary school child can start the school day ready to learn.
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This little monkey spent some weeks in captivity recovering from injury. His family waited the whole time in the vicinity for him. Watch their reunion (and consider that modern science currently does not recognise the sentience of non human animals)
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How did it come to pass that Western progressives, after decades of success advancing liberal values, came to be in thrall to an imperialistic jihadist movement which violently opposes every one of those liberal values? Isis, Hamas, the Houthis, the Iranian Ayatollahs, Hezbollah,
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I’m not sure any country has taken up the challenge to restore nature with more energy and ambition than Pakistan has in recent years under @ImranKhanPTI.
Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI planted a sapling as part of #MonsoonPlantationCampaign during his visit to Peshawar earlier today. Federal Minister for Climate Change @Aminattock briefed the PM on the occasion. #Plant4Pakistan21
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What exactly have Irish UN peacekeeping troops been doing out there in southern Lebanon for 18 years while Hezbollah built up one of the world's biggest missile stockpiles right under their noses (in violation of UN Resolution 1701)?.
Israel’s coercion of Irish UN Peacekeepers to vacate their position at Marun ar Ras in southern Lebanon has failed. Facing down the aggressive Israeli provocation has ensured the invading forces could not establish a strategic base, and have now fallen back. Free Lebanon 🇱🇧🇺🇳🇮🇪
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The science of global warming is so very simple. Please spare a few short minutes to watch Carl Sagan explain it beautifully clearly nearly forty years ago.
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For those wondering what “from the river to the sea!” actually means, it’s a genocidal call for the elimination of all Jews between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. This, on the streets of London today, and every day in universities and cities across the West. 🤢.
Oh my word, this is London. I didn’t realise at first when I saw the video. 🫣
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Two images from this week which illustrate perfectly the fatuousness of Irish posturing on current events in the Middle East:. 1) Irish President Michael Higgins wearing not a black Palestinian kefiyeh but a red *Jordanian* one. Note- the Jordanian military is actively supporting
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Reading Festival 2024. Gen Z, get a grip, this is grotesque.
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Now Frankfurt. Our organised civilisation cannot persist for much longer without immediate and dramatic global action to end the use of fossil fuels and to restore nature. The only remaining people who say otherwise are mad, moronic or corrupted by money.
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"I loved her with the utmost love of which my soul is capable, and she is taken from me. Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure, I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.”.William Wordsworth, after the death of his child.
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Remain, Leave, don’t care? You’ve got to watch this. This is the entire British Establishment, from Left to Right and everything in-between, telling us that the referendum result would be respected. No ifs, no buts. And here we are, utterly cheated.
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Is it legal to make another person (or people) live under the threat of having details about their private life spilled out in public unless they do this that or the other? Isn’t this blackmail? Legal or not, it’s grotesque.
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Isn’t it amazing that the only country in the whole world that bears the same name, speaks the same language, upholds the same faith, and inhabits the same land as it has for 3,000 years is the one most often accused of ‘settler-colonialism’ and told it should not exist 🤷♂️.
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And just like that, after two years of insanity, New Zealand gives up on Zero Covid, a policy that anyone could see was as delusional as it was dangerous.
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This is the single greatest threat bearing down upon the lives and livelihoods of you, your children and all future generations. Why this isn’t the biggest political issue of today and every day is beyond me.
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I am neither Israeli, nor in fact Jewish (my grandfather was), but like so many others from all backgrounds in Britain I am quite simply appalled by the the atrocities inflicted on Jewish civilians in the pogrom of 7 October in Israel; and even more so by the celebratory reaction
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If you cheered two years of lockdowns, which crippled global supply chains as well as triggering a tidal wave of money printing by governments, you may look somewhat foolish now to be complaining about inflation and the rising cost of everything. This is a little bit on you.
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Funny to see this Labour front-bencher @RichardBurgon shrieking in one meeting that Zionism (aka Jews and the right of their home, Israel, to exist) is the enemy of peace, and then flat denying he ever said it in another. These are truly appalling people.
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I’ve never visited anywhere so beautiful as the northern mountains of Pakistan.
Under our vision of promoting #EcoTourism the historic #Monroe hiking trail has been restored in #KP under our #10BillionTreeTsunami - traversing 50 km of pristine natural forest with two overnight #glamp sites.
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In quiet moments, do you wonder a little why your social media friends are so frantically posting and spreading misinformation about just one conflict thousands of miles away? Does it seem strange to you that they are so fixated on this one comparatively tiny conflict when they.
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“No borders!” says fortress Glastonbury. itself enclosed within an eight foot wall patrolled by guards.
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If you have hedges, please don’t cut them in autumn if you can possibly avoid it. The nuts and berries are on the outside, and cutting them all away at this time of year deprives birds and wildlife of vital food in the winter months. Fat, unkempt hedges are paradise for birds!
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The irony of humans complaining that rats, pigeons and flies are ‘disgusting’.
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In Australia, and all over the world, Covid lockdown chickens are coming home to roost. Excellent analysis from this South Australia senator.
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The Maldives has banned entry to Israeli passport holders. So college students can now press their parents to choose the Maldives for their next family holiday, with no chance of running into any pesky Jews. In the Maldives they won’t run into any Hindus either, nor Christians,
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Amnesty is right. This didn’t start on 7 October.
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Coercing people into having a Covid vaccine they don’t want, and telling lies about why it’s *necessary* for society that they do, is a pretty good way of turning people against all vaccinations, including the ones we really do need everyone to have.
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Make no mistake, there is a concerted international campaign to do away with the world’s only, tiny Jewish country. Israel is currently fighting for its life, surrounded on all sides by an ideologically singular enemy whose only goal is to destroy it. The strategy of a small.
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We are far from perfect, but poll after poll shows British people to be among the most welcoming and the least racist anywhere. At the start Meghan was adored. Crowds thronged the streets at the wedding. Meghan is disliked because she is a manipulative bully who got found out.
Let’s be abundantly clear—they don’t like Meghan Markle because she’s a Black Woman.
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After decades of deforestation, suffering ever more flash flooding, drought, erosion and landslides, democratic Costa Rica took the decision in the 1980s to turn the tide. Since then, in one generation, forest cover has more than doubled, from a quarter of the country to half.
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I’ve never been anywhere more beautiful than Pakistan’s mountainous northern areas. I’ve been three times. With the new British Airways flight to Islamabad, and @ImranKhanPTI transforming the country, go. Seriously. Best trip you’ll ever do.
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What’s happening in Canada is truly remarkable.
The capital of Canada is gridlocked tonight with anti-mandate protestors.
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Huge property in Portugal acquired by @PangeaTrust to be a sanctuary for Europe’s last remaining circus and zoo elephants. Given elephants were here just 15,000 years ago, and there’ll only be 20-25 of them on 1,000 acres (with more land to be added soon), this will be a really
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Happy birthday to my brother-in-law @ImranKhanPTI - the very definition of perseverance and determination. Here’s to the coming ecological and economic restoration of #Pakistan under his leadership!
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What was the original problem again, cheese and wine? A birthday cake? A guy pinching another guy’s arse at a bar somewhere? . Is it possible some Tory MPs are now feeling a little duped? Millions of voters did choose Boris after all.
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I think also people in the West just cannot get their heads around what Israel is grappling with, what Israel’s neighbours are like. Just check out the footage coming out of Syria yesterday and today, young men beheading each other alive with blunt knives, severed heads held.
‘Palestine’ gives meaning to empty Western lives, provides community to atomized individuals, quasi-religious devotion which excuses failure, inverts it into success, and above all conveniently casts the ultimate villains in their traditional role.
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The whole premise of this @C4Dispatches ‘exposé’ is nonsense. The Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster are *private assets* which generate an income for members of the Royal family, on which they pay full tax. It’s as if Channel 4 were to ‘expose’ the Branson family for owning.
The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now. A joint @C4Dispatches and @thetimes investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.
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It’s hard to think of any Prime Minister who has had a tougher gig than @BorisJohnson. The nightmare of Covid; the intransigence of the EU in coming to an exit deal; everyone from all sides sniping. Let’s hope he has the courage and the strength to see these months through.
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Ireland is the most antisemitic place in Europe. During staunchly Catholic times, the Jews were hated for their religion; then for their racial characteristics; now it’s for daring to have sovereignty in their tiny ancestral homeland. Big companies with HQs in Ireland, look see.
Irish politician Richard Boyd Barrett on the streets of Dublin today: Israel is a "filthy colonial regime". we must "resist it, bring it down." The only answer, he says, is #intifada. Rhetoric like this could be plucked straight out of #Ramallah or #Jenin. Baffling that this is
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The UK ought to suspend all trade with the Faroe Islands. This is an abomination. #STOPtheGrind
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Imagine this; more than 100 of your civilians are held hostage in underground cages in a city not far from your national border, by a terrorist organisation which has recently committed Mansonesque crimes on your territory. Dozens more of the hostages are known to be dead. Is.
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I’m no expert, but I’m just not convinced that allocating £22 billion of public money to ‘carbon capture and storage’ is a good use of resources. I’d much rather they spent this money on low carbon infrastructure and the restoration of nature.
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Notice how none of your ‘free Palestine’ friends have a word to say on Syria. This is another hugely revealing moment. While emaciated prisoners and heaps of corpses are being extricated in real time from Assad’s concentration camps in Damascus there’s hardly a peep from the
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Oh my word, this is London. I didn’t realise at first when I saw the video. 🫣
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Pakistan is planting TEN BILLION native trees, as well as restoring landscapes and wilderness on a grand scale. "I always resolved that if I ever got the opportunity I would make sure that we preserve this God-given beauty of our country." @ImranKhanPTI
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To produce 1.5 million tonnes of salmon the Norwegian salmon farming industry needs 2 million tonnes of wild fish, nearly all caught off west Africa. That’s enough to feed 33 million people. The immorality of it is just breathtaking.
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@BellaWallerstei Every single one of these people should be arrested. These are the brownshirts of our time.
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Covid nuts going nuts this evening. Meanwhile England (once again) is the most free place in Europe.
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In many countries people who (for their own reasons) have chosen not to be vaccinated are banned from working, from public transport, hospitals, cafés, churches. They risk jail. If you are okay with this, you now know how you would have been during the darkest periods of history.
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Why are these preachers so obsessed with sex? This is Manchester and it’s really quite weird. Imagine going to your local place of worship only to be lectured on which women you can legitimately rape and which not. I mean, Manchester, really?
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The gov has splurged ~£400 bn trying to stop Covid, ~£150 bn subsidising energy bills, ~£25 bn on new core funding for the NHS 2019-23. A measly set of proposed tax cuts (to a level still higher than they were under the last Labour gov) are not the cause of our economic woes.
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Brilliant piece by Imran. Pakistan is leading the world in its heroic efforts to tackle climate change and restore nature.
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The science is in - the return of beavers to Britain has been an utter triumph for nature and communities.
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Gen Z in the west vs Gen Z in Iran, who actually have to live with these monsters. (NB this girl risks being brutalised in an Iranian jail simply for not covering her hair.)
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If you are in charge of even the smallest piece of land, it’s important to remember that it’s the rough, untidy edges and corners that get wildlife through freezing weather; long grasses, fat hedges, wood piles. Ruthless tidiness makes life so much harder for wild creatures.
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The Speaker John Bercow is worried that Boris’ deal might just pass tomorrow, so he’s preventing a vote from taking place. If you’re not appalled you’re either not paying attention or your such a fanatical Remainer that you don’t care what eggs need smashing to keep us in the EU.
Opposition parties expect John Bercow to rule a new Brexit motion / meaningful vote tomorrow out of order.
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Just imagine how they must laugh, behind closed doors, at all our western students, Lord Haw Haws, Leftist poseurs, ‘queers for Palestine’, Saturday marchers and all the others who *really* do think that these are their friends.
Hamas leader says the future plans of Hamas: "To create a world where Judaism and Christianity do not exist.". This radical religious rhetoric has no place in the twenty-first century. Hamas = ISIS.
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Rishi Sunak is a decent, hard-working, smart and honest man. We are lucky to have him working so high up in our government.
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Pakistan’s #billiontreetsunami is one of the most magnificent initiatives in the world right now. Pakistan will plant ten billion trees in next few years. Follow Pakistan’s marvellous Environment Minister @aminattock for updates.
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I keep myself busy.with the things I do. But every time I pause,.I still think of you.
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‘World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway.’. Hundreds of thousands of acres of vital, pristine rainforest in Papua to be cleared to make way for sugar cane and palm. Humanity has a death wish.
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My friend Shahzada Dawood was a good and kind man. The loss of Shahzada and his young son Suleman is devastating. God bless them.
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If you were in favour of repeated lockdowns, furlough and all the rest of it, you are not in a position now to complain about the tax rises that inevitably follow.
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Shame, shame on Denmark for extraditing one of the great heroes of the world @CaptPaulWatson to Japan where he could spend the rest of his life in jail for protesting against the killing of great whales.
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“I used to think that the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal.
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@Clare_Jennifer Nonsense. The overwhelming majority of Eurovision voters across Europe, not just in Britain,voted for Israel. The silent majority is not bigoted, knows how things are, and stands for decency. It’s easy to forget this, considering voices like yours which are so amplified on social.
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We haven’t lost *half of our hedgerows* since the 1940s, we’ve lost pretty much all. With the odd exception, the ‘hedgerows’ that remain are machine-flailed to lifelessness, leaving them useless for wildlife. No width or depth, no cover, no spring blossom, no berries, nada.
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Worth rewatching Phillip Lee MP’s sincere promises to voters back in 2017 that he’d ‘absolutely’ honour the result of the referendum, the same Phillip Lee who has just walked across the floor to join the Lib Dems who are committed to overturning it.
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There’s something terribly wrong in the psyche of a person who thinks it’s ok to do this.
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@gimmebackmyeden So they must understand the 3000 year story of the Jews, crushed, exiled, persecuted, but still hanging on in there, in their ancestral homeland, smaller than Rhode Island, surrounded by an oceanic Arab world that wants to kill/expel them once again and subsume their home.
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‘Northumberland named as UK's best national park’. It’s largely a barren, lifeless, treeless, depressing green desert, grazed to death by countless hopelessly subsidised sheep. If you want to visit an actual national park go abroad.
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“It is extremely funny. Quite possibly the world’s healthiest man has been deemed a danger to public health in a nation where two thirds of adults are overweight or obese.”. via @spectator.
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‘Swedish hunters kill more than 150 brown bears in first days of annual cull’. Imagine if this headline read ‘Indian hunters kill more than 150 tigers’ in the last few days. Or ‘Costa Rican hunters kill more than 150 jaguars’. Shame, shame on Sweden.
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If this guy had been smuggling marijuana he’d have got twenty years. But it was (critically endangered) eels, and so he got a suspended sentence and a few hours’ community service. We’ve got our priorities wildly wrong.
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Feeling a rising sense of anger at the sight of the queen made to sit ‘socially distanced’ wearing a grim little mask at the funeral of her husband of 73 years. It’s as appalling as making schoolchildren wear them all day in classes. Britain needs to get a grip.
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