Tom Jennings @tomjennings Twitter profile

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Tom Jennings

@tomjennings

5 years

I think this sign sums it up pretty well... #ExtinctionRebellion

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People say our garden has a dandelion problem. I guess that depends on how one defines ‘problem’? I rather like them… ⁦ @jackwallington ⁩ what do you think?

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@rhiannonlucyc I can only conclude that disused Victorian slate quarry workings must feel unutterably ancient to someone from Maryland

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Can't help feeling we've got something wrong when councillors are citing IPCC reports as evidence of the need to destroy biodiverse ancient orchards in the name of climate-friendly public transport... #CotonOrchard

Hundreds of trees to be felled for Cambridge bus route to tackle climate change

Councillors vote to chop down trees in Coton Orchard for busway from Cambridge to Cambourne

www.theguardian.com

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Something's definitely wrong with the global food system when animal flesh - with all the costly husbandry and welfare standards that should involve - becomes the budget alternative to something fabricated from peas, beans and rice... #BeyondMeat

Sales at vegan burger maker Beyond Meat fall by almost a third

US firm cuts revenue forecast as consumers opt for cheaper options amid cost of living crisis

www.theguardian.com

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@ladbible Jim'll Fix It

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@JamesBlunt @andy_murray Joke worked better for Murray because in reality he was actually pretty good at tennis

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@HuffPostUK Twitter instantly feels like a nicer neighbourhood

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@bmay As with an element of the so-called footie fans - these people are just malcontents in general, stuff like lockdowns, Brexit and the Euros are merely topical canvasses through which to express their generalised sense of rage and inadequacy

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Just heard/felt what seemed to be a big #explosion at soon after 04:15. Reminded me of when Buncefield oil depot went pop. Anyone else in Herts/North London area know anything?

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11 months

Still don't fully understand how a Prime Minister can unilaterally decide to put his big red pen through a project like #HS2 without it going to a Parliamentary vote first?

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@fishemansblues @rachaelvenables @LBC I guess they just want the gallery to end its sponsorships with oil companies etc. I don't agree hugely with their methods either, though. I think handcuffing themselves to the front door just before opening time would probably achieve the same result without endangering the art.

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"The extent of Antarctic sea ice is at a new record low, quite a bit lower than last year's record low. That's not finance yet, but it will be..."

ABC Australia star shocks viewers and goes rogue on live TV

Veteran national ABC finance journalist Alan Kohler on Monday used his regular nightly news segment to deliver an alarming message on live TV - shocking many viewers.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Possibly the perfect analogy for the current state of the UK... nothing screams patriotic generosity like serving a limited number of scones to first class passengers only...

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1 year

To help celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III this weekend, we'll be giving out a limited number of scones onboard our services to London to First Class passengers tomorrow and Friday 🇬🇧 The question is - do you put jam or cream on first?

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Tom Jennings

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2 years

Gore was very good here - we need more of this sturm und drang stuff from our leaders on climate…

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2 years

WE ARE NOT WINNING. Former Vice President of the USA says the people who run our world and economy are driving us towards global cataclysm. Where are our cultural and political leaders? They need to raise the alarm and demand action NOW #ClimateEmergency

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The future is now... Just across the Channel, tensions between drought-stricken farmers and protestors over alleged 'water grabs' already driving violent confrontations in SW France, Spain...

Drought fuels water conflict in France, Spain as farmers face fury | Context

In drought-hit western France, conflict between farmers and environmentalists is growing over new irrigation reservoirs

www.context.news

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@rhiannonlucyc To be honest, some of those ghostly old miners' cottage ruins around Llanberis etc could easily pass for a LOTR set in the right weather...

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2 years

@SwindonNCent Plastic lawns are an ecological aberration, no government body should be supporting their installation at any level.

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3 years

Longer this crisis continues, the more ridiculous it feels that national and global economies are in hock to the price per barrel of a dangerous and outmoded source of energy that we don’t even need. Imagine if we’d spent the decades since USSR collapsed prioritising renewables?

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@RebeccaKowals12 She may temporarily be on the wrong side of the law, but I have no doubt she's on the right side of history

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@AllegraCOP26 I believe it was none other than @GeorgeMonbiot who coined the term 'micro-consumerist b0ll0cks' for this kind of thing? Leave the dishwashing messages to Unilever and co - we need system-level change, and we need it yesterday...

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God I feel insufferably smug whenever I’ve already ticked one of #GardenersWorld ’s ‘Jobs for the Weekend’ ahead of time.

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@KarlMathiesen Just the most ridiculously friendly people. There was a raucous party at two of the tables on my train home - I assume they were lifelong friends but turns out they’d only laid eyes on each other for the first time when they boarded the train at Central. Glasgow is a great town.

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@SamAdlerBell "What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't walk around Dublin acting like he's Bono..."

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‘If the media does not pull its socks up sharpish, the blame for a disastrous Brexit will be directed at everyone who warned that Brexit is likely to be disastrous’ ( @mrjamesob ) > Including by a number of those self-same media outlets, one imagines.

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Was fortunate to see @PeteButtigieg speak on a panel at @COP26 - he was really impressive. Would love to see a Harris/Buttigieg ticket just to trigger the conservatives as much as possible, if nothing else.

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@CAupdates @unitedutilities Yep, nothing screams 'conservation' like burning the heather and persecuting upland raptors, just so a few people can blow some grouse out of the air. Thank goodness for your organisation making everyone see sense!

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Frances is smashing her debut #GardenersWorld lead slot - so chuffed for her new garden!

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All those lorryloads of lettuce wouldn’t be stuck at Channel ports if more people had voted for Romaine

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@jonburkeUK Just back from a week in Normandy, the flawlessness of all French road surfaces from autoroute to single-track and total absence of roadside litter made driving off the ferry in Poole feel like returning to a failed state.

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@damocrat @BethRigby @AngelaRayner Please, please, please can her battle bus have '£350M A WEEK FROM SELLING MY EX-COUNCIL HOUSE' down the side, just to troll @DPJHodges and co...

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Tom Jennings

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2 years

Is it bad that I feel more excited about the ‘Detectorists’ special on Boxing Day than I do about seeing my relatives?

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1 year

@BrentLeeSDCIC You do know the Nobel Prize is all part of the same globalist conspiracy as COVID/5G/Chemtrails/Andrew Tate's arrest/climate emergency etc etc etc?

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Solve climate change without solving biodiversity collapse? FAIL. Solving both these without solving plastics crisis? You do the math...

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Somebody help me out here, apparently #DontLookUp is actually a metaphor for something else and isn’t actually about meteors?

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None of this will surprise the likes of @KHayhoe but still an immensely frustrating read as climate-related disasters increasingly make themselves felt worldwide...

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@jamesrbuk Things Can Only Get Wetter

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2 years

At least the tragic degenerative condition that prevents Brian climbing his own stairs also means he doesn’t ever have to discover his first wife’s head in Amy’s upstairs fridge #LIOLI

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@Luiseach He's personally responsible for polluting the music charts with some right stinkers

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@NotMeAnother @rickburin First year undergrad in any Oxbridge/Durham/Bristol bar, I think. Would have been stabbed instantly at my ex-Poly...

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@GBNEWS Brilliant - the world needs more borderline-GCSE level TV historians to lecture us on medical science right now.

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@DaveThroup Positive sign of intent, however I vote that we don't install solar on any more farmland until the roof of every Amazon depot, IKEA store and other warehouse in the land is plastered with panels

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. @Rylan always comes across as such a nice bloke, don't you think?

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Classic...

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8 years

Is it possible to impeach a US President before they even officially become President? #TrumpLeaks #USElection2016 #russianhacking

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@nick_daw @ByDonkeys I agree, been thinking for weeks now that a National Health day needs to come out of all of this, when we celebrate and fundraise for these essential services. If we can have a dedicated bank holiday for VE Day anniversary, surely we owe something to the NHS too?

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3 years

My jaw still involuntarily drops when I remember that consumer demand for a certain class of unnecessarily heavy and energy-intensive passenger car was (according to @IEA ) second-biggest cause of rising global GHG emissions from 2010-2018... Just mad!

SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal

If SUV drivers were a nation, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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@Baddiel Such a strange coincidence of German history that it's also the anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down

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@MannyMVK @domjoly The only 'suspicious' thing about the Maui situation is how the exploitation of the Hawaiian islands for agriculture, tourism etc has totally messed-up water access. Coupled with flammable invasive grasses overtaking former plantation land etc. Read this!

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@dannywallace She's awesome, no question

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@CharlieJGardner Too many people still think of +3.2C in the context of day-by-day weather forecasts, not food system collapse etc.

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BREAKING: 'World’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning scores of “carbon bomb” oil and gas projects that would drive the climate past internationally-agreed limits, with catastrophic global impacts', @guardianeco investigation shows.' 💣🌍 🛢️☠️

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@simonharris_mbd I fear he was forgetting not everyone has access to VIP private drivers and fast-track private jets out of City Airport

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Can’t pretend to be an avid football fan, but feel so proud of @LutonTown , a club/town with which I have family ties. I was even born at the L&D! Whatever happens in play-offs, finishing regular season in third place is a heck of an achievement in such a competitive league. #COYH

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@happyhippy2015 @bmay The honours system has long been a mockery. How amazing it would be if it could A) drop the weird empire branding, and B) be meritocratic.

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2 years

My dear old Dad starts a three-month course of chemo today. Please send good vibes...🙏

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Enjoy #BluePlanet2 tonight? How about turning your enjoyment into action by refusing to buy any ocean-trashing single-use plastic this week?

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Jono from MasterChef comes across as pretty much the worst person in the world. Quite an achievement for a show that also involves Gregg Wallace.

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@MrMatthewTodd Already increasingly voting with their feet...

Florida rocked by home insurance crisis: ‘I may have to sell up and move’

Soaring hurricane-cover premiums are bad news for the state’s homeowners – and Ron DeSantis is accused of dragging his feet

www.theguardian.com

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@DrAsifQasim @oliverjamesking Just plain exhausted by a lot of sleepless nights, I would think. That or reading Hunt's notes over his shoulder and sending coded messages to Tufton St/hedge fund managers via the power of blinking?

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@nytimes I was robbed outside the French embassy once but would consider that more of a petit crime

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'Kenya's worst drought in 40 years has caused the deaths of thousands of giraffes, elephants, wildebeest and zebras. But it's not just wildlife at risk — and it's not temporary.' (c/o @dw_environment / @maringafelix )

Climate crisis claims thousands of Kenya's animals

Kenya's worst drought in 40 years has caused the deaths of thousands of giraffes, elephants, wildebeest and zebras. But it's not just wildlife at risk — and it's not temporary. @DW

www.dw.com

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‘We continue to treat rainforests as lumberyards, the seabed as a source of raw materials, and rapidly bleaching coral reefs as tourist attractions. But none of these are simply resources for us to exploit as we please...’ ( @jrockstrom / @KotzeProfessor )

‘Planetary commons’ needed to safeguard humanity's future on Earth | Context

The Amazon rainforest protects all of us; how do we create new governance systems to protect it and other major Earth systems?

www.context.news

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@horton_official @ededowen Unlikely, let's face it. Personally I'd love it if convicted criminals' faces were permanently banned from the media thereafter. Again, sadly unlikely.

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@OfficialTM_3 Winter solstice today, the days are only going to get brighter, literally and metaphorically I hope

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@WyattDuncan No actual burger in the bun, just a shadow on the grill of where the patty used to be

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@themarkrad Tell me they're back?!

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@hwallop @22Bishopsgate This used to be the Square Mile's best-kept secret until - ooh - about 42 minutes ago...

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Good to see tomorrow’s @IPBES report already generating this level of coverage. We’ve had enough warnings - we need to wake-up to biodiversity collapse fast. Let’s hope this report helps galvanise action! > Nature's emergency: Where we are in five graphics

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“What mother doesn’t want their child to travel to school on a zero-emissions bus, so they’re not inhaling diesel fumes constantly?” > @KHayhoe of @nature_org now talking green transportation infrastructure with @PeteButtigieg here at US Pavilion #COP26

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@RoryStewartUK That's funny, because I've been reading 'The Second Coming' again... Things fall apart The centre cannot hold

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@PatsyeStevenson The harassment would be even more sinister if it wasn't like being stalked by multiple versions of Gareth Keenan... did you "match the description" of someone they were looking for in the same way Sarah Everard "matched the description" of someone Wayne Couzens was looking for?

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@jhallwood Was delighted last year to discover that UAE is similarly aligned

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Think it's warm here in the UK? Mercury threatening to reach 46C in Portugal...

Extreme weather: Roads close, 'frightening' fires break out and drought sets in as Portugal's...

Vegetation is being turned to kindling and firefighters are battling to stay in control with the help of locals as a dangerous heatwave scorches Portugal.

news.sky.com

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@jonsopel One good thing about global warming is the reduced likelihood of Frost

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“It’s going to put a pause on anything climate related. In the policy discussions for the next 6-12 months, climate is probably not going to be mentioned, it is going to be about coronavirus and economic recovery.” ( @Peters_Glen )

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Prescribed burns right on the front line… > ‘We are waiting for rain, for winter, for God' - Fighting a megafire in France

'We are waiting for rain, for winter, for God' - Fighting a megafire in France

On the frontline of the wildfires in France is a tactical team trying to stay ahead of the flames.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@tompeck I sort of can totally believe it, given this country's record on infrastructure investment and project management

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Watching @simon_schama interview @MargaretAtwood about ‘Silent Spring’ and Rachel Carson’s legacy, doubly poignant as @UNBiodiversity enters its make-or-break week in Montreal… #cbdcop15

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@__Jam1e__ @SwindonNCent @Shitlawns Can you even imagine such an amazing innovation?

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@g00nshow @mikeyblag @rickburin The guy sipping his water at 00:50 needs to be a 'yesssssss mate...' meme as well, I feel

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@Luiseach God, he's just such a colossal roaster

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'Only when the last ancient tree is felled and the last hedgerow flailed will we realise that knocking 10 mins off the drive from Telford to Oswestry probably wasn't that important after all...' (Ancient Mercian Proverb)

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‘Majestic’ oak tree Charles Darwin may have climbed as a boy will be felled to make way for the Shrewsbury bypass - 550-year-old, Darwin's Oak and 8 other ancient trees will be felled, despite months of opposition, to make way for North West Relief Road.🙈

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Calls grow for soil conservation to be pushed up the agenda at @COP28_UAE , off the back of research suggesting healthy agricultural soils could provide one-quarter of total global carbon sequestration budget... 🚜 (c/o @cecilia_keating / @BusinessGreen )

Study: Agricultural soil can provide a quarter of global carbon sequestration budget

New research sheds fresh light on huge scale of climate benefits associated with soil preservation

www.businessgreen.com

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@AyoCaesar Yeah but at least it's really cheap

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@ThisIsBrucifer @KateEMcCann @MhairiHunter @AvantiWestCoast According to that other thread doing the rounds, even the onboard train staff were taken aback by the sudden cancellation

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@paulpowlesland Everyone knows that hobbits are what ultimately save the world, Paul...

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@MarkHolderness3 @ChrisGPackham You have to be attuned to even seeing nature in the first place to bother stopping for it. So many aren't.

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What’s the betting Amy’s actual budget includes a generous payout from Brian’s life insurance? #LIOLI

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You don't say?! (plot spoiler: CCS is a way to sustain BAU, when BAU is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place...)

Carbon capture is not a solution to net zero emissions plans, report says

The technology, put forward as part of the UK’s net zero strategy, could extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure

www.theguardian.com

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Bored of reading about the 0.1% ‘rewilding’ their country estates when they aren’t out grouse-shooting or jetting to their Caribbean holiday homes. I want to read about a network of thousands of normal people who are rewilding their normal back gardens in one vast network.

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@thetyronwilson They can no longer afford alcohol prices

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If #TheMormonsAreComing is designed to soften attitudes to that lifestyle/cult/sect/religion/pyramid scheme, I’m not sure it’ll work. No alcohol or sex before marriage is one thing, even a 10% month tithe to a mysterious investment fund, but NO TEA/COFFEE what the actual f—k?!

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@supertanskiii Also let’s remember who she’s romantically entangled with and why today might be a good day to bury all that inconvenient talk about post-Brexit compromises in Ulster

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@Molly_Kats This is my equivalent...

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@NReclining @hugorifkind That manifesto was a liberal utopia compared to this current lot - let's agree to reconvene and share maps after the next general election, yes?

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@IrishRainforest PS: Our 80yo neighbour who has lived in this village his whole life talks of a time when walking over the Downs in the summer meant constantly watching one's step as there were so many butterflies sunning themselves. Shifting baseline syndrome is such a dangerous thing.

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@sturdyAlex We can only imagine what a Rishi freed from the shackles of having to placate the more loony extremes of their voter base (who voted Reform in the end anyway) might have been like

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@CarlBovisNature Reminds me of an old joke: Q: How do you get two whales in a Mini? A: Down the M4 and across the Severn Bridge

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