Anne Ash

My socks keep falling down.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

How she bounces away at the end without a lead will put the biggest smile on your face.

She couldn’t even look at us humans 9 months ago now she has complete trust in her family on the beach.

Look at her little jig ❤️

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

I'm sorry but there are a lot of people with blood on their hands here. It's been weeks of abuse and absurd media coverage.

They just couldn't stop, determined to beat the man into the ground.

Jason Arday wasn't a culture war pawn, he was a fucking human being.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Jason Arday is dead.

Right-wing reactionary media did this.

Relentless public attacks on what should have been an internal university matter and not the subject of a mass media frenzy.

Blood on their hands.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Jason Arday has been found dead.

The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief.

Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations.

And now he is dead.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Donkey Rides on Great Yarmouth beach during a horrendous heat wave. This is cruel & dangerous the Council should shut this down

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the wildlife.
They have nothing.
No puddles.
No ponds.
No streams.
All have dried up.
Sometimes the birds are thought of and provided for.
But the nocturnal animals go unseen.
Unthought of.
No kind dishes.
Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond they may drown in, or a drain they may get trapped in.
Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath they may get fatal fluke from.
Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water each evening for our precious nocturnal wildlife.
Tap water is best.
Pop a dish or two out tonight.
Dying of thirst is a terrible, painful way to die.
It should never happen to any animal, and certainly not in a country that has the safest tap water in the world.
The few minutes it takes you to fill a dish will make the difference between life and death.❤️

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

We found him living in filth and badly attacked by other dogs living on the streets. For obvious reasons we called him Rod Stewart.

He's the happiest little boy who loves people! Next stop will be a forever home!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Would be good if we invented some sort of system for collecting rain water during the rainy season, so we can use it during the dry season.

A reserve supply, or something.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

What a poor miserable existence in a glass prison for over 20 years

[Anne Ash @AnneAsh7]

@willtravers @BornFreeFDN Never ending cruelty - absolutely sickening!

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Building a hospital for street dogs. My next mission.

It's not going to be easy on the 12th September in England but it will be done.

You can get involved and support here https://t.co/6kjLvW2Ci4

[Anne Ash @AnneAsh7]

@reece_dinsdale Happy Birthday Reece, hope your day is as lovely as you! 🎂🎉

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Thank you #Wales and the Welsh Government for standing up for lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans 🦞 🦀
And for declaring that boiling lobsters alive is just “not an acceptable method of slaughter" 👏
The government is now considering legislation to protect lobsters, crabs and other decapod crustaceans from this cruel practice #GreatNews

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Half of England is in drought after record-breaking heatwaves, yet most of our media want to talk about the "problem" of refugees whilst giving airtime to absurd & dehumanising policies from Reform UK.

Politicians who scapegoat refugees and migrants have no interest in making your life better.

If they really cared, they would take on corporations holding this country to ransom.

They would end the daylight robbery of privatisation.

And they would tackle the real cause of society's problems: a grotesquely unequal economy that sucks wealth away from the majority to an elite few.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is the result of many bad legacy decisions taken by UKRI hastily and without proper consultation, overseen by a government department that no longer exists. Surely the new @andyburnham government will want to take time to review this.

[Anne Ash @AnneAsh7]

@SaulStaniforth @HughONe93622860 The duplicity of applying the concept of sovereign inviolability to one conflict while dismissing it in another screams cognitive dissonance.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Today is the International Day Of The Street Dog 🐶

Saving one Dog won’t change the world but surely for that one Dog the world will change forever.

Thanks to @NiallHarbison and his wonderful team, the world of lots of Dogs have changed forever. ❤️‍🩹

You are a good man Niall, THANK YOU 🙏.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Least surprising news ever.

There’s your patriots!

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦

New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.

It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.

The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.

When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.

The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.

One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."

Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.