Black Hand Wine

Friendly, knowledgeable wine maker and wine merchant based at Three, Cornmarket, Penrith, Cumbria. Likes honest wine, good food, nature, books and quirky stuff.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

🚜 If we can grow it here, should we import less of it?

[Black Hand Wine @BlackHandWine]

@FarmingUK No. Next question.

[Black Hand Wine @BlackHandWine]

I thought @UKLabour was all for UK food security? @MCSavours @andyburnham

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

🚨 The UK's small and medium-sized abattoirs are facing rising costs, tougher regulation and increasing pressure

READ MORE: https://t.co/yQuSVpyPju

[Black Hand Wine @BlackHandWine]

@FarmingUK Nothing to do with all the thousands of acres of prime farmland being plastered with PFAS-filled solar panels then? 🤡🌍

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Some of the comments from the residents of Auchtertool in Fife.

As you can see they're not having it 👏🏼

We have to fight this with everything we have.

I refuse to let my kids and my grandchildren grow up in a digital prison.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

📢📢There is a parliamentary petition for a parliamentary debate on folic acid being added to bread.

It does not ask for it to be stopped but at least it needs to be debated.

It URGENTLY needs more signatures.

https://t.co/NyRL3KzWwG

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

AI data centres: The monstrosities that guzzle energy and water supply:

▪️84% of proposed UK AI data centres are planned in areas that are projected to be water stressed by 2040. 

▪️If AI data centres electricity use doubles as projected by 2030, the associated carbon footprint would require 6.7 billion trees grown over ten years to offset this demand.

▪️Data centres would also require 9.3 trillion litres of water and land nearly ten times the size of Mexico City.

As global energy and water supplies are already under strain and with fragile water ecosystems worldwide, can there really be any justification for governments to facilitate tech giants and their plundering of energy and water?

And while the AI centres guzzle water and energy, we will be told by the government to switch off our lights and switch off the hosepipes due to supply shortages.

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

Victory!! UK High Court finds government failed to properly assess gene-editing deregulations before removing longstanding safeguards relating to transparency, traceability, labelling and regulatory oversight. Hats off to @Beyond_GM who took this to court! https://t.co/1q4zakqhH6

[Black Hand Wine @BlackHandWine]

This:

[Beyond GM @Beyond_GM]

It was an intense couple of days in court for us this week. Importantly, it revealed just how fragile and contradictory the government’s position really is. Read more about what we heard and why this case matters. https://t.co/Bpe5E2Ambs #StopHiddenGMOs

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

United Utilities please guilty to killing thousands of fish, fined £60,000.

Will fines ever be paid?

Water company has hundreds of previous criminal convictions.

Company's licence to operate remains. No exec ever fined or prosecuted for any crime.
https://t.co/VNL5yjXpGd

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

A MESSAGE TO ALL THE MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES:
Britain has a severe litter/fly-tipping crisis - the worst in the western world. This is a rare non-party political issue, and it really matters to people all over the country. It's an issue that we can - and must - unite over. Work with us to resolve this national disgrace. Get in touch please.
@UKLabour @Conservatives @reformparty_uk @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @Plaid_Cymru

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨If you do one thing this Sunday, sign this petition to STOP BLACKROCK IN OUR NHS.

If we don’t fight back against corporate takeover of our NHS from US corporations like Palantir and BlackRock, we will lose it.

Take action now before it’s too late. #NoToBlackRockInOurNHS

https://t.co/ZuHqCekx7h

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Why the silence on this @networkrail? In the face of increasing public anger? These birds will have travelled around 14,000 miles when they return to their nesting holes - only to find them blocked up. Nature is increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, forced to fit around our sprawling network of transport and housing and commerce. Please act NOW to rectify your thoughtless actions!

https://t.co/E8PFLTCUcH

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

CBG calling a rally at Bayer's AGM—April 24. Focus: Glyphosate as chemical weapon. It's currently being used in the Middle East conflict. In Brazil, large landowners are spraying glyphosate to displace Indigenous people & seize their land. Rally details 👇 https://t.co/soH23y9PkS

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨 TOTAL CONTROL- The UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] is the most dangerous piece of legislation you’ve never heard of 🚨

The government put it straight through the House of Lords so you wouldn’t notice it. And it’s now on its 3rd reading and soon to become law.

This bill enables mass financial surveillance, a national digital ID framework, AI-led decision-making without appeal, and data sharing without consent.

It is all encompassing, giving massive powers to the government and authorities.

And once it’s gone, you will never get it back.

Let me explain! We must stop the Bill 🔥

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Noooo! Another giant solar farm - this time planned to cover a beautiful part of Norfolk.
Mad Ed’s ruination of the countryside needs to stop.
PLEASE help, RT.
https://t.co/7xOfpNFTFb

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

Will you join me in making this pledge?

They cannot scrap juries unless we as a profession are complicit.

We have the right to say no.

Barristers, solicitors, paralegals and caseworkers up and down the land.

Without us they have no Lammy Diplock Courts.

Make your voice heard.

[Radmore Farm @Radmore_farm]

Keep bovaer in the news because if we don’t, it’ll be slipped into farm feeds with no benefit to the consumer whatsoever

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Digital ID is the end of freedom.

So they thought they would write the consultation in that spirit.