Nature lover, community advocate, Chartered Surveyor (not currently practising), volunteer Tree Warden, negotiator out of preference (activist, if I have to).
@pursuitofprog @paulpowlesland That's an idealistic interpretation of growth - it rather depends what and how we grow. Examples: we have greater obesity (we're eating more crap, being more sedentary); widespread microplastic pollution (including water and air) that bioaccumulates in organs...
@mattfle02898557@sharrond62 Yeah - loads of people born here seem to want to damage our culture. We rescued Jewish Europeans in WW2, we don't turn into fascists when it's other cultures needing sanctuary.
@auralian420@sharrond62 No, the BBC is not spinning. On Radio 4, they're currently broadcasting Israeli voices complaining of attack in Amsterdam and exploring the UN verified numbers of 70% of those killed in Gaza being women and children pointing to war crimes.
I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” https://t.co/TVWg85VeE1
P.S. the local teenagers with machetes aren't immigrants, nor children of immigrants. (He only seemed to want to mention immigrants in the context of wrongdoing.)
@bbcnickrobinson Matt Goodwin, on your programme now, is claiming "majority" without evidence. As a non-elite English person, he does not speak for me.