Greg Bennett

Writes. Acts. Teaches. Based West Berks. Travel, Fantasy, Tolkien, Dr Who, movies, politics, SF, history.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation

She asks him about it

He jumps into his car and drives off

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Illuminating piece on how Nige really has got himself into a spot of bother…that he might not be able to wriggle out of

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

"‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away
Worse still, its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the coastline of the entire planet"

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

“The fact that he is known as a vulture capitalist should tell you everything about how inappropriate this deal is [for Thames Water]… these kinds of people are there to suck the lifeblood out of our utilities and public services, and this deal should not be rushed through.”

[Friends of Carrington Moss 💚🌳🐾🚴‍♀️🐴🚶‍♂️💚 @FriendsMoss]

What the article does not say is that this is not just 10,000 trees, it is the complete destruction of a formally designated woodland site of biological importance! So many issues outlined in our report to planning committee here https://t.co/ncl03YPL8W

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

The terrible state of the UK's environment is a significant contributor to the awful rate of public health, and both are related to making people work for "the economy", rather than the economy work for people

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Fergal is correct.

Despite a guaranteed return of £22BN in profits by 2030 - private water companies continue to use our rivers as sewage pipes and the sea as a cesspit for sewage.

It’s cheaper & therefore more profitable than spending on infrastructure.

Public ownership now.

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

Good grief, this horrendous: a large warehousing scheme which would uproot more than 10,000 trees is set to get approval. The three new warehouses in Carrington, Trafford, would destroy habitats for birds, bats, hedgehogs and amphibians.
https://t.co/z6SBYLTE2I

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

It is bananas that the media aren’t as feverish about this as they are party politics #reform #keirstarmer #kemi #nigelfarage

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.

The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.

This grifter must not become prime minister.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

There’s something rotten in the state of the BBC’s political reporting. And unless it’s fixed soon, they will bring the catastrophe of Trump to the UK.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Brilliant, brilliant exposé by Alex Thomson @alextomo on @Channel4News last night, blowing the lid of the corrupt, and it is corruption of the @EnvAgency allowing water companies to walk away from criminal charges, jail time, unlimited fines and all for nothing more than a slap on the wrist and some blood money paid to local charities.

It's time to put an end to this nonsense, it's time to hold people to account, it's time to send the fat cats to jail.

https://t.co/ph5PFXUph5

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Fuck! The Paris agreement was meant to stop the planet breaching 1.5C by 2100.
The worlds leading climate scientist says well now see 2C by the 2030’s!!!!!!
Almost no media is telling you climate change is accelerating!!

@piersmorgan @mrjamesob @TomSwarbrick1 @vicderbyshire @jonsopel @maitlis @Emmabarnett @tombradby @WilfredFrost @CliveMyrieBBC @amolrajan @SophyRidgeSky @TVNaga01 @OborneTweets @JohnSimpsonNews @richardpbacon @rickedwards1 @MickBooker @MartinDaubney @PatrickChristys @MichelleDewbs @MrNickKnowles @bbcvickiyoung @KamaliMelbourne @BBCsarahsmith @kirstiemallsopp

@krishgm @tombradby @skynews @itvnews @ITNProductions @esmewren @adamboultonTABB @KayBurley @alexberesfordTV @kayeadams @janem @rickygervais @rachelburden @bbcnews @skynews @NickyAACampbell @ShelaghFogarty @BenKentish @bbcnickrobinson @tomhfh @susannareid100 @alexberesfordTV

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there is the reality.

All of the promises, all the rhetoric, all the empty, meaningless words.

Welsh Water at its finest.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

💰 “Follow the money” is exactly right.

Reform UK presents as grassroots movement, but actually it is an elite-funded politics dressed up as populism.

And while the noise focuses on migrants or culture wars, the real consequences land elsewhere:
👉 weaker food standards
👉 more imports
👉 less support for domestic production

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

This isn't in the trial phase.

The entire China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan, recently, used only these materials for signage, food containers, and more.

This is getting scaled for mass use.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Absolutely outrageous that this is our energy system

£23 billion taken out in profits so far this year

Equivalent to *£793 per household!*

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW:
Cut bills 💰
Ramp up renewables 🌊🌪️☀️
Insulate every house in the country 🏡

https://t.co/VLEce2hfpG

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

When poison designed for rodents is turning up in birds of prey and mammals across the country, it shows the scale of environmental damage we're causing.

We need action to monitor, regulate and phase out these harmful substances before the damage goes further.

#Wildlife

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"As scientists, pollination ecologists, and concerned citizens, we call on French and European lawmakers to replace [a bill to reauthorize neonicotinoids] with policies that align with the scientific consensus," write the authors of a new #LetterToScience. https://t.co/5lp5MbhtXt