MaidenEngland 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦

Work in environment, with varied interests in current affairs, environmentalism, Humanism, History, Republicanism, and learning and discovering the world.

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

Tory Conference off to a flyer...

🌳 Scrap Natural England so it's easier to trash our environment.

🧊 Lower standards so homes are colder and bills are more expensive.

🗳️ Leave the Aarhus Convention to restrict local democracy.

A plan to make developers richer & lives worse.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."
#BBCLauraK

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Andy Burnham DESTROYS 40 years of neoliberal failure in his first speech in the Commons as Prime Minister.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

The hardest job in the world

https://t.co/H0sjkeIbAd

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

Charlie Kirk makes a flawed argument

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Two of the core tenets of rewilding are:

– rewetting the landscape; rewiggling streams and rivers, reconnecting them with their floodplains, restoring wetlands and ponds, and generally hold back water in the land;

– restoring extensive grazing and browsing by native herbivores such as hardy cattle and wild ponies.

Both of those things play a big role in reducing the likelihood and intensity of wildfire.

This is utter nonsense in the Daily Mail. The exact opposite is true.

[MaidenEngland 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦 @Samuelflowers92]

@BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire Talk about BBC bias! Absolutely no engagement about politicians using such posts for political gain and all about trying to get Zac for, quite rightly, refusing to apologise.

[MaidenEngland 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦 @Samuelflowers92]

RIP Sam. Thanks for being such an inspiration. Legend doesn’t even come close.

[MaidenEngland 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦 @Samuelflowers92]

Why I chucked my membership in the bin.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

🦡 We're hearing the Cumbria cull is not continuing. No new licenses. A shift to vaccination. We're still waiting on official confirmation but on the ground, it's looking like the English badger cull has ended.

Over 247,000 badgers lost. That number will never leave us.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The working-class children struggling to find their way in a new world

White working-class pupils have been the lowest attaining major ethnic group at GCSE level for more than a decade. @JackieLongc4 examines why the system is holding them back.

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[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Channel 4 News has uncovered that the King’s private estate tried to sell land contaminated with toxic illegal waste in Wigan to the local council.

In January, Channel 4 News revealed the 25,000-ton site, dubbed UK’s “most dangerous illegal waste dump”, was on land largely owned by the Duchy of Lancaster - the King’s extensive private portfolio of properties and estates.

When approached by the programme the Duchy of Lancaster said it had offered to transfer the land to the council last year - however, correspondence obtained via a Freedom of Information request reveals it actually tried to sell the site at full market price.

Wigan Council told Channel 4 News it “respectfully declined” the Duchy’s offer.

The Duchy told us today "We continue to work with Wigan Council to try and find an effective resolution to the illegal waste site."

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

I am not your experiment. I am a dog. A life. A soul. A heart that feels pain. 🐾💔
Stop testing on dogs. Stop treating innocent lives like they don’t matter.
They deserve love, care, and protection — not suffering.
Be their voice. Speak for those who cannot.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The Cul-de-Sac That Used to Be Her Home.
A female badger stands at the edge of a fresh tarmac driveway in the April twilight, her paws caked in the clay of a leveled hillside.

"I have raised six generations in the dark earth beneath this spot," she grunts, her scent-marking glands working fruitlessly against a concrete kerb. "I know the exact root where the bluebells first break and the slope where the oak mast falls. Now, there is only a fence where my front door used to be. I am not lost—the world is."

We often assume that wildlife can simply "move next door" when we build new housing estates, viewing animals as flexible commuters.

In reality, badgers are deeply site-faithful. A social group may use the same sett for over a century. Right now in mid-April, sows are weaning cubs and require immense caloric intake. When a development goes up in months, it destroys 15 years of topographical memory. Displacement leads to "road-kill" spikes as confused animals attempt to navigate old paths that are now motorways.

Practical Actions:

Support Wildlife Corridors: Advocate for "badger gates" in new housing fences to allow ancestral passage.

Report Sett Damage: If you see active digging near construction, ensure a license is in place.

She isn't a "nuisance" in your garden; she is a refugee standing in her own living room.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Hate fox hunting and want it to end? Well the Govt has just released a public consultation on banning it for good.

Please use our guide to fill it out: https://t.co/gvrVv6NThh

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Renationalise water

RT if you agree

[WulfHelm 💙🖤 @Wulf_Helm]

A very happy 15th of March to one and all.

[Brendan May @bmay]

There is something intensely peculiar about fawning over unremarkable people of average or less intelligence whose main contribution to the economy is very briefly pretending to do an ordinary job, all for a photo opportunity to show they’re really normal.

[Daniel Heaton @2D0XPS]

Four people have been on the back of a fiver before Churchill: Britannia, the Duke of Wellington, George Stevenson and Elizabeth Fry. Before that it was a lion and before that the back was blank.

This really isn't the major issue people are making it out to be.