Will Knocker

Forester naturalist, guiding in Nairobi National Park & the wilder bits of Kenya

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Best Getaway in #Nairobi
Looking over #NairobiNationalPark
Wildlife Refuge
#Pumzika
https://t.co/A61DexNsIC

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Ha Ha Useless Ireland, supporting nasty Oligarchs & even nastier putin

[Wolfhound Fellá 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 #TeamYuri @Justinhead1982]

Did anyone dig into historical media about Auginish Alumina? There is some real eyebrow raisers 😳 The Irish Independent reported back in 2013 that a highly profitable Auginish Alumina paid just €1,952 in total corporation tax over 5 years despite €191 million in sales 🤔

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[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The European factory fishing industry and its political sponsors now accusing *birds* of causing the collapse of fish stocks says it all really.

This is what the conservation movement is up against.

‘European fishing nations call for cormorant cull’

https://t.co/OZHbJvNZ9D

[WarrenVsCCP | 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @WarrenVsCCP]

1989.6.4

A Chinese couple tried to escape the carnage caused by tanks.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Super Job.

In this world, in the end, you have to do it yourself: nobody else is going to do it for you!

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“I don’t give a shit what your system is, what does it mean for the river?”

I genuinely never thought I would have to challenge the British state in order to protect the river I love, but here we are. Massive thanks to Channel 4 for spending so much time & care in detailing the incredible work done by volunteer river guardians on the River Roding: I am going to use the description of us descending on litter like a “squadron of community-minded locusts” again!

Whilst I no longer shocked at the indifference of public bodies like the EA & local councils to the desperate plight of our rivers, it has genuinely surprised me that @EnvAgency thinks it is a good use of their powers to prosecute volunteers for doing their job for them by restoring rivers, especially when there are serious illegal sewage discharges nearby that they have done nothing about. Please withdraw your prosecution threats EA & work with us instead. The Roding could genuinely be a test case in how government & river guardians can work together to protect & restore our rivers.

https://t.co/vCBY3cPxmE

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

@EnvAgency "Just plan to leave it there forever to rot?"

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Ok, the Environment Agency is really taking the mick now.

The photograph they are using below is of the Stapleford Tawney illegal waste site, next to the River Roding near Epping. They were informed about this site in February 2025, but did absolutely nothing and allowed illegal waste dumping to continue for a whole year. It was only in February 2026, when I organised a petition & got the media down to the site that they even bothered to close off the entrance & get a legal closure order.

So the EA apparently want members of the public to report serious waste crime so they can sit there & do naff all about it? Even now, they aren’t doing any testing to see if the site is contaminating ground water & the River Roding. They have also given no commitment to clearing up the site whatsoever. Will the EA agree to remove all of this rubbish that they allowed to be dumped on this site next to our river, or do they just plan to leave it there forever to rot?

[Sen. Ledama Olekina @ledamalekina]

I am currently in a DORB mediation session and reflecting on an issue that can no longer be ignored. Fiscal discipline in our counties must stop being optional. I call upon the Senate Budget Committee to establish a dedicated Implementation Sub-Committee to ensure that once county budgets are approved, they are executed strictly as passed, without deviation. We must also strengthen the law to criminalize any expenditure outside an approved budget by a governor, with penalties including up to five years’ imprisonment and personal liability of up to KSh 50 million.
At the same time, contractors must be paid promptly where funds have already been allocated. Delayed payments harm businesses, cost jobs, and weaken local economies. To those who question why I am speaking out while serving in Parliament, this is precisely how accountability works. Public engagement builds pressure, consensus, and urgency. By raising these issues openly, we help ensure that reforms are not only proposed but fully implemented. This is about safeguarding public resources, restoring trust, and delivering meaningful development in our counties.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"The way boys are taught in schools should be changed to take account of their "fundamental differences" to girls, Sir Gareth Southgate has said.

The former England football manager told the BBC this was needed to tackle the crisis facing boys and young men who feel isolated and are struggling with education, employment, identity and mental health..."
https://t.co/oKlpUzV3fF

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"Kate Adie, the famous BBC news reporter, made a speech recalling how she had seen unarmed people fall down - shot - as the massacre proceeded.

People were astonished that the Chinese army, the PLA, was shooting at their own people...."

[Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism @HofTotalitarian]

Today we unveiled our recreation of the man who stood in front of a column of tanks the day after the Tiananmen Massacre. Kate Adie, the famous BBC news reporter, made a speech recalling how she had seen unarmed people fall down - shot - as the massacre proceeded. People were astonished that the Chinese army, the PLA, was shooting at their own people. Every effort was made to stop the event becoming known around the world. Film footage was smuggled out. Kate herself was lucky to get out alive.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Pathetic and sad Humans

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Yesterday 274 people pushed for the summit of Mount Everest just to give their LinkedIn profile the edge.

Horrendous.

Video by Lakpa Tenjen Sherpa https://t.co/p8GvAkheNz

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church was reassigned to serve in Brazil.
That raises questions — a promotion to a region often described as a global hub for cocaine production?"

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

This was real cocaine! The Russian Orthodox Church has been hit by one of its biggest scandals in a decade

Czech police said that the powder found in the car of Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church was indeed cocaine, according to Deník N.

Today he was reassigned to serve in Brazil. That raises questions — a promotion to a region often described as a global hub for cocaine production?

His new posting is considered one of the key transit points for cocaine flows to Europe and Africa, where major drug trafficking networks operate.

Meanwhile, in Hungary, more than 500 kg of cocaine from Latin America was discovered today (video). The shipment was disguised as bananas from Ecuador.

This is the largest drug seizure in the country’s history.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"General Xu said he didn’t want to be “a sinner in history.”
For his bravery, he will always be remembered on the right side of history..."

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

In 1989, Chinese General Xu Qinxian refused to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square. This courageous decision to stand on the side of democracy and peace against the tyranny of the CCP earned him a court martial and five years in prison. In new video of his trial, General Xu said he didn’t want to be “a sinner in history.” For his bravery, he will always be remembered on the right side of history. https://t.co/w4twPL5web

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

@writethewrongs2 ....What a horrible story!

[Farmers Weekly @FarmersWeekly]

Herefordshire potato, beef and cereal farmer John Price was sentenced to 12 months in prison for damaging a protected stretch of the River Lugg.

Read the full story �� https://t.co/HqEZ0UdOsL

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Chinese people wanted democracy. The Chinese government refused to let them have it -- and still does. It claims they want the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party. Our memory of Tiananmen tells us otherwise, so Beijing tries to suppress it. https://t.co/kdomm612yZ

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Donetsk Airport has become a trap for Russian forces

Ukrainian troops say they have established fire control over the entire territory of Donetsk Airport.

Russia had been using the site as a logistics hub and a launch base for Shahed drones. Ukrainian drone operators now regularly strike equipment, warehouses, launch positions, and air defense systems there.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces describe it as one of the first large-scale asymmetric operations of its kind and say Russian troops no longer have a safe rear area in this sector.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of June 5, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.."
The full proverb is that they turn slowly, but "grind exceedingly fine". Originating from ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, the idiom serves as a reminder that while waiting for legal or moral resolution is agonizingly frustrating, the final outcome is usually thorough, meticulous, and correct.....

[Bin Xie @bxieus]

Someday the CCP will face justice for this crime they committed 37 years ago. They can't erase the history no matter how.

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

Another useless bureaucrat
"You are part of the problem.
If a service is not doing what they should, report, decommission, go to the Sec of State for health but dont place our kids at risk, which you did…… ……RESIGN……you should never work in healthcare again."

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

Amanda Sullivan - CEO Nottingham ICB (Integrated Care Board NHS)
So this lady says she has no idea that an ICB of which she is CEO commissions and then monitors a service.
Your evidence was an embarrassment to you and the people of Nottinghamshire who pay you to look after them.
Every performance and oversight group, every monitoring group you said report to the board. But you clueless person you are the board, you’re the chief exec.
They report to you.
It’s your job to see as a commissioner what you’re paying for is getting delivered ….no one else’s. Dear god you’re hopeless and clueless.
So major crimes by mental health patients happening weeks before the Nottingham attacks. They did not stir you. Did you not ask what the hells going on in my back yard? Did you not ask what an unfit mental health service am I commissioning?
Like Sokolov someone else’s job ……WRONG. It was your job.
You are part of the problem.
If a service is not doing what they should, report, decommission, go to the Sec of State for health but dont place our kids at risk, which you did……
……RESIGN……you should never work in healthcare again.
You are an integral part of why the system went wrong and why the Nottingham attacks happened. The people of Nottingham should have no confidence in you.
Be honorable….step down and resign
@nottm_post @OliverPridmore @AllisonPearson @NotThatBigIan @EmilyMayTV @Alison1mackITV @SkyNews @MartinDaubney @jamesmurray_ldn @Fhamiltontimes @GMB

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Why is Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon breaking his promise to make London’s rivers swimmable?

One of the most eye-catching promises the Mayor made to get elected, was to make London’s rivers swimmable. But halfway through his term he has made no progress towards this goal, & seems to be quietly dropping this goal on the basis that it isn’t achievable.
However, as a guardian of London’s third biggest river, who knows the river better than most, I know it is a completely achievable goal with effort & imagination. Further, the volunteer charity I run put forward a detailed plan to make the Roding swimmable, which was rejected by the Mayor’s Grow Back Greener fund without explanation. Here’s a thread, on how the Mayor can live up to his promises 🧵

[Will Knocker @WillKnocker]

putin's russia

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

Hundreds of vehicles line up for fuel in Yalta as shortages continue to grip Crimea.

The peninsula is currently experiencing some of the most severe fuel supply disruptions, with long queues becoming a common sight at gas stations across the region