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Apr 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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🌎 It’s #EarthDay but the birds and bees of Britain are on the decline — and most people haven’t even noticed bigissue.com/news/environme…
🐝Biodiversity is the variety of life in an ecosystem.

Britain has lost half its biodiversity in the last couple of hundred years.

We’re in the bottom 10% of countries in the world and last in the G7. Last. #EarthDay2022
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🦋 Worse yet, we can’t be certain about the scale of loss.

Most biodiversity data is collected by volunteers, who flock towards charismatic creatures like butterflies and bees. But data for less popular species like spiders and wasps is seriously lacking.
🧺 You’d think such an urgent problem would make people sit up and notice. But in 2010, a survey found most Brits thought “biodiversity” was a washing powder.

This disengagement with nature has experts worried that the nature crisis has become invisible. #EarthDay
📚 The lack of awareness around the collapse in biodiversity is one of many reasons campaigners fought for a Natural History GCSE to be introduced in the UK's schools. That's now coming in 2025.

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🌎 Here’s the good news: biodiversity is one of the easiest problems you can act on at home, and you don’t even need a garden to help.

This #EarthDay, here are ways you can bring some life back into the land

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🌼Let it grow: Get ahead of the curve for #NoMowMay and stop mowing part or all of your lawn.

You’ll get more pollinators in your garden and help them keep our vital ecosystem going. You should also think twice about using pesticides

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🐦Build an animal hotel: Making a bug hotel can be as easy as leaving piles of rocks, twigs and rotting wood out. Bird houses and hedgehog houses will also help wildlife.

@WildlifeTrusts have step-by-step instructions for building one online
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🦔Make space for nature: Avoid paving over any green space at home, and allow real grass to grow instead of astroturf, giving nature space to breathe and live.

And making gaps in fences creates little hedgehog highways to help the critters get around

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Nov 13, 2023
It’s been a big day in Westminster.

From Suella Braverman's sacking to David Cameron's comeback - here's our recap.

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➡️🚪Suella Braverman was gone by 9am, sacked by Rishi Sunak as home secretary after inflammatory comments over pro-Palestine protesters.

2/11
It's just the latest in a series of scandals to engulf the former home secretary - from lying in a legal textbook to describing homelessness as a “lifestyle choice."

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Oct 19, 2022
A new anti-protest law is one step closer to becoming a reality

The Public Order Bill creates longer prison sentences for certain protesters, in a bid to reduce "serious disruption"

Here are 5 things you didn't know about it👇

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1. It could cost the public up to £17.9m over 10 years 💵

Most of this will be from the court cases stemming from increased arrests

“The growing trend of seriously disruptive and dangerous protest tactics are resulting in increasing costs to the public,” the Home Office said
2. The government wants to put the burden of proof on defendants 👮

A number of new offences, including 'locking on', require the accused to prove a 'reasonable excuse'

MPs warned this could "be inconsistent with the presumption of innocence" and the right to a free trial
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Oct 10, 2022
Today is #WorldHomelessDay2022. It’s the perfect time to think about how to solve a problem that shouldn’t exist. We already know how to end homelessness. And it can be done. Here’s how:

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Housing First is a model that has already had a big impact on street homelessness in Finland 🇫🇮 It’s a simple solution: give people who are homeless a home and the support they need to keep it
Housing First is growing across the UK. But not quickly enough for some. @Crisis_uk chief executive Matt Downie said take up in England has been “far too slow” earlier this year
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Sep 17, 2022
Anti-homeless architecture can take many forms and be tough to spot but it is a hidden fixture of cities and towns across the world 🌍 bigissue.com/news/housing/a…
Also known as defensive architecture, hostile design or exclusionary design, it is used to tackle social problems “in ways that appear to be benign but has potentially more aggressive impacts,” says expert @qurbanist
The most common type is the humble bench.

They can be designed with uneven surfaces and bars across them that look like arm rests but could really be there to stop people lying down. This has become almost the standard design
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Apr 22, 2022
Two-time Portrait of Britain winner @MarcDavenant has spent six years travelling around Britain with his camera to capture the reality of homelessness from the people who live with it every day bigissue.com/news/housing/t…
@MarcDavenant On his travels, the photographer met Big Issue vendors like Will Herbert, long-time rough sleepers and people living in filthy, unsafe housing
@MarcDavenant Marc took portraits of people like John, who had spent 25 years on the street.

John told him: "I’ve been attacked in hostels too many times, and threatened with knives. It’s safer on the street in Newcastle"
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Feb 9, 2022
🏠TV host Kirstie Allsopp has come under fire for saying young people should cut out Netflix and the gym to buy a house.

🧵We spoke to experts and crunched the numbers to see if that’s even possible. Calculators at the ready…

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🥑“Millennials are spoiled” is a common theme in some parts of the media, as homeowners young and old insist anyone can afford to buy a house, just like they did.

Is this really true though? Let’s look at some numbers. Bear with us.

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📈 The average UK house price has just reached £276,759 and prices rose by 10% in the year to November 2021.

If you'd saved £2,000 that year, you'd actually be further from owning the average house - which shot up in value by over £27,000.

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Graph: @ONS
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