Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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Jan 5 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Let's deconstruct Trump's kidnapping of Maduro, which is not quite the show of American strength it might first appear. It has been widely reported, that the US had inside help i.e. someone in Maduro's circle, reporting his location. This is what allowed the US to do this.
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Without this, it'd have been difficult for the US to mount this raid, as reliable real time intelligence, is crucial to this type of operation. Even if it's known a target is often at a location, this isn't enough, because they may have been elsewhere at the time of the raid.
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Dec 31, 2025 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
"Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society"
I'm fed up with these mindless attacks on @ZackPolanski, on the grounds he's unrealistic. It's those from the mainstream economic background who are peddling fantasy.
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We're in the midst of a climate and ecological emergency. It is an emergency, because mainstream politicians have taken no realistic decisions, which will avert catastrophe, and now only the most radical change to our system, will save us.
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Dec 30, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is a massive hidden scandal, because this same clique of super billionaire/oligarchs, now control most of the media, legacy and social. They plan to replace a vast amount of human workers with AI and robots. Hence the concocted immigrant panic, as a distraction. 1/
These oligarch/billionaires are fundamentally incompetent, and are corrupted by their wealth, with fundamentally false vision of the future.
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Dec 21, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"‘You’re barred!’: Labour’s battle with pubs promises a new year headache"
Either Keir Starmer is the most politically inept person to become PM, or he's a mole, placed in the Labour Party, to destroy it, and is pursuing some sort of hidden agenda.
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It is mind-boggling how much policy, and decisions Keir Starmer has made, which play right into the hands of Reform and the Tories, and make Labour unpopular. This is plain political stupidity. There's no rhyme or reason to his decisions.
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Dec 21, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I made this post, in response to a mindless post by Elon Musk, claiming that 80% of under 18 year olds in Belgium, were foreigners, to aid his far right, racist agenda. I was attacked by his sycophants, all misrepresenting what I said and why.
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My point was very simple. The right wing populists, white supremacists, centred in the US, are spreading their white replacement conspiracy theories and whipping up hatred of "foreigners", with no irony, that they are all descended from immigrants.
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Dec 18, 2025 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
This is a very good summary, of the threat to our food security, posed by the climate crisis, with a few ecological caveats I need to explain. However, it supports all my threads about this.
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The big caveat from an ecological perspective is this. Most of these projections, are based on average yields, which is a standard academic approach. However, we need to acquaint ourselves with the law of the ecological minimum, or the limiting factor.
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Dec 18, 2025 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
I'm somewhat baffled about the strategy of not only Donald Trump, but the populist right in general, and billionaires. They have taken in people, by making false promises and claims, which will soon be revealed for the lies they are. Climate change denial is a good example.
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Climate change is real and happening, the scientific evidence proves it. Yes, if you got a big platform, and a lot of money, you can get away with dishonestly, denying that climate change is happening, because of 2 factors.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
'There is a growing risk that Russia could attack the UK, and the nation's "sons and daughters" need to be ready to fight, the head of Britain's armed forces has said.'
Our leadership, has a clear case of brain rot, I mean they are totally unhinged. The idea of fighting a war with Russia, is totally insane.
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The insanity of this rhetoric, is that Russia has a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons, so if Europe were to fight some sort of war with Russia, there would be a very high probability of it going nuclear, and mutually assured destruction of both Europe and Russia.
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Dec 15, 2025 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
It's now clear what lay behind the Liverpool FC parade tragedy. It was nothing but a case of road rage, and over-entitlement, by a narcissistic driver, who thinks everything is about them.
I write this as a lifelong cyclist, who has long experienced this aggressive and threatening behaviour.
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A minority of drivers, turn into an over-entitled monster, when they get behind the wheel of a car, acting aggressively to other road users. God forbid if you get in their way, or slow their journey by even a second. They use their car as a weapon, with which to intimidate others.
I repeat, this is a small, but significant minority.
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Dec 15, 2025 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Our modern culture, has totally lost the plot. We have lost all perspective in the hierarchy, of serious risks to our societies and civilization. The defining issue, should be the climate and ecological crisis. as this will determine everything in the near future.
I had been meaning to write this thread for some time, but this very confused article about UBI, Universal Basic Income, and AI, prompted me to write it now.
"Maybe we can keep humanity alive via redistribution. Machines that don’t require workers could produce enormous amounts of output, so it might be easy to raise the money for the UBIs of the future."
In this vision of the future, AI will put most people out of work, and we will need some way of providing income to those who no longer have jobs.
It's what I call, a mainstream economist view, where economists imagine the future as being a continuation of the American, and Western economy, as if the climate and ecological crisis, does not exist.
This is because all but a handful of enlightened economists, have got absolutely no grasp of what the climate and ecological crisis means for us, as they are totally lacking in any relevant knowledge about this. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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“There are now no non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.” Professor Kevin Anderson, leading climate scientist @KevinClimate
I keep using this quote from Prof Kevin Anderson, because it perfectly sums up this situation, and he is a leading climate scientist.
I have my own framing of this situation, which is much older, and wider, but I am not a highly published leading climate scientist, so I am saying, don't take my word for it, listen to this.
The whole problem, and this is the real crisis, not say anthropogenic climate change ACC itself, is that there is profound denial about what this, and several degrees Centigrade of warming, actually means for us.
Even many climate scientists, cannot get their head around what this means. They cannot grasp that the economic model, industrial capitalism, or whatever you want to call it, and the societies and economies it gave rise to, are over. What we have done, makes the future, radically different, no matter what route we chose. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/04/18/no-…
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Dec 12, 2025 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Please, can we get something clear. The recovery of the Otter in the UK, especially England is nothing to do with "intensive conservation work", and "improving water quality". I'm sure lots of conservation bodies are willing to take credit for it, for PR. Water quality in general is much worse in UK rivers, not better.
This is terrible communication strategy, leading to anglers falsely blaming conservationists for re-introducing Otters, as they now prey on stocked Carp.
The recovery of Otters, is almost certainly, purely down to the banning of the organochlorine pesticides, especially dieldrin and aldrin, used as seed coatings.
I am creating this short thread, for public information, because there is so much rubbish repeated about this, causing massive misunderstanding about this issue.
You will have to rely on my synthesis and understanding of this, as you will only find glimpses of insight in the literature. However, I have followed this matter since the 1970s, and I have the ecological knowledge and fishery knowledge to explain this. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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These organochlorines, accumulate in Otters through a process called biomagnification and bioaccumulation. As fish eaters, eating fish, with moderate levels in them, these were magnified to much greater levels in the Otters, accumulating in their fatty, (adipose) tissues. Meaning they disappeared from most English rivers.
As the levels of these compounds, dropped after they were banned, it allowed Otters to recover, as they were no longer being poisoned by eating fish. The Otters simply came from strongholds in Wales and Scotland, where there were lower levels of these chemicals.
Yes, attempts were made to re-introduce Otters, but these failed for several factors. The dog Otters were killed on roads, and the pesticide levels were still too high. So the vast majority of Otters now found in England, came from remaining populations in Scotland, Wales and the West Country, naturally re-populating English rivers, none of it with assistance from conservationists. mammal.org.uk/blog/2022/02/o…
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Dec 12, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Let me try to sum up, why climate change denial, or minimization, is a lost cause. Those who deny it, or deny what a threat it is to humanity, do so because they don't want the system to be changed, to address the climate and ecological crisis.
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This is a lost cause, because the single action, which will cause the most radical change to our system, is trying not to change our system, to address the climate and ecological crisis. Doing this will collapse our civilization. Change can't be more radical than this.
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Dec 11, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I want to give a huge thanks to everyone that has responded.
There is no doubt whatsoever, that Elon Musk's X/Twitter has had major changes to it's algorithm, particularly in the last 4-5 months, which stops mutuals seeing each other's posts. I can only find their posts if I search them out.
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This seems to deliberately target progressives, but not just those with overt political views, just anyone who doesn't endorse right wing populism. Many of these people whose posts I rarely see now, are photographers, birders, natural history people, who rarely post politicised views.
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Dec 10, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration"
Remember, you heard it from me first. Not just yesterday, but for the last year. I give you tomorrow's news today.
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It's so obvious that Starmer is playing right into the hands of Reform, that you have to wonder if Keir Starmer is a secret admirer of Nigel Farage, because if Starmer isn't aware of what he's doing, he's someone's useful idiot.
"US plans to start checking all tourists' social media"
This is why the whole "free speech" shtick of the American right is totally fake, the opposite of the truth, a classic Orwellian sleight of hand, doublespeak, doublethink, where everything is the virtual opposite of what is stated.
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What this is about, is ideological purity, a fake right wing racist and white supremacist narrative, carefully dressed up in false justifications. It's a narrative based on total lying. The oligarchs, peddling this new fascism, know that their specious narrative doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
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Dec 10, 2025 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
"Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right"
Is Keir Starmer just stupid, or is he following orders/directions/coercion?
Keir Starmer has got this stupid idea, that if he appeases the right, with a partial anti-immigrant policy, a sort of "Reform-lite", that he will draw support from Reform, and the far right. That's his argument anyway.
It plainly doesn't work, because support for Reform and the far right has grown, and they absolutely hate Starmer and Labour. I see no evidence whatsoever, that Starmer has won over one single right wing voter, through this strategy. theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/0…
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The reason this is stupid strategy, a that doesn't work, is very simple.
1) It makes it falsely appear as if Reform, and the racist/xenophobic right, has a genuine point.
2) This actually increases support for Reform and the nasty right, because no one, with xenophobic or racist tendencies, would ever consider voting for Starmer/Labour.
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Dec 8, 2025 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
When I made this suggestion, in response to Elon Musk calling for the abolition of the EU, I got the usual abuse from right wing nuts, that I was a commie, a retard, etc, etc. I will justify what I said. Billionaires, should not exist.
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In any fair and rational system, there would be progressive taxation, that made it impossible for anyone to accumulate that sort of wealth. By progressive taxation, I mean wealth taxation, that increases proportional to the wealth being accumulated. So a moderate wealth tax on millions.
However, if someone starts accumulating hundreds of millions, this tax should get progressively higher, until it becomes impossible to accumulate billions.
There are 2 main reasons I say this. Neither of them involves either envy, or ideology.
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Dec 6, 2025 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
"Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden says more must be done to lift people out of hardship and help people into work"
I want to illustrate, the complete lack of joined up thinking, not just by the UK's governments, but all governments in the Western world.
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The Starmer government, like previous governments, claim that the way to lift people out of poverty, is to force them into paid work. Except:
"AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report"
"Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’"
This outrageous neoliberal ideology. The idea that normal feelings have been over pathologised, is a right wing talking point, emanating from right wing think tanks. The only medical people who support this perspective, are right wing ideologues. theguardian.com/society/2025/d…
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What is ironic, is there's massive evidence, that neoliberal doctrine, which Wes Streeting is an arch exponent of, he is a neoliberal extremist, is hugely contributing to a rise in mental illness. It is giving people mental illness, by not seeing them as fully human, but consuming units. Simply cogs in the machine.
Neoliberal extremists like Wes Streeting, are only looking at the increase in those claiming benefits for these illnesses. It is not looking at the other dimensions of an increasing in mental illness, which have nothing to do with claiming benefits. In other words, there is a huge increase in mental health problems, with those in work, and not seeking benefits.
The right wing press, continuously pumps out this false idea, outright disinformation and propaganda, that people just go along to their GP, and say they are feeling mildly anxious or a bit down, and the next thing they are receiving maximum disability benefits and PIP. This is almost the diametric opposite of reality, where it is increasingly difficult to get mental health diagnoses, because of this prevailing neoliberal dogma, which assumes anyone with a mental health problem, is swinging the lead.
Labour itself, has contributed to this, by previously introducing fitness for work tests, run by private companies, under the New Labour regime (founded on extreme neoliberal doctrine. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC81…
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Dec 3, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Hillsborough families decry ‘bitter injustice’ that no officers will face disciplinary proceedings"
We see this time and time again, not just with the police, but all officials, politicians and establishment figures. They are rarely held responsible for even terrible crimes.
The system, uses exactly the same method for achieving these aims. Dragging it out for as long as possible, to let them retire, or die of old age, before the truth comes out.
The Hillsborough Disaster, happened in 1989, and the basic facts, were in official circles, widely known at the time. The way in which the basic truths, were only officially acknowledged, 36 years later, was not an accident. It isn't that this sometimes happens, it always happens.
I cannot think of a single example, where the truth and the facts, were acknowledged and established at the time, so those responsible, could be held properly accountable.
This always happens. Not, it happens sometimes. theguardian.com/football/2025/…
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For a long time, I have had a fully worked out hypotheses, supported by all the circumstantial evidence, of why this happens. The system, is fundamentally corrupt. If anything happens, that calls into question the honesty, and moral rectitude of the system, the whole establishment, works together, to cover-up what went wrong.
This need to lie and cover-up, is what makes the system, fundamentally corrupt. Often, the cover-up, involves far more serious crime and dishonesty, than what they are covering up. They are compelled to lie.
I think the reason, it's very rare for someone to be held criminally responsible for their actions, is very simple.
If the people responsible, were held criminally responsible, and dealt with and sentenced appropriately, they'd have no reason for keeping quiet. In their defence, they'd tell everything they knew, and this would be truly embarrassing for the whole system.
So they are not held legally accountable, so they keep their loyalty to the system, and don't tell the public what they know.
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Nov 30, 2025 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds"
What this demonstrates is a complete lack of joined up thinking. Climate and other government environmental planning, is incoherent and unrealistic. This is not confined to the UK.
This incoherence and unrealistic planning, demonstrating a lack of joined up thinking (making all government planning coherent), seems to result from not taking the climate and ecological crisis seriously. Putting economic growth first, even though there will be huge economic impacts.
Overall, things like Net Zero, seem more like a list ticking exercise, so politicians can pretend they have done their duty, whilst doing very little to nothing.
As I keep trying to get across, politicians and economists, have a totally unrealistic grasp of dealing with near term, climate and ecological impacts, which are going to be far more severe than envisaged. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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It's not exactly clear, what is going on here. Are mainstream politicians just plain ignorant and in denial? This explanation is not really credible, because there are informed and honest scientists, who will give realistic evaluations if asked.
The #NationalEmergencyBriefing on 27 November, gave a realistic assessment, by expert scientists and planners, on the situation we face, but major mainstream politicians and economists, just ignored it, as they always do.
When I say it's not clear what is going on, I mean the actual thinking of senior government figures, and most mainstream, senior politicians. The mainstream media and senior journalists are not fit for purpose, in that they refuse to challenge the senior figures in the government, to explain their thinking. nebriefing.org
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